Blanchard's Innovation Training Program

Harness the power of innovation, no matter your role

Innovation is critical to success, yet most organizations struggle to achieve high levels of innovation and change. Companies talk about innovation or pursue it through relatively small, specialized teams. Yet the most progress is achieved when every employee becomes more innovative—unleashing the benefits of incremental improvements.

Blanchard’s Fearless Innovation^™ explores the idea that each individual—armed with the principles of innovation—could be a catalyst for positive change. It teaches an innovation mindset and skill set that empowers everyone to be innovators.

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Adopt a powerfully simple model to unlock innovation

There has never been more pressure on organizations to evolve. Yet, less than 20% of our research respondents can experiment without being penalized for mistakes. Further, most innovation frameworks focus on executives and product designers. There’s very little support to help most of us become more innovative in our daily work lives.

Fearless Innovation provides an easy-to-understand model that immediately empowers everyone in your organization to begin innovating. It starts with teaching the three mindsets needed to innovate:

Grace: The courage to accept imperfection
Curiosity: The courage to wonder and wander
Proactivity: The courage to act and disrupt

The program then teaches a four-step process to identify meaningful challenges that innovation can improve, generate ideas, experiment with an idea to test its merit, and launch it into the workplace.

1 Day Instructor-led Course

The Fearless innovation in-person experience is a highly engaging, full-day* session designed to help participants adopt an innovative mindset, build creative confidence, and collaborate effectively to generate and test ideas that drive organizational progress.

This 8-hour course includes videos, group discussions, and breakout sessions. The design can also be extended beyond one day for teams that want additional time to work through real-world innovation challenges.

Course Flow

Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging assignments that introduce key innovation concepts and mindsets.

Morning: LEARN — Interactive activities explore the principles of fearless innovation and help participants identify challenges and opportunities within their roles.

Afternoon: PRACTICE — Practical exercises to generate, test, and refine ideas using proven innovation tools. Includes action planning to overcome barriers, foster a culture of experimentation, and commit to next steps.

Post: APPLY — Follow-up micro-activities, videos, and tools that reinforce key learnings and support continued innovation in daily work.

*This full-day in-person design includes two 10-minute breaks and 45 minutes for lunch.

Virtual Instructor-led Course

Fearless Innovation is a virtual, instructor-led course that unfolds over five one-hour sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners a highly engaging experience that includes instruction, responses, reflection, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills in a safe setting. The program also allows learners to share stories and best practices as they work through a real-life innovation project.

PREWORK/LAUNCH: Welcome to Fearless Innovation™. Discover a mindset and four-step process that will help you envision, try out, and launch innovative solutions in your world. Participants get ready to:

Challenge how you view innovation
Ignite creativity by expanding your mindset
Find ways to experiment at a micro level
Believe that innovation can happen in your domain, because you are the expert and the one who can create value

LEARN & PRACTICE:

Session 1: Learn and practice the mindset of Fearless Innovation: Grace, Curiosity, Proactivity

Session 2: Discover the Fearless Innovation process, beginning with the Scan phase.

Session 3: Begin the Ideate phase of Fearless Innovation.

Session 4: Explore the Experiment phase of Fearless Innovation.

Session 5: Discover the Launch phase of Fearless Innovation, and discuss the leadership characteristics that foster a culture of innovation.

POST WORK/APPLY: Reinforce course learnings with online tools to help remember and apply the key concepts of Fearless Innovation.

Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!

5 SHRM PDCs
5 NASBA CPEs
5 ATD Credit Hours

Online Overview

The Fearless Innovation Overview with Reflect and Share is an ideal way to introduce critical concepts to your people. Participants learn the mindset and skill set needed to think like an innovator. As a 35-minute asynchronous learning module, it is a cost-effective and efficient way to share powerful information while enjoying a meaningful ROI.

The Fearless Innovation Overview helps organizations stay ahead of the competition by teaching a philosophy of continuous improvement. This design is a better choice for clients wanting to give people a quick boost of innovation ideas and tips, or to infuse innovation practices into a longer learning experience.

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Digital Assets

Fearless Innovation has a set of 11 micro activities that take no more than five minutes to complete. Each activity helps learners to apply ideas that solve real workplace problems. These micro activities provide just-in-time learning through a variety of activity types such as videos, worksheets, and interactions.

Innovative ideas can come from anywhere—are you asking for them?

84% of CEOs said their success heavily depends on their ability to innovate.¹

Yet only 52% of workers contribute new and innovative ideas to their team. ²

1. Accenture, Three Years Later, U.S. Companies Continue to Struggle With Innovation, Accenture Survey Reveals.

2. PwC, PwC’s Global Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey 2023.

Adopt a Fearless Mindset To Drive Innovation Efforts

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