Course highlight

Leadership takes place in a context and not a vacuum.  Your own preferences, those of others as well as the situation you are in all influence leadership effectiveness.  Learn more about your own preferred operating style, and how to manage others in varying situations.

In this two-day course, participants will learn more about their own and others’ preferences using the MBTI instrument (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator).  Various managerial contexts as well as situations will be considered and practiced.  These include setting targets and managing performance, developing team members and influencing stakeholders without formal authority.  Feedback on your own impact and how to support others with feedback is integrated into the program.

Participants will:

• Develop self-awareness on personal operating styles to set clear personal goals to grow own leadership competence and action plans to achieve these
• Acquire practical skills in communication and in leadership behavior.
• Learn how to act appropriately in the context of leadership and the diversity of factors within specific situations
• Practise how to manage performance: target setting, monitoring and evaluation
• Give and receive feedback effectively
• Develop methods to coach others to drive higher performance and learning
• Learn techniques to influence stakeholders without formal authority

Recommended background

This course is designed for all professionals currently or having potential for a leadership position.  You might be managing your own team or considering this as a next step in your career. 

What you will learn

In these two days you will first learn more about different operating styles and will learn about your own preferences on four dimensions.  The MBTI tool will be used to support this and you will receive a report about your preferred operating styles based on a questionnaire used before the module.  You will learn about different styles of leadership and contexts in which they are most useful.  Guidelines for behaviour in varying leadership contexts will be given and practised in role play situations.  Get feedback on your impact in these situations.  Learn also techniques for leading without authority in order to increase your effectiveness.

Course format

This course will be taught using a combination of formal instructions, combined with practical and interactive exercises and role plays used to reinforce the concepts taught in each section of the course.   Practice-based learning and critical engagement is a key theme through all our courses allowing delegates to acquire the needed skills as soon as they are learned and developed. 

A course with 10 participants is very good to favour the interactivity. Thanks for the perfect course content and lecture.

Very good course, teacher, and approach. Material available on-line prior the course + request to the participants about their expectations from the course.

A pleasant and knowledgeable instructor with a lot of interaction among participants.

An excellent course for people like myself.

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I really appreciated the empathy and skills of the lecturer Bruno Bosch. Also, the size of the group (7 persons) was perfect to have the necessary interactivity throughout the course.

I strongly recommended this training to my colleagues as I found it very useful.

I think this was one of the best course I've ever attended. The trainer, Mrs Maureen, was extremely pedagogic and the structure of the course was very well planned with just the right mixture of theory versus practical examples and exercises.

It was a very enjoyable course. The group was small which made it easier to be 100% involved.  The exercises and case study were absolutely great and necessary to put the theory in practice. A very knowledgeable teacher.

It was nice to have a lecturer with profound knowledge on the topic so that the level of discussion could go further than the simple basics of valuation.

Lecturer had good understanding of the subject and good understanding of practical application.

Perfect for me. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you for the training, which was very clear and met my needs.

The course absolutely answered my expectations and needs.

The lecturer is a knowledgeable person with real market experience which is a plus.

The lecturer is excellent. She explained clear and control good interaction with students.

The training format and takeaways corresponds to what I expected. Thanks for the good preparation

Theoretical explanations good and with good interaction with audience.

There were lots of real life examples and relation to peoples own industries.

This was an excellent course and Kris made it very interesting and useful. He is highly knowledgeable, skilled and open to suggestions.

Thumbs up Maureen!

Very good and interesting training. One of the best I ever had.