Leadership, Critical Thinking and Innovation

10^th-11^th March, 2025                                                19^th-20^st May, 2025

11^th-12^th August, 2025                                               12^th-13^th November, 2025

Introduction

Critical thinking and innovation are both important for leaders to drive progress and success in their organizations. Critical thinking can help leaders make better decisions, solve problems, and adapt to change. Innovation can be sparked by creativity, but critical thinking can help ensure that those ideas are valuable and viable.
Essentially, critical thinking is the ability to assess information objectively and make informed decisions. On the other hand, innovation is the process of creating something new or introducing improvements to existing ideas, products, or processes. Critical thinking makes strategic decisions with desirable outcomes more likely. Like intelligent leadership itself, it is reasoned, purposeful, and goal-focused. It allows leaders to formulate informed and relevant ideas and inferences, solve problems, calculate probabilities, and make better decisions.
Innovation leadership is a philosophy and technique that combines different leadership styles to influence employees to produce creative ideas. The key role in the practice of innovation leadership is the innovation leader. In essence, organizational leadership is the most important aspect of an organization’s drive for creativity and innovation. No organization can change or innovate unless leaders initiate and sustain the process. Therefore, organizations need creative leaders to guide the innovation process.
This workshop will walk the participants through the nitty gritty of critical thinking and innovative leadership.

Course Contents

Understanding Your Creativity

• Creativity & your personality
• Understand and use personality styles as a management tool
• Creative flexibility to manage effectively
• Importance of perception
• Maximizing our perceptual ability
• Creativity and the Holistic Model
• Creative people from the past
• Building a Creative Model

Generating Creativity

• Understand how creative thinking works
• Developing Openness to new ideas
• The Creative Mind: Whole Brain Thinking
• Distinguish stages of the creative process
• Recognize what makes excellent creative thinking
• Identify and understand the creativity in others
• Developing a Creative environment
• Consciousness and competence

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving

• Problem-solving strategies
• Getting in the right mindset
• Taking risks & looking for paradigm shifts
• Defining the Real Problem
• Recognizing mental blocks to creativity
• Brainstorming for solutions

Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

• Releasing creativity at work
• Fostering creativity
• Incubating ideas
• Challenging assumptions
• Creativity for business breakthroughs
• Sharpen your creative thinking: Metaphors & Analogies
• Releasing Creativity through Coaching
• Sharing information for creative solutions

Leading on the Creative Edge

• Innovative leadership for excellent performance
• Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
• Developing creative potential in teams
• Understanding creative people
• Motivating creative individuals at work
• Interacting creatively
• Planning your Creative future

Duration:
Two (2) days                 Fee:N180,000