The Innovation Engine: Leading Strategic Success

Strategy session exploring novel leadership models and competitive positioning.

The Innovation Engine: Leading Strategic Success

Location

MLC 1008

Duration

Online / In-Class

5 Days

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About the Course

The global business environment demands leaders who are both visionary and innovative—capable of shaping strategies that drive transformation and growth. This course provides a robust framework for linking leadership and innovation to strategy execution. Participants learn to analyze business challenges, identify opportunities for creative solutions, and cultivate a culture that encourages experimentation, collaboration, and forward thinking.

Learning Milestones

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

- Frame creativity and innovation within a strategic business context.
- Identify and analyze the key drivers that make innovation a necessity in modern enterprises.
- Develop and implement systems and processes that foster creativity and innovation.
- Master tools and techniques to stimulate and manage innovative thinking.
- Recognize resistance to change and leverage it to catalyze creativity.
- Apply strategic leadership principles to build an innovation-friendly culture.
- Develop organization-wide readiness for continuous improvement and adaptation.
- Build innovative capacity across teams, individuals, and departments.
- Drive strategic change through effective communication and influence.
- Increase engagement, motivation, and performance through achievement-oriented leadership.

Professional Audience

- Senior and mid-level managers responsible for strategy and innovation
- Supervisors and team leaders managing creative projects
- Human Resources and organizational development professionals
- Change management and performance improvement specialists
- Professionals seeking to advance into strategic leadership roles

Modular Syllabus

Fostering a Creative and Innovative Workplace

- The essence of innovative leadership for peak performance

- Creating the critical mass for change and innovation

- Differentiating innovation from continuous improvement

- Leadership behaviors that cultivate a climate of innovation

- Learning from recent innovation breakthroughs in global industries

- Building psychological safety for creative experimentation

- Linking creativity to strategic business outcomes

- Workshop: Designing your innovation-friendly team environment

Engaging and Empowering the Workforce

- G.E. Workout Strategy: engaging employees in problem-solving

- Creative planning for strategy alignment

- Securing buy-in across diverse workforce levels

- Overcoming resistance and outdated paradigms

- Managing organizational drift and inertia

- Storytelling as a tool for change engagement

- Co-creation techniques for strategic initiatives

- Exercise: Workforce participation and empowerment blueprint

Leading on the Creative Edge

- Unlocking creative potential in individuals and teams

- Understanding creative psychology and intrinsic motivation

- Balancing convergent and divergent thinking

- Motivating and managing creative talent

- Techniques for idea incubation and innovation flow

- Turning constraints into catalysts for creativity

- Monetizing creativity: transforming ideas into assets

- Case study: Leading innovation-driven transformation

Motivating for Performance and Purpose

- The ten key elements of mission formulation

- Setting creative goals aligned with strategic vision

- Building significance and purpose into team goals

- Designing reward systems that drive innovation and results

- Applying the Pygmalion Effect for motivation

- Understanding generational differences in engagement

- Coaching for accountability and achievement orientation

- Group activity: Designing a high-motivation climate model

Driving Strategic Change through Smart Leadership

- Fundamentals of strategic change management

- Applying Kotter’s 8-Step Model for transformation

- Communicating urgency and direction with clarity

- Managing the risks and resistance of change initiatives

- Embedding a culture of agility and innovation

- Achievement-oriented leadership behaviors and practices

- Building SMART goal systems for performance tracking

- Capstone: Present your Strategic Innovation Implementation Plan

Course Dates & Prices

Location	Date	Price	Enroll to the Course
Online	06/07/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Istanbul (Turkey)	06/07/2026	3699 $	Enroll
London (UK)	06/07/2026	4099 $	Enroll
Online	13/07/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Dubai (UAE)	13/07/2026	3799 $	Enroll
Dubai (UAE)	13/07/2026	3799 $	Enroll
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)	20/07/2026	4199 $	Enroll
Online	20/07/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Doha (Qatar)	20/07/2026	3799 $	Enroll
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)	27/07/2026	4099 $	Enroll
Dubai (UAE)	27/07/2026	3799 $	Enroll
Istanbul (Turkey)	27/07/2026	3699 $	Enroll
Online	27/07/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Online	03/08/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Cairo (Egypt)	03/08/2026	3699 $	Enroll
Dubai (UAE)	03/08/2026	3799$	Enroll
Dubai (UAE)	10/08/2026	3799 $	Enroll
Istanbul (Turkey)	10/08/2026	3699 $	Enroll
Online	10/08/2026	1499 $	Enroll
Online	17/08/2026	1499 $	Enroll