Executive Programs

Young Leaders Forum

For future leaders with approximately 7-12 years of work experience, this 2-day program builds the necessary skills and insights to help them better lead themselves and their teams.

Young Leaders Forum
Young Leaders Forum

The Young Leaders Forum provides participants with the necessary skills, ways of thinking, and insights to become a better leader in a world of accelerating disruptive change, by maintaining a radical focus on what is within their control.

Designed for high potential future leaders with 7-12 years of work experience who are ready to further their leadership skills, the program focuses on experiential learning with group discussions, and empowers participants to coach each other so they can reproduce the exercises in their teams.

This interactive mix of theory and exercises based on positive psychology is designed to enhance participants’ ability to lead themselves and their teams, along 5 modules:

  • Positive emotions: Identify situations in life that create positive emotions, and learn how to induce those moments in your teams
  • Strengths: Learn how to lead yourself and others by building on your personal strengths and energizers
  • Relationships: Strengthen your relationships by practicing empathy and broaden your support to achieve your goals
  • Meaning: Learn how to infuse your life with meaning, and to provide meaning for your teams during challenging times
  • Achievement: Make change happen, and create a sense of achievement with each step

What participants say

“This is very unique, and enables people to really change something for themselves, and their personal and business environment.”

“Very well organized, super interesting people, great atmosphere.”

“Feeling energized, thankful, reflective and empowered.”

“Great job facilitating, the tools were great, and the mix of delivery (interactive, informal, videos) made it come to life.”

Program details

Sample agenda: Day 1

Positive Emotions

Seek out activities that give you a “kick”

• Identify activities that create positive emotions for you

• Develop the skill of Learned Optimism

• Learn to apply gratitude daily

Strengths

Use your strengths to get you into a state of flow

• Identify and use your strengths to build resilience

• Minimize use of your weaknesses

Sample agenda: Day 2

Relationships

Know there are other people who care about you

• Recognize that you control the depth of your relationships with other people

• Use empathy to build deeper relationships

• Become aware of the obvious and less obvious people who are there to support you

Meaning

Feel that you’re contributing to something bigger than yourself

• Understand that giving meaning to any activity or event is within your control

• Learn to share your meaning and create energy in your organization

Achievement

Celebrate your accomplishment

• Realize that it is you who defines what an achievement is in your life

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