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Online course Essentials in People Skills

Become an authentic leader and coach for your team

  • Learn to build strong relationships and gain trust and respect
  • Discover coaching skills that allow you to understand your teams
  • Be able to communicate effectively and inspire your team to achieve even more

What you will learn

In today’s changeable environment, teamwork is essential for business success. High-functioning teams need leaders who can include, facilitate and motivate. By following this leadership programme, you’ll:


Official Vlerick certificate


100% online, self-paced programme


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Detailed Programme

Essentials in People Skills is made up of 7 modules that you complete at your own pace.

Module 1:

Leadership

  • Recognize the role that people skills play in leadership, particularly authentic leadership
  • Define authentic leadership
  • Identify how your personality is the gateway to authenticity
Module 2:

Your leadership story

  • Identify how an individual’s life story constitutes a frame for understanding how leadership and authenticity go hand-in-hand
  • Relate your own personal story and how it might apply to your leadership and authenticity
Module 3:

Authenticity

  • Identify the different pathways and methods you can use to develop your authenticity
  • Recognize how your mindset plays a crucial role in developing authenticity within yourself and in how you interact with others
Module 4:

Becoming a true coach

  • Understand the importance of coaching in today’s business environment
  • Familiarize yourself with the golden triangle of coaching
Module 5:

Setting goals

  • Apply goal-setting principles in setting goals for yourself and others
  • Discover the value of delegation within goal setting
Module 6:

Feedback

  • Apply some basic feedback frameworks in delivering feedback to others
  • Recognize the value of the ‘feedback curve’ for planning your intervention
Module 7:

Support

  • Recognize the role of emotions in all aspects of leadership and people skills
  • Develop basic approaches for managing different types of emotions

Learn through different learning formats

This online journey brings together learning formats including videos, interviews, questionnaires, case studies and real-life examples - alongside background reading and questions to help you reflect on your experience.

Put theory into practice

You’ll have the opportunity to put what you learn into practice.

Study wherever and whenever suits you

You can start Essentials in People Skills at any time – and study wherever and whenever suits you. It takes around 10 to 12 hours to complete the programme and you can split this time over a maximum of three months.

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Why this programme?
Who should attend?
Vlerick Business School Faculty

If you’ve recently started managing people – or if you’re a specialist managing a technical team – this programme gives you the foundations to become a truly authentic and effective leader.

You live and learn to coach, communicate with and understand your teams – so they can leap into performing even better and push your organization to ever-greater success.

  • Professionals who interact with colleagues regularly as part of their role
  • Professionals who want to become leaders
  • Managers who are new to their role
  • Managers who want to strengthen their skills
  • Katleen De Stobbeleir is inspired by leaders who stand up and speak – and she is passionate about those who have the courage to sit and listen.

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Essentials in People Skills

  • Become an authentic leader and coach for your team
  • Buy the programme now and you can start developing your skills and knowledge right away
‘The programme gave me the right tools to grow in my role as a leader’
Josha Nen-Ancheta - Iqgeo