Advanced Leadership, Creativity & Innovative Strategies

Advanced Leadership, Creativity & Innovative Strategies

NTRODUCTION: 

This unique LTC on Advanced Leadership, Creativity & Innovation training course  covers discussion of critical areas of leadership, strategic thinking and planning and will have above all a practical focus on creativity and innovation in conditions of challenge and complexity. Using this initial analysis, the programme explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others and imparting leadership values to your team members. 

The focus of module one is on the actions required to achieve effective design and introduction of strategic plans. This will include detailed presentation and discussion of contemporary leading-edge approaches to strategic planning, showing how standard systems should be modified for the specific context and alignment of the organisation. 

The second module provides the latest competencies so that you can significantly manage and lead innovation within your organisation. The programme will focus on inspiring and empowering the individual to handle a wide range of innovation and change situations. This is a fast-paced, dynamic and highly informative advanced leadership programme. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team and organisational leadership skills. 

OBJECTIVES: 

• Gain insights of their own strengths and leadership styles
• Develop emotional competencies such as resilience, creativity, intentionality and interpersonal connections
• Develop advanced strategic leadership competencies
• Harness emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace
• Understand and practice innovation through their leadership
• Empower their teams to innovate and change to the demands of the future.
• Combine and leverage analytical and creative thinking
• Lead creative and innovative initiatives
• Achieve targets and performance standards during periods of change 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND? 

• Any professional in business, government, education, social aid and the military
• Leaders and manages of an organisation, division or department requiring the skills to tackle the toughest leadership assignments
• Those responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies, initiating and managing change, improving operational performance, creating and leading high performance teams and demonstrating empowering leadership 

Course Outline: 

Module 1:Beyond Leadership 

Leadership Today: 

• Why is emotional intelligence so important?
• Skills needed for E.I. communication
• Flexibility in dealing with other personality styles
• Using your left and right brain
• Mental adaptability to handling problems
• Raising your emotional intelligence 

From Mission & Vision to Strategy: 

• Leadership is direction
• Creating mission & vision
• What is strategy?
• Strategic thinking
• Planning strategy
• Creating a competitive edge 

Focusing on Solutions, not Problems: 

• Building momentum
• Problem solving in adverse situations
• Tools & techniques to solve problems
• Decision making using analysis, imagination and experience
• Challenging groupthink and conformity
• Influence individual responsibility & accountability 

Module 2: Creativity and Innovative Strategies 

What is Creativity and Innovation and Why are they Important? 

• How the brain works
• Barriers to creativity and innovation
• Developing left and right brain ability
• Vertical and lateral approaches, how we think
• Conventional vs. creative problem solving
• Applying creative tools to every day problem solving 

Workplace Creativity & Innovation: 

• Building trust to engage and empower others
• Empathy & Rapport through Emotional Intelligence
• Brainstorming Meetings & Disney Method
• Challenge and Constructive Discontent
• Integrity & Accountability
• Aligning Strategy with Team Goals, Objective and Tactics 

Developing Creativity in your Team:

• Recruit, Position and Resource your Team
• Communicate vision and clarity of purpose
• Encourage diversity within your team
• Empower different work practices
• Create an atmosphere of safety, trust and respect
• Focus on Results not Methods