Management and Leadership Training in Maastricht

This instructor-led, live training in Maastricht (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:

• Specialists Looking to Transition to Broader Management or Senior Roles.
• New or Aspiring Managers.
• Established Managers looking to further develop their skills.

Overview: This instructor-led, live on-site training is aimed at managers who wish to develop their capability to coach and lead their colleagues towards excellence. The course gives new and developing managers the confidence and ability to implement established and well-tried principles of management technique. The course is based on five key pillars of management performance: defining role purpose, emphasising strengths, enabling change, influencing and empowering colleagues. Whilst we do not promote one particular managerial style or pattern, the course is behavioural science led; evidence-based principles are presented in a practical and pragmatic format. The course is highly interactive and engaging requiring candidates to actively participate from the outset. By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how humans are motivated and learn.
• Adapt their existing skills set to maximise their potential.
• Develop and implement an effective management technique.

Format of the Course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Scenario based presentations, briefings and feedback sessions.

Audience:

• Senior Management
• Risk and Safety Managers
• Project Manager

Overview: 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 organisational 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 cultural 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:

• 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:

• All Levels of Management.
• Technical Experts.
• New Project Managers.

Overview: Change Management skills have increasingly become a core requirement for the effective management of projects, budgets and personnel. One key lesson our trainers have seen repeated across numerous industries through the Covid-19 pandemic is not to wait for change to overcome your organisation. Change Management principles need to be embedded in business resilience programmes. Utilising David Snowden’s Cynefin model as a basis for developing sense making before making strategy the course takes the candidates away from rigid and process decision-making structures which can impede collective and creative thinking. Building flexibility into decision-making structures not only enhances business resilience but promotes efficiencies from existing structures.   By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Recognise the need to consistently plan with flexibility.
• Understand the meaning of contingent business processes.
• Adapt their risk management systems to become more resilient.
• Design countermeasures against complacency and tunnel vision.
• Develop and implement an effective and consistent change management strategy.

Format of the course:

• Highly interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises, practice and planning.
• Hands-on experience of change management templates.

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