The increasing digitalization fundamentally changes the business world and requires a new leadership approach. The course “Digital Leadership” will give participants a totally fresh perspective on how we can successfully lead people through digital change processes. Firstly, this interactive course will shed light on how people naturally react to change and what they essentially need from leaders to cultivate the right mindset and skills to accept and deal with digital change. Secondly, participants will receive insight into the unique human skills that set us apart from artificial intelligence. They will learn how to profoundly improve these human skills for themselves and promote them in their teams. This is a highly interactive class where ‘learning by doing’ plays a central role.
- Understand the natural effects of digital change on humans along with the resulting leadership challenges
- Discern how humans bring a cognitive high performance and how this process is affected by different aspects of digitalization
- Understand how personality is anchored in the brain and how different personalities request a fundamentally different leadership style in order to accept and benefit from digitalization projects
- Understand how the brain processes information and deals with information overload
- Cultivate the unique human skills that set us apart from artificial intelligence
- Train self-regulation as one of the major human capacities to deal with digitalization
- Understand how to improve trust and engagement as a leader of virtual teams
- Improve communication and interaction with virtual teams based on the understanding of the brain model of information processing
This course is part of the prestigious part-time Goethe MBA Digital Transformation | Data Science | Sustainability program, conducted in English on Fridays and Saturdays on Campus Westend. It offers a valuable opportunity to network and gain expertise without committing to a full degree program. As the number of seats is limited, we recommend to register early. If you’re a GBS alumni, explore our attractive alumni discount options.
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Participants have the choice of completing the course with a qualified certificate or attending as a guest auditor. As an auditor, you are not required to complete assignments, take exams or earn academic credits.
| ECTS | Certificate | |
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| Guest auditor | - | Certificate of Participation |
| Full participant | 5 CP | Qualified Certificate |
Dr. Karolien Notebaert
Dr. Karolien Notebaert holds a doctorate in Neuroscience and has been supporting managers and organizations in applying the newest insights from this scientific field to their business contexts for more than 15 years. She reveals the brain reaches healthy peak performance and how we can flexibly apply our full potential in a constantly changing business world. Karolien Notebaert holds a Master's Degree in Economics, is Founder of the consulting company Notebaert Consulting, and is the author of the best-selling book ‘Wie das Gehirn Spitzenleistung bringt’ (‘How the brain creates peak performance’). Using her ‘Hack Your Brain’ approach, Karolien is a valued TEDxTalk and GEDANKENtanken speaker and has received the ‘Excellence in Teaching’ award from GBS multiple times. Her newest book, 'The Pilgrim Who Trains Her Monkey,' will be published by Random House in July 2022.
Prof. Dr. Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick is Professor of Social Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt and is also director of the Center of Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO). Prior to his current position, he was Professor at Aston Business School, Birmingham (UK). He has published and edited several books, and more than 200 book chapters and papers in academic journals and regularly contributes to the Harvard Business Manager and other applied journals. He was a visiting professor in Rovereto (2016), Shanghai and Beijing (2016), Tuscaloosa (USA, 2001), Rhodes (Greece, 2002), and Kathmandu (Nepal, 2009). He is/was editor/associate editor of the British Journal of Management, the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, the Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Personnel Psychology. His research is in social identity processes, and he applies social identity theory to topics such as leadership, mergers and acquisitions, health and stress, and diversity.
| Date | Session |
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| Fr., December 13, 2024 | |
| Sat., January 18, 2025 | |
| Fr., January 31, 2025 | |
| Sat., February 15, 2025 |