Creative Leadership and Innovative Management
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT
Introduction
Creative leadership and innovative management are recognized as key success drivers for organizations and individuals. They are competencies, given the right nurturing environment and support, can be developed and harnessed by anyone in any organization. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop those competencies in yourself and foster the same in others
- Establish the link between good leadership, creativity, and innovation.
- Apply self-awareness techniques in preparing to unleash the natural creative inclination.
- Build the right environment that nurtures and fosters creativity and innovation in others.
- Use different tools and techniques to generate creative and innovative ideas.
- Translate inspiring thoughts into creativity through effective storytelling.
Training Methodology
A highly interactive combination of lecture and discussion sessions will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge and experience transfer. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions, and motivate everybody finding the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their own questions and to share developing the right answers using their own analysis and experience.
Percentage of Delivery Methodologies
- 35% Presentation
- 30% Group & Individual Exercises
- 25% Case Studies
- 10% Active Movies and Simulation
Course Outline
Day 1:
Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
- What is leadership?
- Types of leadership in the business world.
- Authentic leadership.
- Self-leadership and identity leadership.
- Misconceptions of leadership.
- Defining innovation and creativity.
- Intelligence versus creativity.
Day 2:
Stimulating your Creative Brain
- Understanding your ego.
- Understanding emotions.
- Emotional reactions based on self-protection.
- Societal and cultural programming.
- The impact of habit on acting and thinking.
- Vertical development.
- Horizontal development.
Day 3:
Fostering Creativity in Team Members
- The right team member selection.
- Social Intelligence.
- Setting the right environment.
- Fear as an inhibitor of creativity.
- Capitalizing on mistakes and failures instead of blaming.
- Encouraging ongoing learning and experimentation.
- SBI feedback model.
- The principle of coaching in driving creativity and innovation.
- Dealing with resistance to change.
- Innovation leadership characteristics.
- Leading according to employee maturity.
Day 4:
Creativity and Innovation Tools for Leaders
- Facilitating brainstorming
- Mind mapping
- Lateral thinking
- Random stimulation techniques
- The six thinking hats.
Day 5:
Storytelling for Leaders: a Tool for Inspiring Creativity
- Definitions and keywords
- Choosing the right story to tell
- The five ingredients of a compelling story
- The four types of stories in business
- Planning and constructing your stories
- The four elements of storytelling
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