Wouter van der Hall Come meet Wouter at his Personal Website Please select the button to e-mail Wouter. Wouter is an internationally experienced, incredibly insightful coach, trainer and facilitator. His ability to zoom in on your issues & your needs in an instant is amazing. He helps you find your own solutions and create phenomenal staff buy-in with surprisingly simple tools. He combines his wealth of personal experience in leadership roles with extensive management, education and coaching training and a business toolset built on knowing what you face: he has been there! From multi-national companies to small business, three levels of government (including the Dutch and US Fed) to non-profits, he has helped people and teams succeed. He's nice, he's smart & funny and he knows how is easy it is not to get things done because we're so busy. That's why he offers the simple to use toolset and exercises you need! Are you ready to be challenged to excel?! Sign up for a course and/or coaching now! If you want Wouter to work on-site with your teams or executive contact him at the contact button above. Wouter's Courses: Open Leadership for Supervisors and Managers The essential toolkit for middle managers With Wouter van der Hall Many supervisors and managers are excellent at the technical side of their position, that's why they got the supervisor or manager job! This 8 week course will help you master the skills you didn't learn or never got trained for on the job: The essential people skills and tricks of the trade as a supervisor and manager to help your team succeed. Combining teleclasses and 5 minute daily exercises this course will increase your learning multifold by keeping your brain active, focused and in continuous improvement mode. A combination with coaching is available to deepen your learning and increase your effectiveness. Small class! Sign up early! Supervisor and manager roles are often the most challenging and crucial roles in an organization. The upward and downward crush, demands and expectations on stuff you often don't control can impact the most technically brilliant supervisors and managers. This to the extend that they fail, want to leave or bring out the worst of their behaviors, which doesn't help them, their team or the bottom line one bit. This course gives new and experienced supervisors and managers the edge to survive and thrive in the corporate world. You will get re-energized; find focus and tools to make your job SO much easier. Combing this course with coaching will deepen your learning and you get to benefit Wouter's experience and insights one-on-one! Duration: 8 Weeks Start Date: To Be Announced Time: 11AM EST / 8PM PST Course Code: OLSA Tuition: $280 To purchase this course, please enter your e-mail address: Course OLSA Email    Outline: Week 1 Introduction and outline of the course. Supervisors and managers: at the crux of the organization You will learn: How your position in the organization creates many of the issues you deal with What kind of pressures to expect and how to deal with them How to stay sane, sharp and on your own track, whatever they say and stay open to seeing what's needed Week 2 Openness as a crucial skill to success. You will learn: How you impact communication with others and how they impact you How to become aware of how you block communication when it happens How to open the doors for your staff so they give you the good and bad in a timely manner Week 3 Listening, the most undervalued and underestimated skill a supervisor and manager needs to succeed. You will learn: Where you are at with your listening skills right now What impact not listening well has on your performance What barriers there are and how to avoid them How to practice listening well and check out that you've heard them right! Week 4 You choose you success. You will learn: How your and your staff's personal choices impact what happens on the job How to increase accountability of staff in a way they enjoy How to empower staff so they choose success How to overcome barriers to success that you or others create Week 5 Using our differences as our best tool to get the maximum result. You will learn: How group processes work To understand the differences in behavior of staff What the greatest barrier is to team success and how to overcome that How to guide and facilitate teambuilding to accelerate your teams development Week 6 Defensiveness: overcoming the self-destructor in yourself and in staff You will learn: Signs of defensiveness Different kinds of defensiveness How to act How to prevent the negative impact of defensive people and actions on your team. Week 7 Compatibility: how to make every work relationship as effective and productive as possible You will learn: How (in-) compatibility of team members impacts productivity How you match people How to work on improving compatibility when people don't like each other How to create balanced teams Week 8 Open teamwork: how to implement open leadership fully at work. Conclusion You will learn: How to truly integrate your learning How to effectively use it all to work with your team and achieve your potential How to use everyone's talents to the max We will conclude the course together in a brief on-the-phone celebration: an essential tool to use with your staff as well. Always celebrate success, however small or big. Home · Course Listings · Trainers · Contact Us · Main Site