INNOVATION WORKSHOPS
Discover the massive impact that innovative thinking can have on your organization by participating in one of Duncan Wardle’s acclaimed innovation workshops.
DEMYSTIFYING DESIGN THINKING
A game-changer in the world of innovation workshops, your team will develop a 4-step creative problem-solving process that allows your organization to identify opportunities, take smart risks, work collaboratively, bring ideas to market, and (most importantly) drive your business forward.
LEADING FOR CREATIVITY
Establish an untouchable competitive advantage by turning your team into an innovation powerhouse, leveraging 8 key creative behaviours to build a culture of creativity and positive disruption.
INSIGHTS FOR INNOVATION
Become customer mind readers, learning how to identify and evaluate the most worthwhile opportunities in your industry, and create innovative solutions that exceed the needs and expectations of consumers.
Demystifying Design Thinking Workshop
Demystifying Design Thinking is one of Duncan’s most popular innovation workshops… a verifiable a game changer for participants. As a leading innovation consultant, Duncan Wardle shares his insights from his former career of over 25 years at The Walt Disney Company, including his time serving as the Head of Innovation and Creativity.
That’s right…you’ll be learning from the man that pioneered the Disney Innovation Process!
Participants in this innovation workshop will be trained on creative problem-solving, learning how to identify new opportunities within the marketplace, take calculated risks, work collaboratively within their teams and across other departments, bring fresh ideas to market, and drive strategic growth for their organization.
Through an entertaining, interactive workshop, team members will learn about each of the 4 stages of creative problem solving: Initiate, Investigate, Ideate, Activate.
In the end, your team will think, laugh, share and learn. They’ll walk away with new skillset and toolkit that will greatly increase their ability to innovate, and more importantly, they will be energized and ready to start tackling these creative problems for your business today!
Leading for Creativity Workshop
In this age of artificial intelligence and rapid technological innovation, how can companies stay ahead of the curve? How do you compete when the rules of the game seem to change every single day?
Simple. Be bold. Be memorable. Be brave. And be creative.
Easier said than done, right?
Thankfully, Duncan has compressed his decades of leading the Walt Disney creative process into an immersive creativity workshop. “Leading for Creativity” provides a unique set of 8 “Creative Behaviours” that will help foster a culture of innovation and creativity in your company.
After learning these 8 creative behaviours, your team will be able to achieve new levels of creativity within your organization. The kind of creativity that will allow your business to remain on the cutting-edge of innovation not just for today or tomorrow, but for years to come.
Leading for Creativity Workshop
In this age of artificial intelligence and rapid technological innovation, how can companies stay ahead of the curve? How do you compete when the rules of the game seem to change every single day?
Simple. Be bold. Be memorable. Be brave. And be creative.
Easier said than done, right?
Thankfully, Duncan has compressed his decades of leading the Walt Disney creative process into an immersive workshop. “Leading for Creativity” provides a unique set of 8 “Creative Behaviours” that will help foster a culture of innovation and creativity in your company. These behaviours include:
• Nurturing – How to grow an idea collaboratively so it becomes “our idea” vs “my idea”
• Playfulness – How to get into the right state of mind required for innovation and creativity at work
• Signalling – How to set teams up for success by creating the right environment for ideation
• Instinct – How to dial-up empathy for the consumer, ensuring all the ideas are embedded in “Consumer Truth”
• Mindfulness – How to give yourself time to think, allowing you to move between your conscious and unconscious brain
• Curiosity – How to leverage the importance of unplanned collaboration and find new stimulus to drive new ideas
• Prototyping – How to bring an idea to life
• Bravery – How to use tools to create a culture of smart risk takers
After learning these 8 creative behaviours, your team will be able to achieve new levels of creativity within your organization. The kind of creativity that will allow your business to remain on the cutting-edge not just for today or tomorrow, but for years to come.
Insights for Innovation Workshop
Have you ever thought how amazing it would be if you could read your customers’ minds? Well, Duncan Wardle had the same thought back when he was leading the Disney creativity and innovation team. So, he figured out a way to do just that, turning himself into a “customer mind reader.” And now, through his innovation workshop “Insights for Innovation,” he’s training teams across the globe to do just the same.
The Insights for innovation workshop is all about uncovering consumer truth. Duncan will show your team how to fine-tune their mind reading skills and understand exactly what is going on inside your customers’ heads. After several interactive sessions, they’ll have the tools they need to absorb and clarify insights, and develop actionable steps based on what they learn through interacting with your customers.
More than just surface level listening, your team will master the ability to find customer clues, make informed hypotheses, and create innovative solutions focused on what your customer really want and need. The result? A workforce that is practically reading your customers’ minds, and giving your business an incredible competitive advantage in the process.
Insights for Innovation Workshop
Have you ever thought how amazing it would be if you could read your customers’ minds? Well, Duncan Wardle had the same thought back when he was leading the Disney creativity and innovation team. So, he figured out a way to do just that, turning himself into a “customer mind reader.” And now, through his innovation workshop “Insights for Innovation,” he’s training teams across the globe to do just the same.
The Insights for Innovation workshop is all about uncovering consumer truth. Duncan will show your team how to fine-tune their mind reading skills and understand exactly what is going on inside your customers’ heads. After several interactive sessions, they’ll have the tools they need to absorb and clarify insights, and develop actionable steps based on what they learn through interacting with your customers.
More than just surface level listening, your team will master the ability to find customer clues, make informed hypotheses, and create innovative solutions focused on what your customer really want and need. The result? A workforce that is practically reading your customers’ minds, and giving your business an incredible competitive advantage in the process.
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