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The Course

Innovation is the key strategy of many organizations in the global competitive industries of the new century. New ideas can lead to programs, products and services which can provide a distinct competitive advantage over competitors. With routine tasks becoming more automated and the competitive environment becoming more dynamic, creative problem solving and innovation will play an increasingly important role in determining the success of business leaders. Creativity is the process of generating new and useful ideas. Innovation is taking a new idea and putting to use. The critical role of the leader is to create the environment where creativity and innovation flourish, and where people’s innate resistance to the changes that requires is successfully overcome.

This program offers an opportunity to focus on the development and nurturing of people, processes and practices that foster innovation to come up with better methods and services to outperform competition. The program will demonstrate how to take the strategic plan and process to the next level and gaining the essential “buy-in” from all employees by a methodology proven by some of the world’s largest corporations. Getting their energy, ideas and changes to make the strategic process a success is vital and is the core of this program.

The Goals

This seminar aims to enable participants to:

Set creativity and innovation in a strategic context
Understand the drivers for a greater emphasis in business on creativity and innovation
Identify the processes and activities which support creativity and innovation in organizations
Identify the strategies, tools and techniques to improve levels of creativity and innovation
Understand how the process of change can block or enable employees at all levels to resist or embrace a greater emphasis on creativity and innovation
Understand the crucial role and skills of the leader in creating an environment where creativity and innovation thrive

The Process

The training will incorporate the latest thinking in adult learning principles including experiential exercises, self-assessments, video dramatizations, skill practices, case studies, behavior modeling, and group discussion. The emphasis is on application rather than theory. It enables participants to learn new competencies and gives them the tools to apply them back home.

The Benefits

Develop skills for strategic leaders to lead the process of building the right culture for fostering innovation
Improve preparedness to deal with strategic improvements
Establish organizational, team and personal innovative capabilities
Improve performance by executive innovative processes and functions
Improve motivation and gain participation of the full workforce
Allow leaders to better meet challenges of dynamic, strategic change

The Results

The skills learned in this program will enable any manager to drive forward new ideas that can contribute to making any new strategy a success. Advancements in an enterprise come about because innovation or constant improvement techniques are encouraged by management to get all employees performing with new levels of thinking. Gaining the buy-in from all participants who can make the new strategy or change work is a key result of this program.

The Programme Content

Day One : Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

Innovative leadership for excellent performance
The Critical mass for change and innovation
Innovation VS Constant Improvement
How a Leader Creates a Climate of Innovation
Case Study on Most Innovative Companies
Innovation and current business breakthroughs

Day Two : Gaining the Participation of the Workforce

The G.E. “Workout” Strategy
Developing Creative Solutions for Strategies
Gaining the “Buy-In” from the workforce
Overcoming Paradigms
Dealing with Organizational “Drift”
Case Study on Gaining Empowerment

Day Three : Leading on the creative edge

Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
Understanding Creative People
Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
Motivating Creative Individuals at work
Incubating ideas
Interacting creatively
Converting expenses to assets using creativity

Day Four : Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity

The Ten Key Elements to Setting up new Missions
Setting Goals and Targets Creatively
Creating a “Sense of Significance”
Rewarding Performance
The Four Step “Pygmalion” theory
Generational Motivators

Day Five : Driving Strategic Change

Managing the Change Process
Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
Communicating with a Sense of Urgency
The Downside of Change
Creating a climate of Constant Change

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