Leadership requires attention for the goal to be achieved, for the team and for yourself. You are asked to set priorities, inspire people and let the team grow. Through this course you will learn to effectively lead others and achieve results together with them.

However, practice is sometimes unruly. Stakeholder interests are often contradictory. Team members sometimes seem to be motivated differently than you are. Processes and structures regularly block the way to working effectively. How do you stay true to yourself and how do you manage engineers well in these circumstances?

You know that you can grow in effective leadership. Managing engineers helps you positively direct the behavior of others. You find your own source of inspiration, develop language to motivate and coach other engineers to achieve results together.

Where desired, this training course focuses specifically on managing technical and/or medical professionals.

Leading professionals requires personal leadership.

Module 1 – Conscious leadership, mindset and behaviour

Focus: understanding yourself, switching between strategy, tactics and operations

Themes:

• Your role as a professional and leader: from expert to guiding facilitator
• Personal leadership profile: mindset, wiring and behaviour
• Influence styles and sources of power – recognising and using them effectively
• Communicating with impact: clarity, authenticity, congruence
• Introducing yourself: how do you come across? Your personal ‘impact style’

Practice: mini-presentation about your own leadership challenge + personal feedback

Module 2 – Connecting on a human level, collaborating and persuading

Focus: exerting influence without formal power, collaborating effectively with professionals.

Themes:

• Dynamics in teams with professionals: steering towards autonomy and ownership
• Influencing without position: strategy, relationships and trust
• Conversation skills, giving feedback and dealing with resistance
• Framing and storytelling, setting boundaries and persuading
• Effective meetings

Practice: practice cases from your own work environment; presenting a proposal or idea to a “critical audience”

Module 3 – Leadership in action and presenting with conviction

Focus: being a role model in practice, influence and presentation skills

Themes:

• Inspiring and delegating to professionals
• Coaching and situational leadership
• Influence through vision, energy and storytelling
• Presenting with impact: structure, voice, body language and interaction
• Personal action plan: growth in leadership and influence

Practice: final presentation on your own leadership or change challenge, with feedback on content, persuasiveness and personal style.