Course Methodology
The workshop uses a coaching-based approach to achieve its intended
learning objectives. It also enhances learning through group activities, team
exercises, and case studies.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Establish the link between good leadership,
creativity, and innovation
- Apply self-awareness techniques in preparing to
unleash the natural creative inclination
- Build the right environment that nurtures and
fosters creativity and innovation in others
- Use different tools and techniques to generate
creative and innovative ideas
- Translate inspiring thoughts into creativity
through effective storytelling
Target Audience
Supervisors, managers, team and project leaders, and all individuals who
need to adopt a more creative approach at work, whether to solve problems,
develop new initiatives, or initiate and introduce changes. The workshop
will also benefit anyone interested in recognizing and developing their own or
a group's creative potential.
Target Competencies
- Self-awareness
- Leading people
- Influencing others
- Managing change
- Creativity
- Flexibility
Creativity, Innovation, and Leadership
- What is leadership?
- Types of leadership in the business world
- Authentic leadership
- Self-leadership and identity leadership
- Misconceptions of leadership
- Defining innovation and creativity
- Intelligence versus creativity
Stimulating your Creative Brain
- Understanding your ego
- Understanding emotions
- Emotional reactions based on self-protection
- Societal and cultural programming
- The impact of habit on acting and thinking
- Vertical development
- Horizontal development
Fostering Creativity in Team Members
- The right team member selection
- Social Intelligence
- Setting the right environment
- Fear as an inhibitor of creativity
- Capitalizing on mistakes and failures instead of
blaming
- Encouraging ongoing learning and
experimentation
- SBI feedback model
- The principle of coaching in driving creativity
and innovation
- Dealing with resistance to change
- Innovation leadership characteristics
- Leading according to employee maturity
Creativity and Innovation Tools for Leaders
- Facilitating brainstorming
- Mind mapping
- Lateral thinking
- Random stimulation techniques
- The six thinking hats
Storytelling for Leaders: a Tool for Inspiring Creativity
- Definitions and keywords
- Choosing the right story to tell
- The five ingredients of a compelling story
- The four types of stories in business
- Planning and constructing your stories
- The four elements of storytelling
