This training course challenges dated ideas and preconceptions of traditional leadership. Through innovative and transformational models and techniques, you will be guided and coached to maximize your own, and your team’s creative potential. The days of heroic management belong in the past, it is an era of development, involvement, and empowerment of staff. The modern-day leader needs a completely new tool kit to ensure their department flourishes in this highly competitive work environment.
The emphases of this exciting and thought-provoking training course are communication; flexibility; versatility; vision; involvement and creative thinking. You will be encouraged to think outside the box, expand your comfort zone, challenge, and embrace new ideas and concepts. You will also be taught the crucial methodology of identifying possible pitfalls, traditions, and conflicts that could prevent you from transferring your newly acquired skills to the workplace.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Create your own personal leadership brand
Select appropriate techniques for your personal self-discovery
Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
Communicate your vision through multiple sensory, refreshing, and engaging ways
Explore the outer limits of group creativity
Team Leaders
Directors
HR Professionals
Senior Management Professionals
Heads of Department
Finance Directors
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
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
Six Thinking Hats
Using Differing Thinking Styles
Johari's Window
The Business Plan Process & Creating a Vision
Harnessing the Power of the Team
Organisational Culture and its Influence on Innovation
Letting Go of the Ego
Working with Different Creative Preferences
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
Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs
Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Creativity and Change
Sustained public relations campaigns can help drive strategic organizational change, build public perceptions and drive reputation with key stakeholders. Well planned and executed campaigns are a cost-effective means of changing perceptions and increasing stakeholder value for an organization.
This powerful program takes a problem-solving approach to the design of PR campaigns. By closely fitting the campaign to core business priorities as well as project objectives campaign design reinforces key messages and organizational strategy. Participants will develop the skills to design, plan, cost, deliver, and evaluate campaigns using the full range of PR media and channels. Case study examples in print and video will be used throughout. Action planning for the workplace to put ideas into action is a strong feature of the program.
The program has been designed to be interactive with several case studies and group exercises. A modular approach will take the delegates through the four stages of Crisis Management - Preparation, Planning, Response, and Recovery. Participative lectures will involve the use of PowerPoint, handout material, work manual with all instructor notes and slides, examples of best practice, and appropriate video/DVD material. The use of flip-charts, syndicate workshops, and reporting back sessions will encourage a fully participative and enjoyable event.
This is a comprehensive career development program intended for those seeking job-related skills in Inspection of Process Industry units for Maintenance, Operational Condition, Corrosion, Safety, Quality Assurance, and Quality Control.
In our modern world, products are developed, launched, upgraded, and re-launched in record times. Agile Product Management is crucial in gaining a competitive advantage and prospering in the fast-moving and ever-changing times. Product managers need to develop interdisciplinary skills that allow them to work effectively and agilely with diverse groups of colleagues, from innovation to product and sales and marketing.