A leadership course created especially for in-house creative leaders.

We start by helping you get clarity on the leadership styles you need to hone into in order to have an impact on your role – with your team and stakeholders. This builds the foundation of your leadership.

More than a buzzword, a massive opportunity and a chance for you to establish your team at the forefront. Leveraging design thinking and creativity to bring innovative approaches within your organisation. Don’t get left behind. 

• Leverage design thinking and creativity to drive innovation with AI.
• Apply lean thinking for experimental initiatives.
• Showcase team efforts to build inter-departmental bridges and position the team at the forefront of innovation.

We look at the business you’re in and how you can connect the dots between mission and vision and the work your team is driving. Building more understanding and empathy towards other areas of the business enables you to have more impact in how you communicate your team’s value.

• Gain insight into the business context and connect team efforts with the organization’s mission and vision.
• Enhance empathy and understanding across different business areas to effectively communicate the team’s value.

Do your values align with your organisation? Do they have to? In this session we look at connecting the company values to your strategy and identifying the team culture you need to foster to have impact. 

• Foster a team culture that aligns with the company’s strategy to maximize impact.
• Align personal and organizational values, if necessary.

Identifying allies and champions and how to use influence and persuasion tactics to make connections across the business. 

Now we have a view of the company strategy and position, here’s where we zone in on how you have impact. We will explore the art of communicating and leading through change, how to spot zones of influence and how to ‘win’ when you really understand the business you’re in. 

• Understand and communicate the company’s strategy.
• Lead through change, identify influence zones, and effectively communicate your understanding of the business to achieve goals.

Here’s where we cover how to create the conditions for great team performance. From hiring and firing, to difficult conversations to keeping folks engaged and motivating in a world you can’t always control.

• Create conditions for optimal team performance, including hiring, handling difficult conversations, and maintaining engagement and motivation.

Leadership can be lonely but it doesn’t have to be, we will build a network map to identify your allies and champions and how to use influence and persuasion tactics to make connections across the business, especially the areas you work least with but lean on. 

• Build a network map to identify allies and champions.
• Use influence and persuasion to connect across the business, especially with less familiar areas.

We close off the program by building a leadership canvas that will enable you to be a great in-house inhouse creative leader. This will leverage your strengths and help you to lean into difficult conversations, navigate conflict, build your internal brand and create the right boundaries (through effective delegation) so you can focus on having impact. 

• Develop a leadership canvas to leverage strengths and navigate challenges.
• Improve skills in conflict resolution, internal branding, delegation, and maintaining focus on impactful areas.