Leading Innovation
Creating an Innovative Culture
Overview
As a leader, you want and need more innovation at all levels of your organization. You also know that in order for many of your people to perform at their best, they need to feel creative in their jobs.
Yet many of the hats you wear as leader seem to work against this need. As decision-maker, you often need to say "No". With your financial hat on, you may need to say "We can't afford that now". As coordinator, you may have little opportunity to role-model "taking the time to really sit with a problem".
If that isn't enough, the people who report to you are less likely to be forthcoming with wild, out-of-box ideas. Instead, they may tell you what you want to hear. And in meetings, you may notice that the "lower-status" people seem less comfortable contributing their ideas. Yet you know that many of them have great ideas to share.
Our Innovation Leadership Training provides insights, knowledge, skills and practice in overcoming these challenges, enabling your organization to perform at its highest level of innovative potential.
Program Objectives
In Leading Innovation you will learn how to:
- Create a team culture that inspires innovation;
- Lead and facilitate creative meetings that result in breakthrough ideas and high levels of commitment;
- Make decisions while encouraging others' creative juices;
- Maximize the creative and collaborative performance of your people;
- Model and coach a style of communication that encourages creative contributions and reinforces risk-taking;
- Support your people in championing and selling their ideas throughout the organization;
- Understand the creative needs of others;
- Raise the status of those around you to increase their comfort level and the probability that they will come up with breakthrough ideas;
- Transform negative conflict into positive creative abrasion.
Audience
Leading Innovation is designed for leaders and managers who believe that innovation is key to their organization's success, and want to learn practical skills to foster a more innovative culture.
Duration
One to two days;
Program Materials;
Customized program materials include:
- Easy-to-use Flip-Cards;
- PowerPoint Deck.
Want More Information?
Contact Alain Rostain for more about theoretical and practical training that can be used to enhance innovation leadership.
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