How to Ignite & Develop Your Team’s Creativity
How to Ignite & Develop Your Team’s Creativity
What you’ll learn
Skills you’ll gain
The world is becoming increasingly dynamic and uncertain, which means the need for creativity in the workplace is at an all-time high. And this isn’t the case for just technology or design teams; all companies need their people to be capable of creatively adapting and evolving. As a leader, you're probably feeling the pressure to develop creativity on your team. In this course, you’ll learn how from instructor Jeff Fajans, an executive coach and PhD who’s passionate about helping organizations and leaders guide their teams toward innovation and creativity. You'll learn specific leadership skills you can implement to coach your people toward creativity, learning, and growth. This includes how to structure your team's time and work environment to better facilitate creativity, designing an effective structured reflection rhythm for your team, and tactics that get everyone moving in the same direction. You’ll even leverage a framework for delivering feedback that will enhance your team's motivation to grow and innovate. While it may feel like there’s not much you can do, the reality is you have a lot of influence as a leader. By the end of this course, you should feel empowered to ignite and develop your team's creativity.
Syllabus
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Defining team climate How your people perceive or experience the work environment and interactions within the team can either ignite or extinguish your team's creativity. 3m
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Creating psychological safety Without psychological safety, there will be no team creativity. 3m
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Encouraging positive emotions and play When people enjoy what they do and who they do it with, they are more likely to generate better ideas at a higher frequency. 3m
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Celebrating diverse perspectives When different ideas, experiences, and perspectives come together - true innovation can happen. 2m
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Fostering recognition When people feel recognized and supported for their efforts, especially efforts towards innovating, it creates a team climate that ignites creativity. 2m
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Providing autonomy Without the freedom to explore and develop new ideas, team creativity won't happen. 2m
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Creating a shared vision A compelling, shared vision among team members has been shown to be one of the most significant predictors of team innovation. 3m
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Facilitating helping behaviors Help-seeking and help-giving are two of the most powerful behaviors when it comes to sparking creative collaboration. 3m
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Enhancing team learning In order to be successful, teams need to engage in structured reflection in order to rapidly learn, adjust, and innovate. 3m
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Spanning boundaries Today's business challenges span across boundaries, and as such, so too must leadership and collaboration. 3m
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Prioritizing empathy To reach the highest levels of creativity, it is not enough for team members to just effectively collaborate with one another - a team must seek to empathize and understand the clients and customers that they serve. 2m
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Ask, don't tell If you want your people to develop their own creativity and critical thinking skills, you have to go beyond just giving direction and telling them what to do. 2m
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Delivering feedback for creativity If you deliver feedback the wrong way, you risk destroying your people's drive to take risks and be creative. 3m
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Activating their strengths One of the most common reasons teams struggle to innovate is the misbelief that to be successful, a team must "fix its weaknesses." After watching this lesson, you'll be able to identify and activate your team's strengths - and supercharge its creativity. 3m
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Conducting meaningful 1-on-1's Research shows that regular and meaningful 1-on-1's lead to people who are 3 times more likely to be engaged at work. 4m
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Role model creativity Now that you've watched this course, you should feel empowered to ignite and develop your team's creativity. 1m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Jeff Fajans, PhD
Jeff Fajans, PhD is a creative performance and executive coach who partners with creative professionals, leaders, and organizations to help them bring their biggest ideas to life and create thriving cultures that ignite creativity and innovation. In his past roles, Jeff served as Head of Talent & Organization Development within various creative marketing agencies - partnering with senior leaders & executives to bring forth culture & leadership transformations that drive innovation, high-performance, and growth. He is also an avid music creator, guitar player, and kettlebell workout enthusiast. Married to an amazing woman. Proud Dad to a curious and hilarious toddler named Hendrix. His mission is to help others bring their biggest ideas to life. He is driven by creativity, curiosity, courage, compassion, and helping others become their best creative selves.
Jeff Fajans, PhD
Creative Performance and Executive Coach at Jeff Fajans Coaching
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