Compare the organisation's handling of internal innovation labs with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
Building Internal Innovation Labs and Linking Them to Strategy
An applied course in internal innovation labs built around the decisions practitioners actually face.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Authority is granted by the organisation; credibility in internal innovation labs is earned separately. The hardest part of the organisational leadership discipline is rarely deciding — it is holding the decision when it becomes unpopular. Participants finish able to explain this aspect of organisational leadership to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of internal innovation labs and supervised application. The professional literature on the practice within organisational leadership converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The programme suits teams tackling the organisational leadership discipline together as readily as individuals attending alone. What blocks progress on internal innovation labs is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The course covers this aspect of organisational leadership at the level of detail needed to act, and stops there. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the wider organisational leadership agenda rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in internal innovation labs.
Review your own performance on internal innovation labs as rigorously as you review others'.
Distinguish the parts of internal innovation labs that must be standardised from those that require judgement.
Delegate responsibility for internal innovation labs without losing sight of the outcome.
Make decisions on internal innovation labs at the right speed for the risk involved.
Recognise when internal innovation labs needs a different leadership style than the one that got you here.
Who Should Attend
Staff seconded into improvement work on internal innovation labs.
Human resources partners advising leaders on internal innovation labs.
Managers of geographically distributed teams handling internal innovation labs.
Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of internal innovation labs.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on internal innovation labs.
Consultants coaching leadership teams on internal innovation labs.
Course Modules
Internal innovation labs: conflict, politics and informal power
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Deciding on internal innovation labs when the information will never be complete
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in internal innovation labs.
- Agree the smallest change to internal innovation labs that would be visibly useful.
- Remove steps in internal innovation labs that add effort without adding assurance.
- Check that records of internal innovation labs answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Delegating internal innovation labs without abandoning it
- Set the review point at which internal innovation labs will be reconsidered.
- Set the review interval for internal innovation labs and who attends.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for internal innovation labs.
- Assess the workload internal innovation labs adds and what you will remove to make room.
Internal innovation labs: measuring whether leadership actually changed anything
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering after a visible mistake on internal innovation labs
- Decide what you will delegate on internal innovation labs and what you will not, and say why.
- Review a past decision on internal innovation labs and state honestly what you would change.
- Name the person accountable for each part of internal innovation labs, not the committee.
- Identify your successor for internal innovation labs and the gap they need to close.
Session 2Applying the standard on internal innovation labs to your best performer
- State the outcome expected from internal innovation labs in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
- Test the procedure for internal innovation labs against a realistic scenario.
- Give one piece of specific feedback on internal innovation labs within the week.
- Agree the standard on internal innovation labs and confirm it applies to everyone.
Internal innovation labs: the conversations that decide the outcome
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving internal innovation labs from approval to execution
- Set escalation thresholds for internal innovation labs that work out of hours.
- Name a single owner for each element of internal innovation labs.
- Define the trigger that would require internal innovation labs to be redesigned.
- Confirm that reporting on internal innovation labs reaches the people who can act.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on internal innovation labs starts
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to internal innovation labs will be introduced.
- Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines internal innovation labs.
- Test whether the team can explain internal innovation labs in their own words.
- Set the decision rights on internal innovation labs: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
Internal innovation labs: influence across functions you do not control
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving internal innovation labs through people who do not report to you
- Identify which function can quietly block internal innovation labs and address it directly.
- Recognise publicly one person whose work on internal innovation labs went unnoticed.
- Prepare the summary of internal innovation labs that senior management will read.
- Ask the team what they think is wrong with the plan for internal innovation labs.
Session 2Building the method for internal innovation labs step by step
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about internal innovation labs.
- Agree what will be standardised in internal innovation labs and what will not.
- Write down the reasoning behind your position on internal innovation labs.
- Close out actions on internal innovation labs rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
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At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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