Chrome Consultants

Creative Leadership – Transformational Tools for Leaders

Programme description & objectives

Programme description & objectives This program provides individuals and professionals in leadership positions with transformational tools and techniques to maximize their creative leadership potential. Research shows that most organizational problems are people-based and result from poor leadership, with many organizations being over-managed and under-led. The program focuses on contemporary leadership approaches and initiatives to help participants improve their leadership skills and achieve more effective results as managers and supervisors of human, material, knowledge, and financial resources. Highlights include: - How to identify opportunities for new kinds of thinking - How to profile peoples' personality types - How to create and communicate a compelling vision - How to harness the creative power of the team - How to facilitate others’ creativity in innovative ways

Venues, Dates & Cost

VenuesDublinLondonDubaiEdmonton (CAN)Lagos/Abuja
DatesTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD
Cost$3,900 per participant (USD)(=N=)

For Whom

  • Senior Managers in Public and Private organizations
  • Heads of Department
  • Special Assistants and Advisers
  • Operations & Supply Chain Managers
  • Manufacturing & Production Managers
  • Sales, Marketing & Distribution Managers
  • Logistics and Shipping Managers
  • Project Managers

Snapshot of Course Content

Creative Problem-Solving

  • Leadership Reality Assessment
  • Leadership Vs. Management
  • Understanding Our Brain Function
  • Myths of Creativity
  • The limitations of the rational
  • Divergent approaches to problem-solving
  • Letting go of logic
  • Analogous thinking modes
  • Convergent and divergent modes

Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity

  • Sigmoid Curve – Lifecycle Model
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Breakthrough step change
  • Self-awareness and the nature of the ego
  • Personal goal alignment
  • Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning
  • Exploring attitudes to risk
  • Left- and right-brain thinking

Developing the Vision Creatively

  • Six thinking hats
  • Using differing thinking styles
  • JoHari’s window
  • The business plan process & creating a vision
  • Harnessing the power of the team
  • Organizational culture and its influence on innovation
  • Letting go of the ego
  • Working with different creative preferences

Communicating the Vision Creatively

  • The 7 Step Creative Process
  • Models of communication
  • Viral visioning
  • Authenticity and trust
  • Creativity tools, techniques & strategy
  • Letting go of the vision
  • Leading without directing
  • Possible leadership beliefs

From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change

  • Motivation – Hierarchy of Needs
  • Overcoming organizational barriers to creativity and change
  • Nurturing a learning environment
  • Is Money a motivator?
  • Personality Profiling
  • Building a creative consensus
  • Engaging stakeholders creatively
  • Influencing and motivating through change