Program Dates & Venues
The first sessions of the program will be conducted via the learning platform Zoom.
The last session will take place at Alba premises, Xenias 6-8, Athens. Please refer to the table below:
Day 1: Thursday 6/11/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 2: Friday 7/11/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 3: Thursday 13/11/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 4: Friday 14/11/2025 time 9:30-15:30 ZOOM
Day 5: Wednesday 19/11/2025 time 9:30-13:30 ZOOM
Day 6: Thursday 20/11/2025 time 10:30-14:30 Alba premises, 6-8 Xenias Str., Athens
1st Session - Managing Leadership Transitions
The first module focuses on the challenges faced by managers entering a new position and of managers entering into new teams and unfolds around the following issues:
- What distinguishes executives who make transitions successfully from those who are less successful?
- Strategies for successful leadership transition/ facing challenges and setting goals
- Team Effectiveness
- Aligning Expectations
2nd Session - Mastering Team Dynamics & Leading Teams with Impact
The second module focuses on competencies related with understanding and managing team dynamics and on leading with Impact.
The module includes a’ Movie Time’ session, during which participants will watch a film that will ignite them to learn, discuss and reflect on team leadership issues connected with influence, impact, empathy, alignment and management of perspectives.
3rd Session - Authentic Leadership
The third module focuses on authentic leadership and the value of authenticity for leadership excellence. It explores how the leader’s legacy may develop and it addresses the following leadership virtues.
- Self-awareness
- Tenacity/ Courage / Compassion
- Achievement of higher goals and meaning
- Work Life Balance
4th Session - Building a Culture of Learning Agility for Customer Service Excellence
Learning agility is described as the ability of an executive to excel at absorbing information from their learning and professional experiences and then extrapolating from those to navigate novel situations. In highly demanding customer service contexts, learning often stems from the customer service teams and the customers.
The module focuses on the following themes
- The ability to continually and rapidly learn, unlearn, and relearn mental models and practices from a variety of experiences, people, and sources, and to apply that learning in new and changing contexts to achieve desired results.
- Understanding complexity and non-linearities of the Digital Era
Leading Positive Meaning through Team Belongingness
The session will build on the principles of positivity and the strengths of executives and Organizations and will focus on new research findings that indicate that the sense of belongingness and the process of connecting with teams and other professional, organizational and personal networks as well as learning networks, has a positive contribution to personal, professional and organizational development.
The session focuses on the following themes:
- The value of creation of strong and dynamic networks
- Building trust, mutuality and solidarity through networks
- Achieving team and personal goals