Innovation Coaching Resources: Free Guides for Founders and Innovation Teams
I wrote these nine guides, and they’re all free. I’m Bill Murray, innovation coach and author of Enquire to Inspire. CoachingUP is my practice, run through FifthWhy, LLC. The guides cover what I work on with teams: customer discovery, experiments versus pilots, choosing a coach, strategy that outlasts today’s product, and the questions that crack a team’s thinking open. Founder, intrapreneur, or team lead? Start with Your Ideas are Solutions. Start With a Problem.
How to Choose an Innovation Coach: 5 Qualities to Look For
What to look for in an innovation coach and how to find the right fit for your team's specific needs - discover the key qualities that make a difference in your innovation journey.
How to choose a coach →Crossing the Desert: Observations to Insights
Learn how to transform customer observations into actionable insights that drive meaningful innovation and cross the challenging desert between data and understanding.
Observations to insights →A Strategy Quarantine
Learn why focusing on tactical solutions limits your strategic vision and how to develop strategy that transcends current products and tactics.
Strategy vs tactics →Your Ideas are Solutions
Understanding the critical distinction between problems and solutions in the innovation process and why starting with customer problems leads to better outcomes.
Why ideas fail →How the Pandemic Helped me Drive Inclusion
Insights on how virtual work environments can create more inclusive team dynamics through intentional practices around permission and safety.
Virtual meetings and inclusion →Letting it Go: The True Test of the Innovator
Learn why the ability to let go of cherished ideas when evidence suggests otherwise is the true mark of an innovator's courage and wisdom.
Letting go →The Humble Question: Panacea for the Status Quo
Discover how asking the right questions can transform your team's thinking, challenge assumptions, and reveal new possibilities that disrupt the status quo.
The power of questions →Your Experiment is a Pilot. Start with an Experiment.
Learn the critical difference between experiments and pilots, and why starting with small, focused experiments leads to better outcomes with less risk.
Experiments vs pilots →Employee Referral Behavioral Experiments
A real-world example of how customer-centric methodologies can be applied to test assumptions and reduce risk in employee referral programs.
A lean experiment, built →20 Questions to Ask Your Innovation Team
The twenty primary questions from Enquire to Inspire, grouped into the four stages of an innovation team’s work, each with a line on when to ask it and what a good answer sounds like.
See the twenty questions →Innovation Coach vs Consultant: Which Does Your Team Need?
A consultant leaves you an answer; a coach leaves you able to find the next one. A side-by-side table, when each is the right call, and five questions to ask before you hire either.
Coach or consultant? →The 3-Hour Innovation Plan
Three one-hour sessions that take a raw idea to an evidence-based go or no-go decision — customer discovery framework, innovation roadmap, and 30-day implementation support. $300.
See the plan →Enquire to Inspire: The Innovation Team Mentoring Book
My 106-page book on mentoring innovation teams with questions instead of answers — 20 of them, stage by stage. Read the sample chapter before you buy.
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