“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat” - Steve Jobs
We will engage with you in an innovation conversation to produce a training needs analysis. We can then custom design our suite of programs to suit your organisation’s workplace requirements.
Programs are available as one hour expo sessions, half day workshops or full day intensives.
* Workshop expos may only cover a portion of the content listed depending on time constraints and participant requirements.
Turn It On
A showcase of cutting edge research on the tremendous capacity and drive for innovation contained in the human brain.
Dallas Fell and Colin Klupiec will demonstrate some simple techniques for unleashing your own creative thinking and the creative thinking to Turn On your workplace.
To Market To Market
Innovation in Marketing and Marketing Your Innovation
We can assist you to improve your bottom line by making small, simple, innovative improvements to your marketing strategies.
You’ll walk away from this workshop with a grassroots plan that you can implement into your business or organisation immediately.
Nuts and Bolts
A Business Innovation Case File
Capture the ideas, innovations and energy of your business team to boost profitability and results.
In this Create and Innovate session, we will showcase a range of examples of business innovation, showing the process from inception to production to market.
We highlight some of the pitfalls and challenges for innovating in business, along with successful strategies and practical steps that can help you and/or your team and turn great ideas into concrete results.
The Case for Creativity and Just Doing It
The case for creativity has been led by advertising agencies. Build your own case for creativity in your business or organization and make it count.
Just doing it and launching a product early can be a cost-effective route to innovation.
See how Apple, Nike and Starbucks use early-stage marketing to skip R&D and create innovative products and services.
Move It On
Empower Your Workforce and Create a Collaborative Environment
This workshop will focus on collaboration and empowerment in order to Move On your workplace.
“The greatest change in the way business is being conducted is the accelerating growth of relationships based not on ownership but on partnership.” - Peter Drucker
Kevin Coffey and Christina Sykiotis will demonstrate how workplace collaboration and empowering colleagues, managers and employees is already working for many forward thinking companies such as Yahoo, Boeing, Virgin Blue, Volkswagon ..... oh and Apple, Twitter and Facebook.
Turn It Techno
Discover how cutting edge communication technology can turn on your brain and your business. Instead of becoming overwhelmed with the vastness and speed of innovation in technology, let it work for you.
We cherry-pick the best from the cutting edge and make it easy and inspiring.
Be transported from “It’s all too much!” to “Yes but we don’t have to do it all.”
Positive, practical, profitable and playful!
Been There Done That
Hear first hand from innovators and entrepreneurs.
As a special session for the Hunter Central Coast Innovation Festival, we will be transporting participants to the studios of NBN Television for the final session.
A Q&A session will take place facilitated by NBN news reader Natasha Beyesdorf. Our panel will consist of Brian McGuigan (McGuigan Wines), Dr Eileen Doyle (Doyle Partners), Jeff Phillips (Varley Engineering) and Helen Lee (St Phillips Christian College).
Also on display will be the Varley Electric Vehicle evR450.
This session will be web streamed live on the Hunter Central Coast Innovation Festival site. You will be a part of the studio audience and will have an opportunity to ask questions of the panel during the session.
Collaboration
Share the Risk... Share the Reward
“The greatest change in the way business is being conducted is the accelerating growth of relationships based not on ownership but on partnership.” - Peter Drucker.
Kevin Coffey will take you on a journey of collaboration – from the Dreamliner to the Fashion Industry then straight to your business.
Breaking Through
Gain acceptance for your Big Idea and bring your vision to life.
Build your network of support and target the decision-makers.
Create a successful pitch to Break Through…
Embed innovative thinking into your business or organisation and create “the habit”…not just skill building but behaviour changing.
To Market With Social Media
Set it up, get it working and leave with brand new connectivity. Remember - in order for people to contact you via social media, they have to know you how to find you.
1,2,3 – Come and Find me. Develop digital strategies, including Twitter, Blogging and other online tools to introduce innovative ways of Marketing your Innovation.
Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow
A Journey Through Innovation and Collaboration
In 1856, William Henry Perkin, an eighteen-yearold English chemist, was searching for a cure for malaria. He made an accidental discovery that resulted in a life changing product.
A Mistake or an Innovation?
Turn It Up
Let’s Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow - A Journey Through Innovation and Collaboration.
In 1856, William Henry Perkin, an eighteen-year-old English chemist, was searching for a cure for malaria, a synthetic quinine, and accidentally discovered the first synthetic dye.
He found that the oxidation of aniline could color silk. From a coal tar derivative he made a reddish purple dye. The brilliant purple was called mauve.
This discovery resulted in additional research with coal tar derivatives and other organic compounds and an entire new industry of synthetic dyes was born.
A Mistake or an Innovation?
Inspiration to Action
The Case for Empowerment
How many times have you been to a workshop or seminar, been inspired, had all good intentions of making change happen, only to find yourself doing the same old same old!
By focusing on empowerment, you can begin the journey of Making It Real, so you can Move On your business or workplace.