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Championing innovation and changing mindsets
Innovation Academy

Championing innovation and changing mindsets

Become a leader who can adapt to challenges, unlock innovative thinking in your team, and drive your business forward with visionary thinking

In this era of fast and unparalleled change, a successful business needs exceptional leaders with unwavering motivation, who can turn challenges into opportunities. This programme will help you create an environment that nurtures the growth of innovative minds, where failure is embraced as a stepping stone to success. Learn the secrets of lean and agile working, so that you and your team are able to act swiftly to respond to challenges and capitalise on emerging opportunities.

Our course will empower you to lead with confidence, so that you can inspire your colleagues to embrace discomfort and see beyond their limits. Failure holds valuable lessons, just as success does, and we equip you with the knowledge to harness both so that you create an environment where new, exciting and innovative ideas flourish.

After the course, monthly team coaching with your cohort will provide a safe space to share best practice, become confident to experiment, and learn from each other.

What’s included

  • Either one week residential or 4 hours a week for 12 weeks

  • Online or in person

  • Cohort-based learning using real life challenges

  • 6 months of team coaching with your cohort before, during and after the course. Provides support, accountability and opportunities to learn from each other

  • Exercises, tools and templates for your team

  • Access to our online innovation community

  • Access to a cohort-specific forum

  • Lifetime access to our expert toolkits and worksheets

  • On-demand 1-2-1 executive coaching service (additional fee)

Outcomes

  • Understand how to cultivate a psychologically safe environment

  • Help team members reframe failure as a learning opportunity

  • Guide teams through uncertainty by providing clarity about goals and expectations

  • Balance fast-paced experimentation against risk taking

  • Support continuous learning by providing resources, training opportunities and creating a culture of knowledge sharing

  • Manage resistance to change by addressing concerns, communicating benefits and involving the team in decision making

  • Build effective collaboration by breaking down silos and encouraging open communication, active listening and empathy

  • Effectively communicate the value of these working practices to the C-suite, allowing the team to focus on creative problem-solving


  • Format: online or in person
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    Duration: In person: 5 days or Online: 12 weeks. Both options include 6 months of group coaching (1 x 2-hour session a month)
Andy Gardener, Innovation Academy Lead
Andy Gardener, Innovation Academy Lead

Contact Andy at andy.gardener@wearemagnetic.com if you’d like to discuss running a course and equipping your teams with the skills they need to kickstart new capabilities, new thinking and new ways of working.

“The materials and templates proved invaluable at  capturing information and data and applying empirical
process to real problems.”

Innovation Manager, Just
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