Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership and Innovation

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
21 Dec 2025 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register
24 May 2026 Amsterdam, Netherlands $ 4,950 Register
20 Sept 2026 Abu Dhabi, UAE $ 3,900 Register
29 Nov 2026 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register

Smart Leadership: Achieving Strategy through Leadership and Innovation

Introduction

This highly popular leadership training course will expose delegates to the concept that innovation and outstanding leadership go hand in hand. Delegates will learn that new ideas can inspire new products, services, and systems that can provide a distinct competitive advantage over competitors, and smart leadership brings those ideas to life. Outstanding leadership does not occur by accident. Great leaders are smart leaders. They understand it is imperative to continually develop and build upon many key skills. They know that it begins with their thinking and commitment to learning and secondly to foster the creative impulse throughout the organization.  

This training course will feature:

  • Learning the foundations of Smart Leadership
  • Creating a Culture of Innovation
  • Using multiple intelligences to create Innovation
  • Identifying and motivating creative people
  • Leading a creative process for developing innovation

Objectives

    By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

    • Identify the principles of innovative leadership
    • Analyze the common myths and misconceptions about innovation
    • Solve any problem or issue with creative methodologies 
    • Apply  multiple intelligences to generate ideas
    • Practice a four-step process for team innovation

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This training course is intended for those who want to learn how to transform or improve their operations and organizations through the successful application of strategies and business process improvements using higher levels of creativity for innovation. This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Supervisors/Line Leaders
  • Team Leaders/Unit Heads
  • Managers of all Levels

Course Outline

Day 1: Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

  • Innovative leadership for excellent performance
  • The Critical mass for change and innovation
  • Innovation VS Constant Improvement
  • How a Leader Creates a Culture of Innovation
  • Case Study on Most Innovative Companies
  • Innovation and current business breakthroughs​

Day 2: Gaining the Participation of the Workforce

  • The G.E. “Workout” Strategy for engaging Employees
  • Gaining the “Buy-In” from the workforce
  • Developing Creative Solutions for problems and new Strategies
  • Overcoming old Paradigms
  • Dealing with Organizational “Drift”
  • Case Study on Gaining Empowerment​

Day 3: Leading with the Creative Edge

  • Developing Creative Potential in People and Teams
  • Managing Creative People
  • Learning new Thinking Skills
  • Learn New Brainstorming Techniques
  • How to Incubate New Ideas
  • Gaining Collaboration in the Workforce
  • Creative Group Exercise: Identifying new business processes​

Day 4: Creating a Motivating Climate for Higher Productivity

  • The Ten Key Elements to Setting up New Missions
  • Setting Goals and Targets Creatively
  • Creating a “Sense of Significance”
  • Using Emotional Intelligence to Motivate people
  • Rewarding Performance
  • The Four-Step “Pygmalion” theory
  • Group and Team Motivators​

 Day 5: Driving Strategic Change

  • Managing the Change Process
  • Kotter’s Change Management Techniques
  • Successful techniques for Changing People
  • How a Leader Communicates a Sense of Urgency
  • How to Overcome the Pitfalls of Change
  • Creating an Attitude of Constant Change

Accreditation

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