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The Innovation Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.
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The Innovation Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.

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Take your performance to the next level with our tried-and-tested guide on influence.

The Innovation Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.

Test yourself – Start by finding out your current innovation skills

Follow the 10 Steps – Learn everything you need to know to become a brilliant innovator

Take action - Experience 10 situations where you can apply your new-found skills in real life

Face your fears - Take on 10 common innovation barriers and challenges to test your skills and find out how to handle them.

This book really works. And just to be sure, it’s already been tested on over fifty readers just like you. Start your influence workout today and begin exercising your full potential.

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Take your performance to the next level with our tried-and-tested guide on innovation.

The Innovation Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and

highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and

the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.

Test yourself – Start by finding out your current confidence and knowledge of innovation

Follow the 10 Steps – learn everything you need to know to become an expert innovator

Take action – Experience 10 situations where you can apply your new-found skill in real life

Face your fears – Take on 10 common innovation challenges to test your skills and find out how to handle them.

This book really works. Start your innovation workout today and begin exercising your full potential.

About the author

Author’s acknowledgements

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Introduction

Self-assessment questionnaire

PART 1 10 Steps to Enhance Your Innovation Skills

Step 1 Pinpoint your purpose

Get your innovation off to the right start by thinking big to understand your problem or unmet need and articulate it in a way that inspires others to get involved.

Step 2 Know and understand your customers

Learn techniques to understand your customers to enable you to develop innovations that meet their needs.

Step 3 Your market today and predicting the trends of tomorrow

Get to grips with what is happening in your market today and spot trends to help develop innovation for the future.

Step 4 Build your creative capacity

Learn how increase your personal capacity for having ideas through expanding your experiences, breaking routines and connecting ideas together.

Step 5 Creative superstardom and lots of ideas

Have fun practicing different techniques to help you and you colleagues generate lots of ideas.

Step 6 Don’t expect anyone else to like your idea

If your idea is new, or different you will have to spend time getting others to like your idea. This step provides some practical ways to get others on board.

Step 7 Filter and choose the best ideas

Techniques to filter and choose the ideas that have the greatest chance of success and way to confidently say ‘no’ to weaker ideas.

Step 8 Prototype, fail fast and refine

Learn ways to prototype ideas quickly and cheaply with your colleagues, managers and customers and then adapt and refine your ideas.

Step 9 Pilot, adapt and invest

How to design, deliver and evaluate a pilot for your idea as well as tips on how to secure resource required to deliver your pilot.

Step 10 Take your ideas to market

How to build on your pilot and develop your idea in the marketplace for real, and build on the business case you developed in the pilot to pitch for investment.

PART 2 10 Innovation Skills in Action

Skill 1 Innovating in a big organisation

Skill 2 Innovating on your own

Skill 3 Innovating when no one else gets it

Skill 4 Innovating with your team

Skill 5 Innovating with clients and customers

Skill 6 Innovating your managers and managing up

Skill 7 Innovating with confidence

Skill 8 Innovation by imitation

Skill 9 Innovating with no budget

Skill 10 Innovating when you feel like you are stuck

PART 3 10 Common Innovation challenges

Challenge 1 How do I develop my own innovation process or framework?

Challenge 2 How do I build an innovation network?

Challenge 3 How do I make time to innovate?

Challenge 4 How do I measure innovation?

Challenge 5 How do I motivate others to start to innovate?

Challenge 6 How do I create a culture of innovation?

Challenge 7 How do I manage failure?

Challenge 8 How do I innovate quickly?

Challenge 9 How do I approach a niche product?

Challenge 10 How do I recruit good innovators?

Putting it into action (the mentor toolkit)

How to work with a mentor to put your new skills into action

Self assessment questionnaire

What have you learnt?

What can you put into practice today?

How will you do it?
The Innovation Workout has been specially developed to be clear, simple, very easy to follow and highly effective. Our unique pre-workout test will help you identify your weak and strong points and the straightforward 10-step improvement plan will show you how you can quickly boost your skills.
Autorenporträt
Lucy Gower is an innovation specialist. She is a freelance innovation trainer, coach and consultant. She established the first innovation programme at the NSPCC, one of the UKs largest children’s charities in 2007. Since 2012 she has worked with a range of organisations in the charity and corporate sectors, both in the UK and overseas to help them develop their strategy and operational approach to innovation. Clients include 100%Open, Amnesty International, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Deloitte, Institute of Fundraising, Nesta, nfpSynergy, Oxfam and The Children’s Society.