Developing Team Creativity and Initiative

Looking for an approach to managing ideas? Unsure how to free up your team’s potential? Want to tap into this source of talent?Surveys show that 80% of company ideas come from teams working in the field who are in contact with clients, suppliers and partners. These front-facing team members are in a position to identify problems, find solutions and suggest new ways of obtaining sustainable growth. Managers who succeed in today’s age of knowledge and complexity have gained the know-how to leverage this incredible resource.

In this course, developed in conjunction with Isaac Getz, professor at the ESCP–EAP (School of Management for Europe), associate professor at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading specialists in innovation and creativity, you will discover how to set up a framework for encouraging ideas, much like those for cutting costs or managing quality.

Also Available as:

• Onsite

*Purchase any AMA OnDemand course by October 31, 2013 for only $995.

Schedule Duration Attendees 3 Month Subscription 1 2 3 4

How You Will Benefit

• Encourage the emergence of ideas and implement them to increase your team’s performance
• Enhance your team’s ability to be self-directed
• Become a facilitator who enables others to develop their potential
• Manage ideas as a way to leverage motivation
• Save time and free up more energy
• Increase your team’s self-sufficiency, adaptability and ability to react quickly
• Unleash your team’s potential for innovation

Learning Plan

Encouraging the emergence of ideas and initiative

• Transitioning from manager as boss to manager as facilitator
• Encouraging the expression of ideas
• Conducting meetings to promote creativity
• Adopting the Walt Disney method of being creative, being realistic and being critical
• Creating group dynamics

Promoting the implementation of ideas

• Encouraging others to find and implement solutions
• Reacting quickly to simple initiatives
• Identifying and helping others develop ideas with potential
• Encouraging others to find and implement solutions

Supporting ideas through to execution

• Learning to listen actively
• Mentoring others and helping them progress independently (GROW method)
• Underscoring success by honoring achievements
• Acknowledging the value of failure

Supporting innovations that go beyond your area of expertise

• Facilitating an idea’s advancement outside your department
• Promoting team members’ development

Who Should Attend This Course

All managers who want to develop their team’s potential and performance.