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Growing Your Business While Growing as a Leader
Pekka Mattila
Leading with Impact – Johda vaikuttavasti
As a leader and executive, you are responsible for the performance and result of the organization. Effective operations require you to have influential leadership skills; the ability to create an inspiring vision for your organization, and to involve and motivate your team to work together meaningfully and achieve common goals. On the other hand, strategic thinking and prioritization skills are required for constantly changing circumstances.
Our new leadership program provides the skills and frameworks needed for effective and influential leadership in a compact package:
- Strong self-awareness is a prerequisite for developing as a supervisor. As a manager, you will learn to understand the impact of your persona and actions on other people.
- You will learn to recognize what kind of action and behavior functional interaction requires in different situations, and how to get different people to work towards common goals.
- You will harness the organizational culture to support common goals. You will learn to energize by creating relevance and increasing activity to enable growth.
The program is suitable for you if you need new ways to motivate your team and ensure results. You can be a newly appointed manager or have had a team to lead for some time already.
Start
November 2021
Our new program combines leadership themes that have been found to be the best in our other leadership programs. In the program you will learn with our top experts / most wanted coaches.
A compact package, during which you will find your inner leadership skills and understand how you influence and succeed with other people.
As a leader, our development is supported by self-assessment as well as by tools and techniques that enable effective interaction.
Benefits
The program provides a compact three-day course of our best tools and reference frameworks for developing your leadership and ensuring your organization's performance. You will learn to influence other people and get them to work together towards achieving common goals. At the same time, you are a part of a knowledgeable and natural network of supportive peers that allows you to test your thoughts, learn from the experiences of others, and develop as an influential leader.
Know the person in the mirror – self-awareness lays the foundation for goal-oriented development. Understanding your own emotions, strengths, and areas of development, as well as your values and attitudes, increases your ability to influence.
Sharpen your focus – a personal development plan will help you acquire the skills and reference frameworks required for greater impact.
Get things done – Improve your performance and unlock your full potential to take initiative, show ownership and instill energy in the organization.
Energize your team – you understand the importance of effective interaction in motivating your team and in connecting with your circle of trust. Nurture an environment that enables peak performance with influential leadership.
Read the context – learn how to take advantage of your strategic thinking and identify different situations and patterns of behavior. You will learn how to adapt your own operations and allocate your organization's energy correctly to ensure success.
For
The program is intended for leaders and executives who want to succeed in their effective leadership work - by ensuring the performance of their organization and team engagement.
The program is for you who want to
- understand the effects of your leadership and create the conditions for success
- inspire, motivate, and involve your team in a successful performance
- use your time effectively to show direction
- be involved in securing your organization's goals and results.
Contents and Schedule
The program is delivered in three consecutive days with interactive sessions by top coaches familiar with the scientific world and business, discussions, and applied group and individual work.
Program Structure
Before the contact teaching days
Self-assessment with the help of the world's leading personality survey, Hogan Assessment.
Compact three-day training
You'll learn under the guidance of our top coaches
Energizing peer support
Peer-to-peer support even after the program
Modules
Instructors
Riina Gröhn
Dr. Riina Gröhn specializes in developing leaders to increase their self-awareness and self-leadership skills, to understand what in their own leadership style can work for and against them, and to build emotional intelligence in leading others, especially during transformation and change.
She holds a Master’s of Science and Doctorate in the field of health and biosciences at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine. In addition, she studied human resources management, leadership, mindfulness & positive psychology at Cornell University ILR School, Darden School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley.
She does leadership and career coaching, and she thrives by coaching individuals in self-discovery, navigating through change, career transformations, and to exceeding themselves.
She is also ICF certified coach (ACC), and Certified Profiler for Hogan and Kets De Vries Institute Personality and Leadership Assessments.
Pekka Mattila
Dr. Pekka Mattila is a specialist in strategic management and agility, strategy co-creation, business model innovation, executive leadership, top team dynamics, change management, organizational culture and strategic marketing.
Dr. Mattila works frequently with European, Asian and North American as well as African executive audiences and is a much-requested speaker at corporate and other events around the world. Over the years, he has frequently visited a number of prestigious European and Asian universities teaching management, organizational behavior, marketing, and sociology.
In addition to his academic activities Dr. Mattila has conducted an active business career. Currently he serves as the Chairman of the Board or as a Member of the Board at a number of innovative companies: e.g. media, construction technology, payments, lighting as well as food and beverage industries. Previously he served in executive, management and senior staff positions in the Nordic financial services industry. From 2012 till 2014 he served as a board member at a leading Finnish bank. Currently he serves as a Member of the Board of The Finnish National Gallery. From 2009 till 2017 he served as the Chairman of the Board for the foundation operating the renowned Helsinki Festival. He is a Founding Member of Nordic Institute of Business and Society and the Chairman of the Board for Helsinki Advanced Interaction Studies Institute.
Dr. Pekka Mattila is the Group Managing Director and Associate Dean of Aalto EE and serves as a Professor of Practice at the Aalto University School of Business. He holds a D.Sc. in sociology from the University of Helsinki and an Executive MBA at London Business School.
Ira Lange
Ira Lange's core competencies are relationships in the workplace and the factors that influence management’s and experts’ behavior and interaction.
Her coaching and training themes are leadership and management practices, efficient and effective team building, as well as building trust and confidence in the organization. In recent years Lange has also coached executive board members and management teams that have faced leadership challenges in achieving common goals.
Lange is interested in human cognition, emotions, and efficiency in a workplace environment and in a professional context. In addition to leadership coaching and training, Lange also trains sales and customer relationship management skills, based on her previous experience as a consultant and sales manager. Lange makes a variety of assessments and inquiries that can be connected to team building and personal development programs.
Ira Lange is a coach, CEO, and entrepreneur at Q.motion Oy. She has over 20 years of experience in sales and leadership management e.g. Aspectum Consulting, Amos Partners, Bon Stockbrokers, AON Corporation. Lange works in Finland and Baltic countries. Ira Lange has a Master's degree from the University of Helsinki. She is a certified Business Coach and team builder, TM.