Leading with Creativity and Innovation

Introduction:

This Leading Creative and Innovative seminar equips leaders and professionals with the skills to generate innovative ideas that unlock their own creative potential and that of their teams.

Participants will begin with self-discovery, exploring their internal strengths before learning how to positively impact the business environment.

Throughout the seminar, participants will be challenged to think differently, step out of their comfort zones, and experiment with new approaches to developing an inspiring vision of leadership.

Objectives:

By the end of this course on Leading Creativity and Innovation, participants will be able to:

• Define and build their leadership brands.
• Apply effective methods for self-discovery.
• Develop innovative ways to unlock others' creativity.
• Express a vision using diverse sensory means.
• Communicate their vision dynamically and engagingly.
• Overcome barriers to group creativity.
• Recognize when revolutionary thinking is needed.
• Create a compelling vision statement.
• Harness team creativity for maximum outcomes.
• Inspire creativity in others through unconventional methods.
• Link creative thinking to organizational performance improvements.

Training Methodology:

• Mentoring sessions/Coaching sessions
• Action planning workshops
• Video analysis
• Collaborative projects
• Practical problem-solving exercises
• Creative brainstorming labs
• Sharing best practices
• Peer-to-peer learning (mentoring)
• Panel discussions
• Innovation contests

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Creative Problem-Solving

• Leadership Reality Check
• Leadership versus Management
• Understanding how the brain works
• Debunking myths about leading creativity
• Rationality as a limitation
• Divergent problem-solving approaches
• Moving beyond rationality
• Analogous modes of thought
• Convergent vs. Divergent Thinking

Unit 2: Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity

• S-Curve – Life Cycle Model
• Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)
• Breakthrough Step Change
• Personal awareness and the ego
• Aligning personal goals with creativity
• Adoption & Innovation: Individual meaning-making preferences
• Exploring risk attitudes
• Left Brain vs. Right Brain Thinking

Unit 3: Developing the Vision Creatively

• Six Thinking Hats methodology
• Using different thinking styles
• Johari Window for creative insight
• Business planning process and vision creation
• Leveraging team power
• Impact of organizational culture on innovation
• Managing ego in creative processes
• Working with diverse creative preferences

Unit 4: Communicating the Vision Creatively

• 7 Steps of the Creative Process
• Models of Communication
• Viral Visioning techniques
• Authenticity and Trust in Leadership
• Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Creativity
• Letting go of your vision when necessary
• Leading without directing
• Adopting beliefs that support creative leadership

Unit 5: From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change

• Motivation (Maslow's Hierarchy)
• Overcoming organizational barriers to creative thinking
• Supporting a learning environment
• Can money motivate creativity?
• Understanding personality types in creative processes
• Building creative consensus
• Engaging stakeholders through creative leadership
• Influencing and motivating through change