Leadership for creativity and innovation

Course details

Section 1:

Leading with Questions: motivate, persuade and guide the discussions

Leadership means to master a complex set of knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Persuading others, could be one of the most important skill.

In this course we present questioning techniques and demonstrate how asking others about there opinions and needs (before we begin to speak) can be useful in making them  decrease there resistence to change, increase there compliance and making them to acceptance easier new ideas.

The course contains the following topics:

1 Introduction

2 Non-judgemental Questioning

3 Leading discussions

4 Planning your questions

5 Overcoming obstacles

6 Influencing and persuading

7 Putting all together

Section 2:

6 Creative Thinking Strategies

Which is the motivation behind this topic? What situation does this course try to help you solve?

Rapidly changing environments with complex and diverse elements require flexible and innovative responses. Rigid operating systems are ineffective in such environments and lead often to stress.

Flexible systems, in contrast, are characterised by multiple solution possibilities.

Creative solutions can provide flexibility by increasing our options and helping us cope and adapt.

The more ideas we have, the more solution avenues will be at our disposal.

New ideas can open up new worlds, new insights, and new ways of doing old things. Creativity, in short, can help us reinvent ourselves and our organisations.

If you are searching for ways to improve your problem solving kit, in this course we present and offer, six different thinking strategies in order to increase your creativity and innovation levels.

1. collecting ideas 

2. free associations 

3. combinations 

4. use of stimuli 

5. paradoxical thinking 

6. lateral thinking