Program design and contents

Leadership Master Class

This program combines recent scientific insights with intensive practice. You are not coming for yet another model, but to update your leadership with influence skills at its core. You work with your own cases and practice extensively in realistic situations. You receive sharp feedback from both instructor and coach. Both bring years of experience in leadership, as well as in guiding and coaching leaders.

The focus is craftsmanship in challenging situations: motivating and setting boundaries, confronting, and making decisions under pressure. You learn to choose more effectively what you do, what you do not do, and when. With firmness and integrity, without pushing. So you leave with interventions that truly make a difference in your practice.

At a high level, you will find below what you can expect each day. At the same time, this masterclass continues to evolve based on new scientific insights. And because each edition is shaped by the questions participants bring in, the emphasis may shift slightly from one cohort to the next, without changing the core.

Day 1: Leadership and behavioral influence techniques

You build a foundation for behavioral influence as leadership. You sharpen your observation and practice techniques that create movement without pushing: using questions as a tool, language and timing, and opening the conversation that keeps getting postponed. You explore how to influence with respect, and where the line is between influencing and manipulation.

Day 2: Leadership and drivers

You go deeper into drivers, motivation, resistance, and disappointment. You learn how to get others and yourself moving, even when energy drops or pressure rises. You practice motivating and setting boundaries, and you receive feedback on your impact and your reflexes under pressure.

Day 3: Leadership and group dynamics

You explore what happens in groups and teams, and the role you play as a leader. You learn to recognize and work with social tension, including in diverse teams and across generations. You practice difficult conversations, confronting without causing damage, and making decisions when things rub. You finish with a personal repertoire that holds up under pressure.

Faculty and coaching

You are supported by a lead instructor and a coach, both with years of experience in leadership and in guiding leaders. You receive personal feedback that is sharp and respectful and often remarkably close, precisely because you work with your own real practice.

Time investment and result

The Leadership Master Class takes place over 3 consecutive days. The program is designed to limit the amount of preparation time. Participants should plan for a total of 5 hours of preparation time.

Upon completion of this master class, you will receive a Leadership certificate from TIAS.

PE-points

For some modules, you can request registration of PE points. The PE point system is currently undergoing some changes. For further information, please feel free to contact our Program Adviser.

A Word from our Academic Director

"We once believed, in the classic Anglo Saxon tradition, that an organization’s quality was determined by the quality of its blueprint, its processes, and its procedures. Scientific research has thoroughly overturned that view. An organization’s quality turns out to be shaped by the behavior of its people, the people who together make up the organization. Being able to influence that behavior proved to be at the core of successful leadership. For that, you need to understand what truly drives people.

That insight had real consequences. After the first signs of disbelief and resistance, behavioral influence was quickly embraced around the world as a key factor in organizational success. Business and psychology became inseparable. Shortly after 2000, these insights were even recognized with the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences awarded to Daniel Kahneman.

Behind the term “behavioral influence” sit centuries of technique and insight, a rich and fascinating field that is now being rapidly expanded by neuroscience. It is remarkable what becomes possible inside organizations when behavioral influence becomes the starting point."

Dr. Jan de Vuijst

Design your own track and earn your TIAS diploma of excellence

Our master classes also let you design your own track and earn your TIAS Diploma of Excellence. You take five master classes, choose a concentration in personal leadership and write a final paper applying your new knowledge.

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You can also choose other subjects to build your Leadership & Management track.