Creativity & Innovation

Creativity and innovation training in London. Design thinking, creative problem solving and LEGO Serious Play workshops for UK teams. In-house.

Creativity and innovation workshops in London

Shine runs creativity and innovation workshops for teams in London and across the UK. We teach practical tools such as design thinking, creative thinking techniques and LEGO Serious Play, and apply them to a real challenge your team is facing.

Who it is for

  • Teams who need fresh ideas for products, services or processes
  • Leaders driving innovation or digital change
  • Cross-functional teams working on a shared challenge
  • Anyone who wants to think more creatively at work

What your team will be able to do

  • Use proven creative thinking techniques
  • Run a design thinking process from problem to prototype
  • Generate more ideas and choose the best ones
  • Involve customers and colleagues in solving problems
  • Turn ideas into clear next steps

How it runs

  • At your office in London, anywhere in the UK, at an off-site venue or live online.
  • Formats: a 2 hour online session, half day, full day or 2 day programme.
  • Every programme starts with a discovery call, so the content fits your team, your sector and the results you want.
  • You get an outline and a quote after the call. Enquiries get a reply within one working day.

Programmes we run

Digital Maturity

Digital Transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new – or modify existing – business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market requirements. This reimagining of business in the digital age is digital transformation. It transcends traditional roles like sales, marketing, and customer service. Instead, digital transformation begins and ends with how you think about, and engage with, customers.

In Digital Maturity program includes a series of topics:

  • Assessing Digital Maturity – Understanding and assessing your As-Is
  • Mastering Digital Transformation – Foundation + Advanced 1
  • Exploring AI and Machine Learning – Advanced 2

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The Improvisational Mindset for Collaborative Innovation and Ideation

While ‘innovation’ seems a necessity for modern organizations, a customized definition of this idea is necessary – it can mean different things to different organizations and people.

Additionally it can mean different things for different departments, functions, teams – and clients and customers as well.

This multi-session program identifies the unique contributions of each function and brings them together in a cohesive manner using tools of Applied Improvisation, NLP, and Non-Violent Communication.

The result will be a process of collaborative ideation and innovation, designed by your team for your organizations unique challenges, and easy to replicate and transfer to stakeholders and teams.

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Creative Innovative Mindset-Thinking In out of the box™

“Be Creative!” , “We need innovation!”, “Think outside of the box!”, Sound familiar?  Then what is the box, and how do we think outside it?

The box is a metaphor for the invisible boundaries our thinking creates to make sense of the world, to keep us safe and help us succeed.

In VUCA times, our old box may not support us to have continuous success. Our constantly changing world needs us to think outside of the box to build new action plant to adapt to the changes and to achieve new levels of success.

The Box program can be customized to your specific business needs, such as new product ideation process, updating company business process and innovating sales strategy

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Leading Innovation - Clockwise™

People often think of change as a linear process with a beginning, hard work in the middle, and then hopefully a successful conclusion.

Clockwise™ is a creative innovation model that puts the various milestones, enablers and activities necessary to innovate in an active cyclical format.

This process focuses on the iterative nature of innovation and the necessity of not just delivering results but sharing the learnings with others to improve our organization’s innovation capacity.

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Design Thinking

Design thinking is a process for creative problem solving with a human centered core. It encourages organizations to focus on the people their  solutions are created for, which leads to better products, services, systems that really delight the people that use them.

It includes five main stages: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test. Running the process helps organizations drive user-centric innovation forwards

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Lego Serious Play ®

LEGO Workshops are customized programs that use the Lego system as a vehicle, designing a process based on the real-world needs of the customer.

By guiding customers towards sincere dialogue and brainstorming based on the actual situation, participants find solutions that meet their own needs.

One of the key features is that customer experience is extremely important, and all trainees should be extremely engaged. The Lego system has a highly flexible, customized design to meet the different needs of each industry and client.

With the help of Lego‘s separation of psychological defense mechanism, it promotes sincere, heartfelt dialogue.

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Creative Thinking Process

This course proves that Creative Thinking can be learned.

Simple techniques can rewire the brain and miraculously make the impossible possible.

This course aims to quickly teach the techniques, which can then be applied immediately to real life problems or creative challenges.

All four modules in this program are based on Shine’s TAPE methodology, ensuring trainees practice the techniques and are evaluated by the trainer before moving to the next skill.

Your instructor

Jamie D.

Jamie Dixon is an instructional designer, facilitator, and training consultant. Originally from the UK, Jamie has spent more than 10 years in China. Jamie has worked with over 100 multinational companies throughout China and the APAC region. As a fluent Chinese speaker, Jamie delivers most of his training in Mandarin. Jamie Dixon is the author of his upcoming book Shaping Paths—How to Design and Deliver Training that Actually Works.

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Common questions

Can you run creativity and innovation training at our London office?

Yes. Most programmes run in-house at the client's office in London or elsewhere in the UK. We can also run them at an off-site venue or live online.

What is LEGO Serious Play?

It is a workshop method where people build models to explore ideas and problems. It gets everyone talking, including quieter team members, and leads to honest discussion.

Can we work on a real business challenge?

Yes. We recommend it. Using a real challenge makes the workshop more engaging and gives you ideas you can act on.

How long are the sessions?

Choose a 2 hour online session, a half day, a full day or a 2 day programme. We will suggest the best length on the discovery call, based on what your team needs.

Is the training tailored to our team?

Yes. We start with a discovery call to understand your people, your sector and the results you want. The content, examples and practice are built around that.

How much does it cost?

It depends on the format, group size and how much tailoring is needed. You get a clear quote after the discovery call. Call 020 4652 9945 or send a message to start.

Talk to us about training for your team

Book a discovery call with Andy Clark. Tell us who you want to develop and what needs to change. You get an outline and a quote, and every enquiry gets a reply within one working day.