Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise

Who is the course for?

This course is aimed at anyone interested in innovation and enterprise in the modern world, but may be of particular interest to students who are looking to develop their transferable skills for the workplace and general day-to-day life.

What topics will you cover?

A historic overview of how ideas become innovations

Insights into the habits of successful innovators

Approaches and methods for understanding and categorising complex problems

Techniques for structuring and solving problems

Understanding ‘accidental’ invention and engineering your own luck

Recognising different forms of innovation

Idea-generation and evaluation techniques

Using the Lean Startup method to test your ideas out

How to network, influence, and pitch your ideas effectively

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…

Develop your personal resource profile and innovation style to better focus your ideas

Explore historic, current, and future innovations that inspire you

Develop a toolkit of problem-solving and idea-generating techniques

Investigate engineering your own luck so that you have more and better ‘accidental’ ideas

Identify ways to start-up an idea with a minimum of effort and expense

Improve your pitching and influencing skills