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Innovation Skills for Managers

ICoach / Certifiing Innovation Management Training Program (IMTP)

• Your benefits
• About the History of this Training
• The Unique Selling Propositions
• Training concept overview
• Certification Workshop - Transfer and Closing
• Virtual Transfer Coaching
• Setting
• The 2012-2013 Dates
• Your Investment
• Feedbacks and opinions of graduates
• Announcement and registration (PDF)

There is nothing more constant than change. The willingness and ability to make useful changes is the key success factor for companies and individuals. This is where our training plays a significant role: Our target groups are executives and professional trainers who want to significantly expand their competencies by developing sustainable innovation skills.

This qualification empowers graduates to master the spectrum of modern change management for launching and piloting innovation processes successfully, including real behavioral competence as well as a complete compliment of useful working methods and techniques. Meanwhile we constantly strive to develop our educational system that has already been evaluated and awarded the German Training Award in Gold.

Your benefits

You`ll sicnificantly broaden your technical and methodological spectrum as well as your behavior alternatives. In this context you`ll acquire professional skills for:

• Coaching in encouraging executives
• Constructive criticism and masterful dealing with difficult situations
• Mediation in order to real conflict resolution
• Piloting effective meetings and workshops
• Setting targets- and results orientation
• Systematic troubleshooting and implementation planning
• Facilitation and team development including useful teamwork techniques
• Continuous improvement process, not only according to the Toyota Way
• Instruction – the ability of professional knowledge transfer, methodically and didactically
• Process monitoring incl. supervision of working groups.

About the History of this Training

End of 1999, Harald Korsten was contracted by the Institute of German Economy (IW) to develop training in innovation skills for the heads of institutes merged in an initiative to stimulate innovation in the German economy. Thereupon he developed a training concept covering all requirements to manage an innovation process.
It was shown that the training process was unique, as an IW-comparison with other competitors showed. This first version stood the test in the following months and became the prototype of today's training.
It is now almost 11 years in which hundreds of managers and trainers have been trained in innovation capabilities. Still, the content is constantly updated and the training methods are continuously refined. The training is still unique in covering the entire innovation process – this is the result of interim research by the Swiss Railway Company and by Prof Dr Geissler, H. Schmidt - University of Hamburg, who accomplished a comparative study by order of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Here, he stated we were the market leaders in the advanced field of innovation management, qualitatively and quantitatively.
This award and the response of our participants, encourages us to continue the Kaizen approach, the "Path of persistent Steps", to constantly improve our work.

The Unique Selling Propositions

• According to independent research (see above), we provide the only training that focuses on the management of innovative processes and covers the skills & competences for this purpose completely.
• Interval Training: Continuous didactical development allows our course the compression to 11 days of attendance - 3x3 training days and two days Certification Workshop within four-month period
• Simultaneous learning at the procedural and at the behavioral level, which is crucial to a real understanding of innovative processes
• Clearly defined roles: experts / coaches / mentors / decision makers / moderators / facilitators / supervisors
• Simulation of operational project management, thus delivering the best possible practical relevance
• Interaction wherever possible
• Practical relevance from start: Permanent reverence of the acquired knowledge to its implementation in everyday life
• The graduates will also be certified by Prof Dr H. Geissler, H. Schmidt - University Hamburg
• Just in the right place at our new training base at Wissen Castle
• After the training, optional: Virtual Transfer Coaching on how to implement the newly acquired skills.

Training concept overview

Certification Workshop - Transfer and Closing

• Target/actual analysis of the recent implementation experiences
• Departure in the wild and certificate maturity
• Evaluated training examples and caching-based interviews to the skills of trainers and multipliers for innovative processes
• Detachment and viewing ahead concretely.

Virtual Transfer Coaching in support of implementation (optional)

After training an internet-based coaching will optimally support your implementation of the acquired skills. For this we use the market leading product VTC.
Your investment for this three-month process of effective monitoring and evaluation of the
Implementation: € 350.00 plus VAT.

Setting

We perform this education at our new training base
Wissen Castle near Kleve.
Every module starts at 9:30 am on the first day and finish at about 16:00 pm on the last day.
We can if required deliver training directly within organisations and companies.

The 2012-2013 Dates

• Module 1: 14-16 November 2012
• Module 2: 12-14 December 2012
• Module 3: 16-18 January 2013
• Certification-Workshop: 14-15 February 2013

Your Investment

€ 3.900.00 + VAT for 11-day education in total.
Approx. € 125.00 + VAT including hotel costs / vull board per person and day.

Feedbacks and opinions of graduates

The Innovation Trainer education enriches for every professional trainer and also managers who wants to develop high performance teams. The participants learn how to develop employees into teams, achieving increasingly better results with high identification, initiative and fun at work. Harald Korsten and his training team provide the challenging syllabus excellently. The participants take away considerably more than the usual fat folder. For me, this was one of the best opportunities for development I`ve received so far in my professional career with BMW, Mercedes and now thanks to TOYOTA.
Peter Tholl, Regional Sales Manager, TOYOTA D GmbH

The training is a challenging analysis with organizational development, with the trainer role of the next generation and... with yourself.
Nina Mrugalla, Head of HR, PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH

The Innovation Trainer education has been very productive, as the opportunities were generated by consistently encouraging leadership behaviour were practically clarified in every training module.
In particular, the reflection on the trainers self-image inititated my (still) ongoing learning process.
Dr Petra Giese, Senior Business Developer, SWK STADTWERKE KREFELD AG

The "Innotrainer” was the best education I participated within. The very demanding and complex topic was imparted absolutely professional, varied, motivating and by logical, comprehensible steps. The Process and training method were exemplary. I was fascinated by the culture of criticism, the supportive leadership and coaching behaviour, the dealing with difficult situations and the skillful use of the moderation method including useful team development techniques. The special thing is that these skills will be very useful to me in daily working life. This training earns a "highly recommended".
Bruno Marenghi, Head of Infrastructure, Swiss Railway Company SBB AG

The Education in Innovation Competency is the best ever trainer training I've had. For me, a management consultant and project manager, are the trained and acquired skills crucial in order to deliver my projects and to implement change management skills in teams successfully.
Dr Armin Bratz, Senior Consultant, HANSE Management Consulting GmbH

The education is a prime example of interactive and challenging human resources development in the form of a seminar. In this case, it confronted the roles of innovation, leadership, development and also with your own personality. Actually, it should be a compulsory course for all young and all experienced managers as well as for trainers of any experience levels. We always keep on learning. Thanks motiv! Once again with pleasure!
Hanns Horváth, HR Developer, NORDEX AG

I was strenghtened developed more confidence on the path to become an innovation trainer. The training was the best, liveliest and most interesting I have ever participated! With the issues, the trainers ripped us participants out of our seats and allowed us to to work towards success autonomously.
The tools learned can always be used with much success, be it at work, in the family or in associations.
Heinz Wohlgensinger, SAP HR Specialist, Swiss Federal Railways SBB AG

This training has shown me impressively, how organizations innovation capacity may be increaseed by creating the necessary basics. While companies are usually focused on the processes, the training clarifies that innovative capacity has to be supported by an equivalent corporate culture. Innovation is regarded as a team effort - the training clarifies how teams will be able to increase maximum performance. The important skills for this, such as coaching and facilitation techniques, are unfortunately still very neglected in large companies.
Deserves praise the training concept. Here, intensive group work is delivered instead of "PowerPoint teacher-up front style”. Participants will learn primarily through mutual criticism and mutual coaching. Unlike many other training systems, sufficient time is provided to practice the learned skills intensively. By this, the transfer into working live will be much easier. For me, that is the best training I have ever attended!
Markus Kreye, Product Manager, Visteon D GmbH

The education for the innovation trainer is a crucial step for my professional development. I've learned how to accompany employees in innovative action with structured approach and thereby enabling me to promote their willingness for change. This is not just for employees but also for myself a (also necessary) cultural change on issues of organization, processes, teamwork and leadership. Each module of this training series has always had the practical relevance, practice and clearly pointed out to me the benefits of the issues learned.
Exceptionally important for me was the collaboration with the training`s learning partners. In the group, an open and constructive feedback was given. That was an ideal help for self-help. For me, the two very competent trainers Martina Held and Harald Korsten were a special experience.
Stefan Rottländer, Head Measuring and Metering System, SWK SETEC GmbH