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This training helps leaders of established companies to get back their startup spirit

Ever wondered why your best ideas simply don’t come on the job? Why is this? And, what’s needed to be resourceful in the workplace? Understand what ideal surrounding creative people need to deliver peak performances. Learn how to optimize inspiration among co-workers, and how to manage out-of-the-box thinkers.

How we cultivate a startup spirit

A SHORT INTRODUCTION INTO FIELD ENGINEERING.

To foster a startup spirit we have coined a term. We call it 'Field EngineeringSM.' This unique approach to innovation developed by Prof. Orestis Terzidis (KIT-EnTechnon) and Robert Gerlach facilitates optimal mutual inspiration among co-workers and enables a creative atmosphere to thrive. Field EngineeringSM supports organizations to produce high-quality ideas and raises the chance of a novelty to be successful. Field EngineeringSM requires hiring the right mix of people, establishing a habitat in which employees feel safe enough to voice their wackiest notions, yet spontaneity and improvisation are treasured.

A well-engineered field consists of employees who produce ideas they are passionate about, experts who improve, discard or select them, co-workers who inspire each other, and finally clients or users who validate the novelty by buying it.

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The Systems Model of Creativity by Csíkszentmihályi (2003, p. 315). Modified by Terzidis/Gerlach (2015).

What you will get out of this training

Creative Culture

MODULE I | 2 DAYS

ESTABLISH AN INSPIRATIONAL CULTURE

In this 2-days module, you will learn the principles of Field EngineeringSM — how to facilitate mutual inspiration among co-workers, and how to enable a creative atmosphere to thrive. You will create an action plan to implement Field EngineeringSM..

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  • Learn how to distinguish between innovation and core business.
  • Discover the principles of Field EngineeringSM
  • Understand what makes creative people thrive.
  • Define your corporate creative identity.
  • Develop ideas to cultivate creative thinking in your organization.

Creative People

MODULE II | 2 DAYS

DECODE THE INTRINSIC MOTIVATION OF CREATIVE PEOPLE

In this 2 days module, you will learn how to decode the intrinsic motivation of creative people, how to manage out-of-the-box thinkers, and how to empower them to deliver peak performances. You will learn how to prepare the organization to accept ideas and to deal with cynics and naysayers. You will refine and expand your action plan.

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  • Discover two new management styles for managing creative people: “Leading by Constructive Contradiction” and “Leading by Challenging Genius”.
  • Find out how to integrate out-of-the-box thinkers into the team.
  • Learn how to deal with resistance to ideas and prepare the organization to accept them.
  • Deepen your knowledge of Field EngineeringSM
  • Become confident in leading creative people.

Creative Culture/People

MODULE III | 3 MONTHS

Build a start-up culture & lead creative people

In this 3-months online training, we will guide you in implementing the principles of Field EngineeringSM. We support you in leading creative people, answering your questions, and building a start-up culture.

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  • Implement an inspirational culture where people will have their best ideas at work.
  • Apply two new management styles for leading creative people.
  • Integrate out-of-the-box thinkers into the team.
  • Offer behavioral freedom and opportunities for development.
  • Foster intrapreneurship in the organization.
  • Evaluate ideas of your co-workers with the IQudo 4R.