This document provides an outline for a master class on coaching leaders for innovation. The learning outcomes are to provide coaches with tools and approaches to create conditions for innovation, embrace digital tools, create a culture of creativity, understand the current context of innovation, and use collaboration and social media as tools for innovation. The class will cover practical tools for coaching innovation such as mind mapping, role playing, assumption busting, and using social media to create, curate, and contribute content. Coaches will also learn about using diversity, collaboration, and a growth mindset to support innovative leaders.

1. Coaching for Breakthrough
Innovation
Master class outline for ILM 7 Coaches
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2. About Me
“I work with people and places to
help them to explore, shape and
connect future public services”.
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3. Learning Outcomes for coaches:
A set of tools and approaches to
use in your coaching practice to
coach leaders to:
• Create the conditions for
innovation
• Embrace digital and social
tools for innovation
• Create a culture of creativity
and curiosity
• The context in which leaders
innovate today
• How we innovate
• Practical tools for innovation
• The power of collaboration in
innovation
• Social media as a tool for
innovation

8. Let’s have a go…..
Elements of your Sketchnote selfies:
•Name
•What is your tagline? e.g.
Passionate about social
change
•What are you most proud of?
•What does innovation mean to
you?
•How does innovation feature
in your coaching?
•What are you looking to get
out of today?
•How can people find you?

9. Innovation
change, alteration, revolution, upheaval,
transformation, metamorphosis,
reorganization, restructuring,
rearrangement, recasting, remodelling,
renovation, restyling, variation

10. “Creativity is the use of imagination or
original ideas to create something”
Creativity is the ability to generate new
ideas and new connections between
ideas, and ways to solve problems in
any field or realm of our lives.”

11. Originality

13. The context in which leaders
are innovating today

17. Julian Stodd – The Social Leadership Handbook

19. Discussion

20. The power of difference in
innovation

21. Left brain and right brain

22. Embracing difference

23. Embracing difference - Comparing
the twitter networks

24. Diversity

25. How can you as coaches use
difference as a tool for coaching
leaders who are innovating?

26. Practical tools for innovation
coaching

29. Tips (science backed)
• Learn Through Collaboration
• Do Something You Love
• Find Inspiration From Other Industries
• Unplug (Or Just Do Nothing)
• Walk
• Set the Right Mood
• Use the Six Thinking Hats Technique
• Ask For Advice or Feedback
• Pick a Terrible Idea
• Detach yourself
• Embrace failure and never stop
learning
• Turn down the lights and turn up the
noise levels
• Collaborate with others
• Record your ideas
• Get happy
• Never stop learning
How can these be incorporated into your
coaching practice?

30. Here are a few more practical tools
• Mind mapping
• Reverse brainstorming – focus on potential causes of a problem rather than
solutions
• Role play
• Ask someone who knows nothing about what you are doing
• Take a break
• Do something else
• Doodle
• Assumption bust – what assumptions are you making and are these true
• A day in the life of
• Storytelling circles

31. The Power of Collaboration
for innovation

33. •Feed the leaders - provoke excite
•Infuse the arts - mix it up
•Radically inclusive
•Have a welcome mat
•Be audacious
The five lessons

34. Create a list of questions you
might ask leaders who are
working collaboratively to
innovate?

36. Social media as a tool for
innovation

37. Social Media
• Sources of inspiration
• Learning and expanding
knowledge
• Learning groups
• Get feedback and challenge
• Promotional Tools

39. The 5 Habits of Working Out Loud
• Purposeful discovery
• Building relationships
• Leading with generosity
• Making you and your work visible
• A growth mindset

40. Communicating via
Social media - Create,
Curate, Contribute

41. Create
• Bring your idea o innovation to life – pictures, stories etc.
• Get your voice and ideas heard where your audience hang out (face to face
and virtual)
• Share what you know already generously and to gain feedback
• Be consistent and share meaningful stuff related to your innovation.
• Tell your story – split it into chapters that allow for people to see the
human elements and progress

42. Curate
• Find and create stories and content that related to your research and work
– what stories are there out there that relate to what you are doing?
• Meaningfully group and organize the content you have (Slack can help with
this and other tools). This enables people to see you as someone to look to
for the topic
• Enable sense making – help people to understand what the collective
information means for the field and how your research and work
contributes
• Help people to connect the dots and this will help them feel confident to
try something new

43. Contribute
• Start and contribute to conversations where you can add value – share
what you have learnt and know about the field and how your research and
work contributes
• Create a community to share and test your ideas – this community is a ripe
place for the spread of your ideas and consist of people who can directly
implement or benefit from your research and work
• Utilise the network you have built to take your ideas further – after
building the network use the network to spread the idea and give others
the support and space to adopt the research and work in their own context

44. Record, write, share, sketch, engage
• Become a publisher – blogs
• Broadcast on the go – periscope, Instagram
• Share content – slide share
• Stay informed – twitter, Facebook, YouTube
• Share your ideas – YouTube, blogs
• Debate and learn – twitter chats, forums, communities
• Get inspired – TED, YouTube, Pinterest

45. Think about these questions?
What is it I want to use social media for?
• Sharing and spreading my ideas
• Hearing peoples opinions and engagement?
• Amplifying messages?
• Discovering what is out there?
• Making new connections and growing your network?
• To expose yourself to difference?
• Something else?
• What would success look like?

46. Communicating with impact on social media
top tips?
• Be purposeful – what is your purpose
• Be fun
• Ask questions
• Respond to others posts
• Short and snappy video clips
• Create debate
• Use images
• Use sketchnotes and info graphs to get your points across clearly
• Find great content that relates to your purpose

50. Ways to find great content
• Twitter lists
• Flipboard
• TED
• YouTube
• Google Alerts
• Pinterest boards

51. What are you taking away
from today?