Introduction
This seminar is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
The focus of the seminar will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.
The highlights of this seminar are:
- 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
Course Objectives of Leading Creatively
By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:
- Set out their personal leadership brand
- Select appropriate techniques for self-discovery
- Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
- Articulate a vision using multiple sensory representations
- Communicate their vision in refreshing and engaging ways
- Explore the outer limits of group creativity
Training Methodology
This seminar will not rely on a series of lectures to tell you what you should be doing. Instead, it uses a range of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises, and syndicate discussions, to allow you to see and feel for yourself the power of the creative mind. Formal inputs are used to introduce a limited amount of underpinning theory. A key part of the learning process is sharing the differing experiences participants bring, as well as experimenting with the novel – and sometimes challenging – techniques.
Organizational Impact of Leading Creatively
- Linking creativity and innovation to organizational performance
- Leaders at all levels who can develop and communicate a shared vision
- Leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
- Focus on long-term organizational and customer needs
- Increased effectiveness against personal KPI’s through more effective use of team
- Leaders with a focus on actions and outcomes, not theory
Personal Impact of Leading Creatively
- A clear sense of personal and professional vision of the future
- Aligned and coherent personal values
- Stronger personal self-confidence levels
- Stronger in dealing with challenging team in work
- The program will present opportunities for networking
- Sharing ideas which will provide a further catalyst to personal growth
Course Outlines of Leading Creatively
DAY 1
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
DAY 2
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
DAY 3
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
DAY 4
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
DAY 5
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
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.