Effective Leadership Development

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Participants will have applied leadership theories to real-world challenges, gained deep self-awareness through feedback and reflection, and developed a personalized, actionable leadership plan. The Action Learning approach ensures that learning is deeply integrated with practice, preparing participants to be adaptive, reflective, and effective leaders.

By the end of this course, participants will have applied leadership theories to real-world challenges, gained deep self-awareness through feedback and reflection, and developed a personalized, actionable leadership plan.

Pre-work 1

  • Familiarizing oneself with the central leadership theories Identifying an own leadership challenge.
     

Day 1: Leadership theory in action 

  • Introduction
  • Applying leadership theories on real-life organisational challenges
  • Emotional Intelligence and Leadership effectiveness.

Application: Individual reflection on the organisational challenge, leadership frameworks and own role.

Pre-work 2

  • Taking the DiSC-test
     

Day 2: Leadership self-analysis 

  • Understanding the results from the DisC-test
  • 360-feedback as a leadership development tool
  • Adaptive leadership and emotional intelligence.

Application: Discuss about own leadership style and reflect on insights.

Pre-work 3

  • Assess own leadership style
     

Day 3: Leadership development plan 

  • Goal setting
  • Defining own leadership goals
  • Crafting an actional leadership development plan
  • Celebrating achievements and preparing the way ahead.
     

Who is it for?

This training is designed for individuals who aspire to develop their supervisory skills, whether they have no prior experience or are seasoned leaders looking to expand their repertoire of leadership styles and enhance their effectiveness. It is equally suitable for those taking their first steps into supervisory roles and for experienced leaders who are eager to refine their approach, adopt new strategies, and drive greater success in their teams. Whether you're starting from scratch or aiming to grow as a leader, this program equips you with the tools and insights to excel in supervisory work

 

Trainers

Lecturers in management and HR skills Mr. Yücel Ger and Mrs. Marika Alhonen.

Yucel's areas of expertise include leadership and organizational development, human resource management, teamwork, team leadership and shared/collective leadership, self-direction and leadership of self-directed teams. He holds a PhD in leadership development.

Yucel has 17 years of experience as a trainer and coach. He has led several projects and project teams simultaneously. In addition, Yucel has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and a professional in the private sector.

Marika is a Master of Science (Econ.) and an ICF-certified Business Coach. She has an Everything DiSC trainer certificate and has participated in the Kaos Pilots trainings Art and Craft of Facilitating Learning Spaces. She works as a lecturer and as well LAB8 Service Design Lead and StartUp School coach at Haaga-Helia UAS.

She has worked at Haaga-Helia since 2009 and before that as a trainer and service developer in service companies. Marika's expertise combines coaching skills and many years of service design experience. She teaches service design through concrete projects and guides students to learn service design in practice. She has facilitated numerous workshops and longer trainings, utilizing pedagogical expertise combined with service design methods and tools. Marika is an experienced team coach and uses service design and coaching tools in all her work, striving to promote self-leadership, change and learning in an inspiring way.   

Contact us

More information about the training

The three-day training will be implemented as a face-to-face training. The training days are held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Place: Haaga-Helia Pasila Campus, Ratapihantie 13, 00520 Helsinki

Price:  Ask for a customized group price. Minimum group size is five people. 

The price of the training includes teaching, materials, guidance, feedback and refreshments (morning coffee and lunch).

Please note that training can also be organized in Finnish!

Koulutus voidaan järjestää myös suomeksi!