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FOR AMBITIOUS MANAGERS AND LEADERS
Business Workshops — featured by the SEED-Corvinus Executive Courses ™ — provide an immersive, live learning experience for managers and leaders featuring the latest insights and cutting-edge topics with an immediate business application.
The programs are highly interactive with special focus on team work, group excercises and learnings from each other’s experience and also consist of an individual, flexible follow-up consultation.
Cutting-edge topics
Get an access to the latest insights, practical toolset of leadership and management.
Individual consulting
1:1 consulting during the in-between weeks or after the last session.
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Managing Change and Agility | With a New Generation of Leadership Tools
Dr. László Eszes and Róbert Huszár
Dr. László Eszes
SEED Faculty Member
Róbert Huszár
SEED Faculty Member
Program Objective
- As change is accelerating and uncertainty is increasing, leading change and agility is becoming one of the most critical competitive capabilities of leaders and companies. At the same time, our understanding of organizational change has been deepened by new results of science and increasing amount of evidence. A new wave of leadership tools and approaches have been developed overwriting old myths and models about change.
- The objective of the course is to introduce the latest, modern approaches and tools of Change Leadership in a practical way. The participants will get a good understanding of what it takes to implement change effectively and to develop the adaptability and agility of their organizations. They will receive an introduction and – on a digital platform – access to a state-of-the-art, practical toolset they will be able to use for their current and future change initiatives.
Target Group
Leaders and managers who are leading or planning to lead in the near future change initiatives (transformation programs, projects with significant change impact, cultural / behavioural change initiatives, etc).
Main Topics
- The nature of change in organizations – the three aspects of change: ’Changing Direction’, ’Making Change Happen’ and ’Living Change’
- The critical role of the leader and the 5 principles of Change Leadership.
- Structural and behavioural change
- Applying an adaptive process to change
- Change Leaders’ Toolbox – master your tools and know which one to use when.
Program Structure
We will run the program on-site, in a highly interactive way that requires active participation. The program is constructed as a combination of: short plenary presentations, reflection and application to own situations of participants, intensive discussions in small teams, putting into practice what we learned, individual consulting with the Instructor.
Main Structure:
1. Pre-course introductions – getting to know the individual change leadership situations of participants through a short, written questionnaire and individual introductory calls (1-2 weeks before Session 1)
2. 3 SMALL GROUP SESSIONS, half day each
3. One-Two weeks between the Group Sessions: individual tasks to put into practice what we learned.
4. Between Group Sessions or after the last session: opportunity for individual consulting with one the Instructors.
Outcomes
Following successful completion of the program, participants will be able to understand change situations, select and apply the most effective leadership approaches and tools for them, including:
- analysis of the current situation of the organization
- formulating and sharing the purpose and vision of the change
- setting up an adaptive process to manage the implementation of the change
- monitoring response to change, measuring and monitoring progress, sharing results
- applying an involving process, empowering co-creation teams.
Instructors
Dr. László Eszes | SEED Faculty Member
László is an internationally recognized expert in change leadership with over 30 years of experience. He led major transformation programs in various general and strategic leadership positions at JTI and T-Systems in Hungary and Switzerland. He is also Managing Partner of “Level9”, the international change management boutique consultancy, and advisor to numerous CEO’s and corporate leadership teams in Europe. László holds an MBA from the University of Bradford (UK) and a Doctoral Degree in Operations Research.
Róbert Huszár | SEED Faculty Member
Robert is an experienced and highly skilled leader with a wealth of experience gained in senior management positions in both retail and wholesale banking, combined with financial expertise gained at multinational companies.
He is an economist by education and has an MBA from Manchester Business School in the UK. Robert served as Head of Consumer Banking Department, Deputy CEO, responsible for Branch Sales, and Deputy CEO, responsible for Corporate Banking at Raiffeisen Bank. After 16 years spent at Raiffeisen Bank, he became the Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking Division of K&H Bank. Today, he acts as management consultant and is involved with FinTech start-ups.
Location
The on-site program will take place in Budapest, Hungary.
The place of the event will be communicated following a successful application.
Price
750 EUR
[ Special discount for SEED and Corvinus Alumni – 640 EUR ]
The price includes 3 half-day sessions and 1 consulting session with the Instructor. The price does not include VAT.
The SustainABLE Leader | Act on Purpose – Turning Concepts into Actions
with Beáta Barkóczi, Dr. Bálint Horváth and Zsombor Barta
Beáta Barkóczi
SEED Coach
Dr. Bálint Horváth
Guest Speaker
Zsombor Barta
Guest Speaker
Program Objective
The program is based on the realization that while sustainability is often talked about even in a corporate setting, usually the discussion remains on a very high level. The goal is to connect high-level goals and actions with the everyday reality of corporate middle management and lead to realizations that practical solutions are within reach.
The program aims to make a difference between industry-specific, usually large-scale solutions, mostly best left to global top management and specialized experts, and generally applicable, cross-industry, mid- or small-scale solutions that can be realized in the framework of business-as-usual corporate life.
The program differentiates between key goals under the umbrella notion of sustainability and aims to introduce the development of the concept. It is important to enable participants to choose the emphasis of their commitments towards sustainability based on a sophisticated understanding.
Target Group
This program is recommended for
corporate middle management leaders
who want to
- understand the growing business case for sustainable solutions and
- integrate the right set of sustainability actions into their operation to support sustainable growth and create competitive advantage for the company on long term.
Main Topics
- Social and environmental challenges, UN Sustainable Development Goals and seven systems transformation
- EU New Green Deal, local feasibility studies
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance
- Corporate sustainability efforts: SustainAbility surveys, case-studies, Sustainability indexes, triple bottom line
- Circular economy and leadership
- Case studies of successful Central & Eastern European corporate sustainability efforts
- Guest speaker(s) with CEE experience in sustainable business practices
- Environmental impact assessement
- Assess real ecological footprint and create your sustainable agenda
- Encourage change
Program Structure
The program is highly interactive that require active participation. Attendees aquire deeper knowledge on practical solutions through case studies and real-life examples, guest speaker(s) presentations and experimental learning through individual and team excercises.
The program consists of 3 half-day sessions. One hour additional follow-up consultation included for each participant free of charge.
Outcomes
Following successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Deepen knowledge on worldwide, EUs and local social and environmental initiatives, measurements and system tranformations
- Understand environmental impact assessment
- Diffentiate between real and ’PR’ actions in respect of sustainability
- Understand sustainable business strategies, competitive advantage created by sustainability efforts, how they improve motivation, team efficiency, ROI and enhance company’s success on the long-term
- Ariculate own agenda with clear direction and actionable plans
- Empower your team to act for their better future
- Encourage positive behavioural shifts within the organisation
Instructor
Beáta Barkóczi | SEED Coach
Beáta is an organisational and leadership development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. She is an Executive Coach (ICF PCC), an economist (MBA), fellow to ACCA and qualified by the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Over the last 20 years, Beáta was finance leader at one of the top 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, she has been working with over hundred entrepreneurs as Regional Director of Education of a worldwide operating networking organisation and run coaching sessions for executives and teams of multinational, small and middle sized organisations in various industries (consulting, energy, farming, finance, FMCG, health care and real estate) as an entrepreneur.
She is passionate about hard working people succeeding in their lives. Today, as an executive coach for high performers she runs sessions with clients right in nature where they can balance out their systems and get powerful new perspectives on their lives and their work. As a Management and OD consultant she combines the professionalism of the corporate world with the creativity of the entrepreneurs.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Bálint Horváth | Circular Economy Regional Policy Officer
Bálint holds a PhD in management and business administration, and wrote his dissertation about the policy and business implications of the circular transition. He works as a Circular Economy Policy Officer at the Netherlands Embassy in Hungary and Slovakia. His professional portfolio includes many activities in the V4 countries, and his personal desire is to contribute to a resource-efficient and climate-resilient transition in the CEE area.
Zsombor Barta | HuGBC, Greenbors Consulting, NFFT
Zsombor is responsible for International Relations as senior parliamentary advisor at the National Council for Sustainable Development Hungary (NFFT), further, he is the Founding Partner of Greenbors Consulting Ltd, a sustainability consultancy company focusing on sustainability strategy developments, smart city and sustainable urbanisation issues, green building certifications, carbon strategies, ESG and EU taxonomy related questions. Zsombor is also the current President of the Hungary Green Building Council (HuGBC) and member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Price
750 EUR
[ Special discount for SEED and Corvinus Alumni – 640 EUR ]
The price includes 3 half-day sessions and 1 consulting session with the Instructor. The price does not include VAT.
The INTRAPRENEUR | “Freedom To Succeed in the Corporate World”
with Beáta Barkóczi and László Aczél
Beáta Barkóczi
SEED Coach
László Aczél
SEED Faculty Member
Program Objective
The program is based on the realization that although companies are aware that innovation is key for long term sustainability, they still do not recognise the best promoters of that change are the highly creative intrapreneurs.
Successful intrapreneurs rise to the top (often to executive level) with a deep understanding of the business from all levels. While delivering results they also foster the growth of other talented intrapreneurs and integrate more new ideas for the good of the entire company.
This program is designed to introduce the key elements of the intrapreneurial skillset, essentials to build and implement strategy to reach that vision, recognize and solve important problems and build supporting network. The goal is to connect high-level goals with practical solutions that are within reach.
Target Group
This program is recommended for
dynamic mid-level corporate leaders
who are committed to innovation, excited by complex challenges, experienced in leading cross-functional collaboration, have a track record of successful projects and want to do more.
They have a vision on enhancing the company’s long term growth through new processes, services or products and they are willing to create solutions through cross-functional collaboration.
Main Topics
- The Intrapreneur (entreprenerial freedom, access to company resources, impact)
- Vision that correlates with the leadership point of view
- Personal brand, Exposure management and building positive relationships
- Focus on what is Essential
- Create impactful pitches and reach agreements instead of expectations management
- Introduction to goal oriented creative problem solving techniques (Design Thinking and other techniques)
Program Structure
The program is highly interactive that requires active participation. Attendees aquire deeper knowledge through self-reflection on professional experiences and future plans, experimental learning through individual and team excercises, role plays and thought-provoking presentations.
The program consists of 3 half-day sessions. One hour additional follow-up consultation included for each participant free of charge.
Outcomes
Following successful completion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Become more authentic in their field by understanding the value they represent
- Articulate their vision and implement a strategy toward it
- Raise their game and demonstrate strong ROI
- Define current exposure and actions to build supporting network
- Use freedom and creativity to build highly motivated and efficient collaborations
- Elevate their ’out of the box’ thinking and solve complex issues
Instructors
Beáta Barkóczi | SEED Coach
Beáta is an organisational and leadership development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry. She is an Executive Coach (ICF PCC), an economist (MBA), fellow to ACCA and qualified by the Association of Corporate Treasurers. Over the last 20 years, Beáta was finance leader at one of the top 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, she has been working with over hundred entrepreneurs as Regional Director of Education of a worldwide operating networking organisation and run coaching sessions for executives and teams of multinational, small and middle sized organisations in various industries (consulting, energy, farming, finance, FMCG, health care and real estate) as an entrepreneur.
She is passionate about hard working people succeeding in their lives. Today, as an executive coach for high performers she runs sessions with clients right in nature where they can balance out their systems and get powerful new perspectives on their lives and their work. As a Management and OD consultant she combines the professionalism of the corporate world with the creativity of the entrepreneurs.
László Aczél | SEED Faculty Member
Born in Beijing and raised in London, László is a seasoned communications professional. He started his career as an intern at Young & Rubicam advertising and quickly climbed the account ranks to become Client Services Director and in 2007 the CEO of Y&R Budapest and subsequently the Group. He also held the position of Chairman of the Association of Communications Agencies in Hungary for almost a decade. He was responsible for leading 120 people in five companies including a CRM agency, a brand intelligence firm and a service design entity.
After spending 23 years at Y&R he stepped down from this role. In 2019 founded Superfuture Consulting and started advising large, blue chip companies on brand, marketing and communication strategies. He is still active in this field and works with a crew of European creative and strategic talent. He has been faculty at SEED since 2019.
Price
750 EUR
[ Special discount for SEED and Corvinus Alumni – 640 EUR ]
The price includes 3 half-day sessions and 1 consulting session with the Instructor. The price does not include VAT.
Be Visible To Get Your Next Promotion | How to Build Your Self-Brand In The Corporate World
with Dr. Judit Zolnay and Dániel Somlai
Dr. Judit Zolnay
SEED Faculty Member
Dániel Somlai
SEED Coach
–
Corvinus Alumnus
Program Objective
Learn how to make your personal brand more visible to your executive leadership team to enable your next promotion. A strong and visible personal brand is also crucial if you want to secure the necessary but scarce resources for your organisation’s development.
You drive your personal brand with your behaviour as your brand is what they say about you when you leave the room.
In this course you will
- define your own authentic personal brand,
- build your own visibility strategy for your career path,
- learn different tactics and you will tailor them in order you find your authentic way to increase visibility within the company,
- learn how your behaviour impacts your brand, so you can change your behaviour to match with your desired brand,
- define actions to improve the culture and brand of your entire organisation unit.
Target Group
Team leaders, managers, talents and project managers in large organisations
- Managers and talents who are seeking/expecting a promotion in the coming 2 years
- Those wishing to increase their visibility or strengthening their authentic selves
- Those wishing to change their line of business
- Managers that have a pioneer profile compared to the ruling corporate culture: female leaders / hire from outside the industry
Main Topics
1. Authentic self and leadership brand
- Personal branding within a corporation.
- What are your core values? – Discover them, with the help of peer participants.
- What do you want to be known for? – Define your brand message.
- What are the behaviours that convey your brand message?
2. Visibility
- Who is your target group? – that is where you need visibility.
- Tactics of increasing visibility within the company and towards executive leaders.
- Find your authentic way of making yourself heard and seen (you can avoid constant bragging if that is not your style).
- In „group coaching” work on selected participants’ own challenges to solve common visibility issues.
- Create your own action list for increasing your visibility.
3. Your organisational unit’s culture and brand
- Elements of organisational culture (vision, values, practices, people, narrative etc.). Microcultures within the corporate culture.
- How does your behaviour impact the culture in the organisation?
- Describe your unit’s organisational culture – e.g. along with Edgar Schein’s model.
- Define your action list/commitments to change your behaviour and thereby improve your unit’s culture and brand.
Program Structure
The program is a self-reflection journey focusing on increasing self-awareness and designing step-by-step every participant’s own personal brand and the action plan to implement it. Methods include small group and couple team work, self-reflection, group exercises, peer-to-peer support and trainer presentation.
The program consists of 2 full-day sessions. There will be homework exercise between the sessions. One hour additional follow-up consultation is included for each participant free of charge.
Outcomes
Following successful completion of the program, participants will:
- have defined their personal brand and will have insights about the impressions they make on others,
- know how to increase their visibility along their own strategy (less barriers in their mind and clear action points to start experimenting),
- have an actionable plan to improve the culture and brand of their organisation unit.
Instructors
Dr. Judit Zolnay | SEED Faculty Member
Judit is a Hungarian senior executive with 25 years in the financial industry and 20 years of leadership experience. Judit has served Winterthur, Credit Suisse, AXA, Aviva and MetLife companies and has 17 years of Board membership. As a CEO she led business in Hungary and Bulgaria. She is a member of the Hungarian Business Leaders Forum and Menedzserszövetség’s Boards. She is the chairman of Romaster Foundation of HBLF and Board member of the United Way Foundation. She was selected from 2016 as one of the top 20 most influential women in business by Forbes Hungary.
Dániel Somlai | SEED Coach
Dániel is a coach, trainer, and management consultant with 15 years of experience. He worked at Deloitte and PwC as a management consultant in Hungary and in the Netherlands. He is a business coach certified (ACC) by the International Coach Federation. He has assisted as a coach in the personal growth of both leaders and talents in multinational corporations, start-ups, and small and medium enterprises.
Location
The on-site program will take place in Budapest, Hungary.
The place of the event will be communicated following a successful application.
Price
750 EUR
[ Special discount for SEED and Corvinus Alumni – 640 EUR ]
The price includes 2 full-day sessions and 1 consulting session with the Instructor. The price does not include VAT.
Flow Leadership Development via FLIGBY | Learn How to Generate FLOW at the Workplace
Dr. Zoltán Buzády
Dr. Zoltán Buzády
Corvinus Faculty Member
–
Corvinus Alumnus
Program Objective
FLIGBY is an value-based leadership development tool, global award-winning serious game and an innovative training program: The aim of the tool is to support your, the leader, in the art of ‘ how to generate FLOW [1] at the workplace’.
FLIGBY is an interactive, online software that employs real-life business simulation in a movie-like setting; teaching the participants how they can experience Flow in their future leadership positions and how Team-Flow can be promoted at the workplace.
FLIGBY provides the opportunity for leaders to experiment with different leadership styles while practicing them in a safe environment, hence they can experience their effects on an organization (team spirit, company atmosphere, profitability etc…).
Elements of the FLIGBY learning mechanism:
- Feedbacks — FLIGBY, a virtual coach provides continuous feedback how the player’s decisions suit to the principles of Flow theory.
- Experimental learning — The simulation provides the opportunity of the experimental learning by modeling the decisions’ outcomes and their effects on the organization.
- Learning from mistakes — The players can experiment with different decisions and management styles in a safe environment that enables them to learn from their mistakes, so that they can correct their decisions in view of the outcomes.
- Media library — A reading and video collection about Flow & Leadership concepts, research and business case studies.
The goal is to process the results of your individual – and later of your team-based- simulation game which you will see in your skill reports. We will work on defining your customized best practices and the areas that need further development thus to identify the next steps on your leadership journey.
[1] Flow experience was discovered by Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It is often the synonym for being creative, finding meaning in work and any activity and is a source of happiness. Flow mental state occurs when you reach the dynamic balance between the relatively difficult tasks ( a reasonable challenge level) and your level of skills which you can develop accordingly .
Target Group
For leaders and managers from any kind of organizations.
Main Topics
We will run the program on-site, in a highly interactive way that builds on participants’ contributions. The program is constructed as a combination of:
Training sessions (2x3 units)
- Introduction to Flow Theory & FLIGBY Game
- Emotional Intelligence & Professional Leadership Identity
- Managerial Communication and Decision Making
FLIGBY game (individually & in study teams)
- FLIGBY simulates the impact of your management decisions, thus the 6-month licence enables you to see your learning process and progress, thus the analysis of the change and development.
Expert Conversations & Leadership Peer Debriefing Session: Processing & Action Development
- Group conversations with the all participants on Flow, Leadership and Skills Presentations
Other related educational activities
- Offline activities during the FLIGBY game, such as preparing reflexion learning blog
- Additional optional training sessions such as transaction analysis; transformational leadership, effective communications, motivating people.
- Optional Add-on: One-to-One Expert Conversations and Leadership Coaching
Program Structure
- Pre–session task – Preparation (1 hour) – Setting your personal learning & leadership development target; reading from leadership collection and short answers to your learning diary (“blogging”).
- Briefing (Day#1 part I.) – Introducing the game, to explain the fundamentals of Flow theory, and to discover of your initial leadership self-image and skills perception.
- FLIGBY Round #1 (Day#1 part II.) – Completing the full game round #1
- Debriefing Game Round #1 (Day#2) – Critical discussion of key learning points and decision dilemmas during gameplay, analyzing Flow-points and personality traits of prototype characters. Recognizing good and bad leadership simulation outcomes. Celebrating ‘And the Winner is…!’
- Follow-up Homework (in study teams, ca. 2x 2-3 hous) – Developing concrete directions and challenges about finding more Flow at work and begin to develop Flow-promoting Leadership style for teams and colleagues.
Preparing your Leadership Skills Presentation for next session. - Enhancing Flow-promoting Leadership Skills at Work (Day#3): – Skill Presentations by Study Teams, Follow-up work on Flow-targets.
- FLIGBY Round #2 (Day#3) – Enhance your leadership skills (your individual target) Achieve in your study team (group competition).
- Group Debriefing #2 (Day#4) – Discussion of achieved goals, review, outlook
- After the last session on Day#4: Add-on opportunity for individual expert- conversation with Dr. Zoltán Buzády.
Areas of Application
- Leadership development
- Competency survey (instead of/beside expensive psychological tests and Assesment/Development Centers)
- Unexploited potential & areas for improvement, identification of individual developmental needs
- Measurement of training effectiveness: the improvement of the skills due to the training (before-after comparison)
- Input for creating a training and development plan
- Succession-planning: base of internal recruitment, appointments
- Development of self-knowledge: discovering and understanding of the motivation of the self and others
- Changes of perspective – it can be a tool of a culture change (anthropocentrism)
- Part of the leadership and/or talent programs: own experiences about leadership; measurement for getting in and out; input for development plans; change of the leadership perspectives, strengthening cohesion.
Outcomes
Following successful completion of the program, participants will improve self-knowledge and the knowledge of human personalities. In order to successfully carry out the Flow-game, participants need to get to know their „team”, the dominating group dynamics and the colleagues’ personalities, motivations, challenges, and themselves, as well.
As the „General Manager of virtual Turul Winery” participants face challenging tasks: financial difficulties, internal conflicts, meeting the expectations of the owner, unpleasant weather conditions etc… They have to make 150+ serious decisions and create a work environment which promotes active participation.
FLIGBY as a diagnostic tool measures 29 leadership & management skills objectively and without distortion.
It also provides an individual report based on the 150 decisions made by each participant during game play.
Benchmarking
- Compare your 29 assessed skills to 12.000+ other managers in our global FLIGBY database
- Team- or organizational unit-based comparisons
- See your 29 skills-development and track your progress via FLIGBY over 6 months’ period
Instructor
Dr. Zoltán Buzády | Corvinus University of Budapest, Associate Professor of Leadership, Global Expert in Flow-Leadership Development
Zoltan Buzady (M.B.A., Ph.D.) grew up in Germany. He earned his first degree in Law at the London School of Economics (UK). His practice orientation and strong interest in the real dilemmas of people management prompted him to complete a Global MBA at Bayes (formerly CASS) Business School (London, UK). After the fall of the Iron Curtain he returned to Hungary to earn a Ph.D., focusing on the strategic challenges in transition economies (2001, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary). Parallel to his academic work, his hobby to meet people and develop new, forward looking management concepts and leadership development solutions.
At various international Business School since 2000, now his flagship MBA courses are “Flow-Leadership Development via Serious Game FLIGBY”, “Organizational Behavior for Executives” and “Global Leadership”. During 2001-2005 and 2010-2016 he served as Faculty Director of leading Business School’s full-time and executive MBA Programs in the C.E.-Region.
Since 2016 Director of the ‘Leadership & Flow Global Research Network’ with Prof. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly at Corvinus University, Hungary. www.flowleadership.org
Guided by the motto “Learning, Leading, Leapfrogging“, Zoltan has a quarter-century of experimentation and innovation at the interface of Leadership, Cross-cultural Management and Strategy: He has authored several global- award-winning teaching case studies and has extensive practical experience as a team and executive coach.
His current research focuses on Leadership and Flow Theory, combining it with Self-Development and Change Management ideas, aiming to further Leadership Development that is applicable in different cultural and situational contexts. These new insight can be ideally used for Talent Management and Staffing Strategies based on modern big-data and predictive HR analysis.
He co-authored ‘Missing Link Discovered – Planting Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory into Management and Leadership Practice by using FLIGBY, the Official Flow-Leadership Game’ (2016, 2019) with special essay contribution by Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the inventor of Flow and founder of positive psychology.
Zoltan is a trained TA-Coach, and has been teaching and training executives across the globe during the past 25 years.
Location
The on-site program will take place in Budapest, Hungary.
The place of the event will be communicated following a successful application.
Price
1500 EUR
[ Special discount for SEED and Corvinus Alumni – 1250 EUR ]
The price includes 3 full-day sessions and 1 consulting session with the Instructor. The price does not include VAT.
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