Adaptive leadership
General context
A starting leader will learn the simple rule, to write down how he/she want to be lead, and then apply the same strategy for his/her employees. A great leader will learn that there are many different leadership styles and that each style has its most opportune moment to be used. These moments depend on the situation and the employee. Do you know what style works best for your colleagues? Do you know what your personal preferred style is, and how it is being perceived by your colleagues / students / employees?
This training starts with a leadership survey, self‐identifying your personal style and receiving feedback from your colleagues on your style. Next we will cover the different leadership styles and when to apply them. Last we will cover how to recognize which personality types you have in your organisation and how you can best adapt your leadership style to empower your colleagues the most. Great leaders play chess, not checkers. Greatness of a leader is not measured by your personal success, but by the success of the people around you, by having interacted with you.
1. Understanding the difference between leadership, managing, and coaching.
2. Understanding the different leadership styles.
3. Understanding what leadership style can be applied when and what styles to avoid when.
4. Understanding personality and the impact of leadership styles.
Lecture, Individual work, Break‐Out Discussions, Group Discussions, Case‐Studies, Role playing, Feedback.
Prime‐prospect: Post‐Docs and ZAP, but in essence anyone who is ‘starting’ as a leader of others.
- This training is only open for VIB participants and is free.
- Note that upon no show without valid justification a fee of € 100 will be charged and you will be blacklisted for the VIB training program for 1 year. Click here for more information.
The training was sincerely excellent: in content and in delivery (organized, interactive, with good pace, giving structure and reinforcement with exercises, by an engaging trainer).
Participant edition spring 2021
Trainers
Robin Lefebvre
Robin Lefebvre, PhD, offers the academic community over 10 years of evidence-based leadership development expertise, with a proven track record of empowering researchers and professors across leading Belgian universities (VIB, UGent, UA, VUB, and others). He translates his extensive experience as an R&D Leader and corporate trainer at Procter & Gamble into highly hands-on training approaches that effectively bridge theory and practice. Drawing on his background, which includes leading significant innovation programs for global brands and contributing to organizational restructuring, he delivers leadership training focused on inspirational leadership, adaptive leadership, and cultivating collaborative innovation. Robin is dedicated to equipping academic leaders with essential skills to maximize their impact and foster an environment of continuous growth.
Program
The course consists of three parts:
Individual pre‐work:
There will be both a self‐evaluation questionnaire and a 360 Feedback questionnaire on you as a leader. Additionally there will be a requirement to send in some situations of personal leadership challenges, that we can solve during the training.
The actual training:
A 2 day training; 2 days of 8 hours with a trainer.
Post Training track:
During the second day, the whole group will be divided in sub‐groups of 4 to 5 participants. This with the intent of creating discussion groups that will continue after the training on how to apply the training content. Most learning happens when applying the material, and making a longer connection after the training. All participants have experienced the same group process and while coming from a different background are at the same turning point in their career. Most people miss having this fall‐back option at this turning point, to exchange experiences and insights, to vent their stories.
The sub‐group will have the opportunity to continue learning up to 8 session after the training. There are 8 discussion guides for a 1hour meeting available, to enable going deeper into the different tools from the training. The discussion groups will further be supported via an online discussion forum and a group facilitator to moderate the online forum and keep the drum beat. All activities are on a voluntary basis, with online material to facilitate the discussions. The trainer will be available for questions on the forum.