Introduction
Every company demands Innovation.
The Managing and Leading Innovation training course provides you with the latest competencies to radically manage and lead innovation within your organization. This training course focuses on inspiring and empowering the individual to handle a wide range of innovation and change situations. The world of business is changing rapidly, and personal and organizational success depends upon the successful management of creativity and innovative principles through dynamic leadership.
Goals
Participants will learn:
- Master a range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented.
- Maximize your abilities to drive and manage innovative performance of your people.
- Apply innovative leadership to release creativity in the workplace.
- Lead and demonstrate personal innovation and change.
- Build you confidence in
- your abilities to handle leadership challenges.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES
- Develop leadership competencies.
- Harness their emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace.
- Understand and practice innovation through their leadership.
- Gain insights of their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership styles.
- Develop emotional competencies such as resilience, creativity, intentionality and interpersonal connections.
- Understand and practice key people skills.
- Develop enhanced interpersonal relationships.
- Learn to apply people skills for success in the workplace.
- Empower their teams to innovate and change to the demands of the future.
Training Methodology
This training course will combine a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes speaker presentations with interactive practical innovative exercises, supported by video material and case studies with an emphasis on delegate involvement throughout.
TRAINING SUMMARY
- The Managing and Leading Innovation training course explores the importance of intra-personal and interpersonal skills for enhancing innovative leadership. Using this initial analysis, the training explores the power of individual transformation for self-development and corporate transformation through innovative managing and leading innovation.
Target Groups
Professionals in business, government, education, social aid and the military
Leaders and managers of organizations, departments or teams who need to develop innovation.
Program Content
Day 1 : The Leaders Profile
- Essential people skills for effective leadership.
- Intrapersonal and interpersonal skills for the innovative leader.
- Personality profiling.
- Your preferred behavioral style.
- Explore your behavioral tendencies.
- Understanding the model for innovative leadership.
- Removing emotional blind spots.
- Appropriate self-disclosure.
Day 2 : Managing and Leading Others Effectively
- Understanding the personality profiles.
- The introverted neutral and analytical perfectionist.
- The extraverted relational & decisive exhorter.
- People-oriented helper.
- Task-oriented implementer.
- Optimizing the leader’s natural strengths.
- Individual transformation for self-development.
- Corporate transformation through innovative leadership.
Day 3 : Essential Innovative Leadership
- Effective skills for understanding others.
- Developing competencies for effective leadership.
- Resilience for sacrificial leadership.
- Intentionality for self-motivation.
- Creativity for innovative leadership.
- Interpersonal connections for persuasive leadership.
- Constructive discontent.
- Integrity and compassion for accountable leadership.
Day 4 : Enhancing Creative Thinking Skills for the Innovative Leader
- Developing illumination and verification.
- Divergent thinking skills openness to innovative ideas.
- Creativity and perception.
- Removing blocks to creativity.
- Understanding the creative process.
- Preparation, incubation, for innovative leadership.
- Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking.
Day 5 : Implementing Innovative Leadership for Managing Performance
- Applying teamwork for innovation in the workplace.
- Creative problem-solving techniques.
- Cultivating a creative workplace.
- Harnessing creativity in subordinates through aligned leadership.
- Establishing criteria for implementing innovative ideas.
- Advocacy skills to implement innovative ideas in the workplace.
- Leadership for performance management.
