What will you learn?
- How to develop and apply A startup mindset
- Articulate customer or user problems that you want to solve
- Use Lean Startup tools to minimize risk and quickly test assumptions
- Conducting effective customer interviews
- Using proven creative techniques to come up with strong ideas in a short period of time
About the training
In many organizations, the delusion of the day rules. Operational tasks, ongoing projects and endless meetings swallow up all the time. Innovation? Time and again, it slips to the bottom of the to-do list. The 2-day interactive training course ‘Startup Experience’ will help you break that pattern. Developed in Silicon Valley, together with companies and universities, this training allows teams to experience how startups think and work: with speed, creativity and focus.
In a short time you will develop new skills and go through a structured innovation process. You will learn to conduct customer interviews, brainstorm effectively, test ideas, build prototypes and pitch your concept convincingly.
The result? In just 2 days, you will experience how the right mindset and tools can help you arrive at valuable solutions to complex issues within your team or organization at lightning speed.
About PLNT
Many people recognize it: a brainstorming session that starts out full of energy, but in which the first ideas soon die down due to a stream of “yes buts. This won’t work. We’ve tried that before. Way too expensive. A few participants dominate the conversation, while others drop out and keep their ideas to themselves. The result? Much discussion and little innovation… But things can be different.
The practical and interactive Creative Thinking training helps you and your team break through thinking patterns. It also breathes new life into your creative skills and teaches you how to apply them confidently in your work. You will learn to work with a structured creative process and practical, proven thinking techniques to arrive at outside-the-box ideas.
About the trainer
Rody Vonk
International facilitator, trainer and speaker
Rody Vonk is an international facilitator, trainer and speaker with over twenty years of experience in innovation, design thinking and creative thinking. He guides professionals and teams worldwide to concrete and surprising solutions and knows how to turn every meeting into an inspiring and productive session. With his mix of structure, energy and commitment, he helps organizations decide faster, collaborate better and really bring innovation to life.
Training Program
Day 1 - discovery and validation
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Welcome and introduction
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Startup mindset
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Startup experience: 5 steps innovation process
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Trend scouting
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Defining a good problem statement
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Problem interviews with customers and users
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Discovering customer needs and problems
Day 2 - building and pitching
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Divergent and convergent thinking
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Brainstorming with different techniques
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Customer interviews with AI
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Creating and testing prototypes / MVPs.
- Lean Startup: Build-Measure-Learn loop
- Business Model Canvas and Business Model Innovation
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Pitching your idea
Experiences with PLNT training
Read what others thought of the training here.
“Fresh-faced innovators, with no yes buts!”
Carola van Delft
Business Partner Rabobank Control Retail Netherlands
“It is predicted that the three most important skills for the near future are complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity. This is exactly what you will learn in the training in a fun and interactive way!”
Susanne wortel
Affiliate Quality Operations, Pfizer bv
4.4
(32 reviews)