Facilitating Creativity, Managing Innovation & Handling Change

Become more Creative at your workplace, build a systemic approach to manage Innovation and handle effectively required change for success.

In our turbulent times, innovation increasingly constitute not only a way to facilitate growth, but a virtual precondition for survival of companies, organizations and even of states! However, organisations usually focus their innovation efforts exclusively within the area of product and service development. Although this direct effort is important and adds value (since it focuses on bottom line results), at the same time it neglects powerful indirect leverage opportunities, such as differentiating business models and internal organization.

Furthermore, obstacles of coming up with creative ideas are usually identified in employees’ personality traits, as well as in underlying misalignments in corporate systemic structures, policies and procedures.
Last but not least, creative ideas are frequently not transformed into innovative practices, as the required change is not managed in an effective way.

The aim of this practical course is to open up new horizons about how a person can become more creative, how innovation can be facilitated within an organization through a systemic approach, and how managers can effectively manage the change required to transform creative ideas to value adding innovation. Attendees will learn methodologies that can be readily applied to the workplace.

Emmanuel Perakis is Managing Partner of STREAM having supported both corporations (such as Coca-Cola 3E, Deutsche Telekom, Carrefour, Heineken, Henkel,  Nestle, Novartis, Mercedes, ADNOC, NBAD), as well as institutions (such as CSR Europe, EFQM, Danish Center for Leadership, WWF), on management issues such as Human Resource , Leadership Development, Creativity & Innovation, Business Excellence and Corporate Responsibility.

He has twenty five years experience in corporations (such as Vodafone, Henkel), in a broad range of functions (Corporate Communications, Business Excellence, Corporate Responsibility, People Management, Innovation & Change. He has served as

·      Jury Committee Member and Senior Assessor for the EFQM Excellence Award in Belgium

·      Board Member of Vodafone Group’s Corporate Responsibility Council in the UK,

·      Business Excellence & Corporate Responsibility Director for Vodafone, Group

·      Communications, Responsibility Director & Executive Committee Member for Mytilineos Holdings.

·      Innovation Assessor for the Sheikh Khalifa Government Excellence Program.

He has provided numerous lectures, moderations and training courses on various management topics such as Innovation, Change, Responsibility, Environment, Excellence and Leadership around the world (Belgium, Serbia, UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Romania, Estonia, UAE, Greece).

In 2003 he was honored with the annual European Leadership Award by the European Foundation for Quality Management, for his “contribution to the Excellence movement in Europe”.

Note that we also offer great team discounts as per the following structure:

Team of 2 delegates: 5% discount

Team of 4 delegates: 10% discount

Team of 6 delegates: 15% discount