A Journey in Transformational Leadership
Online Course For EIB Institute SIT Alumni
Starting 3 October 2022
Inspire Teams.
A 10 week online course for leaders who are confident in managing team tasks and now want to explore how they inspire performance, commitment, self confidence, active involvement, job satisfaction, loyalty and more in their teams as transformational leaders.
Discover Yourself as a Leader.
It all starts and ends with you. Finding a voice of transformational leadership means understanding yourself on a level you may never have explored. You will find a level of self awareness that gives you clarity and choice on how you communicate as a leader and how you consciously impact those around you. You are the source of your voice, so the course will offer you the chance to feel the qualities of transformational leadership in order to use them. You will have support from Kim throughout as you experiment.
Create with Others.
Join a remarkable group of SIT Alumni who create the heart of the course as they experiment, share and inspire you to find your voice as a transformational leader.
What you can expect to achieve
This is a course that you author. Each week you are given ideas to onboard and experiment with. Pairs conversations form a key part of your curriculum. How deeply you choose to play with the concepts and activities is up to you. How far you go on the journey to transformational leadership is up to you. There are three key opportunities for you to explore.
Deep Personal Insight
Self awareness as a leader is the first point on our journey. Everyone on the course uses a simple and powerful technique to understand themselves on a physiological level and explores the impact this has when they communicate. This gives you choice as to how you communicate as a leader and allows you to relate to others around you on the deep level needed for transformational leadership.
Rejuvenation as a Leader.
The inner world of how we feel, reflects the outer world we shape as leaders. It is not enough to sustain yourself as a transformational leader. You need to feel more grounded, more alive, more clear and more flexible each day. The curriculum invites you to find these feelings, not just on your weekends and holidays, but every day in micro actions. You become expert at knowing what you need and when you need it to feel on top of your game.
Find a Voice of Transformational Leadership.
When you grow emotionally, mentally and embody a physiological place of safety you are able to find a voice of transformational leadership that you don't force or fake. It comes naturally. The delegates who open themselves up to the teaching, methodology and activity of the course reach this point.
Mia J.
"[It gave me] deeper insight, self awareness and understanding. Tools to be a better and more supporting leader. "
Pedro H.
"I have done several leadership courses in the past. This has been by far the best, and most actionable."
Catherine S.
"It gave me a great tool to maintain and increase my mental strength and resilience, as well as become a more empathetic, thoughtful, transformational leader. Kim’s individual facilitation was actually a life changer! To completely enable me to find my safe state and come back to it. I will be forever grateful for this!
Leadership in Action
This is not a course that asks you to learn information. It asks you to experience life as a leader using different exercises to shape your physical and emotional state as you go about your day. To get deep impact from the course you will need curiosity in the following areas and practices:
Neuroscience
The latest research allows us to understand our nervous systems and how they function on entirely new levels. With this insight we use journalling, pairs reflections and surveys to notice how these systems impact on our leadership.
Mindfulness
We use a wide range of techniques to increase your awareness and clear thinking in leadership, including guided meditation and breath work.
Embodiment
Your body and how you relate to it is the gateway to communicating differently as a leader. We will learn to pay attention to it with focus exercises, learn from it and code it for transformational leadership.
The Insight Weeks
The Neuroscience
- Time for you to ease into the course
- Video introduction of core concepts in neuroscience and how to complete weekly tasks.
- Available for you to reflect on before our plenary meeting in week 2
- Wider reading list available but not compulsory.
Awareness of Your Focus
- Welcome plenary session. 90 minutes to meet the remarkable group you will be working with, ask questions and clarify the science.
- Week 1 video exploring the role of focus and how it affects your listening and communication as a leader
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
See the Impact of Your State
- This week we move your focus into observing the impact of your nervous system on the organisation around you. We also begin to see and understand those around us on a deeper level. A week of getting clarity!
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
The Regeneration Weeks
Find Stability & Integrity
- This week we return you to feelings of being anchored as a leader. Find your sense of stability and integrity in your conversations and explore the role of boundaries.
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
Use Emotional Technology
- A big week as we introduce emotional technology to move ‘stuck’ areas and find your balance as a leader. We also look at blockages and movement in the organisation.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 30 mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
Access Calm - Any Time, Any Place
- We introduce the very powerful concept of space. We look at how you can use it to find ease, calm, presence and understand what is happening across your organisation and teams.
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
Find Your Mojo
- This week you return to feeling your energy and aliveness. Feel lifted and inspired as a leader so that you can lift others.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
The Transformational Voice Weeks
Shift Your State
- This week we pull it all into practice. Listening to ourselves, noticing how we feel and shifting ourselves to physical, emotional and mental states of transformational leadership.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 10 mins
- Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
Find Your Voice
- For the next two weeks we experiment with using our voice of transformational leadership and the impact we can have on the intrinsic motivation of those around us.
- Video lecture/notes ~ 20mins
Mid week group coaching 30 mins
- Pairs reflections
- Exercises to use as you work
Reflect on Your Remarkable Journey
- We continue to inspire performance in others.
- Revisiting course content as you wish
- Personal reflection
- Closing plenary session 90 mins
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Your Course Leader
Kim van Niekerk
Kim has been teaching, coaching and speaking on mindsets and communication for 20 years, working with executives from every sector.
" Kim is a brilliant facilitator, gets the best out of people, and is so open, so incredibly transparent, that I wish I could do this for ever. " - Jenny Romano, CEO, The NewsRoom
