A 100 % online leadership development program, that is personal and interactive
The Leading Online Collaboration (LOC) is a program which will increase your ability to lead, work and network online. In particular, the program will give you stronger skills to lead teams of people coming together online from all over the world.
During a 7-week period you will collaborate and learn online every Tuesday for 2 hours together with other leaders from around the globe. During the online sessions you will also meet international experts who will share their learnings and thoughts on the program. All sessions will be led and moderated by IME. This is not a webinar!
For further information, call Lars Hoffmann NOW +45 7015 5055
Why you should attend
Work is changing and hence leadership must change too! Because of new disruptive technologies, increased competition, lower barriers to entry in existing industries and other external factors work is changing fast. No longer are the days where industries and work were stable and foreseeable. Today, what worked yesterday is not valid tomorrow. In order to lead organisations and people, who must themselves be extremely adaptable, collaborative and self-leading, management must change too.
During the program you will learn through practice how to lead diverse teams with the use of collaborative technology – and how this approach can be implemented in other business and management cultures for better performance and business results.
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Who should attend
This program is for managers who are:
- Working internationally
- Having staff reporting to you.
- Torn between daily operations and strategy execution
- Working globally and/or leading virtual teams
- Part of an international management team
In an environment characterized by little or no time to learn new digital leadership skills
And most importantly: You are looking for new leadership tools and will take an active role in the LOC discussions online.
Facilitator and trainer
Lars Hoffmann
is a danish business psychologist, learning designer and senior management consultant at IME and Henley Business School, Denmark. Lars combines both empathy and human insight with a flair for design, technology and games. He’s developed numerous dialogue tools, simulations and programs for leadership development and large scale organizational change interventions. He has worked extensively with senior management team development using active learning. Lars himself leads an online team developing software for facilitating difficult conversations.
Guest experts
Annelie Nässen
Annelie Nässen is Director of Global Sales at SAS, a company with global reach being the largest airline in Scandinavia. Executive leadership is not easy in an industry as competitive as the travel industry – an industry that was among the first to be hit by Internet innovations in transparency and pricing. Annelie was elected Manager of the Year by the industry in 2016. She brings 30 years of international experience with scandinavian leadership to our program.
Rufus Gifford
Rufus Gifford is an American diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Denmark from 2013 to 2017, and was the Finance Director for Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign in 2012. Prior to that, he served in various financial management capacities for Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama and John Kerry in their respective presidential campaigns.
On January 16, 2017, Gifford was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark for his meritorious service to the Kingdom of Denmark
Pernille Hippe Brun
Pernille Hippe Brun is a management consultant and executive coach. She lives and works both in Copenhagen and San Francisco and advises organizations and leaders globally. Pernille has designed MBA-programs on three continents. She is a pioneer in strength-based leadership and is co-author of the bestselling Handbook of Strengths Based Leadership together with management guru David Cooperrider.
Lars Bastholm
Lars Bastholm is global CCO (Chief Creative Officer) at Google The Zoo, a creative think tank for agencies, bureau’s and brands. Lars is one of the most highly awarded and internationally renowned creative leaders in the advertising industry. He has been global CCO at world-leading agencies such as Rosetta, Cheil, Ogilvy and AKQA working digitally with the biggest brands in the world. Lars has led creative peers and processes globally for the past two decades.
Chris Shern
Chris Shern is Managing Director at IME – International Management Education, a Scandinavian non-profit foundation dedicated to empowering the curious through executive education and courses. Chris worked for many years in the airline industry leading organizations across 3 continents.
His unique insights from living and working internationally for over 2 decades has inspired him to write a book on Nordic leadership as a model for the future, to be published in 2017.
How?
Because the world of business is becoming more global organisations and managers must increasingly rely on online tools to lead and get people together in teams. This is why the program is happening exclusively online. By using new online tools we not only train you in Leading Online Collaboration, but also in getting familiar with state-of-the art IT-solutions. This is a fully collaborative program, not a course spent watching videos or lectures.
In particular, we will use:
- Video conferencing with breakout rooms.
- Interactive whiteboards.
- Chat for threaded discussions and file search and sharing.
- Co-authoring and commenting documents and files simultaneously.
- Commenting and discussing content inside video.
We will not be using e-mail.
SESSIONS &
CURRICULUM
The curriculum of the 7 weeks are as follows:
1. CONNECTING
How to connect technically, personally and emotionally on an equal level. How to use collaborative software systems of the future. How to conduct yourself online. How to become a strong learning team and support each other during the program.
2. LEARNING
How to enter the learning zone as a leader and as a team: Taking roles and responsibilities, being accountable and meeting deadlines in order to learn and improve. How to always ask for feedback.
3. COLLABORATING
How to lead work in collaborative groups and teams across distance in space and time. Sharing and communicating with equality and openness. Creating trust, common language and common standards.
4. PRESENTING
Setting direction and inspiring action by communicating and presenting leadership messages with authenticity and openness moving the focus away from the leader and onto the team.
5. DELEGATING
Briefing and empowering others by setting few great goals, creating both autonomy and alignment in order to secure execution and accountability. Using authority to get results in the right manner to be able to maintain both trust and openness.
6. VALIDATING
Assessing, de- and backbriefing the aims and effects of your efforts for performance and improvement. Assessing outcomes collaboratively through peer review. Adjusting goals and plans accordingly.
7. PERFORMING
Putting it all together and achieving outstanding results. Planning for continuous improvement and ongoing learning. Exams.
Format
In the Program you Learn through Involvement. This means:
- 100% Online and Social.
- We are developing, working with hands-on digital leadership methods.
- Case material is your own situation.
- You will join a dedicated Learning Team engaged in constant Collaboration and Feedback.
- We use an Active Learning Approach and Platform in a ‘Flipped Classroom’ style. This means reading and watching lectures is done on your own time. Meetings are reserved for practicing and discussing leadership together.
- You will be writing, blogging, recording and discussing content with 3 weekly deadlines.
- Each weekly live meeting is joined by a world class expert in a related field for an informal Dialogue.
- The Program Examination is by Peer Assessment
Practicalities
Please observe the following practical aspects of the Program:
- Duration is 7 weeks
- There are 7 online sessions of 2 hours each. These are fixed at each Tuesday, 12:00 am – 14:00 pm (London Time)
- Between sessions you should plan for online discussions and work of about 2 hours/week. These you can do as it suits your own schedule
- You are expected to practise and share what you learn in your own management
- This totals 14 hours face-time with the instructor and team and 14 hours of online work
Price 2.000 USD incl. VAT
Qualifying for the Program
You must:
- Be willing to participate actively, be recorded on video and share your knowledge, challenges and performance with the course participants
- Be a manager with staff reporting directly to you
- Be fluent in written and spoken English
- Have a modern and updated smartphone and computer with a webcam and the Chrome browser installed
- Use a headset with microphone
- Have a good Internet connection
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The fund for International Management Education (IME) is a Danish non-for-profit educational fund founded in 1994. Based in Copenhagen IME offers the international executive MBA degree from Henley Business School as well as an IME Mini MBA certificate and executive courses.