Management and Leadership Development

Advanced Creativity and Innovation for Senior Managers

Learning organizations are doinated by staff that habitually develop new solutions and ideas. They therefore open new business frontiers by developing new products or repackaging existing products for added value and profitability. Any competitive edge in the future will result from your people being creative. This course helps establish that creative mindset that helps achieve the above and ensure not just the survival but long-term success of the organization and the individual staff.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Getting from a normal to a creative mindset
  • How to change and thrive in a competitive environment
  • Nurturing innate creative ability
  • Viewing challenges with a fresh pair of eyes
  • Adapting to new improvements and methods in order to remain competitive
  • Working in operational and creative/innovative time for problem solving
  • Using divergent and convergent thinking skills
  • Creating new products, new structures and new processes for giving the company a competitive edge
  • Intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship

Duration

2 days

Basic Creativity and Innovation for Managers and Supervisors

Inertia is natural. Staff in organisations therefore prefer to stay in one place, abhorring change and improvement. This course teaches the creative mindset and process that encourage staff to improve company procedures that will translate to more profitable operations.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Getting from a normal to a creative mindset
  • How to change and thrive in a competitive environment
  • Nurturing innate creative ability
  • Adapting to new improvements and methods in order to remain competitive

Duration

2 days

Senior Management Development Programme

For Managers recently promoted to Senior Management positions and also experienced technical professionals with high level managerial responsibilities.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • The leadership styles suitable for different organizations and situations
  • Tips for performance enhancement at personal, team and organizational levels
  • Coaching subordinates for enhanced performance
  • Setting targets and following through
  • Rewarding results by equality and equity
  • How to appraise for results
  • How to think creatively
  • Win/Win negotiations
  • How to manage time better and cope with stress
  • Understanding the basic financials of the business
  • Emotional intelligence for work and life – a primer

Duration

3 days

Team Building and Bonding for Spectacular Performance

In these days of serious competition and a constantly changing business environment, the need for team building and bonding cannot be over-emphasized. This is because when people work in true teams rather than groups, various innate individual strengths combine to provide synergistic energy and superior performance for the organization

Who Should Attend

Middle to Senior Managers heading units, departments and special project groups.

Key Items That Participants Will Learn

  • Team Definition
  • Teams vs Workgroups
  • Type of Teams
  • Team Mathematics
  • Group Development Process into Teams
  • Emotional Intelligence in Teams
  • Values, Attitudes and Team Performance
  • Personality Profiling
  • Factors for Successful Team Building and Bonding
  • Coaching, Mentoring and Counselling Team Members
  • Motivating and Rewarding Individual Contributions
  • Team Problem Solving
  • Issues with stereotyping
  • Diversity and Inclusion
  • Control and decontrol – Knowing Self
  • Communications within the Team
  • Role Play

Duration

3 days