Innovation and Strategic Thinking for Managers

This OnDemand Course contains the following lessons:

Understanding Disruption and Preparing for Breakthrough Growth
Learn to navigate disruption by recognizing its elements and driving factors, identifying the value of agility and adaptability during times of change, and discovering ways to foster growth admidst disruption.

Building a 360-Degree Network
Learn how to build and lead a 360-degree network to successfully lead projects and launch new initiatives.

Persuasive Techniques to Influence Others 
Learn the importance of influencing and the strategies that will make you a more persuasive leader and influencer.

Leading Your Team Through Ambiguity
Learn how to embrace ambiguity as an opportunity to leverage your team’s agility and innovation and to propel your business forward.

Achieving Growth by Building, Buying, or Partnering
Learn why companies often need to build, buy, or partner to achieve growth in the global economy.

Becoming a Strategic Thinker
Learn the value of strategic thinking and how to share strategic ideas across the organization.

The Manager’s Role During Change
Build knowledge and skills to help you define change management, identify the need for it and discover your role as a change leader.

Managing Resistance to Change
Learn specific communication tactics to drive change and address employee doubts about change.

Five Phases of the Creativity-to-Innovation Process
Get an overview of the Five Phases of the Creativity-to-Innovation Process, plus guidance on how to gain buy-in from stakeholders.

Fostering Creativity and Innovation in Others
Explore different types of enablers and motivators to help foster creativity and innovation at work—and maximize performance.

SEAL Approach to Building Organizational Agility
Learn to act with organizational agility—so your company can react successfully to new competitors and technologies or manage sudden shifts in the overall market.

Strategy Execution: Elements of a Sound Strategy
Discover ways to identify and get input from key stakeholders, manage data collected from them and adjust your strategy accordingly to gain buy-in.

Strategy Development and Execution: The ADEPTT Model
Apply the ADEPTT Model to analyze current states, define future states and goals, engage key resources, plan and execute requests effectively, troubleshoot barriers and follow through with proper tracking.