Open House Webinar Springboard

2023 UNSSC Innovation Springboard Programme

Introduction and Orientation

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mS. Ingrid Kasper

mS. eINAT tEMKIN

Chief of Unit UN Television, UN Secretariat, Department of Global Communication

Data and Analytics Training Team Lead, Capacity Development and Operational Training Service, Department of Operational Support

today's agenda

01 Who's in the room?

02 What is our journey?

03 How to Enroll?

04 Q and A

01. Who's in the room?

UNSSC Team

Liyaan

PAULA

BERIN

Innovation Associate

Innovation Associate

Programme Manager

TO reach us: INNOVATION@unssc.org

01. who's in the room?

Where do you feel energized?

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What is Our Journey?

02. What is our journey?

UNSSC Innovation Springboard Programme Target Audience

• All UN personnel at headquarters and field locations who are engaged on innovation;

• All UN personnel interested in innovation and would like to deepen their knowledge on the topic.

02. What is our journey?

Our Shared Objective

"Our shared objective is a 21st century UN focused more on people and less on process... more on delivery and less on bureaucracy."

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

02. What is our journey?

Innovation in the UN

“We can do things differently, and we can do different things… innovation is not only the most sophisticated technologies, sometimes it’s the simplest of things. Be bold, be revolutionary… and disrupt… because without innovation, there is no way we can overcome the challenges of our time.”

ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, UN SECRETARY-GENERAL

02. What is our journey?

What's in it for me?

By the end of the programme,YOU should be able to:

... discuss what innovation is, and the different types of innovation.

... discuss how to design for testing and experimentation, to enhance innovation interventions through iteration and learning loops.

... effectively utilise the UN Innovation Toolkit; its diagnostic element; and the included UN customized tools to plan for, and facilitate, innovation.

... develop innovation storytelling and pitch capabilities/methodologies to improve communication and buy-in for innovation interventions.

... discuss how key concrete skills can foster an enabling environment for innovation through modelling and promoting psychological safety; learning from failure; and fostering creativity.

... explore how to develop a vision and a strategy for transition and change related to the implementation of your innovation efforts.

... understand how nudging and behavioural insights can further improve the tailoring of your innovations.

... undertake coaching conversations with peers related to the scoping and design of innovations.

... outline the key elements of design thinking, and apply these to the innovation process.

02. STRUCTURE

A tailor-made Programme

the programme consists of 6 components:

Weekly Feedback & Overall Programmatic Evaluation

4 Peer Coaching Sessions

2Individual Assignments

8 Online Webinars

Weekly Readings & Resources

Weekly Discussion Forums

A Certificate of Programme completion will be issued after having completed the 6 Programme components.

02. structure: your innovation project

Applied Learning - Innovation Project

Through the programme, you will identify a potential area of innovation within your own sphere of influence and, utilising insights gained from the Programme and the UN Innovation Toolkit, apply the learning in the identified area/project - your applied learning will be presented through a pitch at the final Peer-Coaching Session.

Assignment with Individual Feedback

Key Readings and Resources

Discussion Forums

Thematic Webinars

Peer-Coaching Sessions

02. STRUCTURE: FIRST COMPONENT

An Introduction and Orientation Module along with 7 Thematic Modules delivered through 7 Online Webinars

Find out which skills you'll consolidate in each Module by clicking the + signs!

Behavioural Insights (UNSSC Innovation Model I)

Creating an enabling environment

Innovation and UN iNNOVATION tOOLKIT

Introduction and Orientation

Innovation Storytelling and Pitch (UNSSC Innovation Model IV)

Embracing Transition and Change for Innovation

Test and Experiment Design (UNSSC Innovation Model III)

Design Thinking (UNSSC Innovation Model II)

COMMUNICATION

02. STRUCTURE: FIRST COMPONENT

Sample Interactive Exercise

Please discuss:

Before starting the discussion, select a facilitator and a reporter, using the following criteria:

• Facilitator: The person who got up earliest this morning;
• Reporter: The person who got up latest this morning.

Please discuss:

• What enablers exist to innovation in your context?
• What could you do differently to foster them?
• What barriers exist to innovation in your context?
• What could you do differently to mitigate this?

02. STRUCTURE: second COMPONENT

Two Assignments

The Assignments will be a unique opportunity to contextualize your learning to your needs and realities. The purpose of this assignment is for you to identify your case for innovation, a situation for which you will develop a strategy over the next weeks in this programme. You will receive feedback on it.

02. STRUCTURE: third COMPONENT

Four Peer Coaching Sessions

The Peer Coaching element is a confidential process through which you will work together with six colleagues to reflect on your innovation case after each webinar; to expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; and solve problems from the workplace. The Peer Coaching Sessions have a duration of 2 hours each.

02. WHAT IS OUR JOURNEY?

Optional Self-Paced Learning

To continue your learning, and in addition to these mandatory Modules, you also have access to two optional, self-paced Modules on:

• Introduction to Innovation; and
• Introduction to Change Management

02. STRUCTURe: fourth component

Weekly Forum Discussions

You will continue discussing challenges and emerging solutions identified before, during, or after the Webinar in a moderated forum accessible at any time, as well as share the application of tools implemented during the contextualisation weeks. You will also have the opportunity to start your own discussions on any topic you'd like to further explore.

02. STRUCTURE: fifth COMPONENT

Weekly References and Resources

You will have access to a variety of UN-relevant text and multimedia resources in each of the Online Modules. You will be able to retain access to these resources even beyond the end of the programme.

02. STRUCTURE: sixth COMPONENT

Weekly Feedback & Overall Programmatic Evaluation

At the UNSSC, we highly value the feedback of our learners.That's why you will have Weekly Feedback after the Orientation and 7 Thematic Modules, as well as the opportunity to reflect on the Programme as a whole by taking the Overall Programmatic Evaluation, so that we're able to further hear from your unique perspective.

02. structure: executive learning lounge

• In each Module, you will be offered the opportunity to participate in the aforementioned 6 components, accessible from the password-protected UNSSC Learning Platform.
• The Platform is mobile-friendly: your learning will be accessible at any time, any place.
• You will retain access to the Platform for up to a year after the end of the Programme.
• The Platform enables social learning through a moderated Discussion Forum.

02. STRUCTURE: Programme Components

98%

of UN Personnelwho participated in the Programme in 2022 and 2021 recommend it.

*Number of UN Personnel surveyed: 37

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How to enroll?

03. HOW TO ENROLL

I'm interested in the Programme. How can I participate?

• To enroll, please go to the Programme information page;
• Programme fee: 2,500 USD;
• Enrollment deadline: 03 October 2023;
• Please send any questions at: innovation@unssc.org.

• We recommend you check with your local HR to identify if sponsorship is available.
• The UNSSC additionally offers groups nominated by a UN entity at a different price.

Any questions?

Let's Innovate!

www.unssc.org