Session Type: Workshop Accepted by MIG(s): Development Time Allotted: 60 Description: The House of Leadership is a powerful method, used in our programs around the world, for reflection on personal leadership development. Through questioning, participants will be stimulated to think creatively about their lifestyle, passions, drives, dreams, visions, and communication style – and to construct their own house of leadership. Discussion will focus on the strength of their leadership foundation, making changes to interior or exterior design, and developing a roadmap to lead to their leadership destination. Abstract: We have developed a workshop in which participants unfold their own “house of leadership”. In our leadership programs, it leads to deep insights in personal leadership development. The workshop starts with an exercise in which participants will construct their own house of leadership based on concurrent questions that lead to reflection. Participants construct the house by finding personal symbols that represent different personal leadership characteristics.
Through questioning, participants are stimulated to think creatively about their own lifestyle, communication style, passions, drives, dreams and visions. Other questions define which instruments and symbols they use as a leader. By using the 'house of leadership' as a metaphor, participants are incited to do likewise in their teaching. At the same time they experience the strength of using a metaphor in leadership.
Participants will discuss on key leadership issues, like the strength of their own leadership foundation and making changes to interior or exterior design. They will use the house of leadership as a roadmap for their way of leading. Therefore, we also encourage students at the ILA to participate and experience the strength of this method.
In our 4-days leadership programs across the world, we experience that participants have difficulties in applying leadership theories to their own leadership practice. They want to find out where they stand, what instruments they can use and in what way they can best behave as a leader. To answer these questions and to improve the connection between theory and practice we developed this workshop and applied it successfully in our programs.
This new practical leadership experience is an effective way to find and reflect on your own leadership style. The exercise focuses both on authenticity and creativity, two major characteristics of excellent leadership. Participants will receive a trainer's guide to be able to apply this method in their own teaching.
After this workshop participants know:
−the basic elements of their own leadership style
−how they can adapt their style to different situations and cultures
−how to apply this new method in their own teaching and training
Louise Mennen, Mennen Training & Consultancy
Bio: Dr Louise Mennen started her career as a nutrition scientist. She worked for many years as senior scientist in Paris, during which she wrote many scientific papers and successful research grants. She noticed, however, that for pushing science forward, scientists need to improve their communication and be better leaders. This is the reason that she started her own consultancy. She now trains scientists who want to develop their leadership skills by teaching them to be better presenters in writing as well as in speaking. She also works as personal coach, especially for those pursuing a scientific career. She is co-trainer at international leadership programmes in Luxembourg and Northern Africa. In collaboration with The Presentation Group, she supports her work with research in the field of communication.
Ted Baartmans , Presentation Group
Rick Koster, Presentation Group
Bio: Rick Koster is working as a trainer, coach, advisor en researcher in personal leadership communication at The Presentation Group. He studied Neurobiology and Policy, Management & Entrepreneurship at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. Next to working at The Presentation Group, he has been a biology teacher for five years at a high school in Amsterdam. Now, Rick gives trainings, workshops and multi-day programs in Europe, Africa and the United States. Central themes are presentation, giving and receiving feedback, leadership effectiveness and personal contact with media. Rick is specialized in non-verbal communication.Return to complete program |
