Creative leadership as a factor of effective development in modern conditions

Abstract

The mental problems that Ukraine is now facing are creating changes in consciousness aimed at rethinking the theoretical foundations and technologies for preparing future ceramics for various professional activities. The development of a reproductive style of training future leaders and the transition to a new paradigm opens new opportunities for training future leaders to ensure cognitive activity, creativity, and self-sufficiency. An idea emerges of the features and strategic directions of modernization and overcoming an important period of dry problems. The article presents an analysis of creative leadership as an effective tool of informal management in modern conditions. The research methodology is based on systemic and activity-based approaches and includes conceptual and terminological analysis, methods of comparison and generalization. Creative leadership is considered as a tool of informal management, increasing the intensity of the organization's innovative activities, promoting the humanization of organization management methods with the active introduction of modern technologies into management practice. Several soft skills that determine the nature of his managerial influence on the organization’s employees are analyzed as key characteristics of a creative leader. The unconventional thinking of a leader is explored, which has as its essential feature the promotion of new, non-standard ideas and can become a catalyst for the collective development of new knowledge necessary for making the necessary innovative decisions in the organization. The 15 most effective leadership qualities and their characteristics have been studied and presented, which show the specification of creativity as an attributive quality of a leader, revealed through the characteristics of his creative thinking, the results of which have a sign of “secondary” novelty, related not to the production of knowledge, but to its practical implementation, transformation innovation in innovation. Creatively new characterizes original, non-standard ways of external design of previously created new products for their successful promotion to the market. Based on the results obtained, a conclusion is made about the need to develop creative leadership as a tool that promotes innovation, increasing competitiveness and the efficiency of the functioning and development of companies in difficult modern realities. Keywords: creativity, leadership, creative thinking, creative leadership, leadership qualities.