The British Academy for Training and Development offers a professional training course in Inspirational Leadership and Creativity. Inspirational leaders instill confidence and energy in an organization. This course provides participants with the expertise to build a high-performing and reliable culture. Inspirational leadership is the ability to motivate people to achieve high standards of performance. It takes special skills to bring people to peak performance on a regular basis. This course is designed to provide a framework to enable inspirational leaders to foster creativity and innovation in their organizations.

Who should attend? 

• Managers.
• Directors.
• Team Leaders.
• Those who want to create a self-motivated workforce and share their vision more effectively.

How attendees will benefit? 

After completion of the course, delegates will understand: 

• Understanding not only why some people are naturally creative, but how everyone can develop their creativity.
• Knowledge of how to use a variety of creative thinking methods, tools, and techniques to generate ideas and solve problems.
• Opportunity to apply methods and tools to generate ideas to improve one's work.

Inspirational Leadership:

• Understanding Leadership Principles.
• Recognise the key qualities of inspirational leaders and how they differ from traditional leaders.
• Leadership challenge – Kouzes and Posner.
• Develop Emotional Intelligence to Increase Empathy.

Create a Shared Vision:

• Develop a clear vision of the organisation.
• Develop a plan to communicate the vision at all levels of the organization.
• Creating a culture of trust to build confidence in others.
• Achieving a shared vision that creates acceptance.
• Continuously monitor team and organizational energy levels to align vision.

Creativity and Innovation:

• Understand how creativity and innovation go hand in hand.
• Create an environment that fosters and develops both creativity and innovation.
• Phases for successful brainstorming.
• Generation, selection and implementation.
• Realize and present successful creative/innovative solutions.

Teamwork and Commitment:

• Promote teamwork and collaboration beyond the boardroom.
• Develop creativity as a team activity that is practiced regularly
• Types of motivation and how to use them.
• Provide praise and regular constructive feedback at all levels.
• LBWA – Leadership by Wandering Around.

Leading Change:

• Leadership and management of transformational initiatives.
• Implementing Kotter's 8-Step Process for Leading Transformation.
• Become an agent of positive change.
• Increase confidence, trust, organizational commitment and openness to change.