SBS Endorsed – Creative Leadership and Innovative Management Workshop

Program Overview

This highly interactive workshop helps managers unlock creativity in themselves and their teams and convert ideas into practical management improvements. Participants practise divergent and convergent thinking techniques such as SCAMPER, reverse brainstorming, mind mapping and the Six Thinking Hats, then apply them to real operational problems. The workshop explores how leaders create conditions for creativity through psychological safety, constructive challenge and tolerance for intelligent failure, and how to move promising ideas through quick evaluation and piloting. It suits Gulf organisations seeking to build a culture of initiative alongside formal innovation strategies.

Learning Outcomes

• ✓Facilitate a structured ideation session using at least two creative thinking techniques.
• ✓Reframe a recurring operational problem to open new solution options.
• ✓Evaluate generated ideas using impact, feasibility and risk criteria and select candidates for piloting.
• ✓Identify leadership behaviours that encourage or suppress creativity in a team.
• ✓Plan a low-cost pilot of an innovative management practice with success measures.

Target Audience

• Team leaders and supervisors seeking fresh approaches
• Middle managers responsible for service or process improvement
• Innovation champions and suggestion scheme coordinators
• Human resources and learning leaders building creative cultures

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Training Methodology

Applied Project & Assessment