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
Conference 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
Conference Methodology of Leadership, Critical Thinking, and Innovation
This conference uses self-assessment questionnaires, models, practical exercises, case studies, presentations, and group discussions 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 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.
Conference 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 Istanbul
Few places compare to the vibrant, cosmopolitan city of Istanbul, whose enormous size straddles both Europe and Asia, forming a bridge between western and eastern cultures. Resting upon the natural harbor of the Golden Horn, the skyline of the once-Constantinople is pierced with minarets and ancient monuments that embody centuries of history. While it is brimming with historical landmarks and colorful markets, modern Istanbul is also well represented through its contemporary art scene, European-style café culture, world-class dining venues.
Things to do and places to visit in Istanbul
Istanbul is teeming with attractions and landmarks from historic sights and unique cuisine to lively markets and unmistakable culture. It is a thriving city, with a myriad of things to do that skillfully manage to blend every aspect of both the contemporary and the historical world.
On a city break in Istanbul be sure to:
- Visit a hammam, a traditional Turkish bath, whose origins date back to Roman times.
- Marvel at the Hagia Sophia, Süleymaniye Mosque and Blue Mosque, Istanbul's most spectacular monuments that dominate the skyline.
- Explore the Topkapi Palace Museum, one of Istanbul's most visited museums, home to over 80,000 artifacts.
- Walk through the Basilica Cistern, an underground marvel built in the 4th century.
- Be dazzled by the Grand Bazaar, one of the world's oldest and largest covered markets.
- Go shopping for exotic products and Turkish delights in the Spice Bazaar.
- Cross the bridge connecting Europe and Asia against the backdrop of the Bosphorus, or take a Bosphorus cruise.
- Taste the diversity and flavor of Turkish cuisine.
- Admire panoramas of the city from the Galata Tower.
- Walk through Taksim Square, the city's dynamic square that never sleeps.