Leadership tools – leadership and personality
Leadership tools – leadership and personality
10 June 2025, 13h00 - 17h00
General context
As leader of others, do you play checkers or chess with your team members? One of the first tips given in leadership is to treat your employees how you want to be treated yourself. A great tip to start, but limiting. Leaders have to mature from leading in their own preferred way, to leading in the way those on their team need to be led. Growing from playing checkers, as if everyone is the same, to playing chess, where each piece has its unique strength and team contribution. In this workshop, we will first cover the science of personality testing and move from the common pitfalls to how to put it into practice.
- Understanding the science behind personality (tests)?
- What are the big 5 personality vectors, where are you and your colleagues?
- What leadership style fits what personality, and how do you apply it?
VIB postdocs, staff scientists and young group leaders.
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.
Practical info
10 June 2025
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
Technologiepark 75
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
10 June 2025
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
From Ghent Sint-Pieters station, you can take a bus to Technologiepark. Please check Routeplanner De Lijn for schedules.
10 June 2025
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
Looking for a custom cycling route? Try the online cycling route planner to easily and quickly identify the fastest, safest and/or most scenic route to any destination in Ghent.
Cycling route planner
Shared bicycles:
Several providers are active in the area.
Take a look at their platforms:
- Indigo Weel Pro app
- Bluebike
- DOTT
- BOLT eBikes
- Donkey Republic
There are also some public bicycle pumps at the park.
10 June 2025
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
There is only one entrance to Technologiepark. At the entrance, please take a ticket - Parking is only allowed in regular parking spots (for instance in front of the building) and in the parking tower. Parking alongside the roads or in other places where there is no regular parking is prohibited.
10 June 2025
Ghent - VIB/UGent FSVM II
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