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INNOVATION TRAINING

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)How did SmithKline Beecham Pharma formulate innovative solutions to give them an edge over their competitors?

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)How did US Steel achieve goals and strive for new horizons in the face of a highly competitive market, while managing changing employee values?

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)How did Carnegie Mellon University recharge its work team while going through a major organizational change?

They all participated in Thunderbolt Thinking Workshops!
Leadership Program: Building an Innovative Workplace
Workforce Program: Innovation Fundamentals

For organizations that need to:

  • challenge paradigms
  • leverage diverse resources and target areas for innovation
  • develop solutions that address meaningful work issues

Thunderbolt Thinking offers a wealth of skills, techniques, and practical guidance in discovering how to turn insights and options into actions that get results. The Thunderbolt Thinking techniques have helped thousands of managers and employees improve their thinking.

The program's real-life business examples and practical advice help participants navigate their own challenges and apply the results to individual projects and work teams. Action plans, along with self-assessment tools, checklists, and exercises, show learners how to make a difference inside their organizations.

LEADERSHIP PROGRAM:
Thunderbolt Thinking: Building an Innovative Workplace

In today’s fast-paced, competitive workplace, an organization’s survival depends on leaders who can consistently and deliberately develop innovative and effective business solutions. Leaders need the skills to foster a work environment that encourages and promotes innovation.Through participation in Thunderbolt Thinking: Building an Innovative Workplace, managers, team leaders, and executives learn what it takes to promote innovation, and how to build an environment that sustains it.

Participants walk away with:

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)A deeper understanding of the innovation process: what's involved, its scope, and why it's important to their teams and their companies.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Enhanced senses of their role as leaders--with a set of 13 strategies to build a work environment that encourages innovation.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)A list of identified barriers to the innovation process and specific how-to actions to move forward.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Techniques to strengthen the value of practice in the innovation process so that they give their work groups time to practice developing their thinking skills.

EXTRA INFO!!!
Steve Zirkel of Owens-Corning uses Thunderbolt Thinking on the job. Click here to find out how!

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Recognition of how their leadership style mirrors their attitude so they use the spirit of flexibility, awareness, courage, humor, and action.
Case Study: Royal Bank Financial Group
Over the course of the past four years at Royal Bank Financial Group, Royal Learning Network has established an aggressive initiative train employees to be more effective, improve teamwork, and to achieve performance improvement in the midst of change. Participants of the Thunderbolt Thinking programs have been able to immediately implement the strategies they learned.

Read about Glenn Blaylock and Marj Dawson, two Thunderbolt Thinkers at Royal Bank Financial Group who use Thunderbolt Thinking to make a difference!

WORKFORCE PROGRAM:
Thunderbolt Thinking: Innovation Fundamentals

Generating powerful ideas and innovative solutions isn’t a matter of luck. It requires skills that allow individuals to challenge paradigms, leverage diverse resources, think expansively and critically, and target critical areas for innovation.

These skills can be learned and developed. Thunderbolt Thinking: Innovation Fundamentals teaches participants how to manage thinking to do away with rigid belief systems and myopic perspectives so they can think on purpose, and to leverage creative spirit and achieve "out of the box" breakthroughs that can be developed into cost-effective, timely, tangible solutions to tough business problems.

Participants walk away with:

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)An integrated, five-step model for how to think.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Proven thinking techniques to quickly take advantage of opportunities.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Field-tested tools to help sharpen and enhance thinking skills.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Practical ideas on how to leverage their ability to think "outside the box" and apply the results to real on-the-job challenges.

yellowbullet.gif (1105 bytes)Insight on how to rejuvenate their creative spirit by focusing on the power of individual choice in how they think.

Case Study: U.S. Steel
Over the past three years U.S. Steel has consistently incorporated Thunderbolt Thinking into their training initiatives. Thunderbolt Thinking was first introduced in the company’s Leadership 2000 series, designed to provide techniques for leading to achieve corporate and plant goals, striving for new horizons in the face of a highly-competitive market, and managing changing employee values. Due to its success, Thunderbolt Thinking was invited back for U. S. Steel’s Environmental Conference. The majority of participants reported that they understood how to apply the innovative thinking concepts to enhance the quality of their thinking on business issues. Since then, Thunderbolt Thinking has been back at U.S. Steel, and continues to be a resource for their training initiatives.

Learn About Other Thunderbolt Thinking Services and Products:
Sustaining Innovation
Thunderbolt Thinking Experiences
Innovation Survey
Keynote Presentations
Tools for Thinking

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