Innovation & Productivity in the Workplace

OVERVIEW

Innovation is key to your success. Productivity is key to your company’s long-term future. This intensive professional excellence training course focuses on the critical skills that will enable delegates to build productive relationships and successfully interact with others in the organization. The strategies you will learn, aligned with your commitment to personal improvement, will enable you to become the rare high performer that organizations seek to employ, retain, and promote.

Aimed at the driven professional, this training course builds an agenda to improve your creativity and productivity, enhance your professional reputation, and enable you to apply innovative work practices. In this training course, you will realize your strengths and fulfill your true managerial leadership potential.

OBJECTIVES

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Recognize personality traits & apply strategies that  will enhance personal & collaborative success
• Manage conflict & apply interpersonal strategies that will generate productive outcomes
• Apply basic tools and templates that instill creativity and innovation
• Appraise current team performance & diagnose action to generate improvement
• Synthesize ideas to construct an agenda for future personal leadership development

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Professionals at all levels seeking to improve their skills
• Professionals wishing to enhance their reputation and credibility
• Professionals seeking a ‘refresher’ training course to enhance their relationship skills
• Employees identified as ‘high potential’ or ‘fast track’ management candidates
• Employees seeking supervisory or managerial positions

COURSE CONTENTS

1. The Power of Self

• Building a positive self-image
• Establishing empowering beliefs
• NLP and the power of optimism to create the future you deserve
• The power of proactivity: the first competence on the road to excellence
• Psychological profiling: the science of personality and performance
• Professional competence: the added value you bring to the organization

2. Creating Organizational Value

• Prioritization and time management: focusing on the critical objectives
• Taking control: essential tips for personal productivity
• Transformational objectives: From SMART performance to SMARTER performance
• Leading productive meetings work: managing appreciating and utilizing diversity
• Leading meetings with a creative flair: thinking differently for new answers
• Project management overview and fundamentals: first steps

3. Adding Value through Relationship Awareness

• Micro political conflict in organizations: the transactional analysis perspective
• Personality traits, behaviors, and conflict management
• Relationship Awareness Theory: Managing my response to conflict
• Managing without confrontation: assertive communications
• Preparing for effective negotiating: influence and the characteristics of world-class negotiators
• Generating Productive Outcomes: the Agreement Box model of ‘win-win’

4. Harnessing Diversity and Creativity in the Team

• Valuing diversity: working with global, culturally diverse teams
• The value proposition afforded by High Performing Teams
• Avoiding dysfunctional performance
• Grounded theory: needs analysis evaluation of current performance
• Harnessing diversity for productive outcomes
• Aligning purpose, productivity, and profitability

5. Leading with Initiative: Being Proactive

• Being proactive and capitalizing on opportunity
• Leading from where you are in the organization: building credibility
• Emotional Intelligence and Outcomes
• Leadership styles and organizational climate
• Building Trust: the 4 C model to engage and empower others
• Course review and commitment statement

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS

• Interactive workshops.
• Practical on-the-job application.
• Reflections  Online resources and activities

SPECIFIC CAPABILITIES

Innovation & Productivity in the Workplace is designed to;

• Creating an agenda of creativity and innovation to meet new challenges
• Creating value for the organization through increased personal productivity
• Managing conflict constructively and fostering a collaborative culture
• Building a personalized blueprint to enhance your professional reputation
• Being proactive to lead and initiative action

Practice & Simulation of Innovation & Productivity in the Workplace

Post Test; Lesson Learned and Evaluation

Commitment and Action Plan