Do you need to enable "Human Centered Innovation" where you work?
We've got you covered from A to Z!
It’s no secret: Innovation has been a top strategic priority for CEOs for over a decade. To tackle this priority, most organizations start with new idea campaigns and some form of design thinking.
As a leader, you know it takes much more than that.
You know that being innovative, thinking innovatively, and acting innovatively has its own set of competencies distinct from subject matter expertise:
- Enabling innovation means more than just producing great new products; it means getting everyone to add value by doing things new, better or different in their every day work
- Energizing people to be innovative takes a deep level of intrinsic motivation and meaning
- Thinking innovatively is a cognitive skill that people practice in very different ways
- The process for innovation needs to be emotionally satisfying as well as mentally rigorous
- Building collaborative innovative teamwork requires psychological safety as much as brainpower
You have an indispensable role to play when it comes to building and strengthening these capabilities within your organization.
Whether you’re in an early or mature stage of enabling innovation in your organization, you and your colleagues need to consistently refresh your capability, credibility, resourcing, and knowledge for building and strengthening innovation capabilities in a coherent manner.
That's where you and VCI can work together – not only to make your life easier, but also to ensure your success each step of the way.
VCI offers the only fully-integrated suite of innovation competency-building courses available as virtual, online self-paced and blended learning, as well as onsite workshops.
When you need to build innovation capabilities, we've got you covered. With VCI's suite of onsite or online/blended courses, you can take a leap forward in how you:
- Meet your strategic goals for innovation
- Enhance engagement and career development at the same time
- Develop leaders to be practitioners, coaches and sponsors for innovation
- Enable people to be innovative in their daily work
- Strengthen meaning and motivation based in good character and values
- Contribute to your organization's culture for innovation
If you're ready for us... we're ready for you!
Introductory offer - 20% off Professional courses
To encourage you to get to know VCI's online innovation courses, you can enroll in as many leader and individual courses as you wish for 20% off the regular price.
Sign up for a free account and use the discount code "2022INNOVATE." Pass along this code to your colleagues and they can also receive this discount.
Each provocative 3-4 hour online course includes:
- Professional learning videos
- A strength-based self-assessment with personal profile
- Practical application exercises
- Short quizzes that reinforce learning
- 12-weekly micro-learning exercises for follow-up practice
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What you can achieve with VCI is limitless!
Director Talent Management
Burgess Norton
VCI provides elegant, human-centered solutions for learning and enabling innovation. Their evidence-based, online content is well designed, organized, and highly effective for new and experienced users.
President
Innovative Facilitation
Our partnership with VCI has added value by both extending the suite of learning solutions we can offer and by expanding our team’s expertise and innovation in all that we do.
Head of Data Services
HD Vest Financial Services
I was fortunate enough to execute a departmental turnaround using the VCI framework. Not only did we accomplish phenomenal outcomes, the practice of disciplined collaboration and innovation carried over into every facet of our lives.
Content Manager
Human Resource Excellence Center
We are so impressed by the content, tools and methodologies provided by VCI's program. We feel like we are in an Innovative Journey where we are enriching our minds and our understanding for innovation.
Featured Courses - Sign up for a free mini-course or click on a course to see its free previews
All of our innovation modules are based on decades of research.
If you enjoy delving into thought leadership and would like to know more about the deeper aspects of VCI's programs, below are lots of resources to inspire you!
- VCI's Innovation Program Guide - a comprehensive look at all of the VCI resources
- Springer book chapter: Enabling Innovation with Human Values: A Recipe for Transformation
- A video about our latest initiative: Be an Awesome Place to Innovate®
- A wide range of white papers
- A wide range of videos
Frequently Asked Questions
+ When does each online course start and finish?
+ Are all of your online courses available now?
While we do have a good selection of online courses available now, we're continually launching new courses based on our 10-module curriculum.
To see the courses we currently have available, click here.
In addition to launching a next generation course on "Conscious Human Centered Design" in 2021, we also plan to launch a course featuring our "Meaningful Engagement" module, which includes our Human Values self-assessment.
+ Do you also offer blended learning, virtual and onsite workshops?
+ Can internal trainers, facilitators and coaches get certified in your modules?
Yes. Certifying and empowering your trainers, facilitators and coaches is our strength!
We can customize certification to best fit your needs using onsite workshops, offsite coaching and/or online courses. Some of the certification courses are available online now. If a module is not available online, we can conduct the certification through onsite workshops or offsite coaching.
We have 2 types of certification, one for trainers and one for coaches. The Trainer Certification is designed for those who want to deliver workshop sessions to people who have not yet been trained in a module. The Coach Certification is designed for those who want to coach people who have taken a workshop or online course about a module and need to apply it to their work. If a person needs flexibility to both train and coach others, we recommend obtaining both certifications.
Each certification program includes extensive resources such as: downloadable videos, PPT slides, workbooks, exercise materials and more.
+ Can you customize online courses for our organization?
+ Do you offer corporate discounts?
+ How do I access all of the courses you offer?
We’re glad you asked! We offer a fully-integrated set of modules to build innovation capabilities throughout your organization.
Any time you want to view our full range of courses, just click on the "Public Courses" tab at the top of this page. This will take you to our course home page where you can find everything that's available, including free mini-courses. If you need a customized course, just let us know and we'll design one for you!
To learn more about our full range of modules, analytics and services, download our Innovation Program Guide.
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The VCI Difference
VCI’s diverse work with global cultures since the mid-1980s gives us grounded experience and insight into how individuals, teams, and entire organizations innovate.
Now, all of this experience is available to you, so you can "innovate your way" and thrive in these complex times.
Why VCI?
We're focused on you - You have work to do and positive results to produce; it’s our job to make your work more motivating, innovative and easier.
Results oriented - For us innovation is doing things in a new, better or different way and producing a positive benefit; that’s our passion and purpose in everything we do.
Strength based - Our analytics and self-assessments are designed to build the self-awareness, self-esteem and confidence it takes to be innovative; we balance inner transformation with mastering new capabilities.
Integrated and coherent - Our models, processes and tools have a common language and understanding, so you can feel confident that each time you engage in a VCI course, it will reinforce what you've already learned and put into practice.
Values centered - Human values, the positive qualities of good character found in all cultures across time, are the energizing ingredients for the what, why and how of innovation — and the foundation of all of our programs.
Relentlessly researching and innovating - We’re actively advancing the field of innovation with the latest thought in Innovation Enablement paradigms while simultaneously innovating our own models to stay on the leading-edge.
Jump right in and experience any of the professional leader or individual courses at 20%!
Sign up for a free account and use the discount code "2022INNOVATE." Pass along this code to your colleagues and they can also receive this discount.