Teaching Topics
• What is creativity at all? Definitions and Meaning
o The bridge between the idea and its fulfillment
o What is leadership and what is the connection to creativity? o Implementing ideas to create tangible (or conscious) change
• Interdependence circles
o Connections of self, society, community, place, time and values.
• Creative leadership skills o Thinking creativity
o Impact, persuasion and mediation ability
o Group work - sharing
o Ability to present and speak to an audience o Critical reflection ability
o Durability and longevity
o Leadership - but willingness to lead
o Listening ability and empathy
• Features of Creative Leadership:
o Agents of change - mental flexibility
o Taking risks - Failure is also a learning process.
o Systemic thinking ability
o Intuition and rational thinking - balance and flexibility.
o Social intelligence - ability to connect with people.
o Leadership through personal example. Feet on the ground.
• Characteristics of creative leadership o humility
o Integrity
o Generosity o Originality
• Change Agents
“Change is not necessarily necessary to life,it is life itself” - Alvin Toffler
• Risk T aking
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go” -
T.S. Eliot
• System Thinking
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