In Creative Leadership: Leading … Motivating … Inspiring Your Team to New Heights, you'll learn...
- Proven ways to acquire and keep the credibility all creative leaders possess
- How to implement a reward plan that keeps employees motivated and reaching their goals
- How to coach employees regularly and one on one to become as successful as they can be
- The secrets to tackling burnout, apathy and negativity so your team can solve problems with a new attitude and new success
- And much more!
To be a successful leader in today’s organizations, you have to do more than just “lead.” You have to be a creative, innovative and passionate leader who can inspire teams to pull together, solve problems creatively and achieve amazing increases in productivity. We’ve assembled the best tips and techniques in use today to inspire, challenge, reward, coach and ignite your employees to consistently outperform themselves, contribute in new and profitable ways and improve your company’s bottom line. This one-day leadership training experience will give you the skills necessary to establish work environments where inspiration, creativity and people flourish—and make you a highly sought-after and extremely valued manager. Enroll in this incredibly effective workshop today—it’s your first step toward becoming a more influential, credible and respected leader who makes a difference.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
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Learn more about yourself so you can better lead others+
- What employees want and need from you to be their creative best
- Why you can be sure—if you master these 3 qualities—you’ll be a truly creative leader
- Accountability—why team members have to feel it and how you can instill it
- The “innovation imperative” and what it means to your future success as a leader
- Are you prepared to raise expectations—and get people to meet them because they want to?
- Recognizing negative patterns of behavior that could be holding you back
- Self-assessment: Identify the strengths you bring to your role and learn how to multiply their impact
- How to recognize when “traditional” approaches to driving productivity are a waste of time
- New research into the “leadership personality”: What’s hard-wired? What can you learn?
- How to develop a more powerful leadership style—regardless of your current job or title
- How to exemplify integrity by doing what you say you’ll do—and requiring nothing less of others
- Tips on how to help others develop a positive attitude
- Why leaders who rule by fear never earn the respect, trust or loyalty of employees
- A new definition of what it means to be an “ethical” leader
Build strong, cohesive teams and empower them to innovate+
- How to delegate work and responsibility to create opportunities for employees to grow
- New options for getting the teams you put together to pull together
- So you want different viewpoints? Then you must expect conflict—here’s how to guide your team through it
- How to build a team of individuals—not clones—who bring their unique talents to the table
- The pivotal role team leaders play in shaping new ideas
- 4 fun, shared activities that will positively impact collaboration and creativity
Use the fundamentals of leadership communication to achieve your purpose+
- How to facilitate the flow of communication—upward and downward—so employees feel like they’re being heard
- The powerful role language plays in helping leaders gain trust and support
- How to stay in control of challenging communication situations without coming on too strong
- Evaluate how effectively you’re delivering messages—with your words, your actions and even your silence
- Why encouraging employees is good, but giving positive reinforcement is even better
- 4 types of leadership communication styles
- How to appear confident, comfortable and professional each time you speak
- 3 vital communication skills for making every employee feel valued—how do you measure up?
- How to give criticism that builds people up— the cornerstone of effective leadership
- Praise—your most important ally in the continual battle to improve performance
Employ the tools of coaching to accelerate individual performance+
- 5 things the best coaches are now doing to get the most from their people
- When allowing employees to take responsibility for their decisions and actions is your best leadership tool
- Liberating employees from the boundaries of their job descriptions to think, experiment and take risks
- How to recognize and remove workplace barriers that get in the way of innovation
- Motivation: A fresh, new look at an old—but still very important—performance tool
- How to eliminate the BIG TWO idea killers: Bad attitudes and can’t-do thinking
- What character has to do with your leadership—and their performance
- How to turn “your” into “our” to drive home a collective sense of responsibility
- A new way to set goals—and set yourself and your employees up for awesome success
- The stage at which many teams stop working together and start unraveling—how to intervene in time
- What many leaders are shocked to learn about poor morale—and its surprising causes
Solve problems outside the lines and keep employees performing at their creative best+
- “There’s gotta be a better way!”—why and how to make this your new mantra
- Keep change from hampering creativity—4 issues to deal with upfront
- How to unleash the “Einstein Factor” within yourself and start assessing problems in new and deeper ways
- How to use the tools of “creative flexibility” to quickly adapt to any change
- How to help employees learn from their mistakes and move on
- How to reduce workplace stress—one of the great inhibitors of creativity
- Employees need recognition—understand how showing a little goes a long way
- How to coax employees clinging to old ways to open up to new trains of thought
- The “Seinfeld Effect”: How to use humor to broaden horizons and grow ideas
- How creative leaders recognize each employee’s talents and shape jobs accordingly
- Turning stress into creative tension
- How to organize the latest and best thinking about stress management into a personal action plan
Create and champion a work environment of risk taking and exploration+
- What you must do as a leader to protect employees from bureaucracy and other barriers to creativity
- How to instill the idea that any employee can have a breakthrough idea
- The best environments for sparking new ideas—striking conclusions of recent research
- Advice for tackling the seemingly impossible task of changing a stifling workplace culture
- What’s in it for me? How rewarding employees for their entrepreneurial spirit pays off
- You’re the leader, but are you guilty of outmoded patterns of thinking that stifle new ideas? Get over it!
- Individuals with the biggest doubts are often the ones with the biggest ideas—how to build confidence in your employees
- The importance of recognizing creative efforts—individually and publicly
- How to eliminate the negative consequences of taking risks—especially blame
