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InnovaChron
Providing Timely Help to Managers
Workshop
Catalogue
May 2009
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Providing Timely Help to Managers
A manager may have three different types of focus:
1. Managers can work in their team.
2. Managers can work on themselves
3. Managers can work on their team
Managers work in their team when they focus on project management, defining new
products, or do some technical work themselves. Managers work on themselves when
they develop their leadership or management skills through training sessions, readings,
spending time with a mentor or a coach, etc. Managers work on their team when they
build and share a vision for their team, when they research ways to optimize the team’s
activities or the team structure, when they develop a culture for their organization,
when they coach their employees, etc.
Working on their team is what will bring the most freedom to the managers. Yes, they
have to develop themselves and dive in to help their team once in a while. However,
what will allow a manager to really get his team moving and give him time to really do
what he is supposed to do is when he develops his people, coaches them, train them,
ensures that the team members all share the same vision, the same set of goals,
ensures that the structure and processes are efficient and optimal.
The workshops listed below are all meant to allow managers and their team members to
work on their own team. They are providing frameworks to analyze the team from
various angles and to lead the team towards finding their own solutions to problems.
They ensure buy-in from the team members since they found the problems themselves
and they worked on the solutions as a team. The workshops create a bond between the
team members as they work together towards improving their own performance and
quality of life!
It is to note that the list of workshops is growing fast at the moment and so it will be
updated regularly in the near future.
It is also important to note that all the workshops presented in this document were
created by Innovative Management Tools LLC, (see
www.innovativemanagementtools.com for more information on this company) and are
licensed to InnovaChron Inc. for its own usage.
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your
next session, please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com
or call him at (819) 332-1592. Thanks for your interest!

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Task Management and Workload Distribution Barrier Identification and Elimination
How can you identify, HATS™ is a task What barriers or hurdles HURDLES™ is a
analyze, and assign management activity are prohibiting your barrier identification
responsibilities to that helps you assess department or and elimination
maximize employees’ how many and which organization from moving activity that helps you
capabilities and “hats” your employees forward? What solutions assess what barriers
productivity? What’s are wearing. exist to eliminate these exist between a
the proper balance of hurdles? Do the various current state and a
job tasks between departments or future state, as well as
employees? Are your employees know what what needs to be
employees ideally solutions they are done to eliminate
suited for their roles expected to implement, these barriers.
and responsibilities? and when?
HATS™ helps you and Use HATS™ to HURDLES™ helps you Use HURDLES™ to
your employees cope Identify roles and and your employees Define a current state
with transitions and responsibilities cope with transitions of being
embrace change Balance employee and embrace change Define a future,
initiatives by putting workloads desired state vision
initiatives by
Identify duplication of Identify progress
the right people in the eliminating those
efforts barriers
right jobs. Address time barriers that prohibit Brainstorm solutions to
management issues you from getting to the the barriers
Align employee goals desired change state. Assign action plans to
and priorities against employees
company goals Assess resource
Create job descriptions commitment needed to
Justify staff expansions reach the future state
or reductions Secure buy-in from
multiple areas of the
organization
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your next session,
please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com or call him at (819) 332-
1592. Thanks for your interest!

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Process Improvement Waste Analysis
What steps make up your SNAPSHOT™ is a What parts of your IDENTIFY™ is a waste
internal processes? Do the process improvement processes are not adding analysis activity that
various departments or activity that helps you any value? What are the helps you discover all
employees know exactly define and analyze the steps where people the inefficiencies of
what is required of them various steps of a almost always block? Is your processes and
within each process? process and there a lot of wasted time brainstorm possible
Which steps within your brainstorm changes to introduced in your changes to the
processes are roadblocks the process in order to processes? process in order to
to smooth performance? make it more effective make it optimal for all
and efficient. participants, for your
team, and for your
corporation.
SNAPSHOT™ helps you Use SNAPSHOT™ to IDENTIFY™ helps you Use IDENTIFY™ to
and your employees Define process owners and your employees Study your current
map out processes and and champions identify various forms processes
analyze them to see Map process steps of waste in your Find wasted effort
where things are going processes and to Eliminate steps adding
Highlight conflicting
well and where no value
process steps and develop a waste
Utilize your employees
improvements could be timing elimination plan to to their full capacity
made. Identify gaps in optimize your Ensure all steps in a
processes operations. process achieve a
Uncover training common goal
deficiencies Identify all downtime
Confirm where decision in your processes
and metric points are
within processes
Brainstorm process
improvement ideas
Evaluate process
output requirements
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your next session,
please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com or call him at (819) 332-
1592. Thanks for your interest!

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Complex Change Preparation Idea Generation
When you are faced with NAVIGATE™ is a How many brainstorming IDEAS™ is a
a complex change to change preparation sessions have you been in brainstorm activity
define, communicate, and activity that helps you that lack structure and that helps you put
implement, where do you consider several results? How much better structure and a
start? Do you have a clear elements that directly would the results have process around what
direction for the change? impact the success of been if the session’s is often nothing more
Do you know what an upcoming change facilitator had more than an unorganized
resources and training are before the control over the process conversation
needed to effect the implementation and the participants?
change? How will your begins.
employees react when
they learn of the change?
NAVIGATE™ helps you Use NAVIGATE™ to IDEAS™ helps put form Use IDEAS™ to
and your employees Establish and and process to an Generate ideas in a
cope with transitions communicate a change activity that is usually structured but creative
and embrace change vision or direction anything but manner
initiatives by addressing Define resources structured. By Minimize wasted time
those factors that needed to effect a providing a process and through focused
cause employee change structure to a discussion
frustration, anxiety, Identify ways to brainstorming activity, Solicit input from all
false starts, motivate people to sessions can be participants in a
inefficiencies, and embrace the change nonthreatening way
completed in less time
confusion before Address training needs Minimize chaos and
with better results.
launching into the prior to introducing debates
change Highlight the best
change plan.
Review the process ideas
and procedural
changes needed to
effect the change
Generate change
action plans based on A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
actual needs
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your next session,
please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com or call him at (819) 332-
1592. Thanks for your interest!

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Strength – Weakness – Opportunity - Threat Product Portfolio Analysis
What is the current OVERVIEW™ is a Are your products or INNOVATE™ is a
state of your team? high-level SWOT services reaching their portfolio analysis
What are its strengths activity that allows a maturity level? Are they activity designed to
and weaknesses? How group to brainstorm stale and in need of a help organizations
is your team positioned the most important new look or focus? Are analyze a product or
for the future? What strengths and you losing market share service to see where
are the opportunities weaknesses for an because you are seen as or how it can be
and threats that it will organization and then offering “old” products improved and brought
face? Do you know continue identifying and services? Are you “to the next level.”
what to do to ensure potential opportunities ready to ditch the whole
success of your team in and threats that may product and start over?
the future? be on the horizon. Don’t!
OVERVIEW™ allows Use OVERVIEW™ to
you, your board of Bring the visionaries of
directors, and/or your the company together INNOVATE™ is Use INNOVATE™ to
staff to look at the to assess the current Explore improvements
designed for those
state of the without totally
current state of your companies that need to reengineering a
organization
organization or rejuvenate and revamp product or service
Brainstorm a finite
department while also amount of information their products and Brainstorm new ways
looking into the future to serve as action services without to market, position,
for growth items moving forward starting over from and promote a product
opportunities. Once Compare multiple scratch. INNOVATE or service
the information is SWOT data from has you look at 20 Breathe new life into a
captured, the critical employees and stale product or service
different aspects of a
management to define Define new market
items can be turned product or service,
perception gaps niches to grow
into a management understanding what the revenues
Create proactive skills
roadmap to set in the organization to current state is, and
priorities, metrics, and prepare for future exploring future
measurements moving opportunities enhancements.
forward. Align staff to ready the
organization against
future threats A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your next session,
please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com or call him at (819) 332-
1592. Thanks for your interest!

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Skills Analysis Workgroup Management
What are the skills PROFILE™ is a skills Why is it that so many TEAMS™ is a
required by your team? analysis activity that teams fail to produce the workgroup
Are your people paints a picture of the desired results? Why do management activity
equipped with the right skills needed to some teams continually that walks a group of
skill set to perform their perform specific job struggle and “storm”? people through the
work adequately? Are positions and whether What steps can be taken team chartering
you vulnerable because your staff possesses to improve a team’s process – planning
your team does not have those skills at the chance for success? their path to becoming
the right expertise? Do required level of What brings a group of a high-performing
your employees need competency. people together so that team.
training to perform their they begin to act and
job with success? produce like a team?
PROFILE™ helps a Use PROFILE™ to TEAMS™ focuses on Use TEAMS™ to
department manager or Analyze people’s
the planning phase of Put clarity and
supervisor take an strengths and
weaknesses compared team development. By definition to the team’s
inventory of the staff’s existence
to job requirements developing a team
skills and experiences Allow the team to plan
Determine where you charter as the group’s
compared to the job its strategies and work
have multiple people first order of business
requirements. The with the same skills
plans prior to rushing
(and success), the to produce something
analysis pinpoints and interests team is able to Establish the “rules of
where skills are not Highlight personal adequately define its the game” by which
quite at the level development
purpose, product, the team members will
needed for optimum opportunities for
employee growth measurements, and abide
performance or where Define team
Assess where training goals. But almost more
there are skill voids – leadership, milestones,
needs exist importantly, the team
creating a potentially performance goals,
Learn more about your spends time defining
vulnerable position for staff’s experiences
roles and
their team processes – responsibilities, and
the future. beyond their current the backbone of their recognition strategies
position future success. Inspire the team
members by
empowering them to
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools create the best team
possible
A workshop kit from Innovative Management Tools
For more information on these workshops or to reserve your next session,
please email Rémi Côté at remi@innovachron.com or call him at (819) 332-
1592. Thanks for your interest!