Creative Leadership and Innovative Thinking
Creative leadership and innovative management are essential for driving success within organizations and for personal growth.
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- Duration
- 3 days
- Group rate
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Course overview
Creative leadership and innovative management are essential for driving success within organizations and for personal growth. These competencies can be nurtured and developed in any individual, provided they have the right environment and support. This workshop is designed to help you cultivate these skills in yourself and inspire the same in others. It also addresses personal challenges and aspirations related to creative leadership, offering tailored solutions that work specifically for you.
Training methodology
The workshop employs a coaching-based approach to achieve its learning objectives, supplemented by group activities, team exercises, and case studies to reinforce understanding and application.
Target competencies
- Self-awareness
- Leadership
- Influencing others
- Managing change
- Creativity
- Flexibility
Course objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the connection between effective leadership and creativity and innovation
- Apply self-awareness techniques to unlock their natural creative potential
- Guide and support others in developing the self-awareness necessary for creativity
- Create an environment that nurtures and encourages creativity and innovation in others
- Utilize various tools and techniques to generate creative and innovative ideas
Course outline
- What is leadership?
- Types of leadership in the business world
- Authentic leadership
- Common misconceptions about leadership
- Defining innovation and creativity
- Intelligence vs. creativity
- Understanding the brain’s hemispheres: Right and Left
- Lateral thinking
- Understanding your ego and emotional responses
- Emotional reactions rooted in self-protection
- The influence of childhood experiences
- Societal and cultural programming
- Understanding and managing emotions
- The impact of habits on actions and thoughts
- Harnessing the power of habit
- Vertical vs. horizontal development
- Stages of vertical development
- Self-leadership and identity leadership
- Leaders who create leaders
- Selecting the right team members
- Happiness as a catalyst for creativity
- The power of positivity and gratitude
- Controlling thoughts and their impact on creativity
- Distinguishing the true self from thoughts
- Overcoming cultural restrictions and external influences
- The role of coaching in fostering creativity and innovation
- Characteristics of an innovation leader
- Setting up a conducive environment
- Overcoming fear as a barrier to creativity
- Learning from mistakes and failures
- The importance of understanding employees
- Enhancing employees’ creativity and innovation
- Adapting to employee maturity levels
- Customizing your leadership approach
- Facilitating effective brainstorming sessions
- Using process review matrices
- Lateral thinking techniques
- Random stimulation techniques
- Exploring the four thinking styles
- Assessing and refining innovative ideas
- Conducting cost-benefit and risk analyses
- Anticipating and addressing objections
- Influencing decision-makers by building a strong business case
Morning and evening classes are available. CompuBase Training Center, Abu Dhabi.
