Creative Strategic Planning & Leadership
Course Code: MN12
Course Objective
- Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential
- Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways
- Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’
- Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues
- Place your own part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy
- Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation
Target Audience
This course will mainly benefit to purchasing managers, senior buyers, project managers, civil engineers, construction managers, contractors, sub-contractors, site engineers, senior management, and government agencies, architects, construction professionals, and anyone responsible for purchasing at a senior level who seeks to enhance their skills further.
Course Outline
DAY 1
Creative Problem-Solving
- Leadership Reality Assessment
- Leadership Vs Management
- Understanding Our Brain Function
- Myths of Creativity
- The limitations of the rational
- Divergent approaches to problem-solving
- Letting go of logic
- Analogous thinking modes
- Convergent and divergent modes
DAY 2
Overcoming Personal Blockers to Creativity
- Sigmoid Curve – Lifecycle Model
- Continuous Improvement
- Breakthrough step change
- Self-awareness and the nature of the ego
- Personal goal alignment
- Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning
- Exploring attitudes to risk
- Left- and right-brain thinking
DAY 3
Developing the Vision Creatively
- Six thinking hats
- Using differing thinking styles
- JoHari’s window
- The business plan process & creating a vision
- Harnessing the power of the team
- Organisational culture and its influence on innovation
- Letting go of the ego
- Working with different creative preferences
DAY 4
Communicating the Vision Creatively
- The 7 Step Creative Process
- Models of communication
- Viral visioning
- Authenticity and trust
- Creativity tools, techniques & strategy
- Letting go of the vision
- Leading without directing
- Possible leadership beliefs
DAY 5
From Ideas to Action: Creativity and Change
- Motivation – Hierarchy of Needs
- Overcoming organisational barriers to creativity and change
- Nurturing a learning environment
- Is Money a motivator?
- Personality Profiling
- Building a creative consensus
- Engaging stakeholders creatively
- Influencing and motivating through change
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