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Innovation Styles survey now supports Japanese

admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:20:00 GMT

The Innovation Styles questionnaire and most of the online materials have been translated and are now available in Japanese. As a facilitator, you can select Japanese as the default language for a group. Or individual users can select Japanese as their language when accessing the system. All end-user screens will appear in the language the user selects. Note: the administration system for facilitators is still in English only - the multi-language support is for end-users to take the survey, view their results, and view/download feedback materials.

UPCOMING: "A PRIMER ON CORPORATE INNOVATION"

admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:12:00 GMT

UPCOMING: "A PRIMER ON CORPORATE INNOVATION" - free half-day seminars scheduled for September 13, and Novermber 6, 2007 in Hartford, CT

Join us for a half-day seminar aimed at enhancing the skills, understanding, self-confidence, and personal meaning needed to stimulate values-driven innovation in your work, team and organization.

This seminar will offer specific knowledge and techniques for:

Relating to the role of innovation in your work
Recognizing your own Innovation Styles
Discovering the values that motivate your creativity
Evoking the most unique contributions from others
Building a culture where the best ideas rise to the top

Who should attend? Corporate professionals, consultants, executives, trainers, managers, and facilitators. Please come, and invite your colleagues!

Download a brochure

Welcome to Jay Borden, a new Innovation Styles practitioner/partner in Connecticut

Alain Rostain — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:30:00 GMT

Welcome to Jay Borden, a new Innovation Styles practitioner/partner in Connecticut.

Jay Borden started Decisive Directions LLC to create a small, agile firm of skilled professionals dedicated to helping companies reach their potential through innovation, better decision making, strategy and practical alignment. Jay has over 20 years of consulting and business experience that he has employed to advise clients such as JPMorganChase, Credit Suisse, American Express, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Kmart, Blockbuster and others on business improvement.

He has created implementable strategies, coached senior executives, reengineered business processes, performed due diligence, valued potential acquisition targets, designed new organizational structures and crafted governance models all to improve shareholder value, enhance performance and position the company for the future without sacrificing quality. The approach is based upon creating a partnership with the client to gain a realistic view of current performance, organizational effectiveness, technology in place, and market and industry conditions.

Innovation Styles is used as an integral part of many engagements or as a standalone engagement to help the client become more innovative and self-sufficient. Jay can be reached at jay.borden@decisivedirections.com or at 203-722-0296.

New User Results Landing Page

admin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:10:00 GMT

New User Results Landing Page.

We've made a significant enhancement to the page where you land after you've completed your survey. If you are allowed to view your results, the page you land on will look something like the attached image. From this “home” page, you can quickly get a sense for many of the things you can review: your results, your 2 kinds of feedback, your group’s results, and other materials available to you. We are already finding that this is dramatically increasing users’ interactions (and learning) with the system after they’ve completed the questionnaire.

Welcome to Michele Patry, a new Innovation Styles practitioner/partner in Ottowa

admin — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:33:00 GMT

Welcome to Michele Patry, a new Innovation Styles practitioner/partner in Ottowa.

What if your leadership development incorporated Innovation Styles? That is the quest that lead Michele Patry, Founder and Principal of Innovative Facilitation Inc. to join as a practitioner with Innovation Styles Inc. Picture it... blue sky, cloudy periods and unleashing the innovative potential of leaders.

Michele is currently working at stirring the pot by launching a "Cooking-up Innovation" program in Ottawa, Canada where Innovative Facilitation is partnering with Brookstreet Hotel's Executive Chef, Michael Blackie to create a culinary challenge that will allow participants to 'taste' their innovation styles at work.

Innovative Facilitation creates and facilitates customized leadership and trainer development programs for organizations that are passionate about developing their people. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of Innovative Facilitation's work with leaders and Michele felt that the Innovation Styles profile would be a great tool to support leaders in more deeply understanding their own preferences, those of their team members and how to use this information in contributing to a culture of innovation.

For more information about Innovative Facilitation go to www.innovativefacilitation.com or call Michele Patry at 613-818-7835.

UPCOMING: "A Primer on Corporate Innovation"

Debra Miller — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:23:00 GMT

UPCOMING: "A PRIMER ON CORPORATE INNOVATION" - free half-day seminars scheduled in May and June 2007 in Hartford, CT, Atlanta, GA, and Washington D. C.

Join us for a half-day seminar aimed at enhancing the skills, understanding, self-confidence, and personal meaning needed to stimulate values-driven innovation in your work, team and organization.

This seminar will offer specific knowledge and techniques for:

Relating to the role of innovation in your work
Recognizing your own Innovation Styles
Discovering the values that motivate your creativity
Evoking the most unique contributions from others
Building a culture where the best ideas rise to the top

Who should attend? Corporate professionals, consultants, executives, trainers, managers, and facilitators. Please come, and invite your colleagues!

Download a brochure

UPCOMING: Certificate Workshop

Debra Miller — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:16:00 GMT

UPCOMING: CERTIFICATE WORKSHOP for Innovation Styles Practitioners - June 6, 2007 in Hartford, Connecticut USA.

While certification is not required for you to be an Innovation Styles Practitioner, we offer this 1-day Certificate Workshop where you can learn how to tap into a wealth of resources to boost your innovative work with individuals, teams, and organizations.

During this program, you will first explore how innovation is a part of everyone’s job, and examine what’s behind the Innovation Styles model. Then you will go “on-line” for a practical learning experience with each of the 10 steps we take to support you in being “remarkably” successful — from the extensive set of feedback, coaching, and workshop materials, to the sophisticated yet simple-to-use, web-based assessment and administration system.

We strive to ensure your success from the very first time you use the Innovation Styles system. Whether you are a new Practitioner, or have already used the Innovation Styles system, you will benefit from this informative and interactive workshop.

Download a brochure

Innovation Styles Inc. Announces the Launch of New Resources on its Website

Debra Miller — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:31:00 GMT

Whether you are new to our website, or a registered Practitioner (internal or external to a single organization), you can now download a wealth of useful resources about innovation and Innovation Styles.

If you are new to our site, you can browse and learn about the features and benefits of the Innovation Styles System (“The System”) and the Five Editions that are currently available ("Editions"). You will also find detailed descriptions of the four Innovation Styles and helpful ways to use the Innovation Styles in a wide variety of business applications (“About the Styles”).

Under “Resources – Tools” you’ll find idea-generation exercises (categorized according to the four styles) with instructions for using them in your work. Also, go to “Resources - Downloads” and check out the brief-and-informative brochures and slideshows, as well as sample feedback/coaching materials.

If you are a registered Practitioner, just log-in and you’ll find even more informative and useful downloads available under “Practitioners – Download.”

And there’s even more – explore the site, and see what you can find!

Strengthening Our Foundation

Debra Miller — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:24:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Jatin DeSai – Co-Founder and CEO of DeSai Learning since 1983 in West Hartford, Connecticut – has joined as the third founding partner of Innovation Styles Inc. Jatin specializes in organizational learning, corporate universities, and technology. He has extensive experience in strategic planning, business operations, marketing, finance, and customer engagement. He will apply this experience to focus on the company’s growth and expansion.

Jatin joins William Miller, who developed the concept of Innovation Styles and authors the feedback/coaching/workshop materials for ISI, and Alain Rostain, who has combined his expertise in business innovation and software engineering to automate the evaluation, administration and feedback process.

Jatin will also work with William and Alain to develop values-driven approaches to creating “Living Organizations” by aligning purpose and vision, attuning personal and organizational values, and developing brand strategies. For more information, see “About Us – History & Co-Founders.”

First Innovation Styles Practitioners Forum A Success!

Gary — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:52:00 GMT

The First Innovation Styles Practitioners Forum took place June 8-9, 2006 in New York City. Practitioners came together to learn the Innovation Styles system, share best practices, build a collaborative community, and create new knowledge that advances the art of innovation.

The session topics included:

Understanding the history, validation and competitors of the Innovation Styles self-assessment profile
Becoming skilled in the administration of the Innovation Styles system
Understanding the IS self-assessment, feedback and coaching materials
Exploring how to integrate the IS system into a client project, workshop or training
Using the Innovation Styles system to enhance the success of tasks, projects, and organizational goals
Sharing best practices and innovative ways to use the Innovation Styles system
Discussion and feedback on the new Team Profiler and drafts of that content