Introduction
This leadership course embarks into the essential fundamental aspects of leadership on your career pathway. Set over the course using a combination of discussion debates, case studies, research and immersion sessions, you will explore experientially how to emerge more fully as a leader and to harness the workforce to transform.
Use this IACT Creative strategic planning & leadership course to discover your leadership style, strengths and weaknesses. Apply this insight during your supervisor training course to examine real-time issues instead of hypothetical case studies, and learn to implement your leadership style to fit any organizational context. Master the art of conducting effective team meetings that generate meaningful outcomes, and become an expert communicator with staff, management and customers.
Benefit from our supervisory skills training curriculum’s extensive interactive training format, a variety of modern teaching approaches, customized assessment tools – including the Myers-Briggs Assessment Inventory – lectures, leadership surveys, group case discussions, role plays, visual aids and team exercises. The certificate, divided into five fundamental learning cornerstones, covers the key roles of effective supervisors and managers; leadership and team motivation; communications skills training and staff development; delegation, problem-solving and decision-making; and employee conflict resolution and performance evaluation.
Objectives
By the end of this strategic planning and creative leadership conference, participants will be able to:
Þ Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential.
Þ Communicate their vision in refreshing and engaging ways.
Þ Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans.’
Þ Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to their management issues.
Þ Place their part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy.
Þ Gain confidence in managing their contribution to strategic implementation.
Þ Increase career flexibility (vertically and horizontally)
Þ Accelerate thinking speed and problem resolution for dilemmas.
Þ Understand the impact of operational specialization on corporate strategy.
Þ Improve team working capabilities in analyzing and solving strategic problems creatively.
Þ Improve skills in ensuring the most effective impact of individual specializations.
Þ Greater motivation through multiple organizational levels
Who should attend this Course?
This Leading with Creative strategic planning & leadership course is designed for all leaders - supervisors, professionals and executives who are required to handle various issues and challenges. It is also recommended for professionals who desire to enhance their creative abilities for better workplace performance.
This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
Þ Leaders and Managers
Þ Supervisors and Team Leaders
Þ HR Professionals
Þ Team Members who require high levels of creativity and innovation in their jobs
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
Each module covers different aspects of using Game-Based Learning and Gamification in education. Coursework will incorporate
your existing knowledge and experience and provide helpful learning environment with a good mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. On all outlines will apply Skills for Game-Based Learning and Gamification and practiced in hands-on, collaborative way within an international group setting.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
Pre and Post Test
Outline
Þ Leadership VS Management.
Þ Understand our brain function.
Þ Myths of Creativity.
Þ The limitations of the rational.
Þ Divergent approaches to problem-solving.
Þ Letting go of logic.
Þ Analogous thinking modes.
Þ Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model.
Þ Continuous improvement.
Þ Breakthrough step change.
Þ Self-awareness and the Nature of the Ego.
Þ Personal goal alignment.
Þ Understand adaptation and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning.
Þ Explore attitudes to risk.
Þ Learn about left-brain and right-brain thinking.
DAY 2:Developing the Vision Creatively:
Þ Six thinking hats.
Þ Use differing thinking styles.
Þ JoHari’s window.
Þ Understand the business plan process and create a vision.
Þ Harness the power of the team.
Þ Know the organizational culture and its influence on innovation.
Þ Letting go of the ego.
Þ Work with different creative preferences.
Communicating the Vision Creatively:
Þ The 7 Steps Creative Process.
Þ Models of communication.
Þ Viral visioning.
Þ Authenticity and trust.
Þ Know creativity tools, techniques, and strategies.
Þ Letting go of the vision.
Þ Lead without directing.
Þ Possible leadership beliefs.
DAY 3 From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change: Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs.
Þ Overcoming organizational barriers to creativity and change
Þ Nurture a learning environment.
Þ Is Money a motivator?
Þ Personality Profiling.
Þ Build a creative consensus.
Þ Engage stakeholders creatively.
Þ Influence and motivation through change.
Strategic Thinking and Business Analysis:
Þ What are strategy and strategic planning?
Þ Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
Þ What are the main conceptual frameworks?
Þ External analysis involves understanding and analyzing business attractiveness, including macro-environmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, and market dynamics.
Þ Benchmark your own strategic position/competitor analysis.
Þ Analyze customers.
Þ “Thinking backward from the customer.
DAY4 : Internal Analysis and Fusion of Analyses into Strategic Options:
Þ into strategic choices - SWOT and the strategy matrix.
Þ Case examples of strategic choUnderstand the interface of external and internal analysis.
Þ Internal analysis: Financial.
Þ Internal analysis is non-financial.
Þ The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard.”
Þ Diagnose strategic problems and opportunities.
Þ Know the fusion of analyses ice.
Strategic Plans and the Relevance of Alliances and Joint Ventures:
Þ Review of the tools used so far.
Þ The content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis.”
Þ Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework.
Þ Learn a real-life example of a business strategy/strategy plan.
Þ Know the strategies for alliances and joint ventures.
Þ Example of best practice in alliances and joint ventures.
DAY5 : Global Strategy, Teambuilding, and the Management of Internal Communication:
Þ Understand the essence of globalization and global strategy.
Þ Know globalization of the strategic dimension.
Þ Know globalization of the organizational dimension.
Þ What is the globalization of the human dimension?
Þ How to build and manage a strategic planning team.
Þ Communicate strategy throughout the organization.
Þ Gain your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy.
Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value Out of Strategy:
Ü Learn about effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action.
Ü Link strategy with operational objectives.
Ü Implementation – getting practical things done.
Ü Strategic planning of your career.
Ü Create tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization.
Ü Understand the conclusion of the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking.
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:
3.750 USD$
Schedule:
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session