Self-organizational frameworks such as „circle-organizations“ are a trend in high-tech SMEs with smart personnel. Most of these highly educated engineers, system architects and software developers, however have no experience in dealing with the nitty gritty questions of daily human interaction. Providing lateral leadership from the side, without formal authority, is an art that navigates between chaos and order, listening and speaking, conceding and confronting. Overall, it requires a mature personality – or at least one on the conscious way towards maturity.

Both Private and Public Investors look to the value in your proposition; it might be profit, job creation, market domination or positive societal change. In this workshop we take you through the expectations of an investor and then backtrack to how you meet those expectations by creating a compelling business case for investment in your company.

BEHAVIOURAL TOOLS FOR PRESENTATION PITCH MASTERY

You are presenting an idea with the potential of shaping your near future. An idea in which you invested time, energy, patience and your belief.

The presentation that follows has to go beyond unbelievable.

Master behavioural coding tools that will accompany you on every step along the way. Strategic and motivational preparation, “Honest Radiance” concept, building individual communicational signature, controlling presentation, establishing good rapport, keeping the audience engaged, handling difficult questions, real-time reaction monitoring.

Time for pitch presentation is very short. Every word and gesture must be used to its fullest potential.

Exploring creativity from an organisational and individual perspective can be fun. Despite many models being available, we still get stuck. This two-session program (5 hours each) will practically introduce you to some methods that will help you move through the ideation phases to a position of having an idea that you can take to the next step. You will work through the four stages of innovation:

Scoping
Ideation
Choosing
Implementation

Perhaps you have a wicked problem (one that has no easy solution) that faces you, or maybe you have a new product idea – these problems / concepts could be brought to this course.

This workshop will allow you to understand the role of intellectual property in starting and scaling a business, and get you equipped with means and tools to cost-effectively set up an IP portfolio.
You will:
• understand how to identify, evaluate and capture your intellectual property in order to secure IP rights;
• learn to devise an IP strategy in line with the business model;
• hear IP best practices, examples and case studies;
• find out how to build and manage an IP portfolio.