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Training & Coaching in Innovation Capabilities


If leading step-change creativity and innovation is one of your personal goals or part of your organizational mandate, our highly experiential, interactive courses help you develop the skills and tools you need for breakthrough thinking and give you the opportunity to practice your newly learned skills.

Synecticsworld has an extensive heritage in training teams in the human side of – including collaborative teamwork, breakthrough thinking, insight training, meeting facilitation and innovation leadership and coaching.

Over the past 50 years, we have trained more than 10,000 people globally in Synectic's creative problem-solving process and innovation skills that bring creative thinking to life. Our clients tell us routinely that it is the best training that they have ever had…and that our developmental thinking skills are valuable in work and in life!

For more information, please contact Joe Giordano at 978.590.6731 or by email jgiordano@synecticsworld.com

To download the registration forms for the Innovative Team Workshop & Facilitating Group Creativity please click here.

Workshops and Training Sessions


  • Innovative TeamWorkshop™ (ITW)

    Our highly experiential Innovative TeamWorkshop™ is our foundational training and has three major themes:

    1. Personal interactions, and how they affect the process of innovation and teamwork;
    2. Open-mindedness, and how it affects how we listen, make creative connections and respond to ideas;
    3. Meeting structure and roles, and how they can be best organized to accomplish tasks requiring innovative solutions.

    During the course of this 2-day course, participants will learn and apply the Synectics Creative Problem Solving Process.

    This course is available throughout the year at our Synecticsworld offices. We will also custom design leadership programs in creativity and innovation for your company and deliver them at your location.

  • Leading and Facilitating Group Creativity (FGC)

    This highly interactive course will enable you to lead and facilitate innovation in your organization. Over the course of this 3-day workshop you will learn how to:

    • Manage the Dynamics of a Meeting
    • Develop new understanding of your own facilitation style through feedback from an expert Synecticsworld coach
    • Plan and run successful results-oriented meetings where everyone's ideas are honored
    • Incorporate planning information into designing meetings that win commitment from others and ensure successful outcomes
    • Stimulate idea generation
    • Learn a range of techniques for maximizing a group's creative ability to generate new thinking and fresh perspectives. Model and support the positive climate for collaboration.
    • Understand the Dynamics of Collaboration
    • Help teams stay open-minded to new thinking and to leverage diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs. Learn how to manage conflict and engender buy-in from people with different viewpoints and needs.

    And on the final day, you'll have an opportunity to practice the 9-step process with a real client group to develop a solution for their task. (Note: the ITW is a pre-requisite to taking this course.)

    This course is available throughout the year at our Synecticsworld offices. We will also custom design leadership programs in creativity and innovation for your company and deliver them at your location.

  • Seeing with New Eyes™ / Insight Training

    Consumer experience and insight training

    Seeing with New Eyes™ is designed for those who wish to build skills for more effectively discovering consumer or customer needs, especially those unarticulated wants and needs that can truly drive innovation.

    This 2-day program covers topics of strong interest to Marketers and R&D professionals. Learn to:

    • Find the underlying motivations and drivers of consumers and customers
    • Listen in new ways
    • Understand the role of cognitive filters in processing new information
    • Use metaphorical thinking with consumers to get beneath the surface
    • Harvest information, existing and new, relevant and seemingly irrelevant, in your insight discovery process
    • Leverage new insight to capitalize on growth opportunities
    • The program includes a live consumer/customer immersion experience so that participants will get hands-on learning with the tools and techniques they need to make the training actionable in their organizations

    This course is available throughout the year at our Synecticsworld offices. We will also custom design leadership programs in creativity and innovation for your company and deliver them at your location.

  • Custom Learning Programs

    Synecticsworld has a number of Innovation learning program designs, which can be delivered on a custom basis for organizations that want to increase their ability to be successful in innovation and collaboration. Additionally, we regularly develop bespoke programs for a variety of client needs related toInnovation, Creative Thinking, Customer and Consumer Insight, Meeting Management and Facilitative Leadership. Certified and licensed "Train the Trainer" options are available for clients who wish to bring the programs in house. All of Synecticsworld learning programs are highly experiential and interactive, and led by master facilitator/trainers providing a rich experience for new skills and approaches that "stick".

    For more information on our programs please contact: Leo Boudreau