Instructions for the delivery material options
Details for delivering the team core courses
FREE PREVIEWDownload the Worksheet / Flipchart
Use the Collaborator Canvas (Digital / Miroboard)
ABOUT THE AMBIDEXTROUS APPROACH FOR INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
ABOUT THE XTEND TOOL
EXPLAINER VIDEO
STEP 1: XPRESS
STEP 2: XPAND
STEP 3: TOGGLE
Keyword 1: Boat
Keyword 2: River
Keyword 3: Budget
Keyword 4: Car
Keyword 5: Size
STEP 4: ELABORATE
STEP 5: NARROW
STEP 6: DEVELOP
USING THE XTEND TOOL AT WORK
QUIZ
AI-ASSIST Choosing Your XTEND Tools
AI-ASSIST XTEND CONSULTANT TOOL
AI-ASSIST XTEND FACILITATOR TOOL
When to use AI-Assist for the Xtend tool
Extension: Introducing the Innovative Change Leader (iCLi) profiling measure to identify your Explore/Preserve bias
Extension: Can innovative Problem Solving be learnt? Academically Researched Published Paper
Extension: More on Ambidextrous Leadership
Stay in touch! & How to contact us
Most people approach problems from only one direction. They either focus on improving what already exists or searching for something entirely new.
The most effective leaders learn to do both.
Developed from the research of Dr Gaia Grant, XTEND helps individuals and teams apply Ambidextrous Thinking: the ability to simultaneously optimise current performance while exploring new opportunities. Using a practical, research-based methodology, you'll learn how to navigate complexity, generate innovative solutions, and turn ideas into meaningful results.
In today's rapidly changing environment, organisations need people who can balance innovation with execution.
XTEND provides a structured process for solving complex challenges, improving decision-making, and identifying opportunities that others may overlook. Rather than relying on trial and error, you'll learn a repeatable approach that helps transform uncertainty into action.
XTEND provides a practical process for tackling challenges, opportunities and decisions that don't have obvious answers.
The framework combines two complementary modes of thinking:
PRESERVE helps you improve, optimise and scale what already works.
EXPLORE helps you discover opportunities, challenge assumptions and generate innovative solutions.
By consciously switching between these modes, individuals and teams avoid common problem-solving traps such as jumping to solutions too quickly, over-analysing, or relying solely on past experience.
Everything you need to facilitate innovative problem-solving with small groups and teams.
XTEND combines practical learning, visual collaboration tools, guided worksheets and AI-powered support to help leaders facilitate innovative problem-solving sessions and turn ideas into action.
Build capability independently, accelerate results with an AI Consultant, or solve challenges while developing team capability with an AI Facilitator.
By the end of this program, you'll have the mindset, methodology and facilitation tools needed to confidently lead innovative problem-solving sessions, generate practical solutions and guide teams from ideas to action.
Solve complex challenges using a structured, research-based methodology
Develop an Ambidextrous Mindset that balances Explore and Preserve thinking
Facilitate productive innovation and problem-solving sessions with small groups and teams
Generate and evaluate innovative ideas with greater confidence
Move from ideas and discussion to practical implementation
Apply XTEND tools to individual, team and organisational challenges
OPTION 1: Facilitated Workshop Experience - Best for organisations, leadership teams and innovation groups.
OPTION 2: Self-Led Teams and Independent Leaders - Best for managers, team leaders and small teams.
OPTION 3: Individual Learning - Best for professionals developing their innovation and problem-solving capability.
The Science Behind the Course: Evidence-Based Innovation
iCLi
$500.00
Analysis, Feedback & Coaching (AFC)
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Gaia Grant (PhD, MSc, Grad Dip Change Leadership, BD (hons), BA, Dip Ed.) |
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Andrew Grant (BEd, Dip Tch) Co-author “Who Killed Creativity” & “The Innovation Race” www.linkedin.com/in/andrewgranttirian/ |
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Dr Martin Dowson, PhD, (Ed), PhD (Th)
Director of Academic Development at Excelsia College |
INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS → Immediate access to the course, resources and AI tools. LEADERS AND TEAMS → Only the team leader purchases the course. COLLABORATOR CANVAS (Miro) → A dedicated team Miro board is created and supplied via a unique URL. Team Access → Share the URL with team members. Timing → Course access & AI tools are immediate; Allow 2-3 business days for the Miro board setup. Support → [email protected].
ANSWER: Most of this suite revolved around roles for 6 people. Print the worksheets as A1 Flipcharts &/or have a few people us the AI-Asisted version and compare
Independent Self-Led Leader Agreement: The Collaborator Canvas is a selected tool from Tirian's broader program suite and is intended for individual use, one-to-one coaching, and small team discussions only. It may not be used for training, teaching, workshop delivery, commercial facilitation, or licensing purposes. Organisations wishing to use Tirian tools beyond small internal teams must apply for a licensing partnership. Tirian reserves the right to suspend or remove access to any Miro board or associated URL at its discretion.
ANSWER: If you want to purchase more than one canvas /board or repeat for future sessions, contact us (TIRIAN) [email protected] and we can arrange codes and an invoice. Noting the above info > that this canvas board is for team coaching only. Anything larger should fall under the engagement of a complete workshop or full licencing partnership agreement.
ANSWER: Independent Self-Led Leaders & Coaches- It’s recommended to repurchase a new board each time, for new teams, especially if the team wants to keep their current canvas live, (allowing them to revisit and update it). However at a squeeze, it can be reused by the same purchaser, noting the canvas would need to be reset (scrubbed) by the purchaser. Fully licensed partners - get unlimited access to the canvases and the equivalent physical table versions, if it forms part of their contract in the context of a full workshop & TTT contract.
ANSWER: Yes! Individuals can walk through the board ideas and concepts independently, with the
YES: we have a full integrated course (including PRE and POST learning, with ADVANCED ASSIGNMENT and ACCREDITATION options. ... ... There is also the opportunity to buy LICENCING and train the trainer for large scale roll-outs and/or independent training companies. .... This CSI program is also part of a larger Suite. ... ... There is also a CSI1 diagnostic course, and you can go onto be engaged with more Suites in this topic. These include: Harnessing Creative Intelligence (CQ) - for a competitive business advantage ... ... Creative Thinking Strategies: Skills to redesign your brain for generating unique ideas. ... ... Critical Thinking Skills: How to use critical thinking for more effective problem solving. ... ... Implications & Applications: Business facilitation with case study & coaching. TRY & APPLY: Become a company (eg P&G case study) and practice using the method to solve a seemingly impossible “wicked” problem. ... ... Innovation: How to Win The Innovation Race.
