I noticed the ‘New Ideas’ section at the IOL News homepage the other day. Isn’t it amazing how new product innovation happens every day? What I like about it is that innovation doesn’t necessarily need to be radical (we can’t all be Steve Jobs). In fact, every business that is solving a problem is innovative in a way. It’s about finding a solution to make things better.

Our team had a Creative Thinking session with Truida Prekel of SynNovation, and although I was a bit skeptical beforehand (thought I knew all about innovation), this was exceptionally practical and it was a lot of fun to practice the tools she taught us with our team. The tools allowed us to think out of the box to find other solutions that we commonly think of. Besides, she explored different communication techniques with us, to become more aware of our behaviour in interacting with others. Very valuable when it comes to teamwork and creating buy-in of colleagues for new ideas.