Blog articles about learning and development, including assessments and guides.
Discover why the most important future skill isn’t just human abilities or AI fluency alone—but the partnership between both. Learn how combining AI skills with creativity, empathy, and adaptability drives real career growth.
Why Human Skills Aren’t Enough: The Case for Growing Your AI Skills Read More »
The Team Assessment Workshop Toolkit is a practical guide for facilitators, leaders, and learning professionals who want to help teams turn assessment insights into action. This free resource from InnovationTraining.org includes sample agendas, reflection prompts, mapping templates, and facilitation tips you can use with any assessment—such as DISC, MBTI, StrengthsFinder, Big Five, or an Innovation Assessment. Use it to design experiential team-building sessions that help your group understand one another, collaborate more effectively, and innovate together.
Organizations are increasingly using assessments like the Big Five, DISC, StrengthsFinder, and MBTI to strengthen leadership and team performance. When used as part of an experiential workshop or retreat, these tools go beyond self-awareness to build connection, empathy, and collaboration. In this guide, learn how to design effective team-building experiences using assessments, complete with workshop structures. and facilitation tips Discover how your team can use these insights to communicate better, innovate together, and perform at a higher level.
Using Assessments for Team Building and Leadership Development Read More »
I really resonate with this i2 Skills Assessment video explaining the current world of work and the opportunity that innovation is to respond to the change (and VUCA world) we are all experiencing.
i2 Skills Assessment Video (Skills for the World Ahead) Read More »
Practical guide to resilience training for employees, workplace teams & leaders—mindsets, micro-skills, top books, and a live workshop to build adaptive, high-performing teams.
Resilience Training (and Workshop) for Employees and the Workplace Read More »
Assess your knowledge of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Take this quiz to test your understanding of LSP facilitation principles and best practices. This assessment will help you assess your understanding of running effective LSP workshops in organizational settings.
This quiz is based on the LSP Open Source material and facilitation best practices. Learn more about and access the complete LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Open Source Guide.
Recently I’ve been designing and facilitating unique training experiences (like gratitude storytelling retreats) that seemed to tap into something even softer than the usual “soft skills” we hear about in the world of leadership and organizations. Something even softer than teamwork, collaboration, public speaking, or creative problem solving. The idea came to me of the concept of “softest of the soft skills.” So read on to learn more and reach out if we can help you with a training or workshop to develop the “softest of the soft skills” in your organization or teams.
Learn about the important skill of adaptability and training workshops to help you become more adaptable and respond to change with innovation.
I’ve gotten quite interested in Froebel blocks. I’ve picked up a few antique sets to collect and use for storytelling in my design thinking workshops. I see them on display in exhibits about Frank Lloyd Wright and also at the Design Museum in London. The story is that many of the most famous designers in history, like Frank Lloyd Wright, grew up playing with Froebel blocks (and learning design from them). As I’ve learned more about the method of using Froebel blocks in classes with students, I notice the origins of popular training methods (like LSP) in the flow of activities.
Froebel Blocks, LEGO® Serious Play®, Kindergarten and Design Education Read More »
This article will break down what the Innovation Impact: Organizational Outcomes Assessment is, why it matters, how it works, and how organizations can use it to guide their innovation strategies.
