Creativity
The fear of speaking up kills more ideas than failure ever will.
Innovation Training from IMPROV Communication helps teams turn creativity into results. It gives people the behaviours, the mindset and the courage to speak up, experiment, fail, adapt and deliver — by building the psychological safety that real innovation depends on. Experiential, grounded in Applied Improv, and built so the new behaviours last.
The problem
Your pipeline problem is a silence problem.
Most teams have more ideas than their meetings ever hear. People test an idea against the room before they say it — will this sound naive, will someone shoot it down — and only the safe ones survive the test. The result looks like a creativity shortage. It is usually a safety shortage, and that is trainable.
This fits if
The ideas exist. They are just not reaching the table.
Your innovation pipeline feels thinner than your talent suggests it should be. The same two or three voices carry every brainstorm. Or your teams are under cost and competitive pressure and still expected to innovate — and the pressure is making everyone play safe.
What we do
We build the behaviours ideas depend on.
Teams learn to separate creating from editing, to build on half-formed ideas with Yes And rather than shutting them down, and to treat the small failures experimentation requires as material rather than embarrassment. Every engagement follows our Behavioural Change Process and is paired with a 30-day follow-up, so the change holds after the room empties.
Three offerings
Pick the entry point that fits your moment.
Start with the core programme to build the conditions for innovation, go straight to the focused training for teams under cost and competitive pressure, or run the 5 Guiding Principles as a fun, energising team activity that builds the Yes-And habit ideas depend on. All are experiential and follow our Behavioural Change Process so the behaviours stick.
Core programme
Innovation Training
The foundational programme. Teams learn to separate creating from editing, get comfortable with the small failures experimentation requires, and build the Yes-And habit so ideas grow instead of getting shut down.
Experiential · with 30-day follow-up
Learn more →Pressure
Innovation & Resilience Under Pressure
For teams under cost and competitive pressure that still need to innovate. Resilience without psychological safety becomes endurance. We build the conditions for teams to keep creating when the ground is shifting.
3 hours · designed for compressed markets
Learn more →Team activity
The 5 Guiding Principles of IMPROV
A fun, energising team training built on the five principles ideas depend on — Yes And, Do Not Judge Yourself, Do Not Judge Others, Embrace Failure, Make Each Other Look Good. A great team day with real substance.
90m – 5h · up to 25 participants · 1 facilitator
Learn more →Track record
The change shows up in the numbers.
Across 20 engagements and 700+ participants, 373 gave us feedback — and 96% would recommend us.
R&D and innovation teams
We have delivered this work to R&D and innovation teams at organisations including Novo Nordisk and BASF — teams whose results depend on ideas being spoken early, tested fast and improved together.
Want your team's best ideas out loud? Let's talk.
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FAQ
Questions, answered
- What is Innovation Training?
- An experiential programme that helps teams turn creativity into results by building the courage and psychological safety to speak up, experiment and adapt.
- Which version should we book?
- Start with the core programme if you want to build a lasting innovation culture. Choose Innovation & Resilience Under Pressure if your team is in a compressed market right now and needs to keep creating while costs and competition bite.
- How is this different from a brainstorming session?
- We don't teach techniques for generating ideas. We change the behaviours and the safety that decide whether ideas ever get spoken — and we build it so it lasts.