Idea Time Innovation with Dr. Jo North

How to Create Your Value Proposition

If your customers don’t care enough about your innovation, or if they simply don’t understand it, they won’t buy.

How to Create Your Value Proposition focuses on how to make sure that your business ideas for new products or services, and product or service improvements, meet and exceed your target customers’ expectations.

It’s the focus of one of the inhouse online live programmes that I run for my clients. The approach and insights have made a significant difference to my clients’ innovation and business growth results, so I wanted to share some of the key principles from the content with you on my show.

This episode takes a realistic, pragmatic view of how you can innovate in a way that creates “value proposition fit” – which means that it will be of direct relevance to your target customers.

It’s also important that you can communicate your value proposition simply, concisely and clearly.

In this show, I cover:

• Definition of a value proposition for your innovation, and why it matters
• Why it’s important to have a clear view of your target customers – needs, wants, motivations, aspirations, how they might use you’re your innovation and why – from the very beginning of your innovation process
• Ways in which your innovation will need to create value for your target customers
• How to achieve “value proposition fit”
• Why and how you’ll need to consider the whole customer experience and your monetization strategies in your innovation planning

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like to access the free resources here on my website:  https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk/resources/

If you’d like to get in touch to book me for a live virtual session in your business, just comment below or contact me https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk using the contact us section.

Leading Remote Collaboration

Leading Remote Collaboration focuses in creating an environment and culture for effective cross-functional team working.

It’s the focus of one of the inhouse online live programmes that I run for my clients. The participant feedback from the programme has been fantastic, so I wanted to share some of the key principles from the content with you on my show.

This episode takes a realistic, human view of how collaboration can feel and work in business and gives actionable insights that you can use straightaway with your team.

In this show, I cover:

• The difference between co-operation and collaboration
• Why collaboration matters – the multiplier effect on performance
• The principles of successful collaboration, including the role of psychological safety, insights from Google’s Project Aristotle and the latest research on remote team working from 2020 and 2021
• The importance of leadership role-modelling
• How to build successful relationships in an online environment
• Healthy challenge and collaboration – how to challenge and be challenged
• What to do when collaboration gets tough, why it’s more important than ever to keep collaborating through it and how to do it

If you’re ready for a whole new way of thinking and doing, tune in -and please do share any comments or questions about innovation and remote collaboration here in the comments.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like to access the free resources here on my website:  https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk/resources/

If you’d like to get in touch to book me for a live virtual session in your business, just comment below or contact me https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk using the contact us section.

What is business innovation? Why is it important for YOUR business RIGHT NOW!

Innovation has never been more important for you and your business.

It used to be that only fashion and technology companies had to reimagine themselves every year.

Now everything, from accountants, estate agents, food brands and travel companies are under constant pressure to stay ahead of the curve and keep and attract customers with new, better and smarter products, services and business models - before the competition gets there first.

Join me for this show to find out more about business innovation, market disruption the risks of standing still, and think about how you might use some of these proven, practical ways to help to innovate in your business.

I’ll take you through a simple step-by-step process that will help you to think differently about your products and services, why customers buy them, how they use them, and how to innovate.

We’ll explore:

• Definitions of innovation
• Innovation triggers
• Creating value through innovation
• Types and levels of innovation
• The innovation process
• Strategic fit
• Lean innovation
• Disruptive innovation
• Strategic drift
• The innovation iceberg
• Risk and reward

If you’re ready for a whole new way of thinking and doing, tune in -and please do share any comments or questions about innovation here in the comments.

If you enjoyed this episode, you might also like to access the free resources here on my website:  https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk/resources/

 

Your Amazing Creative Mind with Kathryn Creed

Today I have a special guest on the show, Kathryn Creed. Kathryn is a clinical hypnotherapist who works with clients using the power of hypnosis to help them to connect with their unconscious minds, helping them to whatever outcome they would like to achieve. Her career in Education gave her the relevant experience, as for her, like therapy, teaching is all about helping a person to learn and grow by finding their inner strength, potential and capacity for change. Kathryn works with adults as well as children to remove the obstacles which hold them back from the life that they want. She believes that to be involved in that process is a tremendous privilege. 

You can learn more about Kathryn at her website  https://www.angitia.co.uk/

I would like to let you know, for the sake of full disclosure, that I work with Kathryn as her client and she has helped me tremendously using the power of hypnotherapy.

Kathryn will be talking about how hypnotherapy works, what it can do for you and explore it further.

By listening in you’ll learn more about how hypnotherapy can help with:

• Changes in your personal life
• Changes in your business life
• Stress, Anxiety, past hurts
• Performance with work
• Ability to adapt to situations

You’ll also learn more about what hypnotherapy is and the science behind how it works.

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonorth/

Dare to be Different - with Dr. Jo North

Join me for this podcast episode which is all about daring to be different as virtual facilitators - what does that mean? how to do it?  - practical tips on how to be braver and stand out as a virtual facilitator for all the right reasons.

 

You might also enjoy my special blog and free resources on how to dare to be different which you can find here.

 

 

Virtual Facilitation in Action - Innovation Festival 2020

In this solo episode I share my experience of facilitating online at Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival 2020.

The sessions I led were on the value of water, and climate change with Kielder Forest and Water Park.

You can find out more about the Innovation Festival 2020 here.

For more free tips and advice on virtual facilitation, have a look at my blog here.

Visible Thinking with Claire Bown

I loved learning more about visible thinking, thinking routines and virtual facilitation in this episode with my special guest, Claire Bown founder at Thinking Museum.  

Claire is based in Amsterdam and works internationally. She has always been fascinated by developing methods that help people to engage with art and museums creatively and in a thought-provoking, inquiry-led way. 

Claire does a great job helping museum teams to ask great questions, to achieve discussion-based programmes around art and to make visits much more interactive using a simple structure. She helps museum and art gallery teams to share their deep knowledge and enthusiasm in an interesting way that goes beyond sharing facts.

Visible thinking enriches learning and thought. Its central idea is making thinking visible.

Thinking routines are short, easy-to-learn practices and steps that can be used regularly in different ways. For example, "see, think, wonder" provides a structure for being curious about and questioning an object or theme. The approach teaches users to ask better questions.

Thinking routines can also be combined and each has a different focus.

We discussed the relevance of this to innovation sessions and how they will work well in a number of settings such as customer experience, brand development, business growth and more.

We also explore how museums and galleries have been innovating through the covid-19 lockdowns and social distancing measures and building their virtual facilitation and digital skills.

Claire shares her top tips for engaging, interactive virtual facilitation.

Claire runs a membership, and holds great training sessions on visible thinking and thinking routines.

You can find Claire by searching Thinking Museum on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. On Linkedin search for Claire Bown.

 

 

 

 

Mindfulness Tips for Virtual Facilitators

Tune in for my mindfulness tools, tips and techniques for virtual facilitators.

Learn how to slow down your digital facilitation in your online meetings to go faster and be more productive overall!

In this episode I share practical things that you can do to increase your energy and support your wellbeing when you're going from online workshop to online workshop.

Everything I share is scientifically-backed, so you can have the confidence that these insights will work for you.

I cover:

- Different types of meditation for improving creativity and increasing focus.

- How to prepare and deliver your digital workshops, training and design sprints mindfully

For oodles more free tools, techniques and advice to help you expand your creativity, confidence and impact through your virtual facilitation, check out my website, starting here: https://www.bigbangpartnership.co.uk/resources

Getting Engagement in Online Workshops - Trust & Psychological Safety

In this solo episode I share why taking time to build trust between delegates and an environment that helps with psychological safety is essential for generating engagement in online meetings and workshops.

 

I share some of the latest science on trust and psychological safety, along with practical tips to support you with your virtual facilitation.

 

To join my free private Facebook group, Idea Time for Workshop Facilitators, please use this link.

 

 

The Innovation Story of VWall -The Virtual Whiteboard Ahead of Its Time

Join me and innovators Mark Whittaker from Velresco and Chris Wilson from Adamo to hear the story of how Mark created a new virtual whiteboard for online meetings and workshops called VWall back in 2010, well ahead of the curve, and how VWall has developed to being an invaluable tool for many facilitators here and now.

Mark and Chris share how VWall is a great facilitation tool, and how easy it is to use with platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and others to optimise delegate engagement and participation.

VWall allows we facilitators to intuitively capture and instantly analyse ideas from our workshop participants. Personally, I really enjoy using it in sessions for sticky note activities, mind mapping, polling and much more.

I found it inspiring to listen to Mark and Chris sharing the innovation journey of VWall, from an idea borne out of frustration and opportunity to becoming a super-useful, easy-to-use and successful commercial facilitation product.

If you'd like to know more about VWall and have a demo with Chris, and / or sign up for a free trial, just reach out to him on Linked in here.

Thank you Chris and Mark for a really interesting conversation!