Enhance your professional development
The University offers engaging and interactive professional development workshops in a range of important areas, from creativity and resilience to digital literacy and entrepreneurial tools, all included under Griffith's Capability Development Framework.
Series Overview
The series consists of seven interactive workshops for up to 30 staff per workshop. Using Agile and Lean concepts and digital tools, the focus is to build your collaboration, innovation, creativity, problem-solving and presentation/pitching skills.
Enrol in individual workshops as standalone development activities or enrol in all to complete the suite and get the most out of the Series and collaborations with fellow participants.
Those who complete the Series are also eligible to claim their Creative, Innovation and Enterprising Badge which acknowledges the skills learnt across the series and the individual's commitment to their continuing professional development.
Work and development impact
- Become more innovative and creative
- Enhance the performance for you, your stakeholders and organisation
- Develop problem-solving skills
- Opportunities to collaborate in a learning environment, challenging our thinking with a diverse group of people
- Opportunity to become familiar with exciting design thinking tools for future projects
Suitable for
This course is suitable for staff at all levels who want to enhance their confidence, knowledge and skills in applying original thinking and creativity to problem solving.
This series builds the skills and abilities to be innovative and enterprising and develops digital capabilities.
Course offerings
Program schedule for 2024 - All session run from 9.15am to 12.45pm *in person only.
Enrolments are open - book via My Staff Page > Training and Online Resources Tile
>Face2face training: Search by course title or course number shown below:
| Workshop: Course Code and Course Title | Month | Date | Campus | Facilitator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Agile (Course No: CIE005) | March | Friday 22 | Nathan | Dr Anya Phalen, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
| Problem Framing Canvas (Course No: CIE002) | April | Wednesday 17 | Logan | Rena Frohman and Cathy Boorman, Griffith Center for Systems Innovation |
| Value Proposition Canvas (Course No: CIE001) | May | Tuesday 14 | Nathan | Dr Julienne Senyard, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
| Design Thinking (Course No: CIE003) | June | Tuesday 4 | Nathan | Dr Julienne Senyard & Dr Sara Ekberg, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
| Business Model Canvas (Course No: CIE007) | July | Friday 26 | Nathan | Dr Sara Ekberg, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
| How to Communicate Innovative Ideas: The Pitch (Course No: CIE006) | August | Tuesday 6 | Nathan | Dr Carla Riverola, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
| Lean Approaches to Problems and opportunities (Course No: CIE004) | September | Thursday 5 | Gold Coast | Professor Naomi Birdthistle, GBS (Department of Business Strategy and innovation) |
Enrol in these workshops
Access these short courses via self-enrolment using your My Staff page via the Staff Portal
Workshops in this series
Introduction to Agile
This interactive workshop will overview elements and approaches of Scrum, an agile project management methodology and will equip you with practical resources and tools to adopt into practice. Participants will work as agile teams and use a Kanban board to look at back logs and sprint events.
Problem Framing Canvas
A highly interactive workshop helping participants explore how to frame design challenges and opportunities, test assumptions and develop strong foundations for designing innovative responses that work using a Problem Framing Canvas.
Value Proposition Canvas
This workshop is designed to be highly interactive, helping participants build their confidence and skills to understand empathetic design through the use of a Value Proposition Canvas.
Design Thinking
In this half-day workshop, you will gain a wide-ranging understanding of the principles of design thinking, and be familiarized with tool and techniques you can apply to your own future work. In the workshop we will go through the foundations of this approach and activities are organized according to the three phases of the design thinking process: empathy, ideation, and prototyping. This workshop will provide you will tools to come up with innovative and user-cantered solutions to problems that can occur in your work.
Business Model Canvas
A highly interactive workshop helping participants explore how to frame new or existing business models to provide a guiding foundation for business ideas that are geared to succeed. Using this canvas will lead to insights about the customers your serve, what value propositions are offered through what channels, and how your business makes money. You can use this canvas to understand your own business model or that of a competitor!
How to Communicate Innovative Ideas: The Pitch
This interactive workshop is designed to help you build your skills and confidence to successfully communicate innovative ideas to different audiences.
Lean Approaches to Problems and Opportunities
Lean approaches to challenges and opportunities: In this workshop you will co-create responsive solutions to challenges and opportunities using problem-solving and creativity techniques.
