The Leadership Lab

• To enable participants to:
  • Realise their full potential as a manager and leader by applying different leadership styles in different situations
  • Have a stronger impact on their organisation by understanding themselves better as well as the consequences of their actions

Please consider these questions related to your own practice. You’ll be invited to introduce yourself, answering to these questions in the beginning of the workshop.

1. What were your main challenges as a manager/ leader during the last three months
2. What were your successes as a manager/ leader during the last three months?
3. What have you learned from the above challenges and successes – what kind of mind-sets and behaviours were part of those?
4. What do you think and feel when you are at your best?
5. How does the way you manage contribute to your team’s/organisation’s success? (Please be as specific as possible)
6. What would you want to do differently as a manager/ leader?
7. What skills/ competencies/ behaviours would you like to develop during this programme to be at your best as a manager/ leader?

Workshop 1 – Exploring my ingredients

• Defining the role of the manager and leader and what is expected of them
• My management behaviour- identifying my blind spots and talents
• Acknowledging my impact on my team and the wider environment
• My limiting beliefs and unconscious bias- gaining awareness of my managerial identity, values and leadership style
• Self-designed action plan based on my own current situation

Optional Group Coaching Session 1

Workshop 2 – Mixing my ingredients

• Reviewing progress since Workshop 1
• The neuroscience contribution to management
• The impact of emotions on my leadership style
• Effective communication
• The life-work balance
• Self-designed action plan

Optional Group Coaching Session 2

Workshop 3 – Making my own recipe

• Reviewing progress since Workshop 2
• My resilience
• Authentic leadership
• Mapping the future and how I need to adapt

Between the workshops

• Putting my action plan into practice
• Keeping a “Lab book”
• E-book support
• 2 optional 2 hour group coaching sessions between the workshops.

Here you will find some books and articles for reading.

Books

David Rock – Your Brain at Work

Chade-Meng Tan – Search Inside Yourself

Daniel Goleman – Focus

Articles

Leadership that gets results – Daniel Goleman, HBR March-April 2000

Management Is (Still) Not Leadership – by John P. Kotter, HBR January 09 2013

Try Feedforward instead of Feedback By Marshall Goldsmith