Leading for Creativity

What does the future hold for your business sector and organisation?  Whatever the future holds, your team needs to be set up to deal with the challenges they face. As a leader, you need to be equipped to help your team come up with novel ideas to take competitive advantage of whatever the future brings; especially now, given the disruption of these ongoing challenging and changing times.

You don’t have to develop all the ideas and strategies yourself, that’s what you have a team for. As educationalist and author Sir Ken Robinson said: “The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued.”

This workshop has been designed to examine what practical steps can be taken to help you lead and motivate your team to improve their creative output and feel valued; build an environment that fosters creative and innovative thinking; and use creative teamwork for change and improvement.

By attending this Anderson online training course, delegates will be able to:

• Lead and motivate your team to greater creativity
• Build an environment that fosters creative thinking
• Encourage collaborative problem-solving
• Use diversity to improve creative and innovative ideas

This Anderson online training course is suitable for:

• Leaders and managers in creative sectors
• Managers that need to encourage creative and innovative thinking
• Project managers who want to encourage innovative problem-solving
• Leaders involved in change who need non-traditional approaches and ideas
• Managers who need innovative or novel suggestions for new products, continuous improvement, better customer service ideas, etc.

Session 1

• What is creativity
• Why creativity is crucial in 21^st century business
• From goals to creativity: adjust your leadership style
• 4 Step life cycle of creativity
• Debunk employees’ “I’m not creative” myth

Session 2

• Develop a creativity-biased environment
• 3 Vital elements: autonomy, mastery, purpose
• Unlock employees’ 7 different intelligences
• Barriers to creativity (and failure is not one!)

Session 3

• Encourage Blue Sky thinking
• Creative problem-solving techniques
• Seek out diversity
• Action plan your steps to Leading for Creativity

An Anderson e-Certificate will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the online training course