Mobilizing People – Leadership with Innovation and Ease

Shaping the future with the SMILE principle

Training
This training is held in German.
Do you see yourself as a doer and a creator? Thistraining shake up your established thought patterns, change your mindset, and take your innovative power to a new level. In a world full of economic challenges and multiple crises, innovation is no longer an option—it is the only option. But especially in complex times, we need approaches that create efficient innovation and motivating ways to drive new ideas forward. As a manager, you know that enthusiasm always starts with you – and has a direct impact on your team. Yet everyday life often shows something different: bureaucracy slows things down, customer focus is lost, motivation declines – progress stalls. The SMILE formula offers a pragmatic alternative: a leadership tool that helps you to bundle creative impulses in a meaningful way, clearly align goals, and inspire your team with enthusiasm. This is how you create innovation that works – in a way that is understandable, motivating, and with a genuine smile.

Contents

Using creativity as a management tool

  • Mindset as the foundation for future orientation.
  • Recognize your own creative potential and utilize your strengths.
  • Techniques for promoting creative thinking.
  • Strengthen team creativity with pragmatic approaches.
  • Creative methods for successful problem solving.

Creating a culture of innovation

  • Develop a respectful, open team culture.
  • Promote trusting cooperation.
  • Establish a shared vision and future-oriented values.
  • Strengthen personal responsibility and the courage to change.

Building and leading successful innovation teams

  • Identify talent and bring it together in a targeted manner.
  • Strategies for motivation and sustainable performance.
  • Managing dynamics in high-performance teams.
  • Define clear goals, to-dos, and not-to-dos.

Identifying customer needs – solving problems

  • Identify relevant pain points.
  • Develop solutions with real customer benefits.
  • Practice changing your perspective.
  • Use questioning techniques to uncover hidden needs.

Strategically expand networks

  • Establish and maintain valuable professional contacts.
  • Build a personal advisory board and use it as a factor for success.
  • Strengthen partnerships for long-term cooperation.
  • Leverage synergies, create new touchpoints.

From ideas to implementation: Simplify and optimize processes

  • Utilize three streams of inspiration with specific sources.
  • Develop a clear workflow from inspiration to result.
  • Optimize work processes efficiently.
  • Use tools to simplify complex tasks.
  • Promote solution-oriented thinking within the team.

Strengthening the innovation mindset

  • Strengthening resilience in times of change.
  • Use a sense of urgency as a driver for development.
  • Mindful techniques for conscious leadership.
  • Develop intrinsic motivation for shaping the future.
  • Opportunities for the future: Design an innovation pipeline for 1–2 years.
  • Develop hypotheses for 3+ years: risk vs. opportunities.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

This training not only training you training knowledge transfer, but also inspiration for your personal development as a leader:

  • Discover and develop your individual potential as leader creative leader.
  • Learn about proven best practices: tools, methods, and ideas you can apply right away.
  • Develop a clear vision for shaping the future of the company.
  • Overcome mental barriers in the innovation process together with your team.
  • Strengthen your leadership mindset: Become more resilient to change and transformation!
  • Create added value through a clearly structured innovation process with long-term success.

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Methods

We deliberately create a space that goes beyond traditional leadership training—inspiringly different! In an extraordinary location, you will experience intensive exchange on equal terms using exceptional methods.

As an extra and for a lasting effect, you will receive 45 minutes of online coaching following the training event.

Recommended for

The training at experienced executives and middle to upper management with personnel and budget responsibility.

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09.06.2026
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