Hans de Bruijn & Gerdien de Vries – Dealing with Power and Dynamics – Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders

Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders

Course Overview

“Dealing with Power and Dynamics” offers leaders the skills needed to navigate complex stakeholder networks. Led by Hans de Bruijn and Gerdien de Vries, this course equips you with an influencing mindset to lead effectively. Learn to manage diverse stakeholder interests, build trust, and motivate teams.

What Is Hans de Bruijn & Gerdien de Vries – Dealing with Power and Dynamics – Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders?

The course “Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders,” led by Hans de Bruijn and Gerdien de Vries, is designed for individuals, especially engineers, stepping into leadership roles or enhancing their leadership skills in complex professional environments. It centers on developing an “influencing mindset” necessary for leading teams and managing diverse stakeholders effectively.

In our interconnected and complex world, leaders are faced with both internal and external stakeholders. Problems have to be solved within complex networks of stakeholders, each with their own dynamics, interests, perspectives and power. As leaders, engineers have clear advantages: they are analytical, technically skilled, project-based, good with numbers and well-used to problem-solving. However, engineers cannot rely on this skillset alone when exercising leadership in today’s world.

In this course, you will learn how to develop and apply an influencing mindset, which will allow you to lead your team effectively and to successfully manage stakeholders. The course gives you the tools to operate within a network of stakeholders:

• distinguish power and interests in networks of stakeholders
• build trust
• recognize roles and norms in groups
• deal with conflict and cooperation
• motivate group members
• identify your own leadership style

Upon completion of this course, you will be introduced to an influencing mindset and toolkit, in order to use a set of cohesive strategies for dealing with stakeholders – both cooperative and non-cooperative stakeholders.

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What You’ll Learn From Dealing with Power and Dynamics – Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders?

• How to apply an influencing mindset to encourage multiple stakeholders with different interests to cooperate.
• How to recognize team dynamics, define roles and norms, and handle both individual and team issues, including motivating group members.
• How to use leadership approaches and styles to influence stakeholders and groups.

Why Choose This Course?

Leaders today need more than technical skills. They must work with different people and understand their needs. This course teaches you how to communicate, build trust, and guide your team to success.

Who Is Dealing with Power and Dynamics For?

The course “Dealing with Power and Dynamics: Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders” is primarily tailored for individuals currently in leadership roles or those preparing to step into such positions. It’s especially beneficial for professionals with a few years of experience in an organizational setting, although this is not strictly required. The course is also very suitable for engineers looking to enhance their leadership skills, as it addresses the need for a combination of technical expertise and strategic interpersonal skills in managing complex stakeholder relationships​

Discover Your Leadership Style and Influence Stakeholders Curriculum:

Week 1: Welcome in a complex world

• Discovering your leadership style
• Identify yourself as a mayor of a city which needs to find an effective way to influence the stakeholders of a port expansion project.
• Learn about the multi-issue approach
• Designing a multi-issue game
• Leadership pitch

Week 2: Strategies in networks

• The process approach
• Disadvantages process approach
• Smart command and control strategies
• Developing and presenting your project

Week 3. Trust in networks

• The importance of trusting people and be trusted yourself if you want to be an effective leader
• The rules of the game, meaning the do’s and don’ts, of operating in and leading a network.
• Cultural dimensions
• Leadership in practice: Managers about the Influencing Mindset

Week 4. From Networks to Organizations

• Information Asymmetry and Professionalism
• Two Leadership Approaches: Substance and Process
• Professionalism, Information Asymmetry and Leadership
• The Self-engineering Capacity of Organizations
• Variety and Overlap
• Two more Leadership Approaches: Top Down versus Bottom Up
• Leading Organizations

Week 5. Engineers as Team Leaders

• The soft skills which are required to lead a team.
• Provide insights in team dynamics in different phases:
  • The Forming Stage
  • The Storming Stage
  • The Norming Stage
  • The Performing Stage
• Different dynamics require a different approach from the team leader
• Strategic Plan
• Leadership in practice

Bonus Week – Strategic Leadership

Who Are Hans de Bruijn & Gerdien de Vries?

Hans de Bruijn: Professor of Public Administration in the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at Delft University of Technology

Gerdien de Vries: Dr. at Delft University of Technology

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Conclusion

Join “Dealing with Power and Dynamics” to grow as a leader. Learn practical skills that will help you understand and influence your team better. Start leading more effectively by enrolling today!

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