The training is taught as three full day workshops, delivered by academic experts at the VU Amsterdam.
Workshops
Workshop 1: Adaptive leadership
Prof. Dr. Mark van Vugt
Date: 17-1-2025
Time: 9:00-17:00
This workshop on adaptive leadership covers a range of topics that aim to help professionals understand leader-follower relations in the workplace from an evolutionary perspective. By incorporating these elements, the workshop helps professionals gain a deeper understanding of the principles of good leadership, enhance their personal leadership skills, and foster productive and supportive work environments based on an appreciation of our evolutionary heritage.
Learning goals:
• Understand what basic needs exist in your team and organization.
• Discover how to adapt your leadership style to the situation.
Workshop 2: Fostering diversity and inclusion
Dr. Sanne Feenstra
Date: 24-1-2025
Time: 9:00-17:00
In this workshop on fostering diversity and inclusion, professionals learn to navigate the compexities of today’s workplace environment. Sanne will discuss the latest scientific insights into the main barriers hindering diversity and the significance of inclusion. Participants will reflect on their own experiences with diversity and inclusion and will cocreate ways to create more inclusive leadership.
Learning goals:
• Get added value from diversity.
• Deal effectively with Imposter feelings.
Workshop 3: Navigating organizational power dynamics
Dr. Wendy Andrews
Date: 31-1-2025
Time: 9:00-17:00
In this workshop on navigating organizational power dynamics, professionals gain an understanding of the causes and consequences of power in organizations, and of the need and the limitations of engaging in power dynamics. Participants will reflect on their own preferences for dealing with power, start to map power structures in their organization, and discuss strategies to effectively navigate the power dynamics in their own work environment.
Learning goals:
• Learn to recognize power relations in your environment.
• Develop political skills.
‘’The New Psychology of Leadership offers the opportunity to learn from world-class professors about the secrets of effective leadership that can challenge conventional wisdom. The programme shows that VU Amsterdam is at the forefront of leadership development in the Netherlands.’’
Prof. Dr. Svetlana Khapova – Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Leadership
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