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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idea Champions provides the biggest payback for training investment.
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Top 5 Speaker

Mitch Ditkoff, the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions, has recently been voted a top 5 speaker in the field of innovation and creativity by Speakers Platform, a leading speaker's bureau.
Awake at the Wheel, Book about big ideas If you're looking for a powerful way to jump start innovation and get your creative juices flowing, Awake at the Wheel is for you. Written by Mitch Ditkoff, Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions.
See Mitch's keynote address Enjoy a 7-minute interview with Mitch at the Ethical Sourcing Forum in NYC: 3/28/11
Free the genie card deck A deck of 55 cards to spark new ideas, breakthroughs and extraordinary results. Buy now! Or brainstorm with our online genie.

"This is really, really good stuff." — Seth Godin

Featured in Alltop Guy Kawasaki's Alltop "online magazine rack" has recognized Idea Champions' blog as one of the leading innovation blogs on the web. Check out The Heart of Innovation, and subscribe!
Innovation Kits. Here's your one-stop shopping for everything you need (but forgot to ask for) in order to jump start innovation. Read More!
Face the Music Blues Band The world's first interactive business blues band. A great way to help your workforce go beyond complaint.

"In tune with corporate America." — CNN

Breakthrough Cafe.
A totally unique brainstorming salon. Great food. Great food for thought. Great people. Collaborate, have fun, get out of the box.

"Inno-waiters With Whine Lists" – The Breakthrough Cafe featured in January 2006 issue of
BrainTrust.
Idea Champions' "rent a brain" network of visionaries, wizards, and creative thinkers ready and able to conjure up breakthrough ideas, products and services on your behalf. Read More!
We're All in this Together
A Collaborative Skills Training

Innovation is a team sport that requires extraordinary collaboration. No collaboration, no innovation. It's that simple. You can have all the great game-changing ideas in the world, but unless you have a highly collaborative team able to communicate, develop, pilot, pitch, and execute on those ideas, you have nothing.

Collaboration is the engine that transforms imagination into innovation and moves a business forward. It's the essential quality that enables an organization to turn its top-of-the-line ideas into bottom line realities.

Towards this end, Idea Champions is proud to announce the launch of a powerful new, skills-based training: We're All in This Together.

Developed by collaboration expert, Paul Roth, this groundbreaking learning experience teaches participants how to cut through wheel spinning, misalignment, and old paradigms to actually get something done.

Delivered real time or online, it helps participants resolve the five most important challenges facing any team:

  1. How to build effective partnerships
  2. How to launch successful projects
  3. How to manage accountability
  4. How to have tough conversations at work
  5. How to get projects completed successfully
Once participants internalize these five skill sets, all of their future projects become pre-tuned for collaboration. Morale improves. Engagement deepens. Teamwork soars. Turnover decreases. And everyone brings their full value to the workplace.

Intrigued? Contact Idea Champions now and find out how we can help your company revolutionize the way its people communicate, cooperate, and collaborate.

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