Leadership Inspired by Amundsen

If so, this course offers all the above: gamified leadership development that engages the leaders with the story of a successful leader, Amundsen, allowing them to play, have fun and grow at the same time.

It is often difficult to keep the enthusiasm of managers who have been to many training programs to engage in new classroom courses. They can lose their inspiration, openness and eagerness to join a new class, as they might lack the application of the learned theories. Additionally, generation Y talents have a different learning style, preferring more practical, engaging and fun learning opportunities compared to traditional training courses. They require a different, inspiring and involving environment to learn something new.

The Amundsen programme is designed in such a way that it offers the excitement and fun of a game, while also allowing participants to learn and apply new approaches and essential and effective leadership skills. We inspire managers with the story of a successful leader and his team, who were able to achieve success under merciless circumstances thanks to a great strategy and preparation, a well formed team, the willingness to take risks, good leadership, and focusing on the main goal. We will review what challenges they had to deal with and will link them to the current world of business and the participants’ everyday challenges.

The programme is fully customizable to meet the learning needs of company’s participants, while they are engaged in a board game, doing tasks in two competing teams. We suggest choosing 2 topics from the leadership development areas like goal setting, motivation, feedback giving, etc., and we will shape the training to focus on practicing these skills across the various sessions of the Amundsen board game.

The Amundsen programme is designed in such a way that it offers the excitement and fun of a game, while also allowing participants to learn and apply new approaches and essential and effective leadership skills. We inspire managers with the story of a successful leader and his team, who were able to achieve success under merciless circumstances thanks to a great strategy and preparation, a well formed team, the willingness to take risks, good leadership, and focusing on the main goal. We will review what challenges they had to deal with and will link them to the current world of business and the participants’ everyday challenges.

The programme is fully customizable to meet the learning needs of company’s participants, while they are engaged in a board game, doing tasks in two competing teams. We suggest choosing 2 topics from the leadership development areas like goal setting, motivation, feedback giving, etc., and we will shape the training to focus on practicing these skills across the various sessions of the Amundsen board game.

Course objectives

• realize the importance of the proper application of leadership skill
• consciously utilize them to achieve team goals, which they will be able to set as part of their strategy
• master the chosen competencies tailored to company’s needs

Topics

I. Vision and setting goals

• strategy and strategic thinking: Analytical thinking, prioritization, creative problem solving, decision making
• resource planning
• presentation of strategy

II. Execution

• leadership styles
• conflict management
• effective meetings
• delegation
• argumentation
• feedback
• team cooperation

III. Evaluation

• rewards and recognition
• learning from mistakes and room for innovation/improvement
• best practice sharing
• sustainable change
• performance evaluation
• action plan