Creative Leadership and Innovative Management

Creative Leadership and Innovative Management

Methodology:

• The workshop uses a methodology based on principles of guidance and counseling to achieve specific learning objectives.
• It incorporates group exercises and case studies to enhance participants’ acquired knowledge.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the relationship between effective leadership, creativity, and innovation.
• Apply self-awareness techniques to unleash their creative instincts.
• Teach, guide, and support others in developing self-awareness skills necessary for creativity.
• Create the right environment that nurtures and enhances creativity and innovation in others.
• Use various techniques and tools to generate creative and innovative ideas.

Target Audience:

• Supervisors, managers, team leaders, project leaders, and anyone interested in adopting a creative approach in the workplace.
• Individuals seeking to solve problems, initiate new initiatives, or formulate and implement change initiatives.
• Anyone interested in learning more about developing their creative potential and enhancing their innovative capabilities.

Program Content:

• Creativity, innovation, and leadership.
• Understanding different leadership styles in the business world.
• Reliable and effective leadership.
• Common misconceptions about leadership.
• Definition of innovation and creativity.
• Intelligence vs. creativity.
• Understanding the brain’s hemispheres: right and left.
• Lateral thinking.

Boosting Your Creative Brain:

• Understanding “self” and emotional reactions.
• Emotional reactions based on protection.
• Childhood experiences.
• Cultural and societal programming.
• Understanding emotions.
• The impact of habits on behaviors and thinking.
• Harnessing habits.
• Vertical development.
• Horizontal development.
• Stages of vertical development.
• Self-leadership/identity leadership.
• Leaders who produce other leaders.

Enhancing Team Members’ Creativity:

• Selecting the right team members.
• Happiness as a motivator for creativity.
• Positivity and gratitude.
• Ideas and the need to control them.
• Distinguishing between my reality and my ideas.
• Cultural constraints.
• Other influences.
• Guidance principles in fostering creativity and innovation.
• Resistance to change.
• Understanding change.
• Taming internal resistance to change.
• Characteristics of innovative leadership.

Creating the Right Environment for Creativity and Innovation:

• Establishing the right environment.
• Fear as a creativity inhibitor.
• Learning from mistakes and failures.
• Understanding employees’ perspectives.
• Improving employees’ creativity and innovation skills.
• Employee maturity level.
• Adjusting and adapting your approach.

Tools for Creativity and Innovation:

• Facilitating brainstorming sessions.
• Work process review matrix.
• Lateral thinking.
• Random stimulation techniques.
• Four thinking methods.

Presenting Your New Ideas and Gaining Necessary Support:

• Evaluating and refining innovative ideas.
• Analyzing risks and cost/profit considerations.
• Anticipating objections.
• Influencing decision-makers through creating a business presentation.