A 2 Day Workshop For Government Employees
Entrepreneurship is not only possible in government organizations, it is the future . . . it is the key to win amid all the organizations clamoring for funding in today’s tight economic climate. In this hands-on workshop you will see how to build a master blueprint to introduce and manage innovation and entrepreneurship for real impact, no matter what your position in the organization!
A senior retired federal government manager shares his experiences in successfully entrepreneuring government organizations; turning around ineffective organizations; and in starting successful new businesses, to illustrate, step-by-step, how to develop an entrepreneurial organization, and how to get a large organization to accept your ideas.
A superbly practical workshop that shows you what you have to know and have to do in today’s environment to-
- Quickly respond to rapidly changing government environments
- Develop the skills you need to help, and to lead, organizations as they change to meet the new government policies
- Learn how to get large organizations to think and act, like flexible, innovative and dynamic organizations
- Stay on the leading-edge of world-class ideas in innovation of government organizations
- Build any organization into an innovative, powerful success
- Develop a new idea into an entirely new organization that you lead
- Ensure your organization’s success and importance are fully realized during budget reviews
In this workshop you will—
- Find prime innovation targets—in class—for your organization
- Build an implementation plan for the highest priority target
- Compare your organization to today’s most successful, most proactive, organizations
Some of the topics covered —
- Entrepreneurial Management
- Entrepreneurial strategies for government managers
- Projecting an entrepreneurial image
- Entrepreneurs–their roles, their decisions
- Tenacity
- The Innovation Test
- Organizational innovation and Reengineering
- Thinking “Corporate”
- How to get your people on board
- How to get your boss on board
- Entrepreneurship in the government
- The strengths of government organizations
- How to evaluate your organizations entrepreneurial strengths
- Compare with the strengths of the best businesses
- Making opportunities
- Managing opportunities
- Finding ways to do it better, cheaper, faster
- Building an entrepreneurial idea into a viable “business”
- What are the obstacles, the traps, the common mistakes?
- Setting standards and expectations
- Forget committees … entrepreneurship is personal
- Gaining support–Selling your ideas
- How to organize and staff for entrepreneurship
- Getting results
- Measure what matters
- The 4 steps to set solid performance standards
- Evaluating performance
- Anticipating and handling the problems
- Risk
- How to anticipate risk using only your experience and judgment
- Weighing the factors involved
- Measuring risk
- Risk avoidance/risk aversion
- Risk mitigation strategies & techniques
- Promoting intelligent risk
- How to solve problems, make confident decisions
- Making it happen – the steps
- Communicating change – effectively
- Overcoming resistance
- Getting others to see things your way
- Effective solutions
- Evaluating improvements and opportunities
- Building more responsive project teams
- Organizing to create new opportunities
- Integrating small business ideas into your organization
- Link your vision and your organization’s strengths
- Factors in creative imagination
- Developing creativity in your people
- The Effort Factor
- Roles and responsibilities
- Viable innovation
- Individuals
- Teams
- Alternative thinking
- An entrepreneur’s mindset
- Spatial analyses
- Ways to attract followership
- Developing the Action Plan
