International Winter School 2025 - Leadership Excellence
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International Winter School 2025 - Leadership Excellence
The Winter School 2025 - Leadership Excellence organised by the Faculty of Organisational Studies in Novo mesto, Slovenia through its International Transdisciplinary Research Centre LEAD (Leadership Excellence and Development) and Academic Research Centre (ARC) is offered to all students who wish to acquire knowledge in the field of leadership excellence and gain ECTS credits.
Furthermore, the Winter School 2025 – Leadership Excellence is delivered both by academics and by invited guest speakers/leaders from different industry sectors. Through advancing the Faculty's partnership with practitioners, we also extend our invitation to the Winter School 2025 – Leadership Excellence to future and current leaders from private and public sector. In today's fast-changing world, leadership is crucial to individual and organisational development and is becoming increasingly important topic and a decisive success factor.
The Winter School enables participants to:
- understand the building blocks of leadership excellence which in modern times,
- create the key differences between average and excellent leaders and organisations,
- network with excellent leaders and experts from different industry sectors,
- become familair with best practices of excellent leadership,
- explore ideas for continuous improvement of own leadership process and skills and
- analyse case studies/concrete examples of leadership practices.
Target groups:
The programme is designed for both Bachelor and Master students as well as for Early and Experienced Professionals. Workshops, simulations and practical examples will deepen your understanding of the concepts of communication, teamwork, motivation and problem solving.
Course leader:
Dr Tatjana Dragovic Andersen and assistants
Delivery method: synchronous online
Duration:
6 sessions in March of 4 hours each:
March 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, and 14th from 4 PM to 8 PM CET.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to develop your leadership potential. You can apply via our REGISTRATION FORM until February 20 2025. For further information, please contact us by email at info@fos-unm.si
Certificates/Credits:
- Digital certificate of attendance for all participants.
- 6 ECTS for participants completing final assignments (passed).
- Bachelor students' assessment includes a final paper with an analysis of a provided case study.
- Master students' assessment includes carrying out a small-scale study.
Fee:
Regular registration by February 15 2025 fee: 549€ attendance for participants who wish to listen - audit.
Regular registration by February 20 2025 fee: 679€ for participants completing final assignments (passed).
The price includes participation in the seminar, materials and a certificate.
Early bird registration by December 2 2024 fee: 399€ attendance for participants who wish to listen - audit.
Early bird registration by December 2 2024 fee: 529€ for participants completing final assignments (passed).
Faculty of Organisation studies reserves the right to cancel a course. Students will be informed about the status of the course within one week after the application deadline.
Should a course be cancelled, the tuition fee will be refunded in full.
Programme
Programme
Read more about INVITED GUESTS
| Monday, 3rd March, 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
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| Opening of the Winter School (Dean's Address) | prof. Dr (PhD, ZDA) Annmarie Gorenc Zoran | 16.00 - 16.10 |
| Overview of the Winter School 2025: Leadership Excellence | Dr Tatjana Dragovic, Associate professor | 16.10 - 16.45 |
| Leadership through holistic approach Introductory workshop: Leaderhsip matrix Interrview with a leader: Jerome Michon, Medicines sans Frontieres |
Dr Tatjana Dragovic, Associate professor | 17.00 - 20.00 |
| Wednesday, 5th March 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
First set of skills from the Leadership matrix - Communication and motivation skills:
Director of Corporate Performance |
Dr Tatjana Dragovic, Associate professor | 16.00 - 20.00 |
Case study 1
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| Friday, 7th March 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
Second set of skills from the Leadership matrix - Strategic thinking skills:
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Bernarda Potočnik, MA Higher education teacher | 16.00 - 20.00 |
Case study 2
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| Monday, 10th March 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
Third set of skills from the Leadership matrix - Systems thinking skills:
HR Director for Slovenia and Europe |
Karmen Šemrl, Higher education teacher | 16.00 - 20.00 |
Case study 3
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| Wednseday, 12th March 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
Fourth set of skills from the Leadership matrix - Self skills
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Dr Tatjana Dragovic, Associate professor | 16.00 - 20.00 |
Case study 4
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| Friday, 14th March 2025 | Presenter | Time (CET) |
| Presentations of participants' draft seminar papers and discussion: (leadership excellence; holistic approach to leadership; communication and motivational skills; strategic thinking skills; systems thinking skills; personal skills; case study). | Dr Tatjana Dragovic, Associate professor Kurt Andersen, The Open University, UK |
16.00 - 20.00 |
| The Psychology behind Leadership | ||
| Interview with a leader: Natalija Doles Planinšek, OTP Bank, Internal Audit | ||
| Closing of the Winter School 2025 |
