Course Description

INTRODUCTION

This Leading Creatively training course will allow us to keep up to date with the latest leadership methods for innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial thinking'. It challenges outdated ideas and preconceptions of traditional leadership. Through innovative and transformational models and techniques, you will be guided and coached to maximize your own and your team’s creative potential. The days of heroic management belong in the past; it is an era of development, involvement, and staff empowerment. The modern-day leader needs a new tool kit to ensure their department flourishes in this highly competitive work environment.

The emphases of this exciting and thought-provoking training course are communication, flexibility, versatility, vision, involvement, and creative thinking. You will be encouraged to think outside the box, expand your comfort zone, and challenge and embrace new ideas and concepts. You will also be taught the crucial methodology of identifying possible pitfalls, traditions and conflicts that could prevent you from transferring your newly acquired skills to the workplace.

Objectives

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

Create your personal leadership brand to inspire and create innovation.

Select appropriate techniques for your self-discovery and advancement.

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.

Course Outline

Day 1

Unlocking Creative Solutions

The Art and Science of Creative Leadership and Key Principles

Creative Leadership Reality Assessment and Unlocking Creativity

Bridging Leadership and Management for Fostering a Creative Environment.

Decoding Our Brain's Creativity: Our Brain Function

Myths of Creativity and challenge the traditional Limitations of the Rational.

Embracing Divergence and Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving and Letting Go of Logic

Thinking Modes: Convergent and Divergent Modes: The Einstein Model

Day 2

Breaking Through Creative Barriers

Navigating the Sigmoid Curve and - Lifecycle Model

Continuous Improvement and Breakthrough Step Change Concept.

Self-reflection and Alignment and Personal Goal Alignment/

Innovation and Adaption and Personal Preferences for Creating Meaning

Using the Nudge Principle and Understanding Attitudes to Risk.

Modern Case Studies of Creativity: Uber, Apple and Instagram.

Day 3

Crafting a Vision with Creativity Thinking

Diverse Thinking for Innovative Solutions – an Introduction

The Six Thinking Hats methodology for Diverse Thinking Styles,

The Business Planning Process & Creating a Vision: Selling your Ideas.

Team Dynamics and Culture Participants and Harnessing the Power of the Team

Organisational Culture on Innovation: Implementing Change

Letting Go of the Ego and Working with Different Creative Preferences.

Day 4

Communicating Vision with Innovation and Promoting Your Ideas

The Creative Process Unveiled and The 7 Step Creative Process,

Presenting Ideas with Minto Model: A Roadmap from Inspiration to Implementation.

Effective Communication and Presentation Techniques Models

Inspiring Change Sessions on Viral Visioning, Authenticity and Trust, and Creativity Tools, Techniques and Strategy.

Leadership Reimagined: on Letting Go of the Vision and Leading without Directing, challenging conventional leadership paradigms.

Day 5

Implementing Creative Change

Driving Motivation and Overcoming Barriers: Beyond the Hierarchy of Needs

Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Creativity and Change.

Fostering a Culture of Innovation by Nurturing a Learning Environment