Course: Creativity & Innovation Cultures
In a rapidly changing global landscape, the ability to creatively problem solve and innovate is vital to the success and sustainability of an organisation. This course focuses on developing key skills in individuals and across teams to enable learners to develop their own creativity, providing strategies, techniques, and tools to develop their problem-solving skills and their approach to challenges faced within the workplace. Sessions will explore how to develop a creative and inclusive culture with increased collaboration, agility, smart risk-taking and entrepreneurship.
Workshop topics:
- Understanding Innovation: Understand innovation theories and frameworks (incl. and how to evaluate innovation against management and business models.
- Innovation Cultures: Explore how to develop a culture of innovation and support ‘intrapreneurialism’ to create innovative entrepreneurs within an organisation.
- Creative Collaboration: Assessing the latest tech, trend and tools for collaborative practices including Design Thinking practices, Microsoft Teams functions and Miro.
- Design Thinking: Explore this popular framework to generate innovative solutions, adopted by large companies such as Apple and Google.
- Effective Brainstorming: Identify and explore additional creative thinking techniques including Design Thinking, Brains Sprints, Empathy Maps and more.
- Learn & Apply Huddle – Creativity & Innovation Manifesto: In a facilitated environment, bring all learning together to create a personal ‘Creativity & Innovation’ action plan encompassing key themes to take back into the workplace.
Optional Addition: Lego Serious Play
The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method uses Lego to help teams think more creatively and is used by organisations across the world as a tool for strategic thinking. Whether it’s for goal setting, team building, idea generation, problem-solving, decision making or working towards a shared vision; unleash your creative side and discover new ways to think differently.
Course: Making Wellbeing Work
Fostering a culture of Wellbeing benefits organisations and individuals, helping prevent stress and creating positive working environments where individuals and organisations thrive. Further, wellbeing can be a core enabler of engagement and performance, so this course covers core wellbeing competencies, culminating in attendees creating their own wellbeing development plan to take forward into their roles.
Workshop topics:
- Cultivating Optimism: Explore how to manage setbacks and develop a positive (or growth) mindset to improve wellbeing and productivity.
- Cultivating Gratitude: Identify the links between gratitude and wellbeing and explore tips and skills to enhance gratitude in daily life.
- Cultivating Resilience: Understand what resilience means, the core components of resilience thinking and behaviour and identify tips for boosting resilience long term.
- Cultivating Confidence: Understand what confidence is, know more about your own self-confidence, identity positive behaviours (including the development of a Growth Mindset and soliciting feedback) and ways to boost self-confidence going forward.
- Coaching Yourself: Develop the core coaching skills of listening, questioning and being present to create space for yourself to explore options and solutions to daily pressures.
- Learn & Apply Huddle – Your Wellbeing Plan: Bring all learning together in a facilitated and supportive environment to create a personal wellbeing plan encompassing all key themes to take back into the workplace.
Course: Long Distance Leader
All teams, irrespective of location, can work by the same values and commit to the same mission. However, this doesn’t happen naturally, it takes deliberate action and effort from a leader to create the right culture for dispersed teams. Post-pandemic, the ‘new normal’ provides the perfect opportunity to reset values so this course looks at the leadership shifts that are proving helpful for managing teams in a hybrid world.
Workshop topics
- Visible Leadership: Trust and togetherness are imperative to support engagement and productivity in hybrid environments. This workshop looks at how long-distance leaders can role model effective behaviours to establish trust, the essential glue for any hybrid team.
- Effective Goal Setting: Goal setting is the most effective way to maintain productivity and performance, so this workshop supports long-distance Leaders to move to more frequent goal setting with a greater focus on empowering employees to determine how they get to (and take ownership) of outcomes.
- Team Rituals: It can be hard to maintain a culture of collaboration in hybrid teams, but Team Rituals help. This workshop surfaces the shared experiences (or healthy team habits) that strengthen bonding, morale, and communication – and maintain a sense of connectedness and belonging.
- A Coaching Approach: From casual moments to structured one-to-ones, the ability to effectively coach others is business critical when leading dispersed teams. Coaching sets expectations, unlocks talent, and drives performance so this workshop explore useful frameworks to help long-distance leaders delegate decision making and empower disparate teams.
- Agile Mindsets: To succeed in an ever-changing hybrid world, teams must cultivate an agile mindset; a thought process that involves understanding, collaborating, learning, and staying flexible to achieve high-performing results. By combining the agile mindset with the tools already explored, hybrid teams are ready for the only constant – change.
- Learn & Apply Huddle – Long Distance Leader Action Plan: Bring all learning together in a facilitated and supportive environment to create an action plan encompassing all key themes to take back into the workplace.
Course: Senior Leadership – High Performance Cultures
Over four modules, delivered across two full or four half-days, this course for Senior Leaders operating at a strategic level, identifies the drivers of high performance and best-practices to cultivate and maintain high-performing cultures.
Workshop topics:
- How leaders can exploit four levers of influence to raise team performance and generate ‘discretionary effort’.
- How to foster self-organising and self-sufficient teams informed by theoretical insights.
- How to build engagement and develop agile and collaborative cultures with best-practice tools (incl. goal setting, role modelling, situational leadership, and coaching).
- Reflect on learnings and identify actions to take forward in the business in a facilitated environment, concluding with a Personal Commitment (what action will you take, why does this make a difference to your leadership and for those around you?).
Optional Addition: 121 Executive Coaching
With a team of accredited coaches, Bauer Academy can offer one-to-one executive or c-level coaching to support individuals to identify goals linked to business strategy and take meaningful steps towards them
Course: Mid-Level Leadership – Core Principles
Middle managers are often the glue that holds an organisation together, connecting the big ideas from senior management and turning them into actionable directions for the workforce. Imagine being a conductor of a workplace orchestra making sure everyone is in sync and playing the right tune. They translate organisational vision into actionable steps, bridge communication gaps, nurture talent and foster a culture of collaboration and support. With six workshops, split across three modules, this course surfaces leadership best-practice by exploring trust, influence, role-modelling, leadership styles, team development, drivers of high-performance, coaching and conflict management.
Module 1 – Leading Yourself: For individuals to become more aware of their own authentic leadership style and feel empowered to own their onward personal development.
- We start by encouraged individuals to reflect and conduct a personal SWOT analysis and understand the role of personal storytelling to articulate own leadership. This session will also explore the power of emotional intelligence to improve self-awareness, increase accountability, foster communication, and build trusting relationships.
- Leaders need to constantly adapt to the needs of their team and situations. This workshop increases awareness of where to adapt through exploring leadership style, situational leadership, and role-modelling behaviours.
Module 2 – Leading Others: Being able to manage teams is a vital skill for all managers, and this module will encourage consideration of team dynamics, goal setting, coaching, influence, and other drivers of high performance.
- Managers with coaching skills can empower their teams to become more pro-active, independent and goal orientated. This session will equip learners with coaching frameworks and show how to develop a culture of feedback.
- Teams form in stages are therefore unique; this workshop explores how teams form and evolve and the drivers of continuous high performance. Attendees will learn how to assess own team stage and take the relevant practical steps to sustain performance.
Module 3 – Leading in the Organisation: Managers have responsibility for operational day-to-day management of processes, and this module equips them with tools to increase efficiency and drive.
- Embracing change and honing change management skills not only benefits an organisation but also ensures the professional growth of leaders themselves. This workshop explores change management theory and the benefits of developing an agile mindset in teams.
- This final workshop builds & boosts confidence, by exploring the most effective ways to communicate with teams and explores the fundamentals of conflict management including techniques to handle difficult conversations.
Optional Addition: 3 x ‘Learn & Apply’ Support Sessions
Sitting separately to the workshops, 1-hour ‘learner-led’ reflective sessions can be facilitated by Bauer Academy at the end of each module to surface learnings, drive peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and help to define and confirm actions or further support needs. These additional sessions provide an opportunity for senior leaders to attend, gain feedback and aid application of learning back into the business.