Investing in human capital development and innovation leadership pays dividends many times over.

At Innovation 360, we draw from our expertise across the innovation, business excellence and leadership development realms to tailor training programs that work best for your organization. Our goal is to help you build your organization’s own human capital and innovation capabilities. To do this, we offer in-house training in the following areas:

Innovation

Business Excellence

Leadership Development

Lean Six Sigma

Lean Management

Business Process Management

Change Management

We also offer public training workshops to which organizations are welcome to send delegates.

Determining Your Training Needs

When developing a custom Innovation Leadership training program for you, we use a framework based on the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) model. This framework features four categories of activities that are common across all programs: Strategic Alignment, Business Processes Gaps, People Assessment and Learning Styles. 

Strategic Alignment - Training departments and business leaders must think of strategy and its role in the broader Innovation Leadership training program in a holistic way, answering the following questions to determine the training program deliverables:

• What do we do?
• How should we do it?
• How do we measure success?
• What are the short-term and long-term targets?
• How do we execute?
• What skills do we need to be successful?

Business Processes Gaps - Business processes are a series of steps that, through the use of resources, convert one or more inputs into one or more outputs. Ideally, the outputs create value for the customer and the business. Your Innovation Leadership training program should map well to the key processes of your business and all the supporting processes that your company needs to meet your customer’s expectations.  When we design your Innovation Leadership training program, we determine competencies and gaps in the following key processes:
 

 
People Assessments - There are a number of practical methods we use to gather data about your employees’ performance and effectiveness in doing what they do. We currently focus on three methods to validate our findings:

• Interviews - Interviews allow us to meet employees face to face to discuss their impressions of performance and effectiveness deficiencies.
   
• Job Appraisal Reviews and 360 Degree Feedback - Job Appraisal Reviews and 360 Degree Feedback systems provide a solid foundation to build  a comprehensive Innovation Leadership training program. Appraisal reviews allow the employee and supervisor / manager to uncover the cause of weaknesses in performance. These deficiencies represent areas for training.
   
• Drive Pattern Identity per Job Profile - The extent of an individual's Innovation Leadership development success depends on their motivation. Identifying the forces that cause an employee to behave in a certain way may be useful in determining the person's individual training needs and how to stimulate the desire to fulfill that need. 

Learning Styles - Learning Styles represent the various ways that people learn. Your employees' learning styles affect the type and amount of training offered. To determine individual learning style, we use Dr. Kobl’s model for Learning Styles, which includes four learning preferences as follows:

• Activist - You like involving yourself fully in new experiences. You'll try anything once, in an open-minded way.
• Theorist - You prefer to think problems through in a logical step-by-step way. You like analyzing and integrating ideas into complex but coherent theories.
• Reflector - You tend to be cautious and thoughtful, liking to collect and analyze as much data as possible, before coming to a decision. You like to "sleep on it."
• Pragmatist - You are enthusiastic about trying out new theories and techniques in practice. You prefer to get on with things, acting quickly and confidently with ideas that you like.
   

For more information about how we can help your organization develop a comprehensive Innovation Leadership training program, email us or call +971 4 319 7645.