Leadership Strategies for Innovation

On successful completion of the course, participants will be able to:

• Develop advanced strategic thinking skills by applying insights from behavioural science and neuro-strategy.
• Gain new insights and practical skills in decision-making and problem-solving by understanding different modes of thinking, mitigating decision bias, and leveraging intuition and emotion appropriately.
• Cultivate the ability to “think like a futurist” by building Futures Intelligence, which involves seeing the world differently, exploring multiple alternative futures, understanding worldviews and narratives, and using tools like scenario planning to anticipate disruption and inform strategic direction in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.
• Understand the fundamentals, philosophies, strategies, tactics, and cultural elements necessary to drive innovation within an organisation.
• Cultivate a mindset that embraces disruption and change, fosters curiosity and empathy, and allows leaders and their teams to navigate complexity and uncertainty effectively.
• Utilise specific analytical and strategic frameworks presented throughout the course, such as PESTLE, the Innovation Ambition Matrix, the Innovation Pipeline stages, Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), and scenario planning, to analyse your own organisation’s environment, dynamics, and potential futures.
• Enhance leadership capabilities required for a future of work, including developing future-oriented skills in yourself and your team, promoting diversity and inclusion, and understanding how to drive change initiatives based on insights from behavioural science and neuroscience.
• Synthesise learnings to define and plan for a preferred future for your organisation or context, understanding that this involves integrating various perspectives, challenging existing realities (“Used Futures”), and aligning organisational culture with strategic vision