Leadership Principles > 22nd Century Business > JOY at WORK

Brief Summary

This course dives into transforming outdated management practices into creative and engaging leadership strategies. With insights from Deming and others, you'll learn how to turn your workplace into a hub of joy and innovation!

About This Course

Leadership > Creativity> Innovation> Deming > Neuroscience> Plus: Mind Mapping for Strategy, Communications & Learning

In this short course I look at the current poor leadership often seen with global companies (particularly in the West) and the course considers what is wrong with the way (most of) our organisations are managed. I look at what needs to be done in order to transform our existing businesses into "Creation Companies" (a word coined by Tom McGeHee)

The course is based around a keynote talk and a workshop (entitled "Creating Creation Companies) that I was commissioned to present at the European Regions Knowledge Based Innovation Network ('ERIC' conference) in Coventry UK in 1994. Although this keynote and workshop was presented over 15 years ago all the information remains relevant, perhaps even more relevant, today

In the course I weave together the wisdom and thinking of W.Edwards Deming on the 'transformation of management' with what I call the "New Psychologies" and the big picture strategic 'soft skill' thinking technique of Mind Mapping. Putting these strategies to work can help us to move away from McGeHee's concept of 'Compliance Companies' and toward his concept of 'Creation Companies'.

We need Leadership and Leaders that can make work joyful and meaningful and bring back pride of workmanship, whole business-wide improvement, creativity and innovation. This course shows you a way that this can be achieved.

A little more about me: I've worked in the NHS both as as a quality consultant and a Head of an NHS District General Hospital Science Department (for 14 years). During the later years of this time I was secretary of the ADC - an Alliance of Process Improvement Consultants in the UK. I've always had an interest in what makes a good leader and the circumstances in which people are creative and produce their best efforts. I've held visiting lecturer posts at Morley College (London) and Birmingham University. In this course, as mentioned above, I share strategies that I first presented at a European Regional Knowledge Based Innovation Network Conference in 2004 - ideas that I have continued to research and develop.

• How changes in Management Practice can lead to better staff engagement and improved productivity

• Students gain new insights into reasons why much current leadership and management behaviour sabotages joy at work and 'disengages' staff

• Understand how and why 'fear' (in whatever guise) sabotages both creativity and intrinsic motivation