The fourth industrial revolution is bringing about profound change. The digital transformation has a dramatic impact on the way we understand (collaborative) work in the future and how we manage to master the associated cultural change. With this perspective in mind, the HWZ has revisited the topic of Next Generation Leadership in a CAS. The goal: Tomorrow's leaders recognize that they are only one expert among experts. In this changed leadership role, they must learn new leadership mechanisms that are suitable for fluid organizational structures.
For you in a leadership position, it is important to recognize opportunities and actively use networking possibilities yourself. In this way, you will give your projects important impetus, initiate faster solutions and optimize collaboration with your own and other teams.
Objectives and perspectives
According to Prof. Dr. Antoinette Weibel, trust researcher and director at the Institute for Human Resource Management and Leadership at the University of St.Gallen, three developments can be identified:
- The nature of work will change. We will lose many jobs, new ones will be created - and this will happen where humans are superior to machines: i.e. in manual, cardiac and creative work.
- In the future, we will work together even more in teams, because shared intelligence will be in demand. Hierarchies will become less relevant, and the heroic leader will have had his day.
- Structures will change. Questions such as: How can I build trust and a sense of "we" when I don't see the people on my team, will occupy us.
Aspiring competencies
You
- learn to recognize and manage your personal balance
- know how to develop your strengths
- know how to create trust, build motivation and inspire an employee
- learn how to lead positively despite contradictions
- learn how to foster relationships in a team and thus increase performance
- use new forms of interaction to promote creativity and innovation
In this course, you will meet a heterogeneous study group from diverse industries. All with the same goals: to deepen their professional competence and to take away an additional boost for their professional career.
Participant group
The course is aimed at all managers or employees who work in
- work in industries that are threatened by disruptive technologies.
- are responsible for innovation.
- have limited access to resources.
- are convinced that working in a team is better than working alone.
Structure and content
A leader who initiates competition between employees on the one hand while demanding collaboration on the other will not succeed in the outcome. The same applies to the trade-off between the dimensions of employee and process control and the demand for creativity and initiative - the entrepreneurial behavior so often desired - from the employee. The course's script-like progression allows for a holistic and individualized view of the subject, as well as the ability to exercise the targeted competencies like muscles. State-of-the-art knowledge from medicine, neuroscience, psychology, trust and motivation research as well as creativity techniques and an individual online coaching consisting of 8 modules over 4 months make the course a state-of-the-art experience.
The CAS Next Generation Leadership redefines the leadership requirements of agile and innovation-driven companies with their personnel structures designed for knowledge workers and expert cultures.
