Creative Leaders 2024 applications now open

Overview

Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet along with Animation Ireland, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and Coimisiún na Meán are excited to open applications for Creative Leaders 2024.

As businesses move more and more into the digital age, the need for creative leadership is increasing. This is especially prevalent in the creative industries where large creative teams are working intensely on long-term projects in a virtual remote world.

What will this course cover?

Leading Self

  • Completion of individual Personality profile report
  • Building Self-awareness
  • Communicating with different personality types
  • Understand your leadership style
  • Time Management/Productivity
  • Goal Setting/OKRs

Leading Teams

  • Leading with Emotional Intelligence
  • Creating an interdependent leadership climate
  • Leading vs Managing
  • Creating a high-performance team
  • Creating alignment and cohesion
  • Giving Effective feedback

Design Thinking

  • Understanding Creative thinking
  • Creating empathy
  • Defining problems
  • Ideation
  • Prototyping
  • Testing

Inclusive Leadership

  • Equality, diversity and Inclusion principles 
  • Conscious Inclusion vs unconscious bias
  • Inclusive leadership behaviours
  • Creative problem solving 
  • Values in leadership

Personal Value Proposition

  • Leadership Statement
  • Effective Will Power
  • Key partnerships 
  • The people you serve
  • Finding your Why

Managing Stakeholders

  • Managing multiple stakeholder
  • Strategic Networking
  • Influencing others – managing upwards
  • Leading upwards
  • Like v Trust

All participants will be asked to complete a Clarity4D personality profile questionnaire at the beginning of the programme; this will provide them with an individual report on their personality preferences and how to communicate and influence others.

Visit the Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet website for more information