Jonathan Vehar

Jonathan Vehar: Program Outlines

Purpose:
Delivers the message that growing the organization is everyone’s job. Provides tools and attitudes for people to begin to make innovation happen at any level — from new hire to CEO — immediately.

Description:
Successful organizations demand effective leadership and a focus on innovation to achieve their growth goals. Especially when working in a fast–paced global marketplace, a matrixed organization, an autonomous workgroup, an innovation team or, basically, when the numbers represent a critical challenge. This high–energy, activity–punctuated program provides leaders of all levels, types and functions with the skills and tools to work together more effectively to create new solutions. The participants work on interactive innovation challenges designed to provide insights about the strengths and weaknesses they bring to the organization and to help them define their leadership role within the company. Participants in this program return to work energized to lead and able to develop creative and innovative solutions with their teams.

Key Benefits:

• Productive approaches to help grow value for the organization
• Sharpened leadership, speaking and listening skills
• Improved communication among group members
• More effective leadership and “followership” for more effective collaboration in a hierarchy
• Increased trust among group members
• A new attitude toward accountability and responsibility
• A common language and tools for attacking problems and creating opportunities

Breakthrough Thinking: Creativity and Innovation Tools for Your Brain

Purpose:
Teaches the tools and techniques needed to spark imagination, generate new ideas and break through the blocks to creativity and innovation. Results are immediate.

Description:
A motivational and interactive program designed to create an attitude shift in participants that promotes free–flowing creative idea generation and new ways of treating the innovative ideas of others. Audiences learn tools that will quickly cause creativity breakthroughs in individuals and organizations. Packed with useful information and inspiring stories of successful applications of innovation, the program is also considered “a lot of fun.” Groups are inspired to work together with a new focus on creative thinking, innovation and productivity.

Key Benefits:

• Improved creative thinking and innovative results
• Groups generate more innovative options and a wider range of alternatives
• Enables participants to better evaluate and strengthen new ideas
• Inspires a productive new attitude toward innovation leadership
• Teaches tools and techniques for identifying the opportunities that problems often conceal
• Enhances idea generation and evaluation by the group
• Strenthens creative problem solving in all areas of work and life
• Strengthens emotional intelligence
• Is motivational and energizes more effective teambuilding
• Provides creativity tools and techniques to generate breakthrough solutions on–demand
• Is a great innovation initiative kick–off

Energizing Innovation Teams: How to Spark a Culture of Innovation

Purpose:
This keynote teaches innovation tools that can be used immediately for working together more creatively, productively and effectively. Also sends a message that the corporation is taking action to help groups work together to create more innovative results.

Description:
Everyone is creative. It’s part of the human condition. But harnessing the creativity in everyone and putting it to work productively in a group setting can require new ways of working together more effectively. This high–energy, activity–punctuated program provides team members with the skills and tools they need to work with others to improve their potential for innovation. Participants work on interactive challenges designed to help them see beyond barriers to innovation and the obstructions that can be caused by anyone. Team members leave this program energized, more creative, and more productive when working with others.

Key Benefits:

• Knowledge of the personal blocks and barriers to innovation, and how to get past them
• Improved communication among group members
• More effective leadership and followership for better collaboration
• More effective and productive meetings
• Better working relationships
• New attitudes about being able to innovate
• Common tools and language with which teams can attack problems and create opportunities