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Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership and Innovation

Introduction

Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership and Innovation

Course Objectives

By the end of this Get Smarter Leadership course, participants will:

• Frame creativity and innovation within a strategic context
• Recognize the primary drivers that necessitate a focus on creativity and innovation in contemporary business
• Identify the essential processes, activities, and organizational culture that support creativity and innovation
• Gain proficiency in tools and techniques to enhance creativity and innovation
• Develop a deep understanding of how resistance to change can either hinder or facilitate creativity and innovation
• Understand the role and skills of strategic leadership in nurturing an innovation-friendly environment
• Equip themselves with strategies for fostering a culture of innovation
• Increase readiness to manage strategic improvements effectively
• Build innovative capabilities at organizational, team, and individual levels
• Elevate performance through innovative processes and strategies
• Boost motivation and workforce participation

Targeted Competencies

• Innovative Leadership
• Process Improvement
• Human Interaction Skills
• Fostering Creativity
• Team Building
• Change Management

Course Content

Unit 1: Encouraging a Creative Environment at Work

• The essence of innovative leadership for superior performance
• The critical mass required for change and innovation
• Differentiating between innovation and constant improvement
• How strategic leadership fosters a climate of innovation
• Latest breakthroughs in business through innovation

Unit 2: Gaining the Participation of the Workforce

• Implementing the G.E. Workout Strategy
• Creative problem-solving for strategic planning
• Securing workforce Buy-In
• Overcoming existing paradigms
• Addressing organizational Drift

Unit 3: Leading on The Creative Edge

• Fostering creative potential in teams and individuals
• Understanding the psychology of creative people
• Skills in convergent and divergent thinking
• Strategies for motivating creative individuals
• Idea incubation and creative interaction
• Transforming expenses into assets through creativity

Unit 4: Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity

• The Ten Key Elements for Mission Formulation
• Setting creative goals and targets
• Establishing a Sense of Significance
• Reward systems that foster performance
• Application of the Four-Step Pygmalion Theory
• Generational factors in motivation

Unit 5: Driving Strategic Change

• Managing the complex process of change
• Utilizing Kotter change management techniques
• Effective communication strategies for urgency
• Risks and downsides of change management
• Establishing a culture that embraces constant change