The nature of work and the institutions through which work is carried out have changed, and continue to change at an unimaginable rate. It can no longer be taken for granted that careers will be completed in one organisation or in one field of professional activity. Hierarchies in many sectors have disappeared for good and in their place there are matrixes and temporary work teams which are held together by the immediate, often short-term, aims of the team or their contractors. New ways of forming teams have had to be found, of motivating and maintaining them, and ending them when the job is done. Leadership and management in these circumstances mean something completely different than they once did in employer-employee contractual relationships.
Leadership is about being in touch with a new reality and bringing that reality into being.
The creative characteristics of teams can be studied and understood, and the knowledge utilised properly for the benefit of the individuals in the team, for the team as a whole and the wider organisation of which the team is a part. The course aims to produce well-rounded leaders who hold fast to their teams' and organisations' aims, are sensitive to the personal and work needs of all the members of their teams, and are able to work with the conscious and unconscious trends in their teams and organisations. A successful integration of intellectual and emotional intelligence, two major areas of human functioning, leads to teams working efficiently and being always ready to adapt and transform themselves. More about the Course Leading Creative Teams is an intensive course enabling participants to examine and question the nature of their roles as leaders and the place of their teams and organisations in uncertain environments. This course is flexibly designed and can be taken either in parts or as a whole.