Mastering Tough Decisions with Creative Leadership
Explore the innovative approach to decision-making through creative leadership principles outlined in "Taking Tough Decisions: A Creative Leadership Approach." Learn how rationality, mapping, and creativity can help in dealing with decision dilemmas and enhancing leadership skills. Discover the interconnectedness of leadership and creativity in driving change and growth. Engage in practical exercises to understand the elements that make a decision tough and leverage the mapping metaphor to navigate through challenges effectively.
Download Presentation
Please find below an Image/Link to download the presentation.
The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author. If you encounter any issues during the download, it is possible that the publisher has removed the file from their server.
You are allowed to download the files provided on this website for personal or commercial use, subject to the condition that they are used lawfully. All files are the property of their respective owners.
The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author.
E N D
Presentation Transcript
Taking Tough Decisions: A Creative Leadership Approach Tudor Rickards Emeritus Professor Creativity and Management of Change, Manchester Business School Rebecca Baron Associate Dean General Practice Health Education North West
Taking Tough Decisions: A Creative Leadership Approach The approach examined today is based on the principles and practices outlined in Dilemmas of Leadership, and applied in executive leadership workshops around the world The most important leader you will be studying is yourself
DOL Principles Rationality (The Dominant Rational Model, DRM) is the gold standard in professional decision-making. Rationality is limited when the decisions pose dilemmas Understanding mapping and creativity can help you deal with decision dilemmas
Learning Objectives Learning Focus Taking tough decisions in practice Issues Map-reading, testing and making Understanding and dealing with dilemmas Creative leadership Dilemmas The limits of prior knowledge and assumptions Suspicions of the irrational in decision-making
Creativity and Leadership The seemingly disparate fields of leadership and creativity are linked together by change. Leadership requires it, and creativity helps leaders achieve it. Source: Academic Exchange Quarterly
Table Exercise: What makes a decision tough? Share experiences of tough decisions Shortlist three for examination as living cases Nominate a presenter for sharing a case with its explanatory title.
The Mapping Metaphor A map helps you prepare for your journeys Map-Reading By map reading, map-testing, and map-making, you will be more successful in your learning journeys Map-Testing Map-Making
Mapping as a life skill By applying the principles of map-reading, map-testing, and map- making you become more skilled at assessing The usefulness (reliability) of anything you read : Text-books, articles, reports, experiences , behaviours, situations
Tough decisions as dilemmas Tough decisions result from conflicting outcomes arising from different maps or belief systems which present dilemmas Dilemmas include decisions with ethical components (e.g. NICE) There is no right answer to these decisions Progress requires creative thinking
Developing skills in creative decision making The Manchester Method approach introduces structures based on lateral thinking, versions of brainstorming, mindmapping and Yes and invitations (encouragement of positivity) to support effective and creative decision-making New effective procedures develop through training and in subsequent professional practice
Yes And . There are always more negatives than positives It s easier to tame down a wild idea than to breathe life into a dead one Yes And creates momentum Creativity is by invitation only NO CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING!
Creativity and Leadership What is creative leadership? Do I need it, and if so, can creative leadership be developed? A definition linking creativity and leadership: Creative leadership is the ability to engage one s imagination to define and guide a group towards a novel goal [Puccio et al, 2011]
References Dilemmas of leadership: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/0415355850/ The Manchester Method: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Manchester-Method-Leaders- Monograph-ebook/dp/B00V4WB1VK Regular updates on leadership: http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/ Power point on creative leadership: http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/creativ e-leadership-is-linked-to-team-effectiveness/
