New York Future Skills Unlock

The New York Future Skills Unlock is a highly interactive, hands-on one-day workshop that unleashes your innovative potential. This unique learning experience will shift your mindset, grow your innovation skill set, and help you drive meaningful change in your organization.

We will also use New York as our laboratory with an optional evening program to connect with the best its innovation ecosystem has offer.

By the end of the workshop you will:

• Master core innovation skills and mindsets: From customer interviewing to creative brainstorming to testing new ideas, this workshop will equip you with transformational skills that can be immediately applied to any job role or industry (see agenda below).
• Learn the GIANT Future Skills Toolkit: We have created an easy-to-use and practical toolkit that distills the best thinking from a variety of innovation methodologies, such as design thinking, creative problem solving, and lean startup.
• Gain Insights into Transforming Others: You will leave this workshop inspired and prepared to inspire others. We will share our experiences from having worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and global organizations, like Citi, Roche, Siemens Energy, Allianz, Walmart, and Dallas Fort Worth Airport.
• Build Your Personal Innovation Network: Connect with other workshop participants, as well as GIANT’s team of Innovation facilitators. All our facilitators are seasoned entrepreneurs and experienced educators, with links to top-tier institutions, such as Columbia University, Northeastern University, NYU, and ESMT Berlin.

What is the agenda?

During the workshop you will learn the 5 key future skill for innovation within the GIANT Toolkit:

GIANT Skill 1: Gather

Drawing on a design thinking approach, participants will learn a practical framework for conducting interviews to uncover customer and stakeholder needs.

GIANT Skill 2: Illuminate    

Using the “jobs-to-be-done” theory of innovation as a foundation, this skill provides a powerful way to reframe customer needs and business challenges.

GIANT Skill 3: Actualize

Building on the latest brainstorming and neuroscience research, this skill allows anyone to become a more creative problem solver.

GIANT Skill 4: Navigate

This skill teaches you how to maximize the likelihood that new concepts succeed by using low-risk, low-resource experiments to test, learn, and iterate.

GIANT Skill 5: Tell

Applying the WGOCA Pitch Template, this skill helps you persuade and build support among key stakeholders.

(Optional Evening Activity 430pm-730pm): Ecosystem Tour & Participant Dinner  

During an intimate ”Insider Dinner” we will feature an open discussion with a few special guests from the New York innovation ecosystem.                  

Who should attend?

• Professionals in traditional companies who are looking to increase the innovative capabilities of their teams, departments, and organizations.
• Learning & Development or Human Resources team members who want to develop the skills and confidence they need to teach core innovation skills in their organizations.
• Innovation practitioners and managers who are passionate about improving their skills and bringing more innovation into their organization.
• Those interested in building a foundation in design thinking, lean startup, and creativity skills that they can apply to their organizational challenges.

Please note the following:

• To keep the experience as diverse as possible, there is a limit of two attendees per organization.
• If you’re interested in a custom Future Skills Unlock for your organization, contact us at hello@giantinnovation.io. German, French, and Spanish versions are also available.

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