training and programs
Following are outlines of some of the programs offered by empowercoaching. All consulting and training may be tailored to your specific needs.
- Training Programs Overview
- Detail: Ideas and Opportunity Analysis Workshop
- Detail: Commercialising Innovation Workshop
training programs overview
program one:
creativity & the enterprising mindset
- Enhance creativity
- Produce more ideas
- Build confidence and empower the team
- Learn Edward de Bono techniques and enterprising activities developed and tested in four countries
- Modify organisational culture without attacking it
- Reduce conflict and support other change initiatives
program two:
ideas and opportunity analysis
- Test whether your ideas are the basis of commercial opportunities
- Quickly find if a fatal flaw exists within the idea
- Use a powerful screening template
- Analyse the underlying advantages of your idea
- Examine more ideas in a far shorter time
- Save considerable human and financial resources that usually arise with "great ideas".
program three:
commercialising innovation
- Learn to identify and develop "products" that provide competitive advantage
- Develop strategies for your venture, its current and future state
- Use market, industry and product life cycles to sustain advantage
- Overcome barriers to innovation
- Work with your customers to drive innovation
- Separate the underlying activities within your organisation to identify, support and protect your market place advantage
program four:
strategic business planning
- Integrate management, marketing, finance, human resource and operations with an enterprising mindset
- Use the plan to create, communicate and build teams
- Build a "living" plan, a plan that embraces change
- Learn the many uses of a plan, internally and externally
- Devise and develop competitive strategy during planning
- Use powerful market place forces and critical success factors to create barriers for your competition
program five:
preparing for equity or venture capital
- Are you ready? Investors invest in people, the "product" comes second
- Due diligence ~ what you should know about the market and the written and unwritten rules
- The psychology of the deal
- Techniques for successful presentations
- Understand the expectations of the investor
- Reduce the notion of risk and increase the comfort!
program six:
empowering teams
- Empowerment is different ~ the old to the new
- Organisational impact
- Getting there, it takes time ~ tips, strategies and plans
- Motivation through self esteem
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Building the team
ideas and opportunity analysis workshop
Facilitator - Marcus Powe
Most Australian companies have a hidden wealth of opportunities in products or services which often go unrecognised. At the same time, many of the new idea opportunities that do materialise are doomed to fail!
Test your great business idea with a powerful new course that will quickly determine whether your great idea is simply that, or indeed the basis of a commercial opportunity.
Too often, the pursuit of an idea leads to a significant waste of time, financial
resources and energy. Many of us have experienced such activity. This intensive
workshop provides participants the framework to effectively screen their ideas.
The screening activity provides two outcomes:
- The existence of a fatal flaw within the idea, for example, there is no market, someone else is doing it etc.
- The use of an enterprising mindset will assist with identification of new opportunities through the screening process.
- Opportunity and feasibility analysis is the step you undertake before business planning occurs.
The advantages include the relatively short amount of time to screen your idea compared with doing a business plan and thus the savings in human and financial resources.
This is an interactive workshop that all participants share their experiences and strategies for success and often sees the formation of new professional and personal networks.
This program has been delivered in four countries with outstanding success.
Upon completion of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Test whether or not your idea is just an idea, or indeed the basis of a commercial opportunity
- Learn to screen your idea and find the fatal flaw
- Examine why many ideas remain ideas
- Analyse the underlying advantages to your idea
- Create your advantage with an enterprising mindset.
commercialising innovation - ideas to product workshop
Facilitator - Marcus Powe
As the rate of competition increases nationally and internationally, Australian businesses continue to look for the "edge". This workshop provides the tools and strategies that are proven in Australia, South East Asia, USA and Europe.
For the innovator/entrepreneur, the "product" (defined as a device, process or service) and its development must be continuously exposed to the marketplace or a section of informed and trusted friends, so that this feedback can be mixed to produce a "product" that is required and saleable.
Such development will be based on commercial assessment, market opportunity and available skills and capital resources.
The emphasis is on learning to identify and develop "products" that provide competitive advantage in the value chain of the venture's performance.
Techniques are studies that separate the underlying activities within the venture, including designing, producing, marketing and distribution the product.
Create your competitive advantage
The Building Blocks
- The Value Chain
- Technology, Competition, Strategy and Evolution
- Product Life Cycles
- Product and Process Innovation
- Product nNewness and Market Advantage
- Barriers to Innovation
Upon completion of this workshop you will be able to:
- analyse your competitive advantage, strengthen and protect it,
- choose a strategy for your venture, its current and future state,
- design and implement product innovations, where are your current products on the life cycle?
- design and manage process innovations, and understand the difference between continuous improvement, innovation and invention.
- identify and overcome barriers to innovation and develop strategies to overcome them.
- work with your customers to drive innovations.