SERVICES OFFERED

Organizations the Authors Have Worked With

Drs. Robinson and Schroeder can provide a variety of services to your organization in the area of improving performance, getting ideas from your people, innovation and creativity:

Speeches and Talks

Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder are experienced, effective and inspirational speakers, who have spoken to audiences both large and small in all kinds of venues around the world. These include:

  • Keynote speeches
  • Top management retreats
  • Breakfast/lunch/dinner talks for company/group meetings
  • Program kickoff talks
  • Professional association meetings (local/regional/national)

Education, Training, and Development

We provide a range of education, training, and development services (both standard and custom) including:

  • Executive education
  • Executive reading groups
  • Executive coaching in idea management
  • Personal coaching for idea systems managers
  • Management training seminars
  • Supervisor training
  • Training that will help your front line people come up with more and better ideas

Idea System Assessment/Evaluation and Improvement Recommendations

  • Most idea systems significantly under-perform, for a variety of reasons. We can provide full assessment and diagnostic services that will help you to:
  • Align your idea systems with key strategic and operational goals
  • Identify barriers to achieving high performance
  • Understand the effectiveness of the system’s key processes and identify improvement opportunities
  • Improve effectiveness of your idea training and recognition systems
  • Develop an annual process improvement cycle based on global best practice.

Complete Idea System Turnkey Service

We will work with your organization from beginning to end to custom-design an idea system for you that will help you meet your goals, and will work with you as much as you need to guide the implementation process. Specifically, we will help you:

  • Align your idea system with your organization’s critical strategic goals
  • Create meaningful easy-to-use metrics for managing the system
  • Train your people in the operation and improvement of the idea system
  • Integrate the idea system into your company’s current operating systems
  • Develop and execute idea activators to help your people come up with more and better ideas
  • Design monitoring and improve cycles into your system for ongoing growth and sustained success

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