Lead yourself

Lead before you lead yourself with intention with clarity

For emerging professionals before they step into management. Build the self-awareness, communication skills and emotional agility to thrive in any team. 

Duration

8 days over 6-10 months

Group size

8-10 participants

Location

On location or online

01  

Know yourself

  • Know your values, strengths and working preferences so you show up consistently as the professional you want to be.

02  

Give stellar feedback

  • How to give radically candid feedback in a human and direct way — to peers, project collaborators and senior colleagues.
  • Practice giving compliments and criticism in small groups and one-on-one in our practice labs using your own feedback situations.

03 

Collaborate with different personalities

  • How to communicate and collaborate effectively with different personalities.
  • Mastermind to tackle any challenging business situation participants face.

04  

Build emotional agility

  • How to build emotional agility and manage your inner team.
  • How to deal with pressure and stress through resilience-building techniques.

05  

Hold effective conversations

  • Practice holding effective conversations using questioning, active listening, labelling and other techniques to understand others better, develop relationships and co-develop solutions.
  • How to manage up and navigate conversations with senior colleagues — disagreeing, flagging risk, asking for what you need.

06  

Collaborate internationally

  • How to collaborate effectively internationally across different cultures.
  • How to communicate effectively and give feedback across different cultures.

07 

Negotiate and manage conflict

  • How to navigate everyday conflict constructively — peer tension, project disagreements, unclear roles — before it escalates.
  • How to leverage negotiation techniques in high-stakes conversations and everyday situations.

08  

Present persuasively

  • Practice how to present a new idea or change and bring others along.
  • Practice how to speak spontaneously and build a good argument that lands on the go.

What participants say:

 

  • ‘Lisette is very positive and motivating. It is a lot of fun to work with her. She is very flexible in addressing topics that the participants brought with them.’
  • ‘Lisette did a really great job of designing the two days, so that not a second was boring during the two days. I especially liked that she involved everyone and used different presentation techniques and small group work. I don’t think any other trainer could have done a better job.’
  • ‘Lisette fits super into the group and creates a trusting atmosphere.’
  • ‘Good way of giving a training – especially because of the small group exercises that actively involved us again and again. Great insights for our individual cases.’
  • ‘Lisette is open, authentic and infectious.’
  • ‘Lisette delivered the first module in a comprehensible, varied and well-structured order.’
  • ‘Super lovely, and she radiated such great positive energy, I can only recommend Lisette.’
  • ‘I am very positively surprised that it was not the typical “I’m the trainer, you’re the participant” training. There was a nice balance between input, working in groups and trying stuff ourselves, which meant that it was never boring.’
  • ‘Very good facilitation and incredibly good mood —> extremely motivating!’
  • ‘For me ‘giving feedback properly’ was particularly useful and I was able to apply it successfully at work the next day! Overall, I now feel much more confident in interacting with colleagues.’
  • ‘Very engaging and enjoyable’
  • ‘Lisette is super open and you can tell that she enjoys her job, which she also transfers onto the participants’
  • ‘Lisette is a great trainer! Hands-on, great examples, very varied and informative training! TOP!’

Looking for a tailor-made leadership journey?

Drop me a line on lisette@lisettevandesandt.com or shout out using + 31 6 5093 1124.