One Day Training Programme for Business Trainers and Mentors

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Introduction to the Day

09.15 Registration/coffee09.30 Introduction09.45 Module 1: Your Inner Innovator11.00 Coffee (15 Mins)11.15 Module 2: Types of Innovation12.15 Module 3:The Innovation Process13.00 LUNCH14.00 Module 3: The Innovation Process14.30 Module 4:15.15 Coffee (15 Mins)15.30 Module 4: Your Action Plan16.45 Open questions and answers17.00 Close

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Module 1 – Your Inner Innovator

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Module One: Your Inner Innovator

Part One “A Tour of YOU”

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Part One “A Tour of YOU”

Objective 1 – identify the key influences in bringing

you to where you are now

Objective 2 – what is your experience of change?

Objective 3 – what is your experience of change in

your business?

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“A Tour of YOU”

Exercise 1 (Icebreaker) - What Made You “You”?Introduction (5 minutes) Self-reflection (10 minutes)Pair off Presentation to your neighbour (10 minutes – 5 each)Modelled on speed dating

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What made you

“you”?

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What made you “you”? Self-mapping exercise – “you” as a rose. Petals

and thorns. Influences for good or for bad. What

influenced you (e.g. the talents of the people

around you) Why?

What made you what you are today?

Pair off : talk to each other, 5 minutes each about

your reflections.

Mediated by an elevator bell

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What made you “you”?

“Thorns” are the painful, challenging events/influences – choose at least two

“Petals” are the positive, encouraging events/influences - choose at least two

Aim for 5 influences in total

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What made you “you”?

Represent your story as a

series of “petals” (positive

influences) and “thorns”

(challenges).....

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Elevator Pitch?

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What made you “you”?

Pair off : talk to each other, 5 minutes each, about

your reflections.

Mediated by an “elevator bell” – sets a time limit

(as per time in an elevator with someone you want

to talk to before the doors open) - encourages

concise presentation and allows the facilitator to

move things along without being rude.

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Module One: Your Inner Innovator

Part Two “Getting to go” Objective 1 – identify the key “push - pull” factors that lead

to businesses start-ups

Objective 2 – what “push - pull” factors influenced you?

Objective 3 – an example of a world famous entrepreneur –

reflect on the similarities between his story and yours….

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AN ENTREPRENEUR'S STORY.......

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Sir Richard Branson20

Driven among other things bypoor educational attainment

In the right place to exploit a niche in the market

“Early adopter” of new, innovative and relatively untried products

Diversifies into new sectors; renowned for embracing new technologies

4th richest citizen in the UK (Forbes 2012)

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THE ‘PUSH - PULL’ MODEL ....

‘Push’ = necessity ‘Pull’ = opportunity

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Push Factors Pull Factors

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“Getting To Go” Present your business story – the origins of the business,

what motivated you, what was the stimulus, what steps you took from idea to start-up – go back to your mindset when you started out

Describe the steps taken as push and pull factors in images or words – 15 minutes using the push/pull matrix

Then pair off. Each of you has 5 minutes to present your story to your partner 10 minutes in total

You should listen to your partner and note what struck you.

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Getting To Go......

Step one: You, a reflection....

Your decision to start-up: What push and pull factors

motivated you? What steps did you take?

Summarise on your “Push – Pull” sheet

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Getting To Go......

Step two: Your partner...

Identify what was interesting and surprising? What was

risky?

Was this person predominantly motivated by push or by pull

factors? What have you learnt from this person?

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Feedback

• Which decisions and actions taken were:

.... Interesting (i.e. remarkable/surprising)?

.... Risky?

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