Innovation Coaching

Innovation Coaching

Innovation Coaching involves 1 hour segments of “Active” teaching.  We know it takes 21 days to break a habit, and realize that “old” habits have to be broken and “new” habits learned for real “change” to take place.  So, don’t panic.  Compass Consulting Team has the tools, knowledge, experience, and talent to help any organization and its people transform themselves into Purple Cows.
Breaking learning into bite size chunks is a great way to enhance the retention (memory) of the learner, and allows the learner to practice their new skills, concepts, and behaviors in a realistic setting, allowing for feedback and critical evaluation of what worked, why, and the consequences.  Each week the learner (team) is meeting with their Purple Cow Coach to discuss and review the previous weeks segment, their action plan, and this week’s training.  Building on each skill and concept as the coaching continues.  We can adjust the speed easily based on the learner’s pace and ability to digest and use the new skills.

What’s involved? We will work with you and your organization to implement the Purple Cow Innovation philosophy, tools, techniques, and concepts.  We’ll help you and your team or teams of people develop the skill of “innovation” and practice the critical behaviors for innovation to seed, grow, and harvest.

We’ll support you and your team as they learn the “learning personas”, the “organizing personas”, and the “building personas” which make-up the critical behaviors of an Innovation Team.  We’ll facilitate the process of “going to the edges ” (edgecraft) with you and your team where the 6 Thinking Hats become indispensable to the innovation process of 1.  Initiate and Investigate, 2.  Innovate and Create, 3.  Evaluate and Orchestrate, 4.  Communicate and Sell It!

Coaching Advantage: You’ll be working on YOUR real products/services and processes that need “soft” innovation OR designing and developing “new” products/services and processes that you’ll want to introduce into the marketplace.  It’s real learning in real time!

Coaching Packages

Purple Cow Package – 10 weeks package of 1 hour session with maximum team size of 10 people.

Includes:  Starter Kit with Participant Materials and Purple Cow by Seth Godin for each participant.

Overview:  Purple Cow Briefing (2 hr’s), Personas & Team Roles ( 2 hr’s), Innovation Process & Stages (4 hr’s), Innovation Project Management ( 2 hr’s)

More Cowbell Package - includes Purple Cow Package and an additional 4 hours.  14 week package with maximum team size of 10 people.

Includes:  Participant Materials, starter kit,  and Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel for each participant.

Overview:  The additional 4 hours will involve the concepts behind Social Media, when, why &  how to use the tools of LinkedIn, Face book, Twitter, and Blogs to create a following of “sneezers” for your companies products/services.   We will work with your team to incorporate a mix and blend of traditional and social media marketing materials and  a strategy for moving forward including website questions and ideas.

The “Big Moo” Package - includes the More Cowbell Package plus an additional 4 hours of coaching focusing on the Communicating, Selling, and Championing the product/service in the organization.

Overview:  We realize that in larger corporations it can be more difficult to “sell” a great idea to the other departments, divisions, and managers of the company.  We have designed an Innovation Process that fully supports the  Champions of the Innovation Teams .  We’ll be coaching the “Champions” through the process of communication using NLP, Perception exercises, and the Fulcrum of Innovation.

Maximum # of Participants:  10

Includes:  All Starter and Participant Materials plus the book “Linchpin” by Seth Godin

Web Conference Service

Our Innovation Coaching Packages are designed for web conference synchronous training.   We use iLink support services and the starter kit includes all the additional hardware and tutorials necessary for a seamless coaching session.  Because we believe in Synchronous Coaching, the coaching is in real time with interactive learning taking place.  The participants are always in full view of the coach and the materials are sent ahead of time for the learners to “socially” interact with each other, the coach, and the learning event during the coaching session.  Please contact us for additional information or specific customization needed to make your COACHING package memorable and effective. Please Click here for more information about distance learning and synchronous training. Bring the training to you, but not the expense of travel.


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