• Appraise the key features and benefits of innovative and collaborative teams
• Assess their team’s current and aspired innovation and collaboration skills and create an appropriate development plan
• Evaluate key approaches for creating the right environment for innovation and collaboration
• Examine common approaches to developing shared purposes and goals
• Apply leadership practices which inspire and support team innovation, collaboration and success

• Leaders and managers who have responsibility for team performance or for developing team skills and capabilities.
• Additionally, HR and Learning and Development professionals with responsibility for developing organisational skills and capabilities.

Day One: The Benefits of Innovation and Collaboration

• The nature of innovation
• Collaboration vs. competition
• Learned behaviors
• Innovative and collaborative teams
• The innovative and collaborative team mindset

Day Two: Building the Innovative and Collaborative Team

• Innovative and collaborative team values
• High performance goals and metrics
• Innovation and collaborative skills
• Appraising team skills
• Designing a team development programme

Day Three: Creating the Right Environment for Innovation and Collaboration

• The new role of leadership
• Individual creative work
• Individual strengths and blind spots
• Trust and communication
• Recognition and feeding forward
• Productive conflict: a source of creativity and team cohesion

Day Four: Inspiring Shared Purposes and Common Goals

• Individual preferences and goals
• Developing a team picture of success
• ‘Force field’ analysis
• Strategic priority areas
• Monitoring progress and achievement

Day Five: Leadership Practices for Innovative and Collaborative Teams

• Guiding principles: drawing on great experiences
• Communication with and within your team
• Team gatherings
• Team decisions and the leader’s decision making process
• Personal and team accountability
• Developing a personal and team action plan