There’s probably few activities that corporate folks enjoy less than corporate training. For most it’s guaranteed to be a slog, or a review of policies and procedures rarely used and important only to a specific team or set of circumstances. Most people assume they have enough knowledge to do the jobs they have, and they are often comfortable simply winging the rest. That’s why innovation often presents such an interesting challenge.

For the most part, people suspect that innovation is unusual and requires new insights and skills they don’t possess. And since they don’t possess those skills, they will avoid doing innovation work (from fear of failure), or will make innovation work align to existing programs and policies (which they know well). In response, many organizations turn to innovation training and innovation workshops.

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