Managing Teams for Innovation and Success

Management & Leadership

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Introduction

Do you need effective team management and innovation in your company with actionable strategies, experiential team-based simulations, and design thinking? The Managing Teams for Innovation and Success training course takes a holistic approach to every phase of teams: creating, managing, and leading them. Excellent teams can stimulate creativity and innovation, make an organization more adaptive to market forces, and drive breakthrough results.

In this training course on Managing Teams for Innovation and Success, participants will explore evidence-based research and discover the fundamentals of team building. They will learn how to leverage diversity, stimulate engagement, influence others without authority, harness collective intelligence, and implement change. They will use design thinking principles to foster team innovation.

Objectives

At the end of this Managing Teams for Innovation and Success training course, you will be able to:

·         Accelerate team innovation using design thinking principles

·         Identify and communicate manager and team member roles

·         Learn methodologies to manage the complexities of group dynamics, including decision-making, power, and conflict.

·         Manage conflicts & apply interpersonal strategies that will generate productive outcomes

·         Synthesize proposals to construct an agenda for future personal leadership development

Course Outline

Day One: What is Creativity and Innovation and Why are they Important?

·         How our thinking works in respect of creativity and innovation

·         Difference between vertical and lateral approaches

·         Apply the more fluid style to the left and right hemispheres of the brain

·         Recognize and cope with obstacles to creativity in the mind

·         Understand the limitations and applications of conventional problem solving

·         Ensure that creativity becomes a useful tool for day to day problem solving.

Day Two: Learn Creative Thinking Tools

·         Creative problem-solving

·         Brainstorming

·         Mind-mapping

·         Bisociation, Metaphorical thinking & Rule Reversal.

·         Gaining the Full Benefits of Continuous Improvement

·         Six Thinking Hats

Day Three: Adding Value through Relationship Awareness

·         Micro political conflict in organizations

·         Personality traits, behaviors and conflict management

·         Relationship Awareness Theory

·         Managing without confrontation

·         Preparing for effective negotiating

·         Generating Productive Outcomes

Day Four: Adding Value through Relationship Awareness

·         Micro political conflict in organizations

·         Personality traits, behaviors and conflict management

·         Relationship Awareness Theory

·         Managing without confrontation

·         Preparing for effective negotiating

·         Generating Productive Outcomes

Day Five: Leading with Initiative: Being Proactive

·         Being proactive and capitalizing on opportunity

·         Leading from where you are in the organization

·         Emotional Intelligence and outcomes

·         Leadership styles and organizational climate

·         Building Trust