Grow to Lead - Leadership & Teamwork
30 & 31 May (09h – 17h), 25 June (09h - 17h)
General context
A starting leader will learn the simple rule, to write down how you want to be lead, and then apply the same strategy for your employee’s. A great leader will learn that there are many different leadership styles and each style has its most opportune moment to use. The opportune 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. For the 3 most important styles, we will go step by step when and how to used them. Putting theory in practice.
- Understanding the difference between leadership, managing, and coaching.
- Understanding the different leadership styles, and when to apply them.
- Understand and practice the tools for visionary leadership:
- Motivate and inspire others
- Value based teams.
- Leveraging different types of goal setting (performance, process, learning).
- Give clear result oriented feedback.
- Understand and practice the tools for individualised leadership:
- How to ask the right questions.
- Build trust and relationships via listening.
- Leverage coaching as a leader.
- Understand and practice the tools for participative leadership:
- How to delegate tasks and responsibility
- Create collaborative partnerships
- Understanding the power of moments.
This training is designed to provide you with both the skills and the tools to become a better leader, manager, and collaborator. It helps if you already have leadership experience, but it is not required. However this training is more than a just a set of scientifically proven models, it is a leadership trajectory, where we will start with a 2 day deep dive, followed by a day to reconnect, to enable you to start implementing the training in practice. There will be substantial pre‐work and homework. So if you hope to follow this training to tick a box, it might not be for you. If you however want to start growing as a leader of others and are not afraid of working hard and learning a lot, this training will give you science, practice, and experience.
Prework
Before the training the participant will be asked to share their learning objectives for the training, complete an online assessment and ask managers, colleagues, peers, reportees or students to complete a leadership assessment about them.
- Learning objectives, which will be confirmed during the start of the training, will be checked at each relevant chapter of the training, to ensure they have been answered.
- A Leadership Styles self‐assessment (current and future objective).
- A Leadership Styles feedback assessment (current and future objective), and a personality assessment from their manager, colleagues, peers, reportees or students.
- A leadership case study; a challenge that they have faced or are facing that will be handled during the training.
Post training - Sessions of sub‐team discussions
The sub‐group will start during the training and have a 1h meeting with their focus group in between day 2 and day 3 of the training, to discuss how to apply the learning of the training in their daily work routine. After the training there are 5 additional discussion guides for a 1hour meeting available, to enable going deeper into the different tools from the training. So the training trajectory will be 1 month of training interaction, followed by a (non‐obligatory) 10 weeks self‐led continuation of 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, or via email. While the last 5 agendas are not compulsory, from previous trainings it has been shown that when a group had 3 productive sessions together during the training, they are very motivated to continue (and in rare occasion still meet years later).
Course material
- PDF with pre‐work material (email 2 weeks ahead of the course).
- Training booklet (handed out at the course).
- Training Action Plan.
- Team Matrix; who is who in your team.
- Rapport on the 360 leadership evaluation.
- Hand‐outs for case studies and examples provided via the pre‐work.
- Via the forum the PDF agenda’s for the focus groups during and after the training will be shared.
- Discussion forms and video material (online available after the course).
- 1 Page training summary.
VIB postdocs, staff scientists and young group leaders.
- 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.
Trainers
Robin Lefebvre - Grow 2 Excel
Robin Lefebvre is a coach and trainer and has worked both in academia and industry. In academia he obtained his PhD at VIB-UAntwerpen on Molecular Genetics. In industry he was responsible for a research department at Procter and Gamble, where he was also a corporate trainer and head of recruitment for R&D Belgium. He followed his passion to help others grow, and is now active as a full-time leadership trainer and coach.
https://www.grow2excel.com/about/
Practical info
30 May 2024 - 25 June 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
30 May 2024 - 25 June 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Please use Parking West - Follow 'Dagcentrum Onco' to get to the O&N buildings. Take the stairs on you left after exiting Parking West. You are now in front of buidling O&N4 and on the left you find O&N5.
30 May 2024 - 25 June 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
ON5 - meeting room 5th floor