Spark Innovation Within a Team

Overview

Are you ready to create a thriving culture of innovation in your workplace? This course will help you develop the skills to not only innovate effectively, but to support and encourage innovation within a team environment.

Innovation is the process of changing or creating more effective products, processes and ideas. Without it, businesses falter and progress stagnates. Businesses that foster an innovative team environment will improve customer experiences, products, services and business processes. In the current business climate, innovation in businesses is more important than ever before.

What You Will Learn In this course, you will be guided towards creating a culture of innovation in your team through effective leadership and management, along the way exploring methods of encouraging your team to approach every day as an opportunity for improvement and innovation. Throughout the course, you will work together in virtual teams on a business-related innovation challenge, and will have opportunities throughout to promote innovation within your team. Target Skills

This course will help students to unlock their own and their team's innovation thinking skills. It will provide them with the skills necessary to be an effective and proactive member of an innovative team.
Create opportunities to maximise innovation within the team
Organise and agree effective ways of working
Support and guide colleagues
Reflect on how the team is working

Syllabus

Week 1: Think like an innovator

In week 1, we will delve into what innovation is and practice thinking with an innovation mindset. We will explore innovative companies and people and look at innovation within Australia.

Week 2: Maximise innovation within a team

In week 2, we will turn innovative ideas into team projects. Here we will explore the importance of teams and how to build them in a way that maximises innovation.

Week 3: Work effectively as a team

Week 3 focuses on how to work well together as a team. We will explore ways to encourage innovation from the top down, as well as delve into different techniques for fostering innovative within a team, such as brainstorming and problem-solving techniques.

Week 4: Reflect on, review and reward innovation

Finally in week 4, we will work through the process of reflecting on and reviewing innovation within a team and how to give feedback. We will consider the challenges and barriers to innovation, challenges you may face in your team and ultimately, how to reward and celebrate innovation after your team project has drawn to a close.

Week 5: The finish line!

This week, we will share our innovation challenge Major Tasks and showcase the Innovation Solutions that teams within the course have been working on. High fives!