5-Modules Online Future Leadership Skills Course

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Key Benefits

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Gain a deeper understanding of the essential skills necessary in becoming an effective leader of the future while at the same time learning the ability of confidently guiding your organization through disruptive and dynamic environments. Enhance your capabilities

in empowering teams to stay focused, aligned and continuously stimulate bold innovation. This will be achieved within 5 Modules, which will be facilitated by highly experienced professional coaches from DesignThinkers Academy.

Introduction to future leadership skills

Effective Using empathic communication in skills to lead complex systems teams

A constructive approach to critical thinking

Leading in a creative way

Critical Skills describing the change you want to make within yourself towards becoming a Future Leader: perception, resistance and self-reflection.

Understanding the communication patterns of future generations and developing the ability to adjust your communication skills.

How to become a constructive critical thinker, effectively engaging in problem solving. Being both detail-oriented and open-minded.

How to strategically use creativity as a tool to evoke innovation. How to spark your creativity and also how to cultivate it within your team.

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Understanding the importance of cognitive and affective empathy and the importance of empathizing with your team.

At a glance

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The purpose of this modular course is to transform professionals of all levels, into Future Leaders. This will be achieved within 5 Modules, which will be facilitated by highly experienced professional coaches from DesignThinkers Academy.

Additionally, we will actively guide you in designing your Personal Action Plan equipping you to effectively implement Future Leadership Skills in your daily working environment.

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Alumni recommend this course

“In 20 years of career I have done at least 15 courses on soft skills, but the Online Course of DTA stands out as the best.”

JAVIER SANCHEZ MILLAN, BANQUE PICTET & CIE SA 3

Discover the program Gain insights in the expectations and challenges leaders of the future will face in order to effectively drive change. Understand that empathy is the starting point for incorporating the ‘human touch’

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in leadership. Learn to stimulate curiosity, creativity and critical thinking within a continuously changing environment. Strengthen your confidence in quickly adjusting and embracing changes.

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Perception.

Resistance & Self-reflection

Communication.

Empathy.

Effective skills in Constructively complex systems lead teams

Critical Thinking.

Creativity.

Assumptions & Evoke innovation beliefs & leadership

Module 1 1x2.5 hours

Module 2 1x2.5 hours

Module 3 1x2.5 hours

Module 4 1x2.5 hours

Module 5 1x2.5 hours

Defining your personal Future Leadership Skills necessary for describing the change you want to make within yourself.

Hands-on experience with practicing various communication skills and managing expectations within your team.

Developing the ability to lead teams in an empathic way, by understanding and valuing the other’s perspectives.

Challenging assumptions and managing risk-taking in an uncertain world.

How to break patterns deliberately to incorporate creativity as a manager of future generations.

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Who is it for?

Managers seeking a deeper understanding of the necessary Future Leadership Skills; Professionals responsible for assembling high performing teams; Individuals within the fields of HR, IT, Marketing with ambitions in implementing change approaches; Entrepreneurs with a passion for incorporating empathy, flexibility and creativity.

“In 20 years of career I have done at least 15 courses on soft skills, but the Online Course of DTA stands out as the best.”

Javier Sanchez Millan, Banque Pictet & Cie SA

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“The DTA Course was a real transformation. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand what DT is really about.”

“The course with experts from the DT field and the hands-on approach inspired my work as a humancentred design consultant.”

Pamela Caillens, Cartier International SNC

Alexander Faga, Swisscom

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Meet the Team

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You will be carefully guided through the (Online) Future Leadership Skills Course by our highly experienced Professional Coaches from DesignThinkers Academy.

Additionally, we will actively guide you in designing your Personal Action Plan.

Adela Cristea

Thomas de Bresser

Tim Schuurman

Adela is an experienced business consultant teaching entrepreneurship and leadership within corporate environments.

Thomas has launched Innovation Hubs with a focus on human-centered innovation in corporates and facilitates Design Sprints.

Tim is a motivated and energetic senior facilitator within Business Strategy, Change Management and Design Thinking.

Alwin Put

Jeroen v/d Weide

Alwin is an experienced facilitator across the Benelux.

He has years of experience in corporate environments and the hospitality industry.

Jeroen has a MA in Dutch Theatre, Film & Communications, facilitating teams and designing creative processes and environments.

Co-Founder, DesignThinkers Academy Eastern Europe

Managing Director, DesignThinkers Agency

Creative Strategist & Senior Facilitator,

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Co-Owner, DesignThinkers Academy Amsterdam

Senior Partner & Facilitator, DTA Amsterdam

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About the Design Thinkers Academy

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DesignThinkers is one of the leading design driven innovation agencies helping organizations around the world making the transition from being strictly product orientated and sales driven, towards being service oriented and humancentered. We are represented in +25 countries and train, develop and facilitate multidisciplinary teams and communities of change.

Organizations that want to stay competitive in an ever-changing world, need to reassess the way they are structured and function.

Most of all, it is important to build lasting relationships with your customers. While these organizations are pushed to differentiate themselves, DesignThinkers Academy makes it their mission to reach out to these people and help them.

Our mission is to empower teams & professionals to adopt human-centered design to kick-start bold innovation and drive positive change.

Closing the ‘reality gap’ between organizations and people should be the number one priority of any innovative company. Design Thinking delivers the innovative ideas and solutions needed to solve these problems.

Our approach is not cookie cutter or dogmatic.

We invest in building a relationship with you, gaining an understanding of your organization, your stakeholders and the broader context of the problem.

Together, we design a customized approach to your challenge, with a constant focus on tapping into the existing creativity and knowledge the people in your organization.

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We deliver high-energy courses worldwide from Brussels to New York, from Dubai to Amsterdam for diverse clients such as SAP, Coca-Cola, Cartier, Philips, P&G, MasterCard, Bacardi, ING, PwC, Gucci, Samsung, GE Healthcare, Nike, L’Oréal and many more.

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Tickets Your ticket includes access and use of the online environments (Miro & Zoom) for the duration of the course; All tools and materials will be made available after the course for personal use; A Certificate from DesignThinkers Academy is awarded to participants who successfully complete the course.

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Early Bird Ticket

(Please check our online calendar for specific dates) €1.495

Regular Ticket €1.595

Prices are excluding VAT. We charge 21% VAT to Dutch based companies, NGO’s and selfemployed. We also charge 21% VAT to international companies, NGO’s and self-employed based in the European Union without a registered VAT number. If you are based outside the European Union we will not charge you with VAT. If you have any other questions regarding this online course or its ticketing, we kindly as that you contact us through email.

Certificate After successful completion of the 5-Module Online Future Leadership Skills course, participants are awarded with a DesignThinkers Academy Certificate.

Display your DesignThinkers Academy Certificate on your Linkedin profile under the section Licenses & Certifications.

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7 Live Sessions

English Spoken

5-Modules

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