Executive Leadership Programmes in Creative Leadership - A First in Australia

The Creative Leadership Forum takes pleasure in announcing the first series of executive training programmes to be rolled out nationally commencing July 2008.

These unique programmes have been shaped by the results of the recent major national survey "Is Australian management creative and innovative?"conducted by the Creative Leadership Forum in association with Australian top 500 companies and relevant industry associations.


The survey revealed that over 81% of Australians had no training in creative leadership, creativity and innovation. The common theme amongst senior management participants in the survey was the urgent need to develop senior executives and employees skills and capabilities in these areas so organisations can better face the challenges of emerging global business opportunities and competition.

Programme content focuses on the practice and application of creativity and innovation and the role of the leader in facilitating and driving that practice to produce value for organizations. All programmes have certification from the University of Southern Maine, USA through their Leadership and Organizational Development programme at a post graduate Masters level.

 The Series Programmes

•   Developing Corporate Creativity Capabilities and Skills

An introduction to the theories and practices of creative leadership and the use of creativity and innovation tools and techniques in developing that capacity.

•   Creating Your Business Future in the Digital World

Learn how to demystify technology, apply and synthesise it with creativity to build on-line business opportunities at all levels within an organisation

•   Facilitating Creatively To Produce Ideas and Value

Develop an in-house creativity capacity by developing employees' facilitation skills to generate new product ideas, transform existing work processes, assess feasibility options and set action plans to drive implementation

•   Communities of Practice: Their Vital Role in Producing Value in Organizations

Learn how to create or identify existing communities of practice within your organisation and how to surface their valuable knowledge to create organisational strategies for new business opportunities or improved work practices.

•   Leaders as Designers of Organizations

Learn how to build an organisational culture of design to underpin thinking, strategy and action at all stages in the cycle of goal setting, product development, process delivery, marketing and customer service.

This series will initially be delivered as one day introductory public programmes in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Dates are now being finalised and will be announced within the coming weeks.

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Each programme can also be presented as an in-house creativity and innovation introductory programme for managers with a minimum number of 10 participants.

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In addition to this series, the Creative Leadership Forum will shortly be announcing programme details of an International Thought Leaders Forum exploring the theme, value and application of World Cafes in Organisational Strategy and Development to be held in Sydney in October 2008 and two International Master Classes "The Voice of Leadership" and "Getting Movement with Ideas" to be presented in August and October.

For all programme details or contact Programme Manager Simon Bull on 61 2 9403 5327