Introduction
By applying creativity to the tasks and challenges you face in your work, you will begin to experience breakthroughs you never thought possible. You will feel sure you really are on the creative edge and be able to consider different sides of an issue while anticipating a broader range of possibilities. In this seminar you will discover how to build and expand your creative abilities.
Participants will develop the following competencies:
- Use effective communication to motivate creativity in your team
- Help your team find creative solutions to workplace challenges
- Come to better conclusions and decisions more often
- Recognize and encourage creative people
- Learn how to challenge assumptions and expand perceptions about situations
Course Objectives of Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation
This seminar aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:
- Build a culture that promotes innovation & creativity
- Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal preferences
- Develop creativity for transformational leadership
- Learn how to find out what you don’t know—and solve the real problem
- Challenge existing approaches to workplace issues
- Develop flexible creative and well-motivated teams
Training Methodology
This program uses self-assessment questionnaires, models, practical exercises, case studies, presentations and group discussion to develop creative thinking and innovative decision-making skills. The use of participants’ own real work situations adds reality and enhances the transference of learning. This is a non-threatening environment that will allow participants to practice safe techniques they will then transfer to the workplace.
Organizational Impact of Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation
What does the organization gain by sending their employees on this course?
Attending this seminar will enable participants to use simple but highly effective creative problem solving and decision-making tools to better:
- Align their efforts to achieve organizational goals and objectives.
- build and develop their team’s working style and processes,
- Enhance their team’s commitment and achievement.
- Transfer the classroom learning directly to the workplace with immediate impact
- Create a climate of innovation amongst their teams
- Create ownership of complex problems and empower solutions
Personal Impact of Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation
As a participant, you will learn to:
- Consolidate the tools and techniques for thinking creatively,
- Make better decisions and for solving problems innovatively and successfully.
- Learn a process for ensuring that your team contribute effectively
- Enhance creative thinking in the workplace.
- Display the confidence to tackle complex issues courageously
- Employ a comprehensive toolkit of processes and techniques to ensure success in any situation.
Course Outlines of Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation
DAY 1
Understanding your Creativity
- Creativity & your personality
- Understand and use personality styles as a management tool
- Creative flexibility to manage effectively
- Importance of perception
- Maximizing our perceptual ability
- Creativity and the Holistic Model
- Creative people from the past
- Building a Creative Model
DAY 2
Generating Creativity
- Understand how creative thinking works
- Developing Openness to new ideas
- The Creative Mind: Whole Brain Thinking
- Distinguish stages of the creative process
- Recognize what makes excellent creative thinking
- Identify and understand the creativity in others
- Developing a Creative environment
- Consciousness and competence
DAY 3
Strategies for creative problem solving
- Problem-solving strategies
- Getting in the right mindset
- Taking risks & looking for paradigm shifts
- Defining the Real Problem
- Recognizing mental blocks to creativity
- Brainstorming for solutions
- Utilizing the SLIP technique
- Utilizing the drill down the funnel
DAY 4
Encouraging a creative climate at work
- Releasing creativity at work
- Fostering creativity
- Incubating ideas
- Challenging assumptions
- Creativity for business breakthroughs
- Sharpen your creative thinking: Metaphors & Analogies
- Releasing Creativity through Coaching
- Sharing information for creative solutions
DAY 5
Leading on the creative edge
- Innovative leadership for excellent performance
- Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
- Developing creative potential in teams
- Understanding creative people
- Motivating creative individuals at work
- Interacting creatively
- Planning your Creative future
About Barcelona
Barcelona, the main city of Catalonia on Spain's east coast, is known for its fantastic weather and proud local culture. It is also Spain's second largest city and has all the cosmopolitan trappings you would expect. Among Barcelona's many attractions are the delicious seafood, stunning architecture and vibrant atmosphere. It began life as a Roman city and has remained important ever since. Today, it is a buzzing city offering more than enough reasons to look for flights to Barcelona. Between UNESCO World Heritage Sites, famous sports teams plus great food, there's no shortage of ways to amuse oneself.
Things to do and places to visit in Barcelona
Barcelona really does have something for everyone. The attractions of Barcelona include beautiful beaches to relax on, almost endless historical locations to explore, all the shops you could ever wish for, one of the world's most admired football clubs and world-class eateries - you may never want to leave. Luckily, with so much to do the city's compactness makes it easy to explore. Simply wandering through the streets is a great way to soak up the atmosphere.
Just some of the great things to do in Barcelona include:
- Marvel at Gaudi's masterwork, the Sagrada Familia.
- Sample the wide range of tapas in Barcelona's bars.
- See the somewhat surreal architecture of Antoni Gaudi.
- Wander through Park Guell, which offers great views over the city and out to sea.
- See the Cubist master’s early work in the Picasso Museum.
- Get lost in the winding streets of the Gothic Quarter, known locally as the Barri Gotic.
- Browse the upmarket shops along the Passeig de Gracia.
- Soak up the tranquil atmosphere in the Cathedral of the Sea.
- Watch the silky skills of FC Barcelona in a game at the Camp Nou.
- Enjoy authentic paella with fresh seafood.
- Climb Montjuic for spectacular views.