Certificate In Leading Innovation and Organizational Transformation

Introduction

This program provides you with the latest competencies so that you can significantly manage and lead innovation within your organization. The program will focus on inspiring and empowering the individual to handle a wide range of innovation and change situations. The world of business is changing rapidly and personal and organizational success depends upon the successful management of creativity and innovative principles of dynamic leadership.

• Gain a comprehensive range of very practical and highly effective leadership tools and approaches that can be immediately implemented
• Return to work confidently in your abilities to handle leadership challenges
• Enhance your abilities to drive and manage the innovative performance of your people
• Learn to apply innovative leadership to release creativity in the workplace

Objectives

• Develop leadership competencies
• Harness their emotional intelligence to release creativity in the workplace
• Understand and practice innovation through their leadership
• Gain insights of their own strengths and weaknesses and leadership stylesDevelop emotional competencies such as resilience, creativity, intentionality and interpersonal connections
• Understand and practice key people skills
• Develop enhanced interpersonal relationships
• Learn to apply people skills for success in the workplace
• Empower their teams to innovate and change to the demands of the future.

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

• Any individual in business, government, education, social aid, and the military
• Anyone who is asked to lead and manage an organization, division, department, or team will return to work prepared and skilled to tackle the toughest leadership assignments
• Those responsible for developing and implementing innovative strategies, initiating and managing change, improving operational performance, creating and leading high-performance teams, and demonstrating empowering leadership

Course Outline

The programme opens by exploring the importance of intrapersonal and interpersonal skills for enhancing innovative leadership. Using this initial analysis, the programme explores the power of individual transformation for self-development and corporate transformation through innovative leadership. Participants also learn the essential competencies for the innovative leader as well as enhancing creative thinking skills for better workplace performance. All attendees will return to their organizations immeasurably strengthened in their innovative leadership capabilities.

Day 1: The Leader's 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