The aim of this pathway is to give union officers a well rounded understanding and skills needed to undertake new projects within their union.
Over the eight months of this programme, you will learn the foundations of innovation, learn the techniques for identifying challenges and explore concepts and practical insight to spearhead new projects in your union.
This is a combination of online and in person.
Please note that this is only for staff from Unions 21 unions
Objectives
By the end of the programme, the participants will be able to:
Define innovation
Use insight to generate effective project ideas
Explain how to effectively analyse and adapt projects
Produce stakeholder plans
Module one: Understanding innovation
In person, 2 days in London
What is innovation? Goal Map, Audience, and Stakeholder buy-in
Insight 101. How to conduct insight for innovation
Module two: Insight and ideation
Online - self paced with a tutorial
Using insight in ideas generation
Member insight-led Ideation facilitation, how to generate divergent ideas that work for your membership
Putting into practice
Online - self paced with a tutorial
How to iterate and pivot ideas and build extension propositions.
Prototyping - How to prototype anything in the right way - learn what, how and when to prototype
Engage stakeholders
Online - self paced with final session
Getting buy-in to ensure smooth delivery, how to present winning ideas
Cost: £800/€936
