This course challenges traditional leadership's dated ideas and preconceptions. You will be guided and coached to maximize your own and your team's creative potential using innovative and transformational models and techniques. The days of heroic management are over; now is the time for staff development, involvement, and empowerment. To ensure their department thrives in this highly competitive work environment, today's leaders require a completely new tool kit.
Communication, flexibility, versatility, vision, involvement, and creative thinking are the focuses of this exciting and thought-provoking training course. You will be encouraged to think outside the box, stretch your comfort zone, to challenge and accept new ideas and concepts. You will also learn the critical methodology for identifying potential pitfalls, traditions, and conflicts that may prevent you from applying your newly acquired skills in the workplace.
Opportunities for innovative styles of thinking
Profiling tools to identify people’s differing personality types
How to create and communicate a compelling vision
Techniques to harness the creative power of the team
Facilitation tools to develop others’ creativity in new and exciting ways
Create your own personal leadership brand
Select appropriate techniques for your personal self-discovery
Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
Communicate your vision through multiple sensory, refreshing, and engaging ways
Explore the outer limits of group creativity
This highly interactive course uses a variety of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises; and syndicate discussions. This encourages you to hear, see and feel for yourself the power of the creative mind. Short informal inputs are used to introduce an underpinning theory of creativity, leadership, and high-performance team working.
A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing work and life experiences participants bring to the table. It offers an opportunity to experiment with novel, and sometimes challenging, techniques within a safe and creative environment.
Linking creativity and innovation to organizational performance
Creating leaders at all levels can develop and communicate a shared vision
Training leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
Focusing on long-term organizational and customer needs
Increasing effectiveness through more effective use of team working
Leaders with a focus on actions and outcomes, not theory
Creating a clear sense of personal and professional vision of the future
Aligning and building coherent personal values
Enhancing levels of personal self-confidence
Become stronger in dealing with challenging team in work
Establishing opportunities for networking
Sharing ideas that will provide a further catalyst to personal growth
This course is designed for individuals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries.
Team Leaders
Directors
HR Professionals
Senior Management Professionals
Leadership Reality Assessment
Leadership vs. Management
Understanding Our Brain Function
Myths of Creativity
The Limitations of the Rational
Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving
Letting Go of Logic
Analogous Thinking Modes
Convergent and Divergent Modes
Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model
Continuous Improvement
Breakthrough Step Change
Self-awareness and the Nature of the Ego
Personal Goal Alignment
Adaption and Innovation: Personal Preferences for Creating Meaning
Exploring Attitudes to Risk
Left- and Right-brain Thinking
Six Thinking Hats
Using Differing Thinking Styles
Johari's Window
The Business Plan Process & Creating a Vision
Harnessing the Power of the Team
Organizational Culture and its Influence on Innovation
Letting Go of the Ego
Working with Different Creative Preferences
The 7 Step Creative Process
Models of Communication
Viral Visioning
Authenticity and Trust
Creativity Tools, Techniques & Strategy
Letting Go of the Vision
Leading without Directing
Possible Leadership Beliefs
Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs
Overcoming Organizational Barriers to Creativity and Change
Nurturing a Learning Environment
Is Money a motivator?
Personality Profiling
Building a Creative Consensus
Engaging Stakeholders Creatively
Influencing and Motivating through Change