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Duration:
5 Days
Introduction to the course
This KC Academy training course challenges dated ideas and preconceptions of traditional leadership. You will be guided and coached to maximise your own and your team’s creative potential through innovative and transformational models and techniques. The days of heroic management belong in the past; it is an era of development, involvement, and staff empowerment. The modern-day leader needs an entirely new tool kit to ensure their department flourishes in this highly competitive work environment.
The emphases of this exciting and thought-provoking training course are communication, flexibility, versatility, vision, involvement and creative thinking. You will be encouraged to think outside the box, expand your comfort zone, challenge, and embrace new ideas and concepts. You will also be taught the crucial methodology of identifying possible pitfalls, traditions and conflicts that could prevent you from transferring your newly acquired skills to the workplace.
This training course will highlight:
- Opportunities for innovative styles of thinking
- Profiling tools to identify people’s differing personality types
- How to create and communicate a compelling vision?
- Techniques to harness the creative power of the team
- Facilitation tools to develop others’ creativity in new and exciting ways
Course details
By the end of this training seminar, you will be able to:
- Create your personal leadership brand
- Select appropriate techniques for your self-discovery
- Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
- Communicate your vision through multiple sensory, refreshing and engaging ways
- Explore the outer limits of group creativity
This highly interactive training course uses a variety of approaches to learning, including experiential group activities, individual visioning exercises, and syndicate discussions.
This encourages you to hear, see and feel for yourself the power of the creative mind. Short informal inputs are used to introduce the underpinning theory of creativity, leadership and high-performance team working.
A crucial part of the learning process is sharing the differing work and life experiences participants bring to the table. It offers an opportunity to experiment with novel and sometimes challenging techniques within a safe and creative environment.
Successful 21st-century organisations are constantly investigating new ways of lifting their profile in the global marketplace through:
- Linking creativity and innovation to organisational performance
- Creating leaders at all levels can develop and communicate a shared vision
- Training leaders who can engage and motivate their teams
- Focusing on long-term corporate and customer needs
- Increasing effectiveness through more effective use of team working
- Leaders with a focus on actions and outcomes, not theory
You will benefit from this training course by:
- Creating a clear sense of personal and professional vision of the future
- Aligning and building coherent personal values
- Enhancing levels of personal self-confidence
- Become more decisive in dealing with challenging team in work
- Establishing opportunities for networking
- Sharing ideas that will provide a further catalyst to personal growth
This training course is designed for individuals responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries.
- Team Leaders
- Directors
- HR Professionals
- Senior Management Professionals
- Heads of Department
- Finance Directors
Daily Agenda
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
- Organisational 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 Organisational 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
Professional certificate & Accreditation
The modern-day leader needs an entirely new tool kit to ensure their organisation thrives in this highly competitive work environment, and this KC Academy training course will equip them with the skills to lead creatively and contribute to organisational success.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.
You should have an up-to-date web browser such as: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. For more detailed information, please see the guides for supported browsers and basic computer specifications. Our Online Courses can be accessed on a mobile or tablet device, although we strongly encourage you to have access to a desktop or laptop computer and reliable internet connection for certain course components. Former students have told us it is easiest to read discussion threads and complete written assignments on a laptop or desktop computer.
Registration is available on our website. Just follow these simple steps: Click the “Apply Now” button in the top right corner of your screen. Select “Online Courses.” Choose your course(s). You will be asked for basic contact information and your credit card payment. We require full payment at the time of registration and all tuition is billed in US dollars. Be sure to check with your bank or credit card company, as your financial institution may charge a foreign transaction fee.
Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.
It is recommended that you begin your course promptly. If you do need to start the course a few days late, contact your instructor as soon as possible after the course has opened to discuss your options. Registration closes on the Friday after the course begins.
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