Summer Course in International Business Leadership
Amsterdam, Netherlands
DURATION
2 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
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TUITION FEES
EUR 735 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* VU students
Introduction
This course equips students with leadership skills for international business environments. It uses an innovative teaching method that includes a custom-made leadership movie
Participants will develop their knowledge of leadership traits and skills, accompanied by in-depth practice of skills such as empathy, social effectiveness, influence, presentation skills, and living with and thriving under paradox. They will become familiar with the application of various leadership styles in practice, with models of employee motivation, building, and leading effective teams, the importance of context and culture in leadership, power, and politics in organizations, practical approaches to networking, leading change, gender and ethics in leadership. They will become more aware of their own values and preferences, personality and character, and will acquire knowledge and tools for self-leadership including topics such as stress and burnout, the impostor phenomenon, and psychological capital. They will internalize the sense-making and storytelling not only as practical skills, but as leadership frameworks, and will ultimately build their own personal "leadership development movie".
- Course level: Master / Advanced
- Credits: 3 ECTS
- Contact Hours: 45
- Language: English
- Tuition fee: €735 - €1310
Ideal Students
This course is for advanced Bachelor’s and Master's students interested in a corporate career.
PhD students and professionals are also very welcome to sign up for the course.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Equal Access Scholarship
Application procedure
The application deadline has expired. It is no longer possible to apply for the Equal Access Scholarship.
Great that you are interested in applying for the Equal Access Scholarship. You can apply via this link (expired) for the scholarship from 1 February and 1 April. Please be aware that it is only possible to select one course.
The results of the scholarship selection will be announced in mid-May. Since we have a limited number of scholarships available for a large number of applicants, we suggest - if possible! - to complete your payment at the time of your course application to guarantee your place in the course. However, if you are not able to come without the scholarship, you can just wait until the announcement. If you would like to come, regardless of whether you will be granted the scholarship, it is best to secure your place in the course by completing your payment via our regular application form. If the scholarship is granted to you, the tuition and accommodation fees will be reimbursed.
Deadline to submit your Equal Access Scholarship application: 31 March (23:59 CET).
Photographer Scholarship
Do you love to capture moments, people, and surroundings on your smartphone/camera? Do you have good editing skills and a passion for social media? Become our summer school photographer! This photographer scholarship is only offered to those participating in a 2-week course or in case you join us for both sessions.
What do we offer:
- €500 discount on tuition fee
- A number of social activities for free (allocated by summer team, requirement: must take photos)
What do we expect from you:
- Photos of your time at VU Amsterdam Summer School (photos of fellow students, Amsterdam, excursions, and social program)
- Creating content/story takeover on the VU Amsterdam Instagram account
- Participation in the social program (free of charge and based on availability)
- Attending the photographer kick-off meeting
Application procedure*
Please send a short video where you introduce yourself (approx. 30 seconds-1 minute) and some examples of your photo work to [email protected], please use 'Photographer Scholarship' as the subject line. It is important to use your own smartphone or camera. Deadline for applications: 14 May 23:59 (CET).
As the Photographer application deadline is after the course registration deadline, it is important that you apply and pay for the course you are interested in before the application deadline of 1 May. If you end up winning the scholarship, then you will be reimbursed the €500 that the scholarship grants. If you are not granted the scholarship and are not able to join the course without the partial grant, then you can still receive a full refund until 16 May. If you are not able to join without the grant then you can also decide to wait until the winners are announced - and thus not apply for the course beforehand - however, this could mean that the course you are interested in is not available anymore. We, therefore. highly recommend, if possible, to apply via our application page before the official course registration deadline.
*If you are a summer Exchange student or a university partner nominee (course fee and/or housing is funded by your university), then you are, unfortunately, not applicable for this scholarship.
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Curriculum
- Course introduction. Learning with cine-cases. Your leadership “hero journey”. Your values in action.
- Introduction to Crossroads case and characters.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Creativity workshop.
- Emotional intelligence, influencing, and political skills. Country culture dimensions. Assessing a new culture. First 90 days in a new job.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Simulations.
- Cinematic case discussion.
- Building trust. Understanding and using power. Organizational structures (matrix, centralized vs decentralized, shared service centers, centers of excellence).
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Simulations.
- Leadership styles. Situational leadership. Motivating others. The inspirational leadership toolkit.
- Cinematic case discussion.
- Organizational citizenship. Headquarters-subsidiaries relationships and the role of boundary spanners.
- Introduction of final team assignment
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Simulations.
- Cine-case discussion. Sources of stress, romance of leadership.
- Paternalistic leadership, adult-adult vs. adult-child relationship. Leading change. Leading teams. Global teams. Fundamental attribution error and social distance.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events. Workshop: presentation skills Cine-case discussion.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Simulations.
- The leader’s self-management toolkit. Energy sources/uses. Psychological capital, burnout, self-handicapping, impostor syndrome. Role of serious leisure.
- Cine-case discussion.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Simulations.
- Ethical dilemmas in organizational leadership.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Student-acted cases. Watch, read, discuss, debrief.
- “Leadership Today”-lessons from current events.
- Guest talk (senior leader, subject to confirmation).
- Group feedback exercise. Personal leadership development plan.
- Conclusions, takeaways, and your personal leadership movie.
Program Outcome
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Have a clear understanding of leadership models and frameworks and how they connect to practice in corporations;
- Have developed their social effectiveness, empathy, influencing, presentation, and storytelling skills;
- Have a heightened awareness of their identity as (emerging) leaders and of their own leadership journey;
- Be better prepared to address practical leadership challenges in a corporate context.