Innovation Coach Training

Goal setting is an important step before any major journey. Defining effective goals allows you and your team to make progress and then measure it. This goal setting workshop shows you how to set goals for yourself and your team, and how to create a dashboard to keep your innovation project on track.

All innovation projects come with risks, and successful businesses know how to navigate them. This workshop covers how to brainstorm and prioritize risks with your teams, and clarifies why certain risks are the right thing to focus on at certain stages of a project.

Getting started with rapid experimentation can be daunting, but a few simple tricks will help even advanced innovators focus on their critical risks. The simpler the experiments are, the faster they are to run and gather valuable data.

Innovators who have mastered Learn S.I.M.P.L.E. experiment design can take their experiments to the next level by designing S.M.A.R.T. experiments. The Learn S.M.A.R.T. template introduces additional checks on experiments to avoid cognitive biases that can send teams down the wrong path and derail an innovation project.

After identifying a clear business question, we need to identify the right method to gather the data that will answer that question. This lean experimentation workshop helps navigate the dozens of experiment and research methods to find the quickest answers to your business questions.

There is nothing more impactful to your early-stage business model than truly understanding the person you are building for and selling to. This interactive online workshop teaches all you need to know to get out of the building and start talking to your customers. By doing customer discovery, you will understand your customer needs, goals, pains, and aspirations in order to build the right product.

Larger organizations require more stakeholders to close a sale. Understanding the differences between Economic Buyers, Technical Buyers, Evangelists, and Users can turn a longshot into a win. Learn the basics of Value Proposition design and how to adapt them to the complex sales of a B2B environment.

Creating a compelling product or service starts with your value proposition design. If a customer can't understand what's being sold, they won't buy it. This workshop lays out the different tasks involved in value proposition design, and how to avoid common mistakes that kill projects before they even get started.

Support your customer discovery, landing page, and comprehension test processes with a basic grasp of applicable statistics. You will learn how to recognize false signals in your experiments, determine sample sizes for experiments, calculate margins of error in your results, and understand the impact of population, sample size, and confidence interval. Ultimately you will be able to identify the winning experiment given a variety of test results.

Our storyboarding module helps you take your project from a list of features to an experience that customers are willing to pay for. We walk you through the steps to creating a compelling Minimum Viable Product and give you the tools to measure the user's experience.

Discover facilitation techniques, understand different team makeups, and learn how to get the most out of your teams. Using tools like our Business Model Canvas, this facilitation technique workshop helps you figure out where your team is right now, where you want them to be, and how to get them there.

Innovation coaches are often part of a facilitation team teaching new skills to innovators in their company. This workshop focuses on designing effective facilitation techniques to teach the right lesson for the right circumstances, and getting the participants into the right mindset.

Maintaining an innovative culture is a competitive advantage. But how do you maintain startup culture while growing the company? How can existing companies bring startup culture to their teams? This innovation culture workshop helps participants examine their own work in building an innovation culture, and explores how to measure innovation in a larger context.

A project roadmap is only so effective when you don’t know what the next month holds for you. This innovation project management workshop teaches skills aimed at maximizing the time we spend discovering what works and what doesn’t, and how successful companies execute their project management and roadmaps.

Surveys are one of the best tools for an innovator -- and one of the worst. A good survey can collect valuable quantitative data very quickly. A bad survey can produce deceptive data that promotes a poor idea, or disqualifies a great one. This survey design workshop shows you how to create surveys that lead you to your early adopters.

Once you've validated your customer segment, you'll need to build a business model that targets those customers. This workshop helps you scale your business by designing experiments around marketing channels to communicate your value proposition and optimize your marketing efforts.