Leadership workshop: Inspiring and motivating people

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Leadership workshop: Inspiring and motivating people

Target Audience:
VIB postdoc
VIB staff scientist
Location:

Ghent - Communicatiecampus, MeetingCenteR4

General context

This leadership workshop focusses on one specific topic, 'Inspiring & Motivating People'. 

Learning outcomes

This workshop will help you to:

  • Inspire people to identify with the ultimate scientific breakthroughs you are trying to achieve within the research group
  • Motivate people to take up their own responsibility and make their own decisions
  • Motivate people to accept and support the changes you want to implement
 
Approach

The workshop consists of following steps:

  • Defining the specific learning needs (based on the intake questionnaires)
  • Briefly explore a number of schemes / models / tools
  • Applying the models to specific situations
  • Integration of the learned insights to both
    • practices, i.e. things that we agree to do from now on
    • conditions: what do we have to work out to bring those practices to live?
    • personal action plan

To maximize the relevance and usefulness of the training, participants are invited to fill out an intake questionnaire prior to the training in which they can share personal learning questions & challenges. These are translated by the trainers into case studies & exercises to be used during the training.

Groups consist of maximally 10 participants to guarantee the opportunity for in depth experimenting & reflection to all participants.

Event intended for

VIB postdocs and staff scientists that want to get insights in how they can inspire and motivate colleagues and team members.

Extra information
  • 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

True Colours
Training & Conferences - Trainer picture - True Colours
True Colours, BE

True Colours® is a creation of Lisa Boelaert and Herwig Deconinck – inspired by 17 years of working together and our shared drive, dream and vision concerning people, development, teamwork & change.

As a change consultancy, True Colours has built a niche within research and academic organisations on the one hand, and they work for profit, non-profit, production and service companies on the other hand.

True Colours coaches:
•Individuals (coaching/training/supporting)
•Teams (team coaching, conflict mediation, team development, teambuilding)
•Organisations (process support, work conferences and large group interventions, setting up and guiding change programmes, strategy exercises, …)

regarding the changes that are happening to them or in which they find themselves.

True Colours likes to combine their insights and experiences in HR, solutions-focused work practices, organisational design and lean management, and personal and team leadership.

They specialise in short-term projects within a long-term relationship: a thorough knowledge of the client enables us to respond maximally to concrete requests and makes change possible in the short-term. They have been working together with VIB for more that 10 years now.
 

Practical info

Location & Venue

11 March 2020

Ghent - Communicatiecampus - MeetingCenteR4

Sint-Denijslaan 487
9000 Ghent
Belgium

Public transport

11 March 2020

Ghent - Communicatiecampus - MeetingCenteR4
Public transport

The campus is at an 18-minute walk from Ghent Sint-PIeters station. At the back of the station, turn right towards Sint-Denijslaan. At the end of the street you will find the CommunicatieCampus on your left.

Route description from Ghent Sint-PIeters station (by foot, by bike, by shuttle).

Bus: Stop at the Sint Denijslaan; Strandlopershalte with bus line 34, 35 or 36 a 2-minute walk from the CommunicationCampus. 

Bike

11 March 2020

Ghent - Communicatiecampus - MeetingCenteR4
Bike

2 minutes by bike from Snepkaai. Go via Snepkaai underneath the railway bridge towards Maurice Dupuislaan. Finally, turn slightly to the left where Maurice Dupuislaan becomes Sint-Denijslaan. Via the bicycle route planner you can map out your route with or without slopes, cobblestones, etc. 

Blue-Bike:  If you have come by train and want to bridge the last 2 kilometers to the Communication Campus quickly, comfortably and without parking problems, there is also the Blue-Bike. You will find the key machine at the exit at the back of Ghent Sint-PIeters station. The bicycle point is a little further behind the bicycle shed (Voskenslaan 27). Follow the Sint-Denijslaan for 2 km in the direction of the R4 and the Ringvaart. You will find Communication Campus on your left.

Route description from Ghent Sint-PIeters station (by foot, by bike, by shuttle).

Route description

11 March 2020

Ghent - Communicatiecampus - MeetingCenteR4
Parking

See plans below - coming from Ostend, Brussels or Kortrijk, take the Expo exit. Coming from Antwerp, take the exit R4. The CommunicationCampus has a spacious free parking lot. In addition, there is still sufficient parking space at Snepkaai. This is a 5 minute walk.

the plan for Snepkaai

the plan by car

 

Venue contact

11 March 2020

Ghent - Communicatiecampus - MeetingCenteR4
Location contact

+32 9 242 82 10

info@rodebolevents.be

Extra information

Meeting Room Bordeau