Leading Creatively
Leading Creatively
OBJECTIVES
- Set out their personal leadership brand
- Select appropriate techniques for self-discovery
- Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
- Articulate a vision using multiple sensory representations
- Communicate their vision in refreshing and engaging ways
- Explore the outer limits of group creativity
- Set out creative options for implementing change
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This seminar is designed for senior managers, leaders and professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries.
It will also be of great benefit to anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications, or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organization.
COURSE OUTLINE
DAY 1
Creative Problem-Solving
- The limitations of the rational
- Divergent approaches to problem-solving
- Letting go of logic
- Analogous thinking modes
- Convergent and divergent modes
DAY 2
Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity
- 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
- Harnessing the power of the team
- Organizational culture and its influence on innovation
- Conflict as a catalyst for idea development
- Letting go of the ego
- Working with different creative preferences
DAY 4
Communicating the Vision Creatively
- Models of communication
- Viral visioning
- Authenticity and trust
- Letting go of the vision
- Leading without directing
DAY 5
From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change
- Overcoming organizational barriers to creativity and change
- Nurturing a learning environment
- Building a creative consensus
- Engaging stakeholders creatively
- Influencing and motivating through change