Course leader: Manuel Salvador Gomes de Araújo

Home Institution:  Polytechnic of Porto

Course Overview
The Vanguard Leadership Program course seeks to develop on participants a set of soft skills that aim to promote an executive profile and citizens for the industrial revolution 4.0. The VUCA world, characteristic of our time, challenges each of us to adopt a more agile and time-appropriate type of thinking (growth mindset). Part of the solution lies to a greater knowledge of oneself, of others and of the contexts in which we live in. On the other hand, it is urgent to think about the transformation (personal,
team, organizations and society), with a better focus on values, innovation and the sharing of different points of view. This course has the purpose to contribute to this type of “Human Beings”, who are citizens of the world. It would be fantastic if, each
participant could say, at the end of the course, as the poet Willian Ernest Henley had said " I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul". This Transformational Leadership course (Vanguard Leadership Program) aims to promote in the participants self-awareness regarding the personal and interpersonal characteristics that are fundamental to succeed in the VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) in which we live, as well as the development of the behavioural skills
necessary to respond with creative, innovative and efficient solutions to future challenges. As a result, it is intended to create a “growth mindset”, which can lead to innovation and high performance of the people and teams involved. Its objectives are:
General:
1. Develop Personal and Interpersonal skills;
2. Develop Team Skills;
3. Promote emotional, social, and cultural intelligence Specific
1. Develop self-knowledge, sense of purpose and metacognition skills;
2. Train communication techniques;
3. Promote a Leadership Coach Style
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should be able to:
1. have a greater self-knowledge, self-awareness, and sense of purpose.
2. have a greater theoretical knowledge about the functioning of the brain and its relationship with our behaviours, as well as organizational transformation models.
3. apply soft skills for more developed leadership; and
4. have a greater sensitivity to cultural diversity and ecological vision of the world.
Course Content
CH 1. Introduction
1.1. Brain and processes of change: Neuroscience, Cognitive and learning styles
CH 2. Individual and Interpersonal Development
2.1. Fundamentals: Individual Development Plan and Personal Talents; Meta Cognitive Processes and Human Development; Health Mind Plate; Impact Communication
2.2. Ethical thinking, purpose, values, and beliefs
2.3. Creativity
2.4. Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Talent Promotion.
CH 3. Leadership, Teams and Organizational Development
3.1. Individuals, Pairs, Groups and Teamwork: Focus on the other
3.2. Verbal and non-verbal comms, Negotiation, Conflict and Feedback
3.3. Influence skills: Interviews, face-to-face and online presentation skills, Image, Networking, and Personal Branding
3.4. Management (Emotions, People, Time, and Information), e-Leadership and
Intercultural Teams
Instructional Method
The Course has an expositive character in its theoretical contents. It will be privileged
LEARNING BY DOING METHODOLOY. learning by modelling, role-playing situations,
doing case discussions, personal reflection, mindfulness, group dynamics, immediate
experience, as well as metacognitive debate. Learning is fostered in every way by David
Kolb (Feeling, Watching, Thinking and Doing). The syllabus philosophy focuses the
learning process on the student.(IF THE PANDEMIC PROGRESS THE COURSE IS ONLINE)
Required Course Materials
Room with lots of space
Mobile chairs and tables
Video projector
Frame
Protective masks
Ideal number of participants: 16 (12 to 20)
Assessment
Classes participation (50%)
Personal Development Plan (50%)
References
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Ivey, A.E., & Ivey, M.B. (2010). Intentional interviewing and counselling: Facilitating client
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