Build Your Creative Capacity as a Leader
45mBeginner2022-07-19
Authors

Natalie Nixon
Creativity Strategist, Top 50 Keynote Speaker, and Award-Winning Author
Course details
Did you know that you can apply your soft skills as a creative to be a better leader? In today’s workplace, engaging and retaining your employees requires a new mindset for thinking about leadership. In this course, instructor and creativity strategist Natalie Nixon offers a fresh approach to leadership skills development so you can be more impactful in your role.
Learn why today’s leaders need to lead by inquiry, improvisation, and intuition—all at once—especially if they want to be effective in a constantly shifting workplace. Get an overview of the 3I Creativity model to harness the power of each skill, exploring inquiry with questions and curiosity, improvisation with thought and action, and intuition to trust your own instincts and interpret signals as you go. By the end of this course, you’ll be better prepared to lead without fear and manage change more creatively.
Learn why today’s leaders need to lead by inquiry, improvisation, and intuition—all at once—especially if they want to be effective in a constantly shifting workplace. Get an overview of the 3I Creativity model to harness the power of each skill, exploring inquiry with questions and curiosity, improvisation with thought and action, and intuition to trust your own instincts and interpret signals as you go. By the end of this course, you’ll be better prepared to lead without fear and manage change more creatively.
Skills covered
CreativityGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The power of inquiry, improvisation, and intuition
- 02 - The 3i Creativity framework
1. Better Questions Yield Better Results
- 03 - What is inquiry
- 04 - Why inquiry-led leadership is essential
- 05 - Questions are inputs into a system
- 06 - How to ask better questions
2. We Are Improvisers
- 07 - What is improvisation
- 08 - What jazz musicians teach us about improvisation
- 09 - Improvising through a work problem
3. Intuition as Data
- 10 - What is intuition
- 11 - Feeling our work
- 12 - Intuition and strategic decisions
Conclusion
- 13 - Lead fearlessly
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