Session 1: Who am I?
Self-knowledge, attention and reflection is essential for you as a leader because it improves your ability to respond effectively to situations. You know and you discover what your team and your employees need in a given situation, and you know what you need to do to respond effectively.
We start with a personality test via disc, mapstell, insights - self-knowledge is the foundation of all wisdom (https://www.123test.com/nl/disc-test/)
Learnings
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You get to know your typical leadership style and where you can develop yourself
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You get to know your core qualities, pitfalls, irritations and challenges
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You get to know your triggers towards similar or opposite personalities
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You learn to adapt your own style without losing your authenticity
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You receive feedback from the group on how they perceive you.
Methodology
DISC, insights, Ofman, Leary's Rose, Mapstell
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Session 2: What is my strategy to achieve my objectives?
The importance of strategy is obvious to organizations. It gives direction to an organization, provides clear frameworks for making choices and helps determine the success factors for growth. After having a clear mission and vision, you need a strategy to make your plans a reality. How will you translate the objectives you set in advance into concrete goals, with a clear strategy and a follow-up measurement method? This includes the critical success factors and action plans.
Learnings
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You get to know your values and formulate a clear mission and vision for your team
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You draw up your SWOT and confrontation matrix
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You set out 3 major objectives for which you formulate a clear goal, the strategy per objective (means you deploy to achieve goals), measurements via dashboard (smart KPI) and an action plan (who, what, when)
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You translate the primary goals into a realistic plan for the employees
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You determine your critical success factors
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You learn to draw up a clear organizational chart where the right people are in the right place to achieve your goals
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You learn to prioritize and delegate
Methodology
Templates & training with practical exercises
Session 3: Giving and following up clear assignments - steering
Communication is and remains the most difficult and important thing to manage a team. This session offers an opportunity to lead better and communicate in a connecting way that will lead to more results.
Also, you give dozens of instructions to your people every day. If they don't understand you enough, it leads to frustration and wasted time. As a leader, you need to foster a safe culture where employees can be open, express their opinions and support each other. You need to appreciate and recognize them for what they do well in order to increase motivation. After all, feedback is vital fuel for employee motivation.
Learnings
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You learn that everyone understands a message differently and what goes wrong in communication
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You learn to give simple instructions
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You learn how to deal with conflict & gossip
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You learn how to have conversations with your team regarding feedup (where are they going, what is their goal/results) feedback (what did they do, how did they handle it so far) feedforward (what is the next step, what are they going to do next to achieve the set goals)
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You learn do's and don't's in communication
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You learn connecting communication
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You learn that a team needs to feel safe, supported and recognized
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You learn how to handle difficult conversations
Session 4: Team dynamics & change management
A positive, helpful and inspiring culture creates more job happiness and higher performance.
Within teams, people often assume a certain role with corresponding behavioral expressions. Team dynamics is the effect this behavior has on other team members. Each person on the team has their own perspectives, goals, needs, ... which influence the behavior of others.
Learnings
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You learn what dynamics are going on in your team.
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You learn to make a team analysis - what talents are there in my team
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You learn to create a successful team with clear agreements - For a team to be held to agreements, it is necessary that they know, understand, remember and agree to the agreements. If all goes well, the agreements are fairly simple and clear. Then you can ask the team to agree to them.
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You learn the importance of a cohesive and open culture.
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You learn how to implement major changes according to the ADKAR methodology.
Methodology: Adkar, Belbin team roles, Leary's rose
https://www.123test.nl/groepsrollentest/
https://werkenmetteamrollen.nl/het-verhaal-van-de-teamrollen-van-belbin/
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Session 5: A High Performing and Happy Team
How high performing and happy is your team and what can you do about it? How do you coach your people so they become more self-directed and engaged. After all, you want them to work proactively and take ownership of their tasks. You are their ticket to personal and professional growth.
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You learn coaching methods instead of taking the monkeys around your shoulders.
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You learn situational leadership
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You learn to ask questions to know how well your team is performing and what you and/or the organization can do to improve it
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You learn to give responsibilities to your team so they take ownership of their work
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You learn what you can do to guide them in their personal growth trajectory
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Session 6 : Put your learnings into practice.
The final session aims for everyone to share his/her plan/learnings to the group. He/she will then receive constructive feedback to guide him/her to the next level. Putting theory into practice is a great value-add of the training coupled with constructive feedback.
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You take the stage and try to convince others of your plans and ideas
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You learn how to deal with feedback
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You learn what it means to put theory into practice and apply it concretely
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You gain knowledge, practice the knowledge and become a real leader who adds value to his/her team
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Experience sharing from others. An action plan with a commitment.
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The needs of each participant and the group as a whole are addressed.