Corporate Training By Zack Academy - Creative Leadership Skills for Todays Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader

Why should you take the Creative Leadership Skills for Today's Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader course?

Break free from the way you’ve always done it and become an innovative leader.

Many managers equate creativity with being artistic. They are also the ones who struggle daily to engage their employees ... have difficulties overcoming work challenges ... and are stuck in their ways. But that’s not you. Join us for this one-day Creative Leadership Skills for Today's Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader course and gain the leadership skills that will stimulate your thinking and ignite your passion, leading to an unquenchable can-do attitude throughout your department — and eventually your entire organization.

One day of insightful fun can equal a lifetime of better days at work.

If you hesitated for even a second because things at work are too hectic for you to take even one day off for this training, please stop reading and enroll in this fun and fresh workshop right this second! There is virtually nothing happening at your job that won’t be dramatically improved with the skills you gain with us.

From leading totally disengaged workers to getting better results through building positive and productive communication with that manager in another department that NOBODY gets along with, you cannot afford to wait another moment to add these skills to your professional tool kit.

Who should take the Creative Leadership Skills for Today's Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader course?

The Creative Leadership Skills for Today's Manager, Supervisor, or Team Leader course is for anyone in a leadership position who wants to improve their work by becoming:

• Original
• Innovative
• Flexible
• Imaginative
• Inspired
• Inventive
• Resourceful
• Respected
• And most of all, successful!

Course Topics Include:

• Pumping Up Your Creative Leadership Muscles
• Creative Communication Methods (No Yodelling Allowed ... )
• Super-Charging a Positive, Innovative Work Environment: Your Role as Leader
• Creativity and Team-Building — The Dynamic Duo for Success!
• Getting Unstuck: Finding Ways to Solve the Unsolvable and Fix the Unfixable
• Creative Problem Solving: Finding Better Ways to Solve Recurring Problems
• Motivating Employees to Peak Achievement ... and Rewarding Their Climb

Course Includes:

• Interactive training from an experienced instructor
• Course manual and reference materials
• Practical tips and strategies for use in the field

Syllabus

Pumping Up Your Creative Leadership Muscles

• It starts with YOU! The 10 Rules of Creative Leadership
• Understanding why the old management models fall short with today’s workforce
• What do employees want and expect in a leader? The answers may surprise you!
• When to break the management rules — and why
• How does your creativity measure up? An eye-opening evaluation tool
• Finding the creativity hidden inside you

Creative Communication Methods (No Yodelling Allowed ... )

• Positive language that fosters a creative, productive staff — and words that shouldn’t leave your lips
• What to say and how to say it: Step-by-step instructions for giving effective feedback without deflating morale
• Praise in public; criticize in private — understanding the importance of this management caveat
• Creating a “safe” environment for brainstorming, brain-linking and generating ideas
• How to say “no” to an employee’s idea in a positive way

Super-Charging a Positive, Innovative Work Environment: Your Role as Leader

• How positive is your work environment? A quick quiz that’s a real eye-opener
• Exude an aura of optimism every day — and watch morale soar
• How do you establish a positive sense of urgency and mission?
• Quick tips for making your workplace a livelier, more fun place to be
• Strategies for keeping bureaucracy from killing innovation
• When creativity goes bad: What to do when an innovative plan turns into disaster

Creativity and Team-Building — The Dynamic Duo for Success!

• Breaking the ice: how to get your team to relate and work well together
• Managing work horizontally and other best practices that emphasize collaboration
• How to turn your staffers into thinkers ... turn your thinkers into decision makers and problem solvers
• Appointing the Creativity Cheerleader on your team
• Delegate, delegate, delegate: Guidelines for empowering your team easing your load

Getting Unstuck: Finding Ways to Solve the Unsolvable and Fix the Unfixable

• Using your creative skills to analyze problems more effectively
• Ways to find a new perspective and approach problems from a different angle to find new solutions
• Strategies for simplifying your problem by breaking it into smaller chunks
• Perseverance: how to stay on track, even when it seems like you’re not getting anywhere
• Transforming your knowledge: taking what you already know and adapting it to your current situation

Creative Problem Solving: Finding Better Ways to Solve Recurring Problems

• Finding your way around the hurdles that keep popping up
• Brainstorming: generating as many ideas as possible to solve your problem
• Turning boring meetings into “ideafests”: facilitation skills, icebreakers, storyboarding, and more
• Making the most of a shrinking budget without cutting corners
• Laughing in the face of failure: responsible risk taking

Motivating Employees to Peak Achievement ... and Rewarding Their Climb

• Infusing every job with a sense of purpose and excitement
• Happy employees are productive employees: easy ways to add laughter and humor to the job
• Power tools for attitude problems, negativity, and chronic complainers
• Discovering and playing to your employees’ strengths
• Tips for recognizing and relieving a worker headed for burnout