If you complete this course within 6 weeks from the registration date, we will refund the full amount!
Become an Excellent Leader!
In the introductory course you discovered that you as a leader are important, because you influence how you manage, treat and value your people at work. They take their experiences at work home with them.
Now the first training to make you a better leader! This course sets the stage!
By following this course you will gain:
- Knowledge on what affects people’s wellbeing.
- Insight into how important emotions are – also in the business environment.
- Skills to deal better with stress. Both your own stress and also your team member’s stress.
- The realization that communication is the core of the organization.
Remember: If you complete this course within 6 weeks from the registration date, we will refund the full amount!
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A Happy Person makes a Better Employee
Your team member takes you home with them. That is my contention and I believe there is plenty of scientific evidence to support this contention. For example, look at the terms spill-over and crossover as described by Schaufeli and Bakker (2020). Work is an important part of a person’s life, you derive a piece of identity from it. How you feel at work and how you are treated there, you take home with you. And vice versa. It is ultimately about wellbeing and the emotions people experience. Including the emotions you experience at work. That emotions and stress are closely linked and affect wellbeing seems obvious. And then to conclude how everything stands or falls via communication within your team, department or organization!
The best way to follow this course
The best way to follow this course is to apply the strategy that works best for changing a habit:
- Set aside a fixed amount of time per (working) day. The recommendation is half an hour per day.
- When sitting down to do a learning session, work at it for a minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes.
- Under no circumstances do more than 30 minutes a day!
- Small steps have three major advantages:
- It’s easier to stay motivated, afterall, it’s only (maximium) half an hour!
- It gives you more time to let things sink in.
- It gives you the opportunity to experiment during the day with something you have learned.
- Connect your learning session to an existing habit and write that down in a statement like:
“After I’ve <Existing habit> (for example: had my second cup of coffe in the morning), I will sit down and spend half an hour on the Excellent Leadership course.“ - Post this statement somewhere where you will see it, preferably more than once a day.
Here’s what you’ll learn
Learn about wellbeing
Fulfilling three basic psychological needs is important for wellbeing. When the needs are met to a sufficient degree, it gives someone a sense of security and safety and increases an employee’s job happiness.
Emotions. Also in business?
Emotions motivate. For you as an excellent leader, your knowledge of emotions and how to respond to them, is essential to motivate employees and to retain them. And we practice a small technique you can use straightaway!
Stress
Challenges can lead to stress, stress affects your functioning; for better or worse. The way people deal with stress and the beliefs they hold about stress determine the extent to which stress actually has a negative impact on their (psychological) health.
No communication = no organization
An organization exists thanks to communication: you communicate because you need something from the other person and the other person needs something from you. This is precisely why interpersonal conversation skills are so important, also because they ensure intrinsic motivation, happy employees and better performance.
If you complete this course within 6 weeks from the registration date, we will refund the full amount!
Course Lessons
1.1 Wellbeing
Lessons
But first: The best way to develop a new habit Introduction to module 1.1 The three needs Read section 1.2 Watch Richard Ryan talk about happiness Leadership That Sustains Human Flourishing How about your wellbeing? Evaluation of module 1.11.2 Emotions in business
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Introduction to module 1.2 Read section 1.3 Watch Alan Watkins The empty barrel paradigm What are Emotions A first small exercise! Evaluation of module 1.21.3 Stress
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Introduction to module 1.3 Stress and burnout Read section 1.4 Relationship between emotions & stress Watch Kelly McGonigal's Ted Talk Rethinking Stress in Leadership and Wellbeing Your view on stress Evaluation of module 1.31.4 No organization without communication
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Introduction to module 1.4 Read section 1.5 An organization is its communication Communication = organization Corporate Social Responsibility The essence of this chapter Reflective questions Cheat sheet / checklist Evaluation of module 1.4 and of course 1If you complete this course within 6 weeks from the registration date, we will refund the full amount!