Why choose this program?
A unique and practical program
The Dialogical Leadership Master Class combines the latest scientific findings with the years of practical experience of our lecturers and participants.
The only Master Class in Dialogical Leadership in the Netherlands (or anywhere, for that matter), provided by the Chair of Dialogical Leadership at Tilburg University.
Learn from lecturers with extensive experience in the theory and practice of Dialogical Leadership, leadership roles and leading individuals, teams and organizations.
The mixed group of participants accommodates leaders from all levels of an organization, so you also experience dialog within the hierarchy and from different perspectives.
We provide a sound, scientific foundation, with ample space for personal case studies.
How will this program benefit you?
Your work involves volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous issues (VUCA issues) – whether they concern clients, innovation or organizational development. In this complexity, the key is to ensure that the organization’s mission (‘the forest’) shines through in its day-to-day practice (‘the trees’). Dialog helps you tackle these issues, for example by shaping shared leadership. This distributes ownership more broadly. The Dialogical Leadership Master Class offers a convenient theoretical framework, tools and forms of dialog.
After completing this master class, you will:
- know how to strengthen dialog in yourself and in your team;
- be able to take on different perspectives, to stay in better touch with different people and in different circumstances;
- learn to deploy dialog for shared leadership, to better handle complex issues;
- understand how to lay the groundwork for dialog between hierarchical layers as well;
- gain new insights to deal with cases from your actual work;
- learn to balance thoughts, feelings and actions.
How will this program benefit your organization?
Organizations often face complex challenges and change projects. Issues that involve a myriad of perspectives – which the organization must handle within its strategy. For success, employees need both professional space and a shared professional compass. Dialogical Leadership achieves in-depth strategy development, decision-making and execution, by having leadership teams create and live out the strategy together. So the organization can act with a singular purpose, while also doing justice to the practical complexities.
- Participants present their own cases, and carry out an interim assignment in their actual work.
- Improvement of both horizontal and vertical dialog: participants can deploy dialog with colleagues, but also vertically in the hierarchy.
- Teams that deploy dialog experience better decision-making and faster execution.
- The underlying values, intent and perspectives are clear and shared within teams.
- Employees enjoy more professional space, because they act based on a shared moral compass and a shared strategy.
- Employees are satisfied, thanks to tools to find their work-life balance.