Global Innovation Facilitator 01/2021

This training module is suitable for participants who want to train companies and teams to become more innovative as part of their job, e.g. as a facilitator or external trainer.

The certificate is called “Global Innovation Facilitator”.

This module mainly includes advanced visualisation methods and concrete techniques for effective facilitation of creative workshops and innovation projects, as well as state-of-the-art gamification tools.

The participants work on typical problems and can bring in their own cases. You will benefit from the many years of international experience of Benno van Aerssen and Christian Buchholz from many different and international innovation projects.

The prerequisite for booking the Innovation Facilitator is the previous completion of the Innovation Professional or the Innovation Master, as the course builds on the basics.

Topic focus: Ideas and evaluation 
Idea generation, creative meetings and creativity techniques 

• How is a motivating and modern creative meeting structured?
• What know-how and methods does the facilitator need?
• How to choose the appropriate creativity technique?
• How does evaluation promote the idea with the most potential?
• What is the role of the various audits?

Topic focus: Visual Facilitating 
Visual Facilitating supports the work of groups with visual language – in creative processes, presentations, workshops, coaching and also in any simple meeting situation. 

• Visual Facilitating, Graphic Recording
• Big Picture
• Visual language, visual vocabulary

Topic focus: Facilitator know-how for professionals 
Introducing creativity techniques and innovation management in a company poses special challenges for trainers and consultants. Benno van Aerssen and Christian Buchholz share their experience from numerous successful innovation projects with the participants of the trainer module. 

• Challenges in designing and implementing innovative processes
• Successful handling of people with reservations
• Structure and set-up of a goal-oriented counselling interview
• Solving critical situations in training and in the counselling process