One Day • Instructor-led
Businesses are constantly looking for innovative ideas that will put them one step ahead of their competitors. In order to arrive at a truly new idea, a team leader or manager must understand how to manage the innovation process. This course offers effective managerial strategies that address the organizational aspects of managing a creative team, supporting that creativity, moving an idea to implementation, and troubleshooting ideas to help guide a team through the innovation process.
Course Objective:
You will identify how a creative team works and what your role is as team leader. You will explore how to lead a creative team from idea to implementation and how to troubleshoot problems in the innovative process.
Performance-Based Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- manage the creative environment.
- examine the process of moving from idea to implementation.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Managing the Creative Environment
- Support Creativity
- The innovation process
- Group Norms
- Collaboration
- Rewards for Creativity
- The Playful Environment
- Creative Space
- Diversity of Thought
- Manage a Creative Team
- Be an Advocate for Your Team
- Allow Members to take Leadership
- Allow for Individual Work Styles
- Troubleshoot the Creative Environment
- Identify the True Issue
- Don’t Stop at the First Good Idea
- Maintain Organizational Aspects
- Keep the Focus Aligned to the Objective
Lesson 2: Moving from Idea to Implementation
- Choose the Best Project for Implementation
- Risk and Reward
- Quantitative Methods
- Market Conditions
- Demographics
- Trend Analysis & Forecasting
- Business Alignment
- “It” Factor
- Refine Ideas
- Decide to Implement or Abandon an Idea
- Troubleshoot During the Implementation Phase