Creative leadership and innovative management are key success drivers for organizations and individuals. Given the right nurturing environment and support, anyone in any organization can develop and harness these competencies.
In this workshop, you will learn how to develop creative leadership and innovative management in yourself and foster the same in others. The workshop is designed to address personal challenges and aspirations regarding this topic. Its ultimate intention is to provide individualized solutions that work for you.
Course Methodology
The workshop uses a coaching-based approach to achieve its intended learning objectives. It also enhances learning through group activities, team exercises, and case studies.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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
Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, team and project leaders, and all individuals who need to adopt a more creative approach at work, whether to solve problems, develop new initiatives, or initiate and introduce changes. The workshop will also benefit anyone interested in recognizing and developing their own or a group's creative potential.
Target Competencies
Self-awareness
Leading people
Influencing others
Managing change
Creativity
Flexibility
Course Outline
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
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
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
Creativity and Innovation Tools for Leaders
Facilitating brainstorming
Mind mapping
Lateral thinking
Random stimulation techniques
The six thinking hats
Storytelling for Leaders: a Tool for Inspiring Creativity