Idea Generation Facilitation Training
Idea Generation, also known as Ideation or Brainstorming is a highly specialized facilitation skill.
Understandably, this skill set is an important one to to nurture and develop in-house at your organization. It’s a specialized capability and those that invest in empowering innovation teams with this capability see many returns. Ideation is done best by those who do a lot of it — and practice is enhanced with the proper guidance.
Included in this hands-on training session:
- Mindset of the facilitator
- Goals and objective setting for ideation sessions
- Pre-session planning and session design
- Expectation setting
- Working with research findings and insights
- Pre-work assignments for participants
- Virtual ideation considerations
- Audio Visual considerations
- Gaining group agreement and cooperation
- Tools and techniques for idea generation
- Tools and techniques for managing groups and energy
- Scribing and data management during and post-session
- Pre-session planning and session design
- Materials, sourcing, use of, etc.
- Room requirements and arrangement
- Post session reporting
This training requires a small group of 5 to 10 to act as the participants in order for facilitators to have “live” experience.
Gregg Fraley has been teaching facilitation skills for over 15 years and is a highly experienced practitioner. He can transfer his experience to your organization and enhance your ability to do innovation without outside assistance.
Running time: Full 8 hour day for the basics, or a deep dive comprehensive course of 2. 5 days.
Contact Gregg directly for a detailed course outline: gregg@greggfraley.com