Introduction

Do you need effective team management and innovation in your company with actionable strategies, experiential team-based simulations, and design thinking? The Managing Teams for Innovation and Success training course takes a holistic approach to every phase of teams: creating, managing, and leading them. Excellent teams can stimulate creativity and innovation, make an organization more adaptive to market forces, and drive breakthrough results.

In this training course on Managing Teams for Innovation and Success, participants will explore evidence-based research and discover the fundamentals of team building. They will learn how to leverage diversity, stimulate engagement, influence others without authority, harness collective intelligence, and implement change. They will use design thinking principles to foster team innovation.

Goals

Participants will learn:

• Creating an agenda of creativity and innovation to meet new challenges.
• Creating value to the organization through competitive productivity.
• Managing conflict constructively and fostering a collaborative culture.
• Building a management blueprint to enhance your professional reputation.
• Being proactive to lead and initiative action.

TRAINING OBJECTIVES

• Accelerate team innovation using design thinking principles.
• Identify and communicate manager and team member roles.
• Learn methodologies to manage the complexities of group dynamics, including decision-making, power, and conflict.
• Manage conflicts & apply interpersonal strategies that will generate productive outcomes.
• Synthesize proposals to construct an agenda for future personal leadership development.

Training Methodology

This training course will be delivered by a recognized world-class professional and will include a range of lively and interactive training methods. The learning experience will be grounded on instructor-led presentations that highlight key issues to focus on and supported by a reference manual containing examples of best practice.

Participants will make presentations and receive personal feedback on their performance. Discussions will enable participants to share their own experiences with the rest of the group. Using the most up to date world-class materials, the instructor will take delegates through a journey of learning new skills and give them the confidence to use these skills on their return to their duties.

Target Groups

This Managing Teams for Innovation and Success training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Professionals at all levels seeking to improve their team management skills.
• Professionals wishing to enhance their creativity and innovation techniques.
• Employees identified as ‘high potential’ or ‘fast track’ management candidates.
• Those interested in improving innovation for future success.
• Managers concerned with competitive advantage and sustainability.
• Those responsible for developing and implementing innovation, initiating and managing change, improving operational performance, creating and leading high performance teams and demonstrating empowering leadership.

Program Content

What is Creativity and Innovation and Why are they Important?

• How our thinking works in respect of creativity and innovation.
• Difference between vertical and lateral approaches.
• Apply the more fluid style to the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
• Recognize and cope with obstacles to creativity in the mind.
• Understand the limitations and applications of conventional problem solving.
• Ensure that creativity becomes a useful tool for day to day problem solving.

Learn Creative Thinking Tools

• Creative problem-solving.
• Brainstorming.
• Mind-mapping.
• Bisociation, Metaphorical thinking & Rule Reversal.
• Gaining the Full Benefits of Continuous Improvement.
• Six Thinking Hats.

Adding Value through Relationship Awareness

• Micro political conflict in organizations.
• Personality traits, behaviors and conflict management.
• Relationship Awareness Theory.
• Managing without confrontation.
• Preparing for effective negotiating.
• Generating Productive Outcomes.

Harnessing Diversity and Creativity in the Team

• Valuing diversity: working with global, culturally diverse teams.
• The value proposition afforded by High Performing Teams.
• Avoiding dysfunctional performance.
• Grounded theory: needs analysis evaluation of current performance.
• Harnessing diversity for productive outcomes.
• Aligning purpose, productivity and profitability.

Leading with Initiative: Being Proactive

• Being proactive and capitalizing on opportunity.
• Leading from where you are in the organization.
• Emotional Intelligence and outcomes.
• Leadership styles and organizational climate.
• Building Trust.