Help leaders think differently, creating the conditions for their teams to do the same.
Innovation in organisations is a leadership discipline. This session explores what it actually demands of leaders: the mindset to see familiar problems differently, the habits that open up new thinking, and the conditions that make teams more likely to generate and act on fresh ideas. Participants leave with new perspectives and practical approaches they can apply straight away.
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Understand what innovation actually requires from leaders, beyond generating ideas
Explore practical approaches for seeing your business, your market, and your challenges from fresh angles
Identify what you can do to create the conditions for more innovative thinking in your team
Most organisations are full of people who could think more innovatively. Most leaders could do more to make that possible.
What would change in your team if the environment genuinely supported fresh thinking, and you had better tools for seeing your market and your challenges from new angles?
Innovation in a business context is built on sustained habits: the discipline to question assumptions, the willingness to look at familiar problems differently, and the ability to create space in a team for ideas that don't immediately fit the existing model.
This session focuses on the leader's role in all of that. It starts with a clear account of what innovation actually requires, from individuals and from the teams they lead, and moves into practical exploration. Participants examine how they currently approach problems and opportunities, what tends to limit their thinking, and what specific changes would make their teams more likely to generate and act on new ideas.
The session runs for 90 minutes. These often work well over lunch, and this timing can be flexed to suit your schedule.
Download AGENDA (PDF) →People who want to see familiar problems from fresh angles and create the conditions for their teams to do the same. The session focuses on the leader's role in innovation.
A standalone session or part of a wider programme. Leaders leave having practised at least one approach for seeing a challenge from a genuinely different angle.
No full team to bring? Individuals and small groups can join a scheduled open session and learn alongside people from other organisations.
Every engagement starts the same way: a 30-minute call to understand the team, the situation, and what good would look like. From there, we agree the shape of the workshop together.
“I attended with my team, and we all found it very useful to take time out of our busy diaries to think about the art of ideation.”
