Leading Creatively

Course Overview

This course develop your creativity, embrace new ideas and concept in leadership. It will encourage to think outside the box, expand your comfort zone and facing the challenges. Moreover you will be guided and coached to maximize your own, and your team’s creative potential.

The participant will be able to :

·       Create personal leadership and empowerment of staff

·       Select appropriate techniques for personal self-discovery

·       Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential

·       Communicate of vision through multiple sensory, refreshing, and engaging ways

·       Explore the outer limits of group creativity

Duration

5 days

Who Should Attend

·       Manager

·       Supervisors

·       Team Leaders

·       Heads of department

·       Senior Staff

Course Outline

Day 1 - Creative Problem-Solving

·       Leadership vs. Management

·       Understanding Our Brain Function

·       Myths of Creativity

·       The Limitations of the Rational

·       Divergent Approaches to Problem-solving

·       Analogous Thinking Modes

·       Convergent and Divergent Modes

Day 2 - Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity

·       Breakthrough Step Change

·       Self-awareness and the Nature of the Ego

·       Personal Goal Alignment

·       Adaption and Innovation: Personal Preferences for Creating Meaning

·       Exploring Attitudes to Risk

·       Left- and Right-brain Thinking

Day 3 - Developing the Vision Creatively

·       Six Thinking Hats

·       Using Differing Thinking Styles

·       Johari’s Window

·       The Business Plan Process & Creating a Vision

·       Harnessing the Power of the Team

·       Organisational Culture and its Influence on Innovation

·       Letting Go of the Ego

·       Working with Different Creative Preferences

Day 4 - Communicating the Vision Creatively

·       The 7 Step Creative Process

·       Models of Communication

·       Viral Visioning

·       Authenticity and Trust

·       Creativity Tools, Techniques & Strategy

·       Letting Go of the Vision

·       Leading without Directing

·       Possible Leadership Beliefs

Day 5 - Creativity and Change

·       Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs

·       Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Creativity and Change

·       Nurturing a Learning Environment

·       Building a Creative Consensus

·       Engaging Stakeholders Creatively

·       Influencing and Motivating through Change