Course description
Innovation Styles®: Certification as an Innovative Thinking Coach
Being a VCI-Certified Innovative Thinking Coach, powered by Innovation Styles®, is an exciting and rewarding move for your career. Your coaching will enable people to transform their solutions to everyday work challenges from ordinary to innovative.
Coaching people to recognize the different ways we like to think innovatively is a key to strengthening their innovative teamwork. We all have our own unique approach to meeting an innovative challenge, using our own mixture of 4 Innovation Styles®: Visioning, Modifying, Exploring, and Experimenting. To lead and cultivate a healthy environment for business innovation, each style must be recognized, valued, and put to its best use… while practicing versatility among all 4 styles.
In your certification training, you’ll learn to conduct 7 different coaching sessions. Your online course will be organized into the 7 sessions, each with its own objectives, videos, and exercises to choose from.
Once you’ve completed your online study and practice, we’ll coach you before and after your first “live” sessions, to make sure you’ll be confident and successful from the very start. And, we’re always here to support you when you need us.
To become a Certified Coach using Innovation Styles®, you’ll need to complete a VCI Innovative Thinking course, and you or your organization will need a VCI license agreement. Contact us for more details.
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Who should attend?
Trainers / Facilitators / Coaches / Innovation Ambassadors
Training content
As a VCI-Certified Innovative Thinking Coach, you’ll be able to guide, support, and facilitate each person you coach to:
- Strengthen their understanding about what it means to “think innovatively”
- Enhance their creativity using the 4 Innovation Styles®
- Master 4 Innovation Styles® questions to generate comprehensive solutions
- Gain self-awareness and versatility using their self-assessment profile
- Appreciate others’ style preferences, including group dynamics
- Be confident using style-specific idea generation techniques
- Be skillful in applying customized style questions to specific needs
Course delivery details
Group virtual or onsite certification training is also available.
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Values Centered Innovation Inc.
Since its inception, VCI has been known as the “What’s Next?” provider of programs and assessments for enabling innovation with every person, every job, every day. We balance inner transformation with mastering new competencies, while integrating broadminded mental models, emotional...
Working with William and Debra Miller was a delight; their support was instrumental to the success of my Innovation Styles® workshop.