Leading with impact

Steering, coaching and creating engagement in your team

Flexible course based on 3 building blocks

Gain deep insight into your own leadership style

Learn how to communicate your organization's vision clearly and convincingly

87%

Of the participants feel confident to raise difficult topics after the training.

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Anouck Van Couter
Anouck Van Couter
trainer - supervisor

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Customized learning pathway
Live, digital or hybrid
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Available in NL, FR and ENG
Price on request
On location or at Obelisk

Leadership goes beyond making decisions or setting the course. It's about inspiring and motivating your team, creating a safe environment where everyone is heard and communicating a clear vision. Do you recognize the challenge of finding a balance between directing and coaching? Or do you struggle with communicating your message effectively, especially when it comes to feedback or dealing with resistance?

In this course, leaders discover how to strengthen their self-insight and align their leadership style with the needs of their team and organization. They learn how to create psychological safety within teams, foster lively discussions and clearly communicate organizational goals. Upon completion, they succeed in keeping employees motivated and engaged while powerfully communicating the organization's vision.

Who is this learning track for?
Leaders

After this learning track:

  • Gain insight into your own behavior and reactions
  • Know how to develop a leadership style that activates employees to reach their full potential
  • Know how to keep employees motivated and engaged.

Our trainers take your organizational context into account and incorporate concrete and realistic situations into the program. Evidence-based, practice-oriented, motivating and highly customized, that typifies a learning program in soft skills by Obelisk. 

Our trajectories always proceed in three phases. More info can be found in the case at UHasselt.

3 examples of our customer learning programs

Sample track 1: The three dimensions of leadership: self-insight, team development and organizational vision

Day 1: Me and myself as a leader

  • Self-insight and self-awareness: who am I as a leader? What are my strengths and challenges?
  • What motivates me as a manager?
  • My image of a good leader and the internal vision of leader: do they match? 
  • How do I carry vision for leader further?
  • Recognizing a Growth or fixed mindset in myself and my team 

Day 2: Me and my team

  • What are the building blocks of an effective team?
  • What can I do to make this work?
  • Strengthen understanding of psychological safety
  • Stimulate lively discussions
  • Intervening on the process

Day 3: Me and my organization

  • What can I do to communicate my organization's vision (embody vision)?
  • Delivering your message as a leader

Sample track 2: Self-insight and leadership skills. 

Day 1: Me and myself as a leader

  • Self-insight and self-awareness: who am I as a leader? What are my strengths and challenges
  • How do I encourage a proactive mindset? 

Day 2: Me and my team

  • What are the building blocks of an effective team?
  • Strengthen understanding of psychological safety
  • What can I do to make this work?
  • Stimulate lively discussions
  • Intervening on the process

Day 3: Motivational leadership

  • Strengthen understanding of what does and does not work in terms of leadership
  • What is motivational leadership?
  • What can I do as a manager to keep employees engaged and motivated?

Day 4: Leadership communication

  • Balance between coaching and directing: coaching conversation, coaching questions and setting a clear playing field
  • Giving feedback that contributes to autonomous motivation 
  • How do I deal with resistance?

Day 5: Coach the manager

  • Work and practice how managers can provide support to supervisors 

Day 6: Me and my organization

  • What can I do to communicate my organization's vision?

Big theoretical blocks? Not so. At Obelisk, practice and experience take center stage, while theory stays in the background. Our hands-on approach lets participants apply theory directly for maximum transfer.

  • Taxonomy of leadership (Yukl et al., 2002).
    • Task oriented leadership
    • Relationship oriented leadership
    • Change oriented leadership
    • Ethically oriented leadership
  • Leadership in hybrid workplaces (Wim Goossens)
  • Authentic leadership (Leroy, 2017)
  • Self determination theory (Deci & Ryan)
  • 5 dysfunctions of a team (Patrick Lencioni, 2002)

A closer look on leadership, case Solid Talent (NL)

Collaboration and leadership: for these topics, Solid Talent turned to Obelisk for advice. This consulting organization of engineering and administrative experts decided to focus on mutual cooperation and growth in the management team, as well as on a profound vision of leadership and the development of leadership skills.

Our supervisors Helen Goovaerts and Annelies Steenbeke started this process with individual intakes with each member of the management team. What is going well now? What can be improved? This gave them the first trends to work on throughout the project.

Management team collaboration

During a first workshop, the management team dealt with the theme of cooperation. Communication, feedback, trust and getting to know each other in a different way were central. To explore the mutual dynamics, metaphors were used: types of vehicles, with strengths and weaknesses. In this way, the team looked at itself, to then ask the question how a management team in an ideal situation can be at the wheel of a growing organization. Because a strong team dares to take a critical look at itself from time to time.

Read the full case

Live

Resilient Coping with Change training can take place at various locations, tailored to the needs of the participants. Our primary location is our headquarters in Leuven, located at Grauwmeer 1. In addition, we offer the option of providing the training on-site at the client's premises, or at other suitable workshop or training venues nearby.

During the intake meeting, we will discuss the most appropriate location for your team. This can range from a quiet, green setting where participants can walk around during a break, to a more formal setting appropriate for a professional meeting.

Discover five inspiring training locations recommended by our trainers here.

Online or hybrid

Obelisk believes in the power of hybrid solutions; the combination of offline and online. Our hybrid trainings are not a "copy-paste" of classroom training. They are adapted to the new reality and our coaches retrained. The result is a full hybrid package with the best of both worlds, online and offline.

During an introductory meeting, we identify your questions, expectations and the unique context of your organization. This is how we ensure that our offer perfectly matches your needs.
Based on this first meeting, we work out a tailor-made offer, which we send to you by email or come to explain it in person. After your approval, we start designing the learning trajectory and planning the next steps, always in close consultation with you to optimally align the trajectory with your needs and goals.

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The leadership program gave me keen insights into my own leadership style and how to use it to motivate my team. The practical exercises helped me immediately apply what I learned, such as coaching communication and giving effective feedback. A hands-on experience that made me stronger as a leader. Thank you Liesbeth!

Julie, executive

Supervisors

Anouck Van Couter
Anouck Van Couter
trainer - supervisor
Julie Van Couter
Julie Van Couter
trainer - supervisor
Liesbeth Vanhelmont
Liesbeth Vanhelmont
team leader
Laura Krause
Laura Krause
trainer - supervisor

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