Services

Innovation Training & Facilitation

Momentum Innovation Training Suite:

  • Momentum CPS — Creative Problem Solving  –CPS is a flexible, proven, and comprehensive framework and an essential set of basic skills for any innovation program. It contains a wide range of tools, techniques, that takes you from visioning to action planning. It’s adaptable to all contexts and can integrate easily with other frameworks (such as Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile) in a focused innovation effort. Momentum CPS is an advanced version of the Osborn-Parnes model. Half day to 2.5 day versions.
  • Momentum Innovation Facilitation TrainingHands-on facilitation training provides on-going value, with improvements to any innovation process. It also saves money because you don’t need to hire expensive outside consultants. This training is an essential building block for a productive innovation program. Content includes innovation project management concepts, roles, methods, and advanced tools. Consider combining training sessions with an ideation project to reinforce and leverage learning.  Two day intensive training best done with a small group.
  • Momentum Improv — This training workshop is the learning experience your people will talk about — and use — for years to come. This course is not about being funny — it’s about opening the door to creativity and using it to achieve business results. It’s Improv to Problem Solve, unlike the improvisation schools who do wonderful workshops for team building but don’t show you how to integrate Improv directly into your innovation process. This is a half day or full day course.
  • Momentum Innovation Concepts Intensive This is a one day, deep dive immersion into innovation concepts. It’s targeted to those who are new to the innovation area, including project managers, innovation team members, researchers, and executives. This is innovation basic training, and it covers: Why Innovation? What is innovation? What are innovation process frameworks, how to establish and improve an culture, organizing projects, pitches for resources, mandates, and more. This training gets rave reviews from customers who often train large groups of managers.
  • Momentum Team Effectiveness Training — Momentum is a one-day, intensive, team training workshop. It’s ideal for teams seeking to improve performance. Momentum is highly experiential and hands-on. Concepts are taught using interactive exercises and challenges. Make no mistake, this is not about trust falls and karaoke. Momentum starts with a validated thinking style assessment (using the Foursight Online measure) and it ends with a team action plan. It’s ideal for Innovation Teams, but also appropriate for any team seeking to improve.

Innovation Services Offerings:

  • Executive or Team Innovation Coaching — Experience matters in innovation. A highly talented team can run adrift without an empowered and experienced leader. If your team lacks experience and you don’t have the time to grow it, consider coaching as an interim solution.
  • Innovation MoshPit — MoshPit is a dynamic ideation session design. It’s customized to an organization, leveraging existing IP assets and market research insights. The ideation session focuses innovation teams on creating breakthrough innovation ideas using a highly structured combination/concept blending set of tools. It requires careful preparation and requires teams to do extensive pre-session work. This is a highly productive session design and only available through GFi. Digital Technology MoshPit is a variation on this service which focuses on finding digital technology project ideas.
  • Culture and Team Assessments — Teams need to be diverse in thinking skills in order to innovate. Learn if your team has the proper balance and how to leverage your talent assets. A culture assessment could be your first step in turning around a passive innovation culture.
  • Meeting Facilitation — Neutral and skilled facilitation of visioning, strategy, conflict resolution, or complex problem solving. GFi knows the frameworks, tools, techniques, and processes that will make your meeting a success. Done with a dash of humor, a lot of experience, and a huge portion of creativity.

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