Course Overview

Creative leadership is the ability to perpetually adapt. It’s the ability to turn uncertainty into opportunity and to provide purpose through the chaos. Those who have this capacity can find solutions when there are no clear outcomes or even a direction for the organization. They learn from their mistakes and keep moving forward, ultimately leading to high performance — and maybe even a few celebration shots in the mirror as well. Creative Leaders embrace possibility, test, and experiment with new ideas. They build on their strengths while actively seeking out new ones, whether in themselves or others.

How do creative leaders differ from traditional leaders? Creating a vibrant and forward-thinking future is an art, not a science. Creative leadership blends the human spirit, intuition, and creativity with established theory to create new solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges.  Creative leaders seek ways of generating value beyond traditional leadership approaches. They invent new methods and innovations, redesign current products and processes, and uncover new customer needs that are often not addressed in conventional ways. Creative leaders may be less conventional and more imaginative than other working approaches.

Ready to lead with creativity? Get trained with Zoe’s Creative Leadership Training Course, designed for incumbents, aspiring leaders, and advocates, who want to create sustainable change and positively impact the world. Creative leadership is essential for an organization’s success and one of the most important qualities of a modern business leader. Both seasoned and young creative leaders need a well-stocked toolbox of leadership talents. The training course will help you strengthen your leadership and management abilities. In this training session, you will learn how to creatively modify your current structures so that they may better accommodate the requirements of today’s contemporary workforce.

Course Objectives

The Creative Leadership Course has been built with the following objectives:

• To highlight the importance of creative leadership in the current era of dynamic organizations
• To build and expand leadership capability in a compelling way
• To discuss points of improvement in modern-day business leaders by ditching rigid ways of operating
• To develop a perspective for looking at things in innovative ways to stimulate creative problem solving
• To discuss techniques for facilitating creativity in decision making
• To learn methods of building a culture that encourages creativity among employees and members
• To instill progressive, originality, and innovation among participants
• To set the stage for a collaborative and creative work environment

Training Methodology

This training course will comprise the following training methods:

• Interactive sessions and lectures
• Presentations
• Management games
• Roleplaying/modeling
• Case studies
• Group discussions
• Problem-solving sessions

Like all our acclaimed courses, this Zoe program also follows the ‘Do-Review-Learn-Apply’ model.

Organisational Benefits

Successful completion of the training course will benefit an organization in the following ways:

• Leaders with a creative and agile mindset tend to find new opportunities in the market that normally conventional methods fail to discover
• Organizations cater to a diverse workforce which can only be efficiently led by creative leaders capable of handling cultural differences
• Organizations will be able to recognize the mechanisms for leveraging creativity and innovation to tackle team and organizational issues
• Without creative geniuses, organizations will not be motivated to produce innovative ideas which is a prerequisite to survive in this fierce competition
• Creative Leaders can devise and implement strategies that help their organization gain and maintain a competitive edge

Personal Benefits

Successful completion of the training course will benefit an individual in the following ways:

• Participants will be able to take on new challenges with greater self-assurance and confidence
• Gain a better understanding of the pressing demand of time to be creative and develop out-of-the-box visionary solutions
• Develop a vision to gather insights and ideas from unrelated and unexpected fields to implement in daily business solutions
• Learning effective ways of facilitating creativity in workplace will give a jump start to the participants’ careers and help them stand out from their peers

Who Should Attend?

• General managers
• Departmental heads, project heads
• Team leaders, global managers
• Strategic managers
• Senior officers, Executives
• Professional mentors and coaches
• Policymakers
• Start-up founders, entrepreneurs

Course Outline

Module 1: Traditional vs. Creative Leadership

• Closed vs. Open system
• One-way leadership vs. interactive leadership
• Source of power
• Orchestra model
• Improvising instead of following the manual
• View of Feedback

Module 2: Laying Foundation for Leaders

• Evolution of leadership
• What do leaders do?
• Thinking sustainably
• Overcoming imposter syndrome
• Developing curiosity
• Curating a Culture of innovation

Module 3: Creative Leadership Competencies

• Leading with passion
• Explorative mindset
• Envisioning
• Strategic perspective
• Building collaborative relationships
• Self-awareness

Module 4: Facilitating Creativity

• Providing support to employees
• Deliberate creativity
• Brainstorming
• Autonomous team
• Promoting experimentation
• Supporting failure

Module 5: Directing Creative Vision

• Setting a clear vision
• Establishing a creative culture
• Intuition exercises
• Visualization and storytelling
• Creative vision alongside operational leadership

Module 6: Instilling Creative Leadership Skills in the Workplace

• Synthesis of ideas
• Developing self-awareness
• Embracing new talents in the team
• Continuous learning
• Build a diverse team
• Side effects of micromanaging
• 360-degree feedback

Module 7: Creative Problem Solving

• When to apply creative thinking?
• Cognitive and affective thinking skills
• Identifying potential solutions
• Evaluating the impact of solutions
• Creating problem-solving stages

Module 8: Thinking for Creative Leaders

• Divergent and convergent thinking skills
• Diagnostic thinking in leadership
• Visionary thinking for leaders
• Ideation thinking
• Exploring ideas
• Evaluating thinking
• Contextual and tactical thinking

Module 9: Fostering Creative Climate in Organization

• Recognizing Psychological diversity
• Adaptor-innovator theory
• Establishing creativity as key organizational value
• Open to creative failures and mistakes
• Engaging creativity through training
• Encouraging individuality
• Creating stimulating office space