Managing Teams for Innovation and Success
Management & Leadership
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:
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Accelerate team innovation using
design thinking principles
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Identify and communicate manager and
team member roles
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Learn methodologies to manage the
complexities of group dynamics, including decision-making, power, and conflict.
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Manage conflicts & apply
interpersonal strategies that will generate productive outcomes
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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?
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How our thinking works in respect of
creativity and innovation
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Difference between vertical and
lateral approaches
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Apply the more fluid style to the
left and right hemispheres of the brain
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Recognize and cope with obstacles to
creativity in the mind
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Understand the limitations and
applications of conventional problem solving
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Ensure that creativity becomes a
useful tool for day to day problem solving.
Day Two: Learn Creative Thinking Tools
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Creative problem-solving
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Brainstorming
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Mind-mapping
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Bisociation, Metaphorical thinking
& Rule Reversal.
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Gaining the Full Benefits of
Continuous Improvement
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Six Thinking Hats
Day Three: Adding Value through Relationship Awareness
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Micro political conflict in
organizations
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Personality traits, behaviors and
conflict management
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Relationship Awareness Theory
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Managing without confrontation
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Preparing for effective negotiating
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Generating Productive Outcomes
Day Four: Adding Value through Relationship Awareness
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Micro political conflict in
organizations
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Personality traits, behaviors and
conflict management
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Relationship Awareness Theory
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Managing without confrontation
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Preparing for effective negotiating
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Generating Productive Outcomes
Day Five: Leading with Initiative: Being Proactive
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Being proactive and capitalizing on
opportunity
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Leading from where you are in the
organization
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Emotional Intelligence and outcomes
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Leadership styles and organizational
climate
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Building Trust