CREATIVE STRATEGIC PLANNING & LEADERSHIP

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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