Leadership and Creative Thinking

Goals of the course

Leadership and Creativity are a powerful skill that you can learn and develop. In this course, we will discuss and share strategies for creative thinking that you can use as a leader.

The course debunks the myths about creativity and shows you how you can use creative thinking strategies to build your self-awareness.
how to open your creative senses, exploit your curiosity and unleash your imagination.
guides you through a series of powerful creative thinking exercises.

Finally, how to apply creativity to business and create a more creative culture in your organization and for the future of your professional career.

Success of an organization and its leaders typically rest upon how managers and staff understand the psychological influences and process of thinking, an “out of the box” kind of thinking that they make. Since it is crucially evident that the employees are a very important dimension in the success of an organization, the challenge is to turn them from “clock watchers” to a critical and creative workforce that can give the organization a competitive edge.

This course helps delegates to see, think, and act differently to get better results. Participants will develop a deeper appreciation of their creative and innovative thinking skills and will be able to apply these to the work environment by understanding how to use creative ‘critical’ thinking and then apply these for decision-making and communication that delivers concrete results.

Course Objectives

• Identify what really matters to your end users.
• Identify your target audience, their needs, and your big idea.
• Share your stories with others to invite feedback.
• Explore techniques to motivate your audience towards action.
• Unlock the power of questions to inspire others to navigate their work with confidence.
• Set a new course for your team or organization by crafting a well-framed challenge.
• Design rituals that reinforce the beliefs and behaviors of creative teams and organizations.
• Stay present and engaged with the work of your team as they experiment with innovative ideas.

IMPORTANT FEATURES
The important features of the Leadership, Critical and Creative Thinking training course are:

• Everyone can be creative by applying the techniques
• Different creative techniques, along with cases and examples
• Real cases of how other organizations applied them successfully
• Relationship between creativity and work culture
  • understand the critical, analytical and creative thinking
  • learn techniques for becoming more critical, analytical & creative & apply these to help self and organization improve
  • understand how we think
  • examine the obstacles towards organization greatness
  • pick up hints on the psychology behind people’s hesitation
  • learn to empower

Teaching Methods

• Lectures
• Meetings with experts from the world of business and research
• Critical discussion of emblematic cases
• Group projects to apply operationally the topics discussed in the lectures
• Movie Chapter presentations
• Conversation in Action Theory

The alternation of theoretical lectures and laboratory exercises will have the aim of experimenting at first hand the acquired concepts and methodologies and verifying the results.

Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to meet professionals and representatives of the business and creative worlds who, through their evidence, will demonstrate how these methodologies are applied in the reality of product and service companies.

The course will use an online community to share information and materials.

Assessment

Oral examination on the content of the lectures (100%)