The Leadership with impact course starts with deepening your self-knowledge by learning more about your personal qualities, pitfalls and automatic behaviour patterns, both conscious and unconscious. This forms the basis for leading others. You will learn how to implement your vision and encourage integrative decision-making, as well as work on your coaching skills and interview techniques. These are your most important tools as a manager for motivating and guiding others in their professional development. You will also acquire tools for creating a safe and pleasant work atmosphere in which everyone feels heard.

Leadership with Impact is part of License to Lead for managers at the Leading a TEAM level.

Your success within the university is not only determined by your scientific or professional expertise or experience, but also by your understanding of the institutional landscape in which you work. Are you in a leadership position and keen to strengthen your governance capabilities? The Academic management and leadership skills training focuses on the administrative and leadership skills—such as navigating power dynamics and stakeholder interests—you need to operate effectively within a university environment.

The Academic Leadership Programme is an advanced development programme for professors, assistant professors, associate professors and directors who are responsible, or jointly responsible, for the strategic direction of the university or one of its organisational units.

The programme offers an extensive learning experience that combines a range of learning modules, individual coaching and peer consultation. You will work with new insights and conceptual frameworks while being challenged to explore different perspectives and approaches to leadership and collaboration. Your own experience and practice form the starting point throughout the programme.

The programme is led by experienced trainers and draws on the expertise of internal specialists on a variety of topics, ensuring a strong connection with the university’s academic and governance context. Members of the Executive Board are also closely involved and engage directly with participants throughout the programme.Participants are nominated by their Faculty Board. Interested in taking part? Please contact your HR adviser or dean. For more information, please consult the programme brochure (in Dutch).

Academic Leadership is part of the License to Lead programme at the Leading the ORGANISATION level.

The Educational Leadership course is offered in the context of LDE, the alliance between Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam. The course aims to help participants develop a broad and practice-oriented vision on teaching and educational innovation. The course covers themes such as: vision on education, assessment policy, study performance, curriculum structure, didactic models, and quality assurance and accreditation.

Participants in this programme are nominated by the Faculty Board. If you are interested in taking part, please let your HR adviser or dean know.

What does it take to have a good conversation in the workplace? How do you deepen your understanding of the person you’re talking to? How do you express yourself clearly? And how can you talk to each other about difficult topics? This Skills Lab is an interactive and dynamic training programme for staff members in formal or informal leadership positions (both academic and support staff).

The Good Conversation is part of the License to Lead programme at the Leading OTHERS level.

Can you identify your own communication style and those of the people around you? Can you switch between different styles to create a better rapport? Can you both give and receive truly constructive feedback? This Skills Lab will strengthen your powers of communication. The course is intended for all University staff members.

The interactive Active Bystander workshop teaches you how to recognise, address and discuss inappropriate behaviour. It provides practical tools for challenging unacceptable behaviour, including behaviour that may have become normalised over time.

The Active Bystander is part of the License to Lead programme at the Leading YOURSELF level.

Are you an academic supervisor of PhD candidates? The Supervising PhD Candidates training course (taught in English) will help you strengthen your supervisory skills and further develop your role as a supervisor. Effective supervision supports PhD candidates in their development as independent researchers.

The Supervising PhD Candidates training course is part of the License to Lead programme at the Leading OTHERS level.

Professional recruitment and selection procedures are designed to assess candidates objectively. However, unconscious biases can still influence decision-making. In the Recruitment and Selection training course, you will learn how to recognise implicit bias and how to reduce its impact throughout the recruitment and selection process.

The Recruitment and Selection training course is part of the License to Lead programme at the Leading a TEAM level.

During this (in person) onboarding session, new managers will become acquainted with Leiden University’s vision on leadership. You will reflect on the roles, expectations and responsibilities of managers. We will also explore important themes such as social safety and diversity and inclusion. This interactive session also offers ample opportunity to meet fellow (new) managers and exchange experiences.

The Onboarding for New Managers programme is part of License to Lead at the Leading YOURSELF level.

The online onboarding module for managers offers useful information about important processes to help you get off to a good start in your new role.  You can go through it at your own pace and the information remains available for you to consult whenever you need.