This course offers a professional training course in Inspirational Leadership and Creativity. Inspirational leaders instill confidence and energy in an organization. This course provides participants with the expertise to build a high-performing and reliable culture. Inspirational leadership is the ability to motivate people to achieve high standards of performance. It takes special skills to bring people to peak performance on a regular basis. This course is designed to provide a framework to enable inspirational leaders to foster creativity and innovation in their organizations.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Who should attend?
Managers.
Directors.
Team Leaders.
Those who want to create a self-motivated workforce and share their vision more effectively.
How attendees will benefit?
After completion of the course, delegates will understand:
Understanding not only why some people are naturally creative, but how everyone can develop their creativity.
Knowledge of how to use a variety of creative thinking methods, tools, and techniques to generate ideas and solve problems.
Opportunity to apply methods and tools to generate ideas to improve one's work.
Course Outline
Inspirational Leadership:
Understanding Leadership Principles.
Recognise the key qualities of inspirational leaders and how they differ from traditional leaders.
Leadership challenge – Kouzes and Posner.
Develop Emotional Intelligence to Increase Empathy.
Create a Shared Vision:
Develop a clear vision of the organisation.
Develop a plan to communicate the vision at all levels of the organization.
Creating a culture of trust to build confidence in others.
Achieving a shared vision that creates acceptance.
Continuously monitor team and organizational energy levels to align vision.
Creativity and Innovation:
Understand how creativity and innovation go hand in hand.
Create an environment that fosters and develops both creativity and innovation.
Phases for successful brainstorming.
Generation, selection and implementation.
Realize and present successful creative/innovative solutions.
Teamwork and Commitment:
Promote teamwork and collaboration beyond the boardroom.
Develop creativity as a team activity that is practiced regularly
Types of motivation and how to use them.
Provide praise and regular constructive feedback at all levels.
LBWA – Leadership by Wandering Around.
Leading Change:
Leadership and management of transformational initiatives.
Implementing Kotter's 8-Step Process for Leading Transformation.
Become an agent of positive change.
Increase confidence, trust, organizational commitment and openness to change.