Leadership & Management Development

Achieving Personal and Corporate ExcellenceILM Development Award

Achieving individual and Corporate Excellence

This three day seminar is designed for individuals who need to be personally powerful and to think positively enabling them to become aware of their own creativity and innovation abilities and to communicate and motivate others.  The programme will give delegates the skills to enhance employees, team members, and colleagues to be more powerful, creative, innovative and motivated. 

Course content:

Module 1: Creativity & innovation

  • Test your own creativity consciousness
  • Difference between adaptive and innovative thinking
  • Getting out of paradigms
  • How to use fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration
  • How do deal with the killer phrases of others
  • Using the creative skill of cooperative invention
  • The creative problem solving process
  • Personality profile (DiSC personality profile)
  • Reducing restraining forces to change
  • The characteristics of the best innovators
  • Identify opportunities or requirements for innovation
  • Develop a creative culture by making innovation a top priority, adopting a customer focus, promoting idea mobility, and empowering people to experiment
  • Team Exercise: Develop your own innovative product or service

 

Module 2: Communication & influencing skills

  • Personality profile report and feedback
  • Active versus passive listening
  • The different listening categories
  • Acknowledging emotions and ideas and encouraging others to contribute their creative ideas
  • Closed, open, probing, and hypothetical questions
  • Inappropriate versus appropriate nonverbal communication behaviours
  • Get your message across in clear, concise language
  • Delegating to others to give them autonomy for creativity and innovation
  • Being assertive and not aggressive, passive, or passive aggressive  
  • Identifying your leadership priorities and the effect on people 
  • Influencing styles
  • The personal effectiveness model ‚Äì self assessment 
  • Working and living without fear a personal contingency plan
  • Removing self limiting beliefs

Module 3:  Developing your personal potential and helping others succeed

  • The power of positive thinking ‚Äì seeing yourself confidently in your mind’s eye
  • The qualities of confident. self-empowered people
  • The act-feel-think-believe technique for increasing confidence and personal power
  • The power of purposefulness ‚Äì having vision and goals to meet that vision
  • The skills of optimism, enthusiasm, integrity, courage, confidence, determination, patience and calmness
  • Determining what motivates individuals and how to provide those motivators
  • Coaching and counselling team members using your emotional intelligence
  • Empowering team members so they can succeed
  • Presentations of innovative service or product
  • Developing action plans for continued development