Module 1: Managing and Leading Innovation
Day 1: The Leaders Profile
- Essential people skills for effective leadership
- Intrapersonal and interpersonal skills for the innovative leader
- Personality profiling
- Your preferred behavioural style
- Explore your behavioural tendencies
- Understanding the model for innovative leadership
- Removing emotional blindspots
- Appropriate self-disclosure
Day 2: Managing and Leading Others Effectively
- Understanding the personality profiles
- The introverted neutral and analytical perfectionist
- The extraverted relational & decisive exhorter
- People-oriented helper
- Task-oriented implementer
- Optimizing the leader’s natural strengths
- Individual transformation for self-development
- Corporate transformation through innovative leadership
Day 3: Essential Innovative Leadership
- Effective skills for understanding others
- Developing competencies for effective leadership
- Resilience for sacrificial leadership
- Intentionality for self-motivation
- Creativity for innovative leadership
- Interpersonal connections for persuasive leadership
- Constructive discontent
- Integrity and compassion for accountable leadership
Day 4: Enhancing Creative Thinking Skills for the Innovative Leader
- Developing illumination and verification
- Divergent thinking skills openness to innovative ideas
- Creativity and perception
- Removing blocks to creativity
- Understanding the creative process
- Preparation, incubation, for innovative leadership
- Metaphors and analogies for innovative thinking
Day 5: Implementing Innovative Leadership for Managing Performance
- Applying teamwork for innovation in the workplace
- Creative problem-solving techniques
- Cultivating a creative workplace
- Harnessing creativity in subordinates through aligned leadership
- Establishing criteria for implementing innovative ideas
- Advocacy skills to implement innovative ideas in the workplace
- Leadership for performance management
Module 2: Leadership Vision and Organisational Reality
Day 1: Strategic Thinking and The Power of Visionary Leadership
- Management vs Leadership
- Critical leadership competencies
- Strategic, Tactical and Operational thinking
- The power of strategic vision
- Painting a picture of the future
- Communicating vision to the community
Day 2: Developing Leadership Power
- Keys to personal leadership enthusiasm
- Balance as a key to resilient leadership
- Power of personal goals and vision
- Leadership zone of empowerment
- Clarifying personal values
- Optimal time management
Day 3: Combining Management Skills and Leadership Competencies
- The history of management and leadership
- Leadership and management in the industrial age
- The paradox of leadership and management in the information age
- Delivering customer value
- Employee Engagement
- Ensuring staff capability
Day 4: Motivating, Rewarding and Leading Teams
- Why do people behave the way they do?
- Powerful keys to motivation
- Understanding passion in leadership
- Building team rapport
- Inspiring enthusiasm in your team
- Managing and leading your team
- Habits of Effective Leaders
Day 5: Maximising Interpersonal Communications
- The power of communication
- Keys to effective leadership communication
- Effective meetings and presentations
- Resolving workplace conflicts
- Removing blocks to communicating with your team
- Taking command as a leader