Innovative Leadership Competencies Course in Doha, Qatar

Innovative Leadership Competencies focuses on what leaders do to make innovation happen in their teams and organizations. Rather than treating innovation as the job of a specialist unit, the course develops the everyday competencies that encourage new ideas: curiosity, openness to challenge, creating psychological safety, framing problems well, testing ideas quickly and managing the risks of new approaches. Participants also look at how digital technologies are changing services and operations, and what this means for leaders.

The course is workshop-based and hands-on throughout. Participants practice each design thinking stage on a real workplace challenge, use ideation techniques, build simple prototypes and plan low-cost experiments. They also assess the innovation climate in their own teams and identify barriers to change. Organizations can run the course as an in-house program, focusing on their own improvement challenges and innovation strategy.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the core competencies and mindsets of innovative leaders

• Create psychological safety so team members share ideas and challenge assumptions

• Apply design thinking to understand users and reframe problems

• Use structured ideation techniques to generate and select ideas

• Plan rapid, low-cost experiments to test ideas and learn quickly

• Lead the adoption of innovations while managing risk and resistance

This course is for leaders and professionals who want to encourage creativity and lead practical innovation in their areas.

• Managers and team leaders seeking to drive improvement

• Innovation, transformation and excellence office staff

• Product, service and customer experience managers

• Digital transformation and IT leaders

• Professionals leading improvement or pilot projects

Module 1: Innovation and the Leader

• Types of innovation: incremental, adjacent and transformational

• Competencies and mindsets of innovative leaders

• Barriers to innovation in established organizations

• Assessing your team's innovation climate

Module 2: Building a Culture for Innovation

• Psychological safety and learning from failure

• Encouraging curiosity, questioning and diverse perspectives

• Recognizing and rewarding experimentation

• Balancing innovation with operational reliability

Module 3: Design Thinking in Practice

• Empathise: understanding users and stakeholders

• Define: framing the right problem

• Ideate: brainstorming, SCAMPER and other techniques

• Prototype and test simple solutions

Module 4: Experimentation and Decision-Making

• Formulating testable assumptions and hypotheses

• Designing small pilots and minimum viable solutions

• Using evidence to scale, adapt or stop ideas

• Managing innovation portfolios and risk

Module 5: Leading Adoption and Digital Change

• How digital technologies are reshaping services and operations

• Building the case and securing sponsorship for ideas

• Managing resistance to new ways of working

• Personal innovation leadership action plan

Economic diversification and the development of a knowledge-based economy are central themes of Qatar National Vision 2030. Government entities are digitising services, and companies in energy, finance, logistics, healthcare and hospitality are seeking new ways to improve efficiency and customer experience. Leaders who can create a climate for ideas, test solutions quickly and guide the adoption of new technologies help organizations in Qatar contribute to this shift towards innovation-led growth.

Join a scheduled class at our training center in Doha or attend live online. For organizations, the course can run as an in-house program at your premises or online, tailored to your sector, case studies and timetable.