UpClose with John Cleese
Creativity in Leadership

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John Cleese will be inspiring senior management and organisational leaders on how creativity in the business world can reap untold benefits through more effective decision-making.

People are either in an ‘open’ or ‘closed’ state of mind. The closed mode enables people to apply themselves to tasks with vigor and concentration; the open mode is more relaxed and conducive to creative thinking.
Cleese shows leaders how to induce an open mode in their team members and establish confidence in them to accept that there is a succession of learning steps involved.

In this half day seminar John Cleese will help you to understand:

• How to think creatively as a leader
• How to develop a culture of creativity in your organisation
• How to put people in an open state of mind
• The importance of the right attitude towards mistakes
• How creative thinking leads to effective decision making

John will also show you how an element of creativity in the business world can reap untold dividends, by helping businesses to innovate and accommodate change.

His approach to decision making draws on Guy Claxton’s remarkable and radical book, “Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind”, to explain why intelligence increases when you think less. He’ll be illustrating his comments with examples from Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Wanda and the 120 videos he made for Video Arts. Many of your senior executives will have experienced him fronting management and customer service training videos – these videos continue to be used widely.

John Cleese maintains a steadfast commitment to business training and attributes his success at corporate training to his fascination with psychology and his love for acting, teaching and making people laugh. Many years ago he established Video Arts, one of the first business training companies to inject humour into workplace learning.

Take this day to entertain your clients or reward your team at one incredibly special, inspiring and entertaining day.

Who should attend

CEOs, General Managers, Senior Executives, HR Managers,
Marketing/Communication Managers, Training and Development
Managers, Creative Directors, Strategists, Educators

Timetable

9.00am – 1.00pm