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 organisation within the overall context of corporate strategy
Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation
Target Audience
Senior Management Professionals,
Team Leaders, Supervisors
and All Professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively,
Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications,
human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organisation.
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: 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 3: 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
Day 4: Strategic Thinking and External Analysis
Definitions of strategy and strategic planning?
Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
Understanding the main frameworks for strategic analysis
Private and public sector strategies – similarities and differences
External analysis - understanding and analysing business attractiveness
Analysing customers and benchmarking your own strategic position
How attractive is the game that we have chosen to play?
Day 5: Strategic Implementation and Getting the Value out of Strategy
Alignment of strategy, culture, structure and people
Effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action
Aligning and linking strategy with operational objectives
Implementation – getting practical things done
Creating tomorrow’s organisation out of today’s organisation
Strategic planning at a personal level
Overview - the complete strategy process
Summary and conclusions - the corporate and individual value of strategic planning