The Essentials of Leadership Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Belgium (online or onsite) is aimed at organization leaders who wish to learn how to drive change within organizations by implementing effective change leadership strategies.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the effect of change leadership on individuals, teams, and organizations.
• Apply planning practices to organizational change efforts.
• Effectively drive organizational change through change leadership.

Audience:

• Junior Managers.
• Established Professionals Looking to Accelerate their Career
• Established Professionals Considering Different Roles.

Overview:

This training is designed as an entry level course to educate candidates on what development opportunities are available in personal and professional development. The course will illustrate how success is achieved in a variety of high-performance industries and elite sports. Many of our trainers have successfully introduced training and development programmes utilising the most up to date training techniques and methodologies. Candidates will experience engagement techniques used in a variety of industries. Each candidate will be guided through the design of their own individual Professional Development Plan.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify the basic principles of Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Recognise their individual strengths and potential areas of development.
• Develop and Continually Develop their own CPD programme.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Coaching in the Development of a personal CPD plan.

Audience:

• Aspiring Project Managers
• Junior Managers
• Field Specialists

This instructor-led, live training is aimed at senior managers who wish to develop their capability to strategize and manage safety and risk in complex, high-tech industries. The course gives risk and safety managers the confidence and ability to implement an established and effective safety culture assessment process. The course will introduce the SI-9 product which has been developed to provide an efficient and accurate methodology to measure multiple elements of your organization's culture. The periodic measurement of your corporate culture not only enhances your risk visibility but provides evidence of your personal and corporate due diligence in risk management.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Recognise the signs and signals of vulnerable corporate risk culture.
• Understand the personal and corporate liability implications of risk and safety management.
• Adapt their risk management systems to become more resilient.
• Design an effective safety culture measurement system based on the SI-9 assessment system.
• Develop and implement an effective organizational cultural management strategy.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on experience of cultural measurement tools

Audience:

• This course is for leaders, or aspiring leaders, with direct responsibility for leading teams and making strategic decisions

Overview:

The Strategic Leadership Course provides you with the knowledge and techniques to determine a clear, strategic direction for your organisation. It will help you better understand the various approaches to leadership, alongside change management and decision making, giving you the ability to plan and implement strategic actions. The course presenters have extensive experience in coaching senior leaders in the practical application of strategic leadership principles. The course makes use of contemporary real-life examples and utilises the experiences of the candidates.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain insights into the various approaches to strategy
• Have a greater appreciation of the different approaches to leadership and change management
• Understand how to effectively implement a strategic plan
• Evaluate the progress of a strategic plan

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Scenario based learning with your group.
• Opportunities to discuss your own leadership challenges in a group setting

Audience:

• This course is for leaders, or aspiring leaders, with direct responsibility for leading teams and making strategic decisions

Overview:

The Strategic Planning Course provides you with the knowledge and techniques to determine a clear, strategic direction for your organisation. It will help you better understand the various approaches available in analysing, planning and implementing strategic actions. The course does not promote a singular approach to strategic planning but provides the candidates with a selection of approaches. This agnostic approach to strategic theory allows contextualised application of the candidates’ needs within their particular professional environment. Whilst candidates would be expected to bring and share their own experience, extensive use is made of contemporary real-life examples.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain insights into the various approaches to strategy
• Have a greater appreciation of the different methods of strategic analysis and positioning
• Understand how to effectively address strategic implementation
• Evaluate the progress of a strategic plan

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Scenario based learning with your group.
• Opportunities to reflect on your own challenges

Audience

Managers and Team Leaders who need to be fully aware of the issues surrounding the management and development of their staff (direct and indirect reports)

Format of the course

The course will be a highly-interactive combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

• Understand the different skills required for Managing and for Leading
• Develop their team in the most-effective way
• Explain how best to deliver Change in their part of the organisation
• Manage staff performance better
• Successfully negotiate their preferred solutions
• Explain how to deal with the difficult situations they may encounter in the office

Training 'Generation differences in management. Employees of Generation XYZ. How to function with them' is addressed to team leaders, offering knowledge and skills in the area of communication and motivation of employees of generations X, Y and Z. Based on an interactive methodology, the course emphasizes practical exercises and mini-lectures, enabling the effective acquisition of necessary skills. to manage a team in a generationally diverse environment.

This instructor-led, live training in Belgium (online or onsite) is aimed at current CTOs and upcoming CTOs such as technical directors or technical managers who wish to acquire the technical and managerial perspective needed to be an effective CTO.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Hire and lead a vibrant and innovative technical team.
• Effectively adopt and manage the technology needed to develop great products.
• Apply useful techniques and strategies for managing products and projects.
• Scale the company business and move it in the right direction.

This instructor-led, live training in Belgium (online or onsite) is aimed at managers and executives who wish to implement the right tools, skills, and methodologies to manage remote teams.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Explore remote leadership, structures, and components to successfully adapt a remote work setup.
• Develop trust, goals, culture, and teamwork to create an effective and productive remote team.
• Use existing tools and technologies to improve virtual communication and collaboration.
• Implement goal setting and project management methods to measure the performance of a remote team.

Participant Profiles 

CxO, Operation Managers, Enterprise Architects, Business and System Analysts and Designers

Objective

This introduction seminar provides you with an overview of the digital business models, business and enterprise architecture frameworks as well as methodologies that organizations are trying to focus on to increase their business agility facing disruptions of the digital age.

In particular, this seminar aims at helping you to understand frameworks and reference architectures that are used worldwide to align digital business models and IT system architectures with the changing competitive landscape.

Objective:

Helping Business Analysts to understand how to efficiently model and validate their business processes and resources in order to increase business agility of their organization on the basis of their target architecture and changing market needs.

This 2 day training course aims at helping delegates to learn how to model their business processes and resources in order to adapt them to changes of their goals, strategies and impacted capabilities as part of the target architecture. On the basis of the key elements of business performance (strategies, tactics, KPI, business capabilities, etc...), delegates learn there how to elaborate a vision centric business process and resource cartography. Then, only using the appropriate BPMN and UML notation adapted to their language, they understand how to adapt them to changing strategies, tactics and policies.

Audience:

This course is designed for all staff requiring a wider view of the Change Process to get the best results for their part of the business

Format of the course

A combination of:

• Facilitated Discussions
• Slide Presentations
• Exercises and Case Studies

At the end of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Explain the basic Change Strategies that underpin the planning for change in an organisation
• Understand the use and application of the 9 Change Principles
• Construct a Change Plan suitable to their part of the business

Kanban Management Professional 1 (KMP1) is a highly interactive two-day course accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU). It combines teaching, group discussions and a fully immersive simulation to illustrate how the Kanban Method helps individuals, teams, and organisations to manage and improve the delivery of products and services to their customers.
 
The Kanban Method provides pragmatic, actionable, evidence-based guidance for successful evolutionary change. It starts with what you do now and pursues evolutionary change while respecting current roles, responsibilities and job titles, and encouraging leadership at all levels. This allows organisations to evolve business processes gradually, define and use relevant metrics to measure progress, and significantly reduce the risks associated with complex change programmes.
 
You will leave this course with knowledge of the Kanban principles and general practices, and skills that will enable you to apply Kanban with confidence in your organisation.

What Will You Learn?
- Identify internal and external sources of dissatisfaction
- Analyse demand vs capability
- Model the knowledge discovery process
- Design kanban systems and their visualisations
- Identify and prioritise improvements
- Choose cadences for activities
- Identify classes of service

Who Is This Course For?
Anyone who is involved in product development or knowledge work. This includes but is not limited to the following:
Programme and delivery managers
Product and project managers
Product developers, software developers and testers
People working in operations or support
Business analysts
High-level management
Anyone interested in implementing Agile in their organisation

Who should attend:

Lean and change agents, operational leaders and professionals who want to make sure they are starting this foundational concept the right way

This training course has been created for professionals from all sectors in manufacturing etc. It is not designed for academic purposes, but offers practical advice how to implement 5S in your production facility

The course is aimed at leaders and agents for change who want to make sure that they are introducing 5S the right way.

Each course member will have the opportunity to get hands on experience through a number of exercises to demonstrate that 5S works.

Upon completing the training you will:

• Understand how  5S works and improve efficiency by 10 to 30%
• Be able to indentify sources of waste and improve profitability
• Understand the reasons for the five step process and know how to implement it
• Have the tools and procedures in order to improve production processes
• Develop a concrete plan to introduce 5S to your workplace

If you are thinking about improving workplace efficiency, winning more orders and satisfying your customers while improving safety, you cannot afford not to take this course

 Who should attend: Managers interested in improving productivity by implementing 5S and who want to make sure they are starting this vital concept the right way.

This training course has been created for professionals from all sectors. It can be tailored to dental clinics, laboratories, offices etc. It is not designed for academic purposes, but offers practical advice how to implement 5S

The course is aimed at leaders and agents for change who want to make sure that they are introducing 5S the right way.

Each course member will have the opportunity to get hands on experience through a number of exercises to demonstrate that 5S works

Upon completing the training you will:

• Understand how  5S works and improve efficiency by 10 to 30%
• Be able to indentify sources of waste and improve profitability
• Understand the reasons for the five step process and know how to implement it
• Have the tools and procedures in order to improve processes
• Develop a concrete plan to introduce 5S to your workplace

If you are thinking about improving workplace efficiency, winning more orders and satisfying your customers while improving safety, you cannot afford not to take this course