One Day Training Programme for Business Trainers and Mentors 1

Introduction to the Day Registration/coffee Introduction Module 1: Your Inner Innovator Coffee (15 Mins) Module 2: Types of Innovation Module 3:The Innovation Process LUNCH Module 3: The Innovation Process Module 4: Coffee (15 Mins) Module 4: Your Action Plan Open questions and answers Close 2

Module 1 – Your Inner Innovator 3

Module One: Your Inner Innovator  Part One “A Tour of YOU” 4

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? 5

“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 6

What made you “you”? 7

 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 8

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 9

What made you “you”? Represent your story as a series of “petals” (positive influences) and “thorns” (challenges)

Elevator Pitch? 11

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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. 14

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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…. 18

AN ENTREPRENEUR'S STORY

Sir Richard Branson 20

Driven among other things by poor 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) 21

THE ‘PUSH - PULL’ MODEL.... ‘Push’ = necessity ‘Pull’ = opportunity 22

Push Factors Pull Factors 23

“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. 24

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 25

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? 26

Feedback Which decisions and actions taken were:.... Interesting (i.e. remarkable/surprising)?.... Risky? 27