Personal Development
Leading for strengths
Training overview
Do you have leadership ambitions, or are you already in a (project)leadership role? If so, you may be interested in developing a strengths-based, empowering leadership style! This training offers you the tools to create a strengths culture within your team or department, enhancing collaboration and team effectiveness.
Today, more managers and project leaders are eager to leverage their team's best qualities, and for good reason! By learning how to apply strengths on a collective level, you’ll gain a powerful edge in fostering effectiveness and sustainable engagement. This approach is backed by years of scientific research and has evolved beyond traditional HR practices to shape Positive Organizations, now a core focus in positive psychology research.
Through a collaboration between Bright Institute and Felice Manshanden, we offer you a unique opportunity to dive into strengths development in organizations. You'll explore job and team crafting, build a sustainable development culture, and learn methods to measure and communicate your team’s strengths. These skills will help you foster stronger bonds with colleagues and partners and achieve optimal results in your professional goals.
Target audience
Two or third-year Bright minds or talent with leadership ambitions or experience, eager to empower teams positively.
Learning Objectives
- Understand and leverage the principles of positive strengths-based development in teams
- Gain tools for implementing and measuring a strengths-based culture
- Develop skills in job crafting and team crafting for enhanced team cohesion and performance
- Learn methods to encourage sustainable team engagement and personal alignment with organizational goals
Program
Evening 1: Monday November 3rd: Introduction to Strengths-Based development
- Overview of Positive Psychology and strengths-focused leadership
- Fundamentals of Positive Organizations
- Introduction to strengths assessment and job crafting techniques
Evening 2: Monday November 17th: Advanced team crafting and development culture
- Practical applications of team crafting for organizational impact
- Reflection and implementation planning: bringing strengths into everyday leadership
Evening 3: Monday December 1st: Ensure an developmental and positive culture
- Practical applications of team crafting for organizational impact
- Reflection and implementation planning: bringing strengths into everyday leadership
Preparation
Participants are expected to complete 3 hours of additional reading, assignments, and assessments to ensure a fruitful learning experience.
Your trainer
Felice Manshanden has been working with technicians for about 15 years. With a Philips-father and family in engineering, she feels at home in this sector. With a broad background in social psychology, strategic talent management, talent and organizational development as well as applied philosophy, she masters the art of human movement.
She is driven to move them in the direction of the most potential and therein lies the connection with the field of Positive Psychology. As an independent organizational consultant and strengths developer, she is active within various sectors with advice, coaching & training to let strengths development penetrate into the capillaries of our work ecology.
Costs
1250 Bright Coins, including dinner and drinks
Details |
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| Date | November 3, 2025 |
| Time | 17:00 - 21:00 |
| Seats | 9 from 12 available |
| Organizer | Bright Institute |
| Phone | +31 040 230 4117 |
| Venue | Bright institute, High Tech Campus 68, 5656 AG Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
Want to join this training, but not a member? Mail to: events@bright-society.com