New York Future Skills Unlock

The New York Future Skills Unlock is a highly interactive, hands-on one-day workshop that helps you build the skills and confidence to innovate in the age of AI. This practical learning experience will expand your thinking, grow your innovation skill set, and help you drive meaningful change in your organization.

As AI creates new possibilities, knowing which problems to solve, asking better questions, and testing what works are essential to turning those possibilities into value.

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: Get an easy-to-use, practical toolkit that brings together the best thinking from innovation methodologies such as design thinking, creative problem solving, and lean startup.‍
• Gain Insights into Helping Others Innovate: Leave inspired and better equipped to help others embrace new ideas and ways of working. We will share lessons from our work with Fortune 500 companies and global organizations, including Citi, Roche, Siemens Energy, Allianz, Walmart, and Dallas Fort Worth Airport.‍
• Build Your Personal Innovation Network: Connect with other workshop participants and GIANT’s team of innovation facilitators. Our facilitators are seasoned entrepreneurs and experienced educators, with links to institutions such as Columbia University, Northeastern University, NYU, and ESMT Berlin.‍

What is the agenda?

During the workshop, you will learn and practice the five key innovation skills in the GIANT Toolkit. Together, these skills help you navigate change and turn new possibilities—including those created by AI—into useful outcomes:

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.

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Who should attend?

• Professionals who want to strengthen their teams’ ability to innovate and succeed in the age of AI.

• Learning & Development and Human Resources professionals who want to build the skills and confidence to help others innovate.
• Innovation practitioners and managers who want to sharpen their skills and bring more innovation into their organizations.
• Anyone interested in building a practical foundation in design thinking, lean startup, and creative problem solving to address organizational challenges in the age of AI.

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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