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Training course overview
The Smart Leadership training course empowers delegates to steer organizations towards success in the dynamic 21st-century landscape. It champions visionary thinking, agility, and a proactive approach to change. Innovative leaders inspire teams to challenge conventions, cultivating a culture of creativity and ingenuity.
By integrating strategic thinking, fostering innovation, and nurturing team talents, smart leaders adeptly navigate uncertainty, uncovering opportunities that shape a promising future for their organizations.
Key features of this Coventry Academy course include:
- Understanding the fundamentals of strategy and leadership
- Cultivating an innovation-driven culture
- Leveraging multiple intelligences to foster creativity
- Identifying, engaging, and motivating creative individuals
- Leading the creative process to foster innovation
What are the goals?
By attending this training course, you should achieve these goals:
- Identify the principles of innovative leadership
- Analyze the common myths and misconceptions about innovation
- Solve any problem or issue with creative methodologies
- Apply ‘multiple intelligences’ to generate ideas
- Practice a process for team innovation
Who is this training course for?
This training course is intended for those who want to learn how to transform or improve their operations and organisations through the successful application of strategies and business process improvements using higher levels of creativity for innovation.
This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Supervisors/Line Leaders
- Team Leaders/Unit Heads
- Managers of all Levels
- Departmental leaders
Course Outline
Day One: Leading Creativity and Innovation at Work
- Understanding Strategy and Leadership in the 21st century
- Innovation vs. Constant Improvement
- Innovative Leadership as a Transformative Force for Success
- The critical mass for change and innovation
- Case Study of Innovative Companies
- Applying Leadership to Achieve Creativity and Innovation
Day Two: Achieving Workforce Engagement
- How the G.E. “Workout” Model Engaged Employees
- Achieving “Buy-In” from Your Workforce
- Developing Creative Solutions for Problems and New Strategies
- Overcoming Old Paradigms
- The Characteristics of “Organizational Drift”
- Achieving Results by Leading an Empowered Workforce
Day Three: Leadership with a Creative Edge
- Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
- How Profiling may Reveal the Creativity in People
- Thinking Skills and Multiple Intelligences
- Learning New Brainstorming Techniques
- How to Incubate New Ideas
- Interacting with ‘Creatives’ using Influence and Persuasion
- Creative Group Exercise: Identifying Business Processes
Day Four: Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity
- Key Elements in Creating New Missions
- Establishing Goals and Targets with Creative Flair
- Building a “Sense of Significance and Purpose”
- Emotional Intelligence as a Motivator
- Rewarding and Encouraging High Performance
- “Pygmalion and Galatea” Theories Behind Individual Performance
- Group and Team Motivation
Day Five: Driving Strategic Change
- Managing the Change Process
- Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
- Successful Techniques for Leading Effective Change
- How a Leader Communicates a ‘Sense of Urgency’
- Overcome the Challenges of Change in Organisations
- Creating an Attitude of Perpetual Change and Improvement
- Course Review and Personal Goals
The certificate
- Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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