Versatile leadership. Workshop with OPTO professional preference assessment

Nowe Motywacje has been supporting organizations in the development of employees, leaders, and teams since 1996, focusing on solutions that work in practice. They work with organizations in a way that change is visible in daily operations, not just at the level of declarations. They engage in team processes, organize ways of working, and help people grasp context, make decisions, and take responsibility for results more quickly. Instead of one-off actions, they build solutions that remain within the company and start to work without ongoing external support.

This training develops leadership based on the real behaviors of a leader and their impact on the team. Participants work on their own style of action, confront it with the results of the OPTO diagnosis, and translate conclusions into specific decisions and ways of leading people. There is a strong emphasis on flexibility, courage in action, and building an environment where the team takes responsibility instead of waiting for instructions.

For managers and leaders who want to better understand their impact on the team, consciously work on their leadership style, and make decisions that genuinely shape the work culture.

• Increase awareness of one's own leadership style and its consequences for the team.
• Develop the ability to flexibly adapt behaviors to situations and people.
• Strengthen courage in decision-making and conducting difficult conversations.
• Build foundations for working on trust, responsibility, and open communication within the team.

Benefits for the organization

• Increased effectiveness of communication within the team through better alignment of action styles.
• Improved efficiency of collaboration and decision-making due to greater awareness of personality differences.
• Reduction of misunderstandings and conflicts, which translates into smoother achievement of business goals.

Benefits for the participant

• Better understanding of one's own preferences and functioning style in professional relationships.
• Development of skills to recognize and adapt to different personality types.
• Greater freedom and effectiveness in communication and building relationships in the work environment.

Leadership in the FLUX World – from control to courage

• In what reality do we operate? FLUX: Fast, Liquid, Unlearning, Experimental.
• Leaders facing complexity, polarization, and uncertainty.
• What is "leadership courage" – stepping outside the comfort of consensus.

My Leadership Identity

• OPTO assessment - individual report and discussion.
• Key insights: my strengths and challenges of flexibility – developmental IPR.

Versatile Leadership according to Kaplan & Kaiser

• Results of research by the creators of Versatile Leadership and their implications for me as a leader.
• What does it mean to be versatile?
• Behavior training in the context of enhancing flexibility, appropriately to the employee and situation.

Trust as Strategic Capital

• Trust and its impact on loyalty, innovation, responsibility – data from research.
• BRAVING - a systemic model for building trust (according to Brené Brown).
• Failures and vulnerability: modeling by example, how does a leader influence employee resilience?
• The team as an echo of the leader – how does our courage affect the work climate and the courage of managers?

Leaders' Armors – what hinders us from acting courageously?

• Perfectionism, control, "I must be right" – defensive mechanisms of leaders – self-diagnosis.
• Internal and external critic – how to tame the voice of shame and fear of losing face.
• The culture of courage begins with awareness of one's own fears.
• Working on one's own armors – reflective exercise.

The Courage of Influence – when leaders change culture

• Making decisions in accordance with the company's and business values – courageously instead of conveniently.
• Stepping out of a culture of conservatism – how to allow for speaking the "difficult truth".
• Modeling courage through behavior – not just messages, but daily choices.
• What decisions or attitudes have the greatest impact on the climate and culture in the organization today?

16 hours

• 2 workshops (2 x 8 hours)
• OPTO assessment
• training materials
• trainer's travel to the venue
• training facilitation
• training needs assessment
• personalized certificate in pdf
• online evaluation survey
• summary report from surveys