Become a stronger leader of innovation and design-thinking in your workplace. Join us for a highly interactive and engaging course that will teach you powerful new approaches for creating innovative solutions, crafting vision that gets buy-in, and developing solutions that people love. You'll learn our proven 10-Step Design Process and gain the strategies and hands-on experience to make your mark as a leader of innovation. Don't miss this opportunity to take your leadership capabilities to the next level.
This course may be taken individually or as part of the Professional Certificate Program in Innovation and Technology.
This course is designed to help technical leaders take their communication, influence, and innovation skills to the next level. We will explore the unique challenges of leading cross-functional teams in both start-up and large matrixed organizations, and develop the skills needed to succeed in this new environment.
This course will equip you with tools, case studies, mental models, and practical methodologies you can immediately put into practice that will propel your journey and ensure your success at the next stage of your career.
Using a 10-Step Design Process and a 3-Step Vision Creation and Communication Process, you’ll experience the design process firsthand in this interactive class that will expand your thinking, increase your confidence, and help you and your teams create more powerful solutions. Led by innovation experts, you’ll learn how to create materials that align technical and non-technical audiences and understand the vital importance of the psychology behind how people interact with technology. You will also discover how to manage creativity and assess the effectiveness of your solutions.
By the end of the three days, you’ll be better equipped to conceive of radically innovative solutions, deeply understand who your real stakeholders are and what they care about, create vision that gains buy-in from senior management and colleagues, avoid hazards, and create solutions that people love, both emotionally and intellectually.
This course was previously titled Mastering Innovation & Design-Thinking.
Course Pairing
Successful innovation requires the ability to employ design-thinking, as well as the skills to lead effectively in this context. To enhance your learning, this course is designed to be paired with the MIT Professional Education course Engineering Leadership For Emerging Leaders.
Certificate of Completion from MIT Professional Education
The type of content you will learn in this course, whether it's a foundational understanding of the subject, the hottest trends and developments in the field, or suggested practical applications for industry.
- Fundamentals: Core concepts, understandings, and tools - 50%
- Industry Applications: Linking theory and real-world - 50%
How the course is taught, from traditional classroom lectures and riveting discussions to group projects to engaging and interactive simulations and exercises with your peers.
- Lecture: Delivery of material in a lecture format - 50%
- Discussion or Groupwork: Participatory learning - 50%
What level of expertise and familiarity the material in this course assumes you have. The greater the amount of introductory material taught in the course, the less you will need to be familiar with when you attend.
- Introductory: Appropriate for a general audience - 95%
- Specialized: Assumes experience in practice area or field - 5%