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, that can be developed and harnessed by anyone in any organization. In this workshop, you will learn how to develop those competencies in yourself and fostering the same in others. Finally, the workshop is designed to address personal challenges and aspirations regarding this topic. The ultimate intention of it is to provide individualized solutions that work for you.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this Creative Leadership and innovative Management leadership workshop Course, learners will be able to do:
Describe the link between good leadership and creativity and innovation
Apply self-awareness techniques in preparing for unleashing the natural creative inclination
Teach, guide, and support others in developing the needed self-awareness for creativity
Build the right environment that nurtures and fosters creativity and innovation in others
Use different tools and techniques to generate creative and innovative ideas
Who Should Attend?
Supervisors, managers, team and project leaders, and all individuals who need to adopt a more creative approach at work, whether to solve problems, come up with new initiatives, initiate and introduce changes. The workshop will also benefit anyone interested in recognizing and developing their own or a group’s creative potential.
Course Outlines:
Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
What is leadership
Types of leadership in the business world
Authentic leadership
Misperceptions of leadership
Defining innovation and creativity
Intelligence versus creativity
Understanding the 2 hemispheres of the brain
Right and left
Lateral thinking
Stimulate Your Creative Brain
Understanding your ego and emotional responses
Emotional reactions based on protection
Childhood experiences
Societal and cultural programming
Understanding emotions
The impact of habit on acting and thinking
Harnessing the power of habit
Vertical development
Horizontal development
Stages of vertical development
Self-leadership / identity leadership
Leaders produce leaders
Fostering Creativity in Team Members
The right team member selection
Happiness as a driver of creativity
Positivity and gratitude
Thoughts and the need to control thoughts
The difference between the real I and my thoughts
Cultural restrictions
Others influences
The principal of coaching in driving creativity and innovation
Resistance to change
Understanding change
Taming the internal resistance to change
Innovation leadership characteristics
The Right Environment for Creativity and Innovation
Setting the right environment
Fear as an inhibitor of creativity
Capitalizing on mistakes and failures
The importance of understanding employees
Enhancing employees’ creativity and innovation
Employee maturity
Customizing your approach
Creativity and Innovation Tools
Facilitating brainstorming
Process review matrix
Lateral thinking
Random stimulation techniques
The four thinking styles
Presenting and Getting Support for Your New Ideas
Assessing and refining innovative Ideas
Cost-benefit and risk analysis
Anticipating objections
Influencing decision-makers by making a business case