Leading Creativity and Innovation

(Embracing Modern Day Leadership Thinking for Effective Change and Strategic Management)

Introduction:

An organization’s success depends on employees’ ability to think, adapt and respond to change; to turn creative thinking into innovative action. Creativity alone is not enough. Whole brain thinking is a synthesis of analytical and creative thinking, which is a powerful practical and intuitive force to drive change and innovation.

What is creativity? And how can you improve your creative skills? Creativity is what drives ideas through the distinct thinking of individuals that opens the doors to new opportunities in and around them. It is the ability to adopt new processes, which results in more efficient production or development of a new product or service.

Objectives:

This training course aims to help participants achieve the following objectives:

• Define creativity and innovation
• Utilize your imaginative ideas and convert them into workable strategies
• Practice the Creativity Generation tools for idea facilitation
• Build inspiration and self-confidence skills
• Understand Agile Project Management methodologies to implement changes
• Learn how to ‘gamify’ your ideas
• Overcome mental blocks to dealing with difficult situations
• Stop procrastination by using creative thinking techniques
• Remove the fear of failure from your mind

Target Audience:

This course will be of benefit to the following professionals:

• Any individuals wanting to improve their creative thinking abilities
• Business thinkers
• Executives
• Supervisors
• Officers/junior management

Course Content:

Day 1

• What is creativity? Thinking differently
• What is innovation? Acting differently
• Problem solving skills
• Imagination and motivation
• Using available resources to develop new and creative ideas
• Developing creativity skills
• How to develop and use inspiration
• Removing mental blocks
• Overcoming fear of failure
• Skills to inspire skills

Day 2

• Developing innovative skills
• Developing strategies for creative ideas
• Thrashing out procrastination
• Deleting self-imposed limitations
• Building on successes step by step
• Having an open mindset
• Being critical and judgemental
• Understanding the positivity of a positive mind
• Critical questioning
• Problem-solving questions
• Analysis and evaluation
• Asking open-ended questions

Day 3

• Associating with the right people groups
• Assumptions and being practical
• Creativity and confidence
• Developing a vision and strategy
• Brainstorming and gathering collective ideas
• Mind Mapping
• Visualization
• Understand and practice Agile Project Management for implementation of new changes through Sprints and Scrum processes