COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Develop Innovation Champion Skills course. This program will equip you with the leadership capabilities, analytical tools, creative thinking techniques, and organisational insight required to champion innovation effectively within your team and across your workplace. You will explore how to set clear direction, build supportive conditions for creativity, evaluate opportunities, manage risks, and embed continuous improvement practices that enable innovation to thrive. This course also examines how operational excellence, quality improvement, and collaborative working influence the success of new ideas.

This course begins by exploring how to use objectives and targets to help set direction for yourself and your team. You will learn how to set team and individual objectives and how to negotiate objectives that align with organisational needs. This section examines the SMART objectives framework, the Balanced Scorecard, and how structured goal-setting provides clarity, accountability, and shared focus. You will also explore how effective delegation enables teams to achieve objectives more efficiently and how to negotiate expectations successfully. This section includes a review of the stages in the negotiation process, the foundations for successful delegation, and how to monitor outcomes as part of responsible leadership.

The next learning area focuses on the organisational and theoretical foundations of innovation. You will explore why innovation succeeds or fails and examine the evolutionary theory continuum as a way to understand how ideas develop over time. This section also reviews the organisational context for innovation and explains how innovation and operations must work together to improve quality. You will explore the influence of quality improvement systems, improvement teams, and the growing importance of collaborative or partnership working in supporting innovation.

A further section examines the human and environmental conditions needed to encourage creativity. You will explore how to identify the conditions that foster creative thinking, the characteristics of successful innovators, and your role in championing opportunities for innovation within your organisation. This section also reviews quality improvement processes that support innovation and explains how organisations can capture and distribute learning to support continuous improvement and meaningful change. You will review the continuous improvement cycle and understand how innovation fits within broader organisational learning and refinement.

The program then focuses on tools and techniques for generating and evaluating ideas. You will explore a variety of ways to generate creative solutions and make effective decisions, including both creative and analytical tools and techniques. This section also examines how to evaluate innovations using structured criteria to assess the feasibility and viability of new ideas. You will explore how to apply force field analysis to understand the driving and restraining forces that influence an innovation’s success, and how to evaluate the risks and benefits associated with implementing new solutions.

The final learning area focuses on planning for uncertainty. You will explore how to build contingency plans into innovation projects to ensure resilience and adaptability when unexpected challenges arise. This ensures that innovation is not only creative but also strategically robust, sustainable, and aligned with organisational capacity.

By the end of this course you will be able to set clear objectives, support creative thinking, understand how innovation succeeds, analyse organisational conditions, apply structured decision-making tools, evaluate new ideas, manage risks, and lead innovation initiatives that drive continuous improvement and positive change within your workplace.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• use objectives and targets to help set direction for you and your team
• set team and individual objectives
• negotiate objectives to meet organisational needs
• understand the SMART objectives and the Balanced Scorecard
• understand how delegation will help you and your team achieve objectives
• explore the stages in the negotiation process
• understand the foundations for successful delegation
• monitor the outcomes
• understand why innovation succeeds or fails
• understand the evolutionary theory continuum
• review the organisational context for innovation
• understand how innovation and operations need to work together to improve quality
• understand the influence of quality improvement, improvement teams and the new influence of collaborative or partnership working
• identify the conditions needed to encourage creativity
• identify the characteristics of successful innovators
• understand your role in championing opportunities for innovation
• review the quality improvements processes that support innovation
• understand the processes needed to capture and distribute learning for continuous improvement and change
• understand the continuous improvement cycle
• use a variety of ways to generate creative solutions and make decisions
• understand the creative and analytical tools and techniques
• evaluate innovations
• use criteria to assess the feasibility and viability of new ideas
• understand the force field analysis
• understand and evaluate the risks and benefits
• build in contingency plans

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 3-4 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.