About this Course

What makes a great leader today? 

Over the last decade, many studies have been conducted and one in particular was conducted where 4,000 companies were asked the question about the effectiveness of their leadership development programs. More than fifty percent of the companies cited significant talent gaps for critical leadership roles. That means that more than half the companies had failed to grow enough great leaders. Why are the leadership gaps widening when there's so much more investment in leadership development? And what are the great leaders doing distinctly different to thrive and grow? 

The 21st-century world is more global, digitally connected with lightning speeds of information exchange, and where almost everything gets done with some kind of a complex framework. Leadership in this 21st century is defined by three questions:

First question: Where are you looking to anticipate the next change to your business model or your life? Great leaders see around corners, shape their future, instead of just react to it.

Second question: What is the diversity measure of your personal and professional stakeholder network? Great leaders are able to leverage on this diverse network by applying the power of co-creation, which is the secret to how to think out-of-the-box.

Third question: Are you courageous enough to abandon a practice that has made you successful in the past? But if you do not agree with this advice, chances are you're going to keep doing the same and stay in your comfortable zone. Great leaders have the audacity to be different. They are often people that think differently and therefore are willing to join you in taking a courageous leap. 

However, the real question is how do you know where to look to anticipate the next change? How do you use the power of Co-creation on your diverse network? How do you think differently?

Learning Outcomes:

This workshop will share with you through a blend of interactive mini-lectures, group work, individual practice and class discussions to enable you to:

• Harness the power of curiosity to develop the three essential characteristics of a successful leader:
  
• Empathy - Be Passionately Curious,
  
• Creativity - Ideate out of Curiosity,
  
• Strategy - Be Curious to make your ideas work.
  
• Learn and apply the Design Thinking tools to identify where to look to anticipate the next change to your business model or your life.
  
• Apply the tools of Co-creation to your diverse network to create wow ideas and solutions.
  
• Apply the good practices of a Why Leader in order to have the confidence and courage to be different leader in order to connect with the Y generation of workforce.
  

Course Outline:

Leadership’s Role in Innovation and Design Thinking

You will understand the What & Why of Design Thinking and how it is relevant to a leader. Master the three stages of Design Thinking and how it can be applied to your personal development as well as your team’s growth.

Setting Up the Team

Create an environment that fosters effective collaboration, encourages dialogue, leverages diversity and empowers for interdependency.

Anticipate the Next Change

Serving the needs of your people - learn how to be a people-centric leader by seeing problems through others’ eyes via photo journaling and observation to uncovering internal and external customer insights and needs.

Co-creation

Transform insights and data into actionable ideas - learn the essential tools and how to create an environment conducive for your team’s creativity.

Create and Sell the Concept

Learn the tools to put together a concept to craft and tell compelling stories in order to sell your idea with meaning and purpose to the Y Generation.

Who Can Benefit?

This course is designed for leaders eager to cultivate an innovation culture by first themselves participating in an intense, hands-on demonstration of innovation methods and tools.

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