Led by Linda Naiman, Founder, Creativity at Work and global pioneer in the business and arts interface and Ralph Kerle, Creative Strategist and CEO, the Creative Leadership Forum
March 7, 2008
Ernst and Young, 680 George Street
Sydney, Australia
Price $750.00 inc GST
Why Artful Leadership?
The mark of an authentic artful leader in any organization is how the leader is able to continually nurture the creative relationships and conversations between all stakeholders in order to produce successful immediate value and long term viability.
Numbers are traditionally considered the measure for business success. If you don’t have the numbers, that’s the end of the conversation.
However, it is not the financial and performance targets that produce the outcomes or value. It is the relationships among people, clients, suppliers and their patterns of working and thinking together that produce the outcomes and the value.
An artful leader must know how to lead people creatively!
This international master class presented by global leaders in the area of arts, business and leadership offers executives an introduction to
- a theory of creativity
- the notion of spheres of influence and how an artful leader is able to get things done
- the principles and practices of applied creativity from business, art and science
- artful leadership and a method of reflection that facilitates continual growth
“Business isn’t some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine — a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But “enterprise” (a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It’s about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It’s about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.” — Tom Peters
The Programme
A Theory of Creativity and Its Application.
Creativity in organizations comes from many directions and in many ways. What are our participants’ experiences of creativity? How has it affected them personally?
Using a visualisation process, we explore the experience of creativity and leadership. The Theory U concept developed by Otto Scharmer, MIT Sloan School of Management provides a framework for how we can work creatively to create desired futures – to begin to understand how we can become Artful Leaders.
Spheres of Influence: Influencing for Impact
The success of your project?and the course of your career?depends on your ability to influence people to get things done. Gain insight into the external and internal influences that affect your decisions and actions, by mapping out your spheres of influence through imagery, inquiry and dialogue. How might the images you have created be a code for your emerging story and future possibilities? How do you increase your influencing powers to overcome barriers to innovation? How do you get buy-in for your ideas when you have no formal authority in collaborative work groups? Learn how to become more influential as an influencer.
Creativity: Principles and Practices from business, art and science
An exploration of the rich tapestry of images, ideas and strategies used by leading innovators in business, art and science to inspire and inform you. Discover the strategic ways art is being used in major organizations that transcend traditional roles of decoration and entertainment, and save companies for the perils of commodity hell: Art as a branded experience, art as a means of spearheading social innovation and organizational change and art as a catalyst for creativity.
This interactive presentation is designed to give you an overview of key principles and practices you can apply to cultivate your own creativity and to create a workplace environment where creativity and innovation flourish.
Reflecting on Artful Leadership through Creative Writing.
One theory of creative writing is based on the idea that writing is primarily a physical experience. We know when we have chosen the wrong word when we are trying to express ourselves because our body tells us. It is a “felt sense”. By recognising this “felt sense”, we are able to reflect, focus deeper on our concerns and find dramatic shifts in understandings and insight.
This Master Class concludes uses creative writing to unlock the wisdom in your body and to reflect on artful leadership, its meaning and how you might apply your ideas in an organisational context.
A 360 facilitated dialogue “the Artful Leader Master Class, its insights and outcomes” concludes the programme.
Sounds like an interesting course or workshop. Effective leadership is definitely an artform, and it is not always measured in numbers, as you said.