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The 8-week Personal Leadership Course
The online personal development training for startups, scaleups and international teams designed to increase self-awareness, self-leadership ánd team engagement. The perfect foundational course for leaders (to be) that is so much more than a course. It is the ultimate company culture builder.
Great leadership starts with personal leadership.
Imagine having a team full of people who take radical responsibility, are fully engaged, productive, ánd are not afraid to be their whole self at work. A team where people connect not only professionally but also personally with each other, so that they leave work fulfilled at the end of the day. That’s a team everyone would like to work in.
Imagine a leader who knows the mechanics of their own mind and emotions, so that they manage stress both for themselves and their team. A leader that has a strong foundation of self-leadership on which leadership skills to guide others can be build. That is a leader everyone would like to have as their manager.
The 8-week Personal Leadership course is designed to make this image a reality. Too often, leadership or communication skills are taught without helping employees develop personal leadership first, only for the skills to be left unapplied. This course helps employees build a strong foundation in personal leadership so that they can thrive at work.
Secfi and Ecco already helped their employees build a strong foundation of personal leadership with this course, resulting in increased self-awareness, better stress management and higher employee engagement. Your company can do the same.
“Personal leadership is the only leadership that matters in the 21st century.”
— Peter Drucker
A true win-win for employee and company
Employee benefits
Increased self-awareness of own thoughts and behaviour patterns
Reduced levels of stress and better stress management
Better emotion regulation and improved communication skills
Expanded toolbox full of exercises for continued personal development
And the #1 appreciated benefit: an unmatched depth in connections with colleagues
Company Benefits
Increased employee engagement as participants shared a vulnerable and powerful experience together
A strong work culture with foundations in openness and authenticity
Higher productivity as employees can transform stress, fear or other emotions that hold them back to thrive at work
More creativity expressed at work with better results
TESTIMONIALS
What People Say About The Course
“A win-win for employees and company”
“Manon developed and ran a powerful 8-week personal development training within Secfi. After the first group, word spread fast. Participants loved the training. It did not only help them grow self-awareness and self-leadership skills, it also increased their levels of engagement at work. The course truly helps our employees understand themselves better, develop their growth areas and create a bond with international colleagues during the experience.
So far, we’ve trained 60+ people within the company and it has become a backbone in our people development and culture building activities. We now run the training with our internal People department so that everyone gets the opportunity to take the course. I would highly recommend this training to any company wanting to develop their employees’ leadership skills and boost engagement at the same time!”
Lucinda
Senior Director of People
“My favorite experience at my company”
“I highly recommend the 8-week Personal Leadership course to all employees! This has truly been one of my favorite experiences as a Secfi employee. In my group, everyone was vulnerable and genuine, supportive and sharing, as well as honest and generous with their time. Manon's facilitation of the interactions felt organic and meaningful. I am leaving this course with a better understanding of myself and my interactions with the world.”
Kathleen
Senior Manager Client Success
“It was eye-opening.”
“The Personal Leadership Course was a wonderful experience. It allowed me to connect with myself and the other participants on a deep level. It was eye-opening to realize how we all struggle with the same insecurities and thoughts and regardless of age or position, we all share so many similar experiences.
This course allowed me to grow an awareness around my emotions, my responses, my actions and my thoughts and gave me tools to understand, reflect and observe myself and others. It taught me to zoom out and that every situation can be viewed in many different perspectives. It also taught me the importance of seemingly simple things like 'do more of what brings you joy', 'step out of your comfort zone', 'pay attention to your inner critic', and 'value yourself more'. I really recommend this course for anybody looking to build their self-awareness, self-confidence and who is open to challenging their thought patterns, norms, routines and habits.”
Gina
Senior Manager Strategy & New Ventures
The Personal Leadership course is designed to have maximum impact for people with busy schedules
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Small intimate groups
Group sizes vary between 6-9 people to facilitate a safe space for sharing ánd maximum interactivity.
Have a bigger team or company? We’ll then work with different cohorts. Cohorts can be grouped based on geography, department or team. One company even used this training as a cross-geographical team-building course so that people would get to know people they normally don’t interact with.
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Weekly 2-hour online sessions
Every week, we meet online for a 2-hour interactive Zoom session, usually scheduled at the beginning or end of the work-day. The sessions combine teachings, exercises, breakout sessions and on-the-spot coaching for a powerful experience. Participants report that sharing their stories with others in this safe setting was unmatched to any other training they experienced.
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Assignments between sessions
Everyone defines clear actions after each session so that they take responsibility for their progress towards their intended goal. It is recommended to schedule 15 minutes of reflection per day, both to work on the topic of the week ánd to integrate the lessons learned so far.
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Bonus individual Energy Leadership Index Assessment
Energy Leadership, developed by iPEC, forms the backbone of the course. A personal Energy Leadership Index Assessment and 90-minute debrief session provides life-changing insights that help employees dive into personal leadership even deeper. They leave the 1:1 session with more clarity and an action plan.
8 Weeks of Powerful Content
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Week 1
Setting the stage for the whole course by defining rules of group interaction, discussing the group’s biggest challenges at work and setting individual goals for the program. The Energy Leadership™ system (developed by iPEC) is introduced as the backbone for the course.
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Week 2
Exploring the inner victim energy, that can show up as self-critical thoughts resulting in doubt, worry or overwhelm. The group learns about the four common blocks that prevent them from thriving at work. They leave with clear actions how to reduce the grip of self-criticism and procrastination.
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Week 3
We dive into judgment and how this relates to stress. We explore two powerful tools that power productivity. The new-learned structure closes energy leaks and creates focus and execution, resulting in more end-of-day fulfillment.
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Week 4
Rationalization and taking (radical) responsibility take center stage. The group practices powerful communication skills that reduces inner and outer conflict.
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Week 5
We move away from the head and more to the heart. We discuss the essence of giving and receiving, the importance of balancing care ánd learn about different types of boundaries that can help to manage energy and stress.
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Week 6
Everyone gets out of their comfort zone. The growth mindset takes center stage and the group will integrate the different learned perspectives by role-playing scenes.
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Week 7
A week full of joy. The group shares a deep experience of joy and learn how joy and creativity are highly connected. Everyone leaves with clear tools they can use to activate creativity and joy at work.
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Week 8
A powerful visualization experience that works on the unconscious mind. Everyone meets their inner mentor and knows exactly what gap between their ideal self and current self exist. We recap the course and share the biggest lessons learned.
T E S T I M O N I A L S
What People Say About The Course
“Life-changing”
“Manon has been gifted with a high level curiosity and intuition, giving her the ability to see through stories and behavioural patterns, helping bring any underlying truth to the surface. Manon's authenticity and ability to unravel complex self proclaimed mysteries, has been life changing.”
Daniel
Global Consumer Experience
“It will help you cope with stressful situations much better”
“Manon and her Personal Leadership course has been a great experience! I personally really like the methodology that Manon used to teach us about different energy levels, through role play, assignments and sharing personal experiences. Manon was able to create very trusting and open space within the small group, so sharing our opinions and personal experiences was easy and fun. The framework of 7 different energy levels is very interesting and it can help you to put many things into a perspective as well as cope with stressful situations much better. Part of Manon's course was also an Energy Leadership Index assessment, where you can learn even more about yourself and schedule a 1:1 session with Manon to go through the results. I recommend this course to anyone who is interested in understanding their thought or behaviour patterns, how to access stressful situations and many many more.”
Monika
Global Growth Marketing
“It helped me understand myself better”
“The course was great, it helped me to put emphasis on what's important for me and understand myself better. Also it gave new instruments on how to evaluate emotional and behavioral state of myself and people around me. Now I have a lot of things to do but I'm excited :)”
Petro
Software Engineer & Technical Lead
CREATOR AND FACILITATOR
Hi, I am Manon
I am a Life and Leadership coach & trainer, trained by world-renowned coaching institute iPEC, with a background in strategy consulting. I coached dozens of individuals from 15 countries and 5 continents through my 1:1 ánd group programs.
I created this 8-week Personal Leadership course when I worked as the Head of People Development at a fast growing start-up.
The course was an overwhelming success. Not only did people learn foundational personal leadership skills, they also connected on a deep level to the colleagues they shared the experience with. The course is so much more than a course; it is the ultimate company culture builder.
I now bring this course to startups and international teams that want to (re-)humanize their workplace and empower everyone to be a leader.
Contact me about the course
hello@manonvermeulen.com
+31639897570