Innovative Leadership for Creativity & OriginalityCOURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to the Innovative Leadership for Creativity & Originality course. This program will equip you with the leadership behaviours, strategic frameworks, and practical tools required to inspire creativity, drive innovation, and build an organisational culture where original thinking is encouraged and valued. You will explore how innovative leaders challenge assumptions, remove barriers, empower people, and create the conditions

COURSE OVERVIEW:

Welcome to the Innovative Leadership for Creativity & Originality course. This program will equip you with the leadership behaviours, strategic frameworks, and practical tools required to inspire creativity, drive innovation, and build an organisational culture where original thinking is encouraged and valued. You will explore how innovative leaders challenge assumptions, remove barriers, empower people, and create the conditions where new ideas can emerge, be tested, and succeed.

This course begins by examining the importance of being an innovative leader and how to lead innovation within your organisation through clear direction, inclusive engagement, and strategic experimentation. You will explore why having a vision for change is essential, what a declaration of innovation is, and why issuing one strengthens organisational commitment. This section also explains how to fight the fear of change, set goals for innovation, remove persistent cynics who block progress, and encourage respectful dissent to expose blind spots and spark new thinking. You will explore why thinking like a venture capitalist helps leaders assess risk and opportunity, how to break down internal barriers to communication, and why your best people should be placed on innovation initiatives where they can influence outcomes most strongly. This section concludes with how to diagnose your current situation, what an innovation audit achieves, how to analyse problems effectively, the benefits of problem-analysis tools, and how to use the “six serving men” tool to understand issues thoroughly.

The next learning area focuses on the generation and development of ideas. You will explore how to generate ideas intentionally, the importance of having a suggestions scheme, and how to run internal idea-generation events that encourage participation and creativity. This section explains how to plan brainstorm meetings, how many people should participate, what types of participants to invite, how long a brainstorming meeting should last, and who should facilitate the session. You will also examine how to capture ideas, what criteria to use when evaluating them, and how to energise brainstorming sessions to maintain enthusiasm and productivity. Additional techniques explored in this section include reversing the problem, defining your ideal competitor, using the “pass the parcel” technique, and applying the “six thinking hats” method to challenge perspectives and broaden thinking.

A further part of the program explores how to implement innovation processes effectively. You will learn how to allocate time and resources to innovation, how to borrow ideas with pride by learning from others, and how to train employees to build innovation capability across all levels. This section also examines how to measure and monitor progress to ensure innovation initiatives remain aligned with goals, and the various approaches for rewarding and recognising innovative ideas and successful innovations. You will also explore the key steps for success in open innovation, why observing customers leads to breakthrough insights, and why appointing innovation champions strengthens communication and momentum across the organisation.

The final learning area focuses on sustaining innovation through leadership support and cultural development. You will explore how to overcome customer resistance to new products or services, how to build a creative organisational culture, and why innovators should be praised to reinforce positive behaviours. This section explains why focusing on what went right supports constructive learning and why trusting your team is essential for innovation to flourish. These principles help leaders create workplaces where creativity is encouraged, risk-taking is supported, and original thinking becomes part of everyday operations.

By the end of this course you will be able to lead innovation strategically, facilitate creative thinking, implement and sustain innovation processes, empower employees, overcome organisational barriers, support idea development, and build a culture where creativity and originality drive long-term success.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:

·       The importance of being an innovative leader

·       How to lead innovation in your organisation?

·       Why have a vision for change?

·       What is a declaration of innovation? And why issue it?

·       How to fight the fear of change?

·       How to set goals for innovation?

·       Why get rid of the cynics?

·       Why encourage dissent?

·       Why think like a venture capitalist?

·       How to break down internal barriers to communication?

·       Why have your best people working on innovation?

·       How to diagnose the current situation?

·       What does an innovation audit do?

·       How to analyse problems?

·       The benefits of using a suitable problem analysis tool

·       How to use the six serving men tool?

·       How to generate ideas?

·       The importance of having a suggestions scheme

·       How to run ideas events within your organisation?

·       How to plan your brainstorm meetings?

·       How many people should be in a brainstorm meeting?

·       What sort of people should you invite in a brainstorming meeting?

·       How long should the brainstorm meeting be?

·       Who should facilitate the brainstorming meeting?

·       How will you capture ideas?

·       What criteria should you use to evaluate ideas?

·       How to juice up your brainstorm meetings?

·       How to reverse the problem?

·       Why define your ideal competitor?

·       How to use the pass the parcel technique?

·       How to use the wear six thinking hats method?

·       How to implement innovation processes?

·       How to allocate time and resources for innovation?

·       How to borrow ideas with pride?

·       How to train for innovation?

·       How to measure and monitor progress?

·       The approaches for rewarding and recognising innovative ideas and successful innovations

·       The key steps for success in open innovation

·       Why observe customers?

·       Why appoint innovation champions?

·       How to overcome customer resistance to new products or services?

·       How to build a creative culture within your organisation?

·       Why praise the innovators?

·       Why focus on what went right?

·       The importance of trusting your team

COURSE DURATION:

The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.

ASSESSMENT:

A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.

CERTIFICATION:

Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.