Innovate Confidently with Pivot Triggers
4.7 (3)
10 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Working in uncertainty? Ditch pointless debates and build momentum around the right idea.
Innovate Confidently with Pivot Triggers
4.7 (3)
10 Days
·Cohort-based Course
Working in uncertainty? Ditch pointless debates and build momentum around the right idea.
Course overview
Ditch pointless debates. Go get the signals you need to build real momentum.
Innovation is about change. And change is always uncertain.
In this course, you'll master a set of deceptively simple tools that help teams make progress in uncertainty. You'll embrace risk and take meaningful action.
Who this course is for
01
Product leaders who want to help your teams get unstuck. So they talk to you about signals and trade-offs (instead of confusion or excuses).
02
Product managers who want to be more strategic. Who want to innovate with their teams and deliver impact (instead of just status updates).
03
Designers who want to be more effective. Who want to change the way their companies bring new ideas to market (instead of pushing pixels).
What you’ll get out of this course
Master the fast way to challenge, strengthen and build confidence in new ideas.
You know meetings where everyone's talking pie-in-the-sky ideas? You'll turn all the thoughtland waffle into a concrete Multiverse Map while people talk. Change any tedious meeting into a powerful collaborative workshop.
Understand which signals matter, and how to get them
Four types of signal matter for innovation: Real Need, "Get It", "Want It Enough" and "Worth It For Us". You'll learn how to define and agree pivot triggers for these signals with decision-makers before starting work. It'll change how you approach risk.
Turn confusing signals into insights that generate new ideas
No more being bamboozled by dodgy metrics. You'll help teams separate their observations from their interpretations and avoid the trap of simple stories. You'll translate signals of all kinds into ideas that nobody could have had otherwise.
Read colleagues' minds so you know how to influence decisions
Use a simple but powerful thought exercise to uncover the hopes and fears that drive your colleagues' behaviours (and your own). You can use this as a workshop or just in conversation. It'll change how you work.
Innovate Confidently with Pivot Triggers
4.7 (3)
What people are saying
Arev Pivazyan
Jan Rezac
Michele Mazzucco
Danielle Lloyd
Graham Cooke
Andy Budd
Sam Higham
Jared Spool
Meet your instructor
Tom Kerwin
Tom has been preoccupied with finding new ways to meet customers' needs for over 20 years. After falling in love with design, user research and marketing strategy while studying engineering at Cambridge, he co-founded a web agency that spun out 2 of the UK's biggest lead generation startups. He's been working with startups and product innovators ever since.
Specialising in complexity theory, Tom has coached multiple teams through the thorny "Second Product Problem".
He currently leads a team of 10 designers for an app with millions of users globally and is a non-executive director for an accountancy startup.
His card deck, Innovation Tactics, is soon to be released through Pip Decks, and his newsletter has been read by thousands of design and product professionals.
When not nerding out about design, he loves dancing Lindy Hop and hanging out with his kids, though not often at the same time.
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Course syllabus
01
Time Machine
You'll facilitate the Time Machine exercise, a thought experiment that clarifies the goals and risks of any initiative by uncovering hidden hopes and fears. Harness fear as the most powerful starting point for coherent action and discovery.
02
Pivot Triggers and Multiverse Maps
Before you take action, you'll use a simple format to agree exactly what you'll need to see to feel confident enough to decide what to do next. You'll set clear expectations and avoid sunk cost bias. To figure out what you need to see, tell parallel stories about your best and worst possible worlds in all the multiverse.
03
Signals and Probes
You'll master the four types of signal that matter for innovation. And you'll quickly get the signals you need to see, using a range of methods for poking the world: pretotypes, prototypes and other probes.
04
Anatomy of an Insight
You'll generate insights that change the stories your team are telling with the Signals > Stories > Options framework. You'll uncover ideas and possibilities you wouldn't otherwise have seen.
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
1:30pm - 3pm EST (6:30pm – 8pm GMT)
Four sessions
- Meet your cohort + Time Machine
- Pivot Triggers and Multiverse Maps
- Signals and Probes
- Anatomy of an Insight + tying it all together
Weekly projects
2 hours per week
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
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