Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation: Igniting Creativity for Workplace Excellence
Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation: Igniting Creativity for Workplace Excellence
OBJECTIVES
- This seminar aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:
- Build a culture that promotes innovation & creativity
- Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal preferences
- Develop creativity for transformational leadership
- Learn how to find out what you don’t know—and solve the real problem
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This seminar is designed for all leaders; supervisors, managers and executives who are required to handle various issues and challenges.
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1 – Understanding your creativity
- Creativity & your personality
- Understand and use personality styles as a management tool
- Creative flexibility to manage effectively
- Importance of perception
- Maximising our perceptual ability
- Creativity and the Holistic Model
Day 2 – Generating Creativity
- Understand how creative thinking works
- Developing Openness to new ideas
- The Creative Mind: Whole Brain Thinking
- Distinguish stages of the creative process
- Recognise what makes excellent creative thinking
- Identify and understand the creativity in others
Day 3 – Strategies for creative problem solving
- Problem solving strategies
- Getting in the right mindset
- Taking risks & looking for paradigm shifts
- Defining the Real Problem
- Recognising mental blocks to creativity
- Brainstorming
Day 4 – Encouraging a creative climate at work
- Releasing creativity at work
- Fostering creativity
- Incubating ideas
- Challenging assumptions
- Creativity for business breakthroughs
- Sharpen your creative thinking: Metaphors & Analogies
Day 5 – Leading on the creative edge
- Innovative leadership for excellent performance
- Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
- Developing creative potential in teams
- Understanding creative people
- Motivating creative individuals at work
- Interacting creatively