• Date

    Friday, 10 May 2019

  • Time

    09:30 - 17:30 (GMT +02:00)

  • Location

    Mandeville Building, room T3-16, Erasmus University Rotterdam

What makes leadership development successful? How can you come up with realistic and effective assessments? What role can research and education play in leadership development? And how can you be a part of this?

Join the Leadership Conversation, led by the Erasmus Centre for Leadership (ECL) at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) on Friday 10 May.

In this open forum, you will:

  • connect with academia, business and the larger RSM community around a common topic of interest: leadership development
  • deep-dive into the promising topics and tools that ECL is exploring to increase our understanding of successful leadership development which will allow us to scale-up our educational efforts
  • explore opportunities to boost your creativity and learn from your peers’ experience
  • become a part of our leadership community and take a look behind the scenes of our newly invigorated research centre.

Preliminary programme:

09:30 – 10:00 Registration with coffee

10:00 – 10:30 Opening by Hannes Leroy, academic director ECL

  • Introduction of the Erasmus Centre for Leadership
  • Purpose of the working conference

10:30 – 11:00 Overview of the different breakout sessions and introduction of the facilitators

11:00 – 12:30 Parallel breakout sessions

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Continue parallel breakout sessions

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30 Short presentations from the breakout sessions

16:30 – 17:00 Plenary discussion

17:00 – 17:30 Conclusion and closure of the working conference

Parallel breakout sessions:

  1. Leadership Model: For several years now RSM has been working towards developing leaders as “forces for positive change”.  In this session we want to combine academic knowledge about this with the concrete needs and wisdom of practice to co-create a leadership model of the future.
  2. Leadership Dashboard: Every few months a new leadership assessment tool hits the market, assessing different competencies, personality, values etc. and while the industry benefits, leaders are often left deeply confused. In this session we want to work together to create a leadership dashboard of the most practical, preferably academically valid self-assessment that leaders can do to help give them the self-awareness they need on their leadership journey.
  3. Assessment Center: We have plans to develop an assessment center within RSM but need all your creative ideas to build something truly amazing.
  4. Evaluation Criteria: We often rely on smile sheets to know whether our development efforts work. In this session we want to talk about how we can move beyond this and come up with a realistic though valid way of assessment.
  5. Supportive Online-Tools: Leadership development doesn’t only occur in the classroom and even in the classrooms we deal with big numbers. What online tools are available for massive and continuous teaching and what tools need to be developed?