Workshop Leadership Tools – Leadership and personality

Target Audience:

VIB postdoc

VIB staff scientist

VIB group leader or expert

Location:

Leuven - Park Inn by Radisson

Duration:

8 May 2024, 13h - 17h

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 like 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 lead. 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 in practice.

Learning outcomes

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?

Event intended for

VIB postdocs, staff scientists and young group leaders.

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

Robin Lefebvre

Grow 2 Excel, BE

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.

https://www.grow2excel.com/about/

Contact Robin Lefebvre :

robin.grow2excel@gmail.com