HR Role in Innovation and Creative Thinking

Program Overview

Innovation depends on people practices: who is hired, how ideas are rewarded, whether mistakes are tolerated and how leaders behave. This programme focuses on how HR can build an innovation-ready organisation: assessing innovation culture and climate, embedding creativity and curiosity in competency models and recruitment, developing creative thinking and design thinking skills, setting up idea management schemes, recognising and rewarding innovation, and designing psychological safety and experimentation into ways of working. It draws on ISO 56002 innovation management guidance and on government innovation agendas across the Gulf.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Assess an organisation's innovation culture and identify HR-related enablers and barriers.
• ✓Integrate creativity and innovation behaviours into competency frameworks and selection criteria.
• ✓Design a learning programme that builds creative thinking and design thinking skills.
• ✓Set up an employee idea management scheme with clear evaluation and feedback stages.
• ✓Develop recognition and reward approaches that encourage experimentation and collaboration.
• ✓Define indicators that measure the people side of innovation performance.

Target Audience

• HR managers and HR business partners
• Innovation officers and innovation lab staff
• Organisational development and culture specialists
• Learning and development managers

Detailed Program Modules

Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment