13 - 17 Jan 2025
London (UK)
Hotel : Landmark Office Space - Oxford Street
Cost : 5775 € Euro
Innovation is essential for organizations to thrive in today’s competitive global industries. Creativity generates new ideas, while innovation turns them into practical solutions, giving businesses a distinct advantage. Leaders play a critical role in fostering environments where creativity and innovation flourish, overcoming resistance to change. This program focuses on nurturing people, processes, and practices that drive innovation, enabling businesses to outperform competitors. Learn proven strategies to align employee energy, ideas, and actions with organizational success.
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
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 the participation of the full workforce
Allow leaders to better meet challenges of dynamic, strategic change
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.
Innovative Leadership
Process Improvement
Human Interaction Skill
Fostering Creativity
Team Building
Change Management
Day 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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
Successful techniques for Changing People