Join us for this powerful one-day program and you’ll discover new ways of doing the same old things, new solutions for age-old problems and new ideas you can use to get your employees on the right track.

Find out how to:

• Make your workplace more fun with morale boosters
• Eliminate common employee problems with creative solutions
• Increase productivity with innovative motivators
• Foster creativity, innovation and new ideas
• Inspire loyalty and earn respect
• And much, much more!

New team leaders who want to get an edge up by learning important skills that translate into real results.

Established team leaders who want solid direction and creative ideas for addressing and overcoming specific team challenges.

Any team leader who hasn't participated in leadership training in more than a year — because highly successful leaders know ongoing skill development is critical to on-going leadership success.

Pumping Up Your Creative Leadership Muscles

• It starts with YOU! The 10 Rules of Creative Leadership
• Understanding why the old management models fall short with today’s workforce
• What do employees want and expect in a leader? The answers may surprise you!
• When to break the management rules – and why
• How does your creativity measure up? An eye- opening evaluation tool

Creative Communication Methods (No Yodelling Allowed … )

• Positive language that fosters a creative, productive staff – and words that shouldn’t leave your lips
• What to say and how to say it: Step-by-step instructions for giving effective feedback without deflating morale
• Praise in public; criticize in private – understanding the importance of this management caveat
• Creating a “safe” environment for brainstorming, brain-linking and generating ideas
• How to say “no” to an employee’s idea in a positive way

Super-Charging a Positive, Innovative Work Environment: Your Role as Leader

• How positive is your work environment? A quick quiz that’s a real eye-opener
• Exude an aura of optimism every day – and watch morale soar
• How do you establish a positive sense of urgency and mission?
• Quick tips for making your workplace a livelier, more fun place to be
• Strategies for keeping bureaucracy from killing innovation
• When creativity goes bad: What to do when an innovative plan turns into disaster

Creativity and Team-Building – The Dynamic Duo for Success!

• Managing work horizontally and other “best practices” that emphasize collaboration
• How to turn your staffers into thinkers … turn your thinkers into decision makers and problem solvers
• Appointing the Creativity Cheerleader on your team
• Do these employees have a creative-deficiency disorder? Find the hidden in ’em
• Turning boring meetings into ideafests: Facilitation skills, ice-breakers, storyboarding and more
• Delegate, delegate, delegate: Guidelines for empowering your team easing your load

Creative Discipline: Tactics for Turning Difficult Employees and Poor Performers Into Winners

• Understanding why employees perform poorly – and why you may be partially to blame
• How-to’s for confronting employee performance problems so that positive change occurs
• Power tools for combating attitude problems, negativity and chronic complainers
• When employees can’t get along: Your role in settling disagreements
• Creative solutions for curbing tardiness, absenteeism and other common supervisory challenges
• Take a chill pill! How to keep your cool when an employee is stomping on your last nerve

Motivating Employees to Peak Achievement … and Rewarding Their Climb

• Infusing every job with a sense of purpose and excitement
• Happy employees are productive employees: Easy ways to add laughter and humor to the job
• Discovering and playing to your employees’ strengths
• Tips for recognizing and relieving a worker headed for burnout
• Tools for motivating your people: Spark plugs that will get ’em firing on all cylinders

“In an environment where we must have every good idea from every man and woman in the organization, we cannot afford management styles that suppress and intimidate.”
Jack Welch
General Electric Corp.

“Life’s a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.”
Bill Gates
Microsoft Chairman, Chief Software Architect

“I’ve never had control and I never wanted it. If you create an environment where people truly participate, you don’t need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it.”
Herb Kelleher
Southwest Airlines
CEO

“If you don’t choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management down the road.”
Stephen Covey
Author