Module 1: Advanced Communication & Interpersonal Skills
Day One: How to Build Lasting Rapport
- The art of building lasting rapport
- How to identify behavioural traits and react to them
- How to modify your own behaviour to match other’s
- Sharpen your senses to the signals others are sending you
- Connect with colleagues and clients at a level that creates deeper trust and commitment
- Read body language in order to understand how others are thinking and responding to you
Day Two: Self-Awareness: How to Gain a Greater Understanding of Yourself
- Key concepts of NLP and Emotional Intelligence
- Connecting your feelings for greater self awareness
- Eliciting emotions
- Noticing your unconscious messages and following your intuitions
- Self-talk and what it means
- Internal and external referencing
Day Three: Crystal Clear Communication
- Powerful listening and questioning techniques
- Thinking and language patterns
- Sub-modalities
- Perceptual positions
- Climates of trust
- Well formed outcomes
Day Four: Empathy: The Ability to Understand Situations from Another’s Perspective
- Review how to sharpen your senses to the signals others are sending you
- Communicating first impressions - the secrets of body language
- How we communicate
- Filters to communication
- Learning Styles
- Modelling: how others do things
Day Five: Motivation: How to get the most from Yourself and Other
- Logical levels of change
- The importance of values in motivation
- Eliciting values for yourself and your organisation
- Setting goals that motivate
- Creating a positive future for your organisation
- Testing your well-formed outcomes
Module 2: Advanced Problem Solving & Decision Making
Day Six: Decision Making and Problem Solving – Symbiotic Partners
- Leadership and the dynamics of decision making
- 21st century Leadership - “decision architects” of future performance
- Impacting variables: values, bias and hubris in seeking ethical solutions
- Personality Type and cognitive preferences in decision making
- Psychometric assessment on your problem-solving preferences
- “Collective wisdom” a structured process for grounded solutions
Day Seven: Applying Structured Techniques to Organisational Issues
- How well do I solve problems? outcomes and personal cognitive strengths
- Using the “whole brain” to make rational, informed and balanced decisions
- Flexibility on leadership and thinking; opening the mind to new ideas
- A structured model for problem solving; balancing logic and emotional responses
- Unexpected events that destroy equilibrium; the unpredictable factor
- Dynamic Tension, Decision Making, Newton’s Laws and the Management of Change
Day Eight: The Quest for Continuous Improvement – A Journey not a Destination
- Encouraging creative problem solving for continuous improvement
- Appreciative Enquiry and a focus on positive dialogues
- Solution Focus methodology: a transformational tool for business dialogues
- Diagnostic tools for identifying and addressing organisational issues
- TRIZ: Applying techniques to innovate and improve process and product
- Capturing the creative capacity of the millennial generation
Day Nine: Building Creative Capability in Self, Others and the Wider Organisation
- “How creative am I”? Challenging self-imposed assumptions
- Beware the creative introvert: the “ENIGMA” of the quiet, awkward individual
- Where do good ideas come from? “Imagineering”: current examples from technology
- “Curiosita”: multiple intelligences and lessons from Leonardo da Vinci
- Fostering and facilitating organisational innovation
- Building the creative organisation: a menu for good leadership practice
- Creative leadership dialogues to influence, persuade and align your people
Day Ten: The Creative Leader in the Innovative Organisation
- Leadership style, cognitive processes decision-making outcomes
- Enhancing Serendipity
- Ensuring alignment with corporate mission
- Assessing creativity in your organisation and identifying “roadblocks”
- Establishing "innovation champions"; a strategy for promoting innovation and change
- Designing a personal plan for innovation in the workplace