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