We believe that middle management is at the heart of the organisation.
"Most things break in the middle" (Simon Sinek) - and this is true when the leadership capabilities of your middle management are limited.
Our program, called "From Resources to Relations" is designed for decision makers seeking to improve team performance and drive business growth. Leveraging Gestalt Psychology, we build resilient and effective leadership teams.
Strategic Impact and ROI
Our programs are specifically crafted to align with your strategic goals, delivering measurable results such as increased productivity, enhanced team cohesion, and higher employee retention rates.
By investing in the development of your middle managers, you are building a robust leadership pipeline that can navigate challenges and drive your organization forward.
Why Choose Us?
- Proven Methodology: Utilizing Gestalt Psychology, our training modules foster conscious leadership and self-awareness.
- Measurable Results: Our approach ensures tangible improvements in team dynamics and organizational efficiency.
- Exclusive Cohorts: Limited group sizes ensure personalized attention and impactful learning experiences.
Program Overview
Our comprehensive leadership program is structured to address the unique challenges faced by middle managers. The curriculum includes:
- Strategic Leadership: Equip your managers with the mindset to drive organizational strategy and innovation.
- Team Dynamics: Enhance collaboration and communication within and across teams.
- Self-Awareness and Growth: create a deeper understanding of personal leadership styles and growth areas.
Managers
As a decision maker, you recognize the importance of investing in middle managers who aspire to exceptional leadership. These managers already lead teams but are eager for continuous growth and development. They are dedicated to enhancing their leadership skills, improving team performance, and contributing more effectively to organizational success. By enrolling your managers in our program, you empower them to transform into resilient and effective leaders, driving your organization's growth and fostering a culture of excellence.
Welcome your managers to a program designed to maximize their potential and align with their professional goals!
Human Relations
As a decision maker, you understand the value of empowering Human Relations professionals who are dedicated to improving organizational issues. These individuals are keenly aware of areas needing enhancement and are committed to becoming more strategic in their roles. By participating in our program, they will gain the skills and insights needed to secure their seat at the decision-making table, driving impactful organizational change and fostering a more cohesive and productive workplace.
Welcome your HR professionals to a program designed to elevate their strategic influence and effectiveness within your organization.
New Managers
As a decision maker, you recognize the potential in employees ready to transition into management roles. These individuals excel in their current positions and are on the verge of team lead responsibilities. They are open to learning about effective and humanistic team management. By enrolling them in our program, you ensure they are well-prepared to lead with productivity and empathy, fostering a supportive and high-performing team environment.
Prepare your future leaders with a program designed to equip them with the necessary skills for their upcoming managerial roles.
A message to Leaders who want to elevate their teams
In 2008, I took on my first leadership role right after college, running my own business with no prior corporate experience. I quickly learned what type of manager I didn't want to be. Leading a team of 10, I made numerous mistakes, driven by a lack of training and self-awareness.
In Executive Search, I recruited hundreds of people for tech companies, but the struggle of managing others effectively led me to seek out coaching. This journey evolved into an 8-year deep dive into self-discovery, human nature, group dynamics, studying team coaching, and psychotherapy.
Today, as the Founder of Dragon Coaching House and the Institute for Conscious Leadership Studies, I work with leaders like you who aim to build conscious, humanistic leadership within their organizations. My background as a certified team coach, executive coach, and Gestalt Therapist, combined with extensive business experience across startups, scale-ups, and corporations, provides a strong foundation for the impactful leadership development program, "From Resources to Relations."
We need a significant shift in the workplace, and meaningful change starts with leadership. That’s why I created "From Resources to Relations." This program is designed to cultivate the leadership skills necessary to drive your organization forward.
Iulia Oprea
Founder and Gestalt Therapist at the Dragon Coaching House
The next leadership development program starts soon, secure your spot!
Important:
There is a maximum of 12 participants in each cohort and a minimum of 6 from the same company.
It's easy, just book a call today and secure a spot for your team in 2024.
Program Modules Overview
Module 1.
The Gestalt Approach to Heightened Awareness in Leadership
- Participate in our 'Heightened Awareness in Leadership' module, where you will experience an increased awareness of your own Self and your environment.
- You will learn why Awareness is at the core of your transformation and your success in a Leadership role.
- You will learn the skills to recognize and traverse various zones of awareness within yourself and in your interaction with others.
- This program aims to refine your communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities, empowering you to lead with strategic mindfulness in today's dynamic business landscape.
Module 2.
The Gestalt Cycle of Experience
- In this module you will learn to apply the principles of the Gestalt Cycle of Experience. You will recognise and enhance the healthy functioning of organisational processes. By understanding this you can increase long-term productivity.
- The Gestalt Cycle of Experience supports effective problem-solving, improved communication, and a more integrated and adaptable approach to navigating challenges both on an individual and an organisational level.
- You will learn all the steps of the Cycle, their meaning and how we go through the cycle in a healthy, functioning way, and also what happens when we get stuck in our natural flow.
- This module aims to equip you with an incredibly useful tool which you will be able to apply not only at work, but also in your personal life, and your relationships.
Module 3.
Building and inspiring a high-performing team with healthy group dynamics
- In this module you will learn to identify and address underlying patterns that hinder effective group dynamics within an organisation.
- You will learn how to implement interventions to improve communication, collaboration, and overall group cohesion, thereby enhancing organisational performance and resilience.
- This module teaches forms of contact and how they manifest in action. With this awareness you will be able to recognise dysfunctions and actively shape healthy functioning.
- This module builds upon the knowledge from the Gestalt Cycle of Experience.
Module 4.
Understanding and managing resistance to change
- The objective of this module is to help the participants understand the concept of resistance from a gestalt perspective and to leverage resistance as valuable feedback.
- In this module you will identify and explore the underlying needs and dynamics within an organisation to build a culture of adaptability and innovation in response to challenges.
- This module teaches you valuable skills which you will use in a change management process.
- This module builds upon the knowledge based on Awareness of the self and others.
Module 5.
Polarities as complementary elements
- The objective is to learn how opposing forces can be complementary elements, how they promote a balanced approach to decision-making and problem solving.
- Understanding the concept of polarities in organisational development enables leaders to identify and manage conflicting yet interdependent elements, such as stability and change, short-term gains versus long-term goals, or autonomy versus collaboration.
- Embracing polarities also nurtures a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, as teams learn to leverage the strengths of opposing perspectives to achieve strategic objectives and drive sustainable growth.
Module 6.
The Triangle of the Self
- Understanding the Gestalt Triangle of the Self in organisational development equips leaders with a framework to comprehend how individual perceptions and behaviours influence team dynamics and organisational culture.
- By applying the Gestalt approach to the Self, leaders can encourage self-awareness among team members, fostering a deeper understanding of their roles and contributions within the larger organisational context.
- This approach facilitates more effective communication, conflict resolution, and collaboration among people.
- This module builds upon the learnings about group dynamics in previous modules.
Module 7.
The Conscious Leader - Achieve Leadership Excellence through heightened Consciousness
- Lear how to become a model of BEING for the organisation by actively cultivating self-awareness, authenticity, and relational skills.
- You will learn to encourage a culture of openness, trust, and continuous learning, inspiring others to engage authentically, and collectively navigate challenges.
- This model teaches you how to become a model in your organisation for what you wish to see in others.
- In this model we will focus on the being vs. the doing of something valuable.
- This module is also the closing of the program. My goal is that you walk away with so much goodness in you, which can radiate in your environment and which can ignite the type of work which you will be able to call you legacy work in life: making a true difference, being a force for good and create value with all your actions. YOU GOT THIS!
All Modules of the Program:
- consist of Gestalt theory and experimental exercises together with your group in live, online sessions.
- you are invited to join a live, one hour long "Ask the Expert Session" where you can ask questions from the trainer related to the topic of the module.
- We will host a 1 hour implementation lab with the goal of integrating the learnings even further and finding areas of implementation in your organisation.
- Total time per module: 6 hours
- 1 module per month
Your Trainer in the Program called From Resources to Relations
Iulia Oprea is the Founder of the Dragon Coaching House.
She is a Leadership Development Expert known for her approach that smoothly blends her business background with coaching for teams and executives, all grounded in the transformative principles of Gestalt Therapy.
Iulia works internationally with Senior Leaders, Startup Founders and Venture Capital Managers.
She has a BA in Economics, Gestalt Therapy, accredited Member of the EAGT (European Association for Gestalt Therapy) and EAP (European Association for Psychotherapy).
In the creation of this program, she relied on her experience in leadership, entrepreneurship, human relations, executive coaching and psychotherapy.
LinkedIn - Iulia Oprea // LinkedIn - Dragon Coaching House
As seen on TEDx, Brain Bar Conference, Mobility goes Additive, the People and Planet Podcast, Leadership Anywhere Podcast.
Measuring progress and the impact of the leadership development program
At the Dragon Coaching House, our commitment is to ensure that every program is comprehensive and results-driven. To achieve this, we incorporate a professional executive ROI assessment as a part of our process. This assessment evaluates your progress at both the midpoint and conclusion of your program.
You have the opportunity to select 1 to 3 leadership competencies on which to focus your growth. Alongside your chosen colleagues, whom you nominate, you’ll collectively assess the advancements in these selected areas.
This approach allows us to utilise a statistically valid tracking system, enabling a precise measurement of the impact of your time and investment.
Important: this option is available when the program is combined with 1:1 coaching.
Existing solutions are ineffective at getting results for leadership challenges
Leadership Development is overlooked
Working with mental health platforms is great for the entire team. 57% of coaches are focused on mental health and well-being, yet aligning the organizational goals and leader development is the most underutilized opportunity. - 2023 Excelia research
Pre-Recorded Online Leadership Training without integration
This is a one way learning, it’s not customized, there is no action plan how you would implement the learnings in the organization, you get a certification, but not an integration or the needed transformation.
Measuring employee engagement, without coaching managers
When an engagement survey shows areas of improvement (oftentimes urgent ones), and the managers are not supported in solving those issues, the results are mostly disappointment, losing trust, developing indifference, and stress for the manager.
Not including external support when you are too close to the problem
Sometimes we can’t see the forest from the tree. When a leader or HR is too close to the problem, let alone the cause of it (without being aware), and they don’t include external experts, they might damage the company culture, and will fail to resolve the topics which they don’t notice.
Development programs without showing ROI, growth and progress
Most leadership development services don’t measure the impact on the business results, there is little clarity about what the investment is for and makes it very difficult to build a business case around that investment in times of constant change and crisis.
Working with unqualified people
Coaching and leadership development is a complex profession which requires years of training in accredited institutions like the ICF, self-development, self- awareness through coaching, therapy and ongoing supervision to become qualified at supporting others in their own growth.
"Awareness leads to change." - John Leary Joyce
"Change occurs when you become who you are. Not when you try to be what you’re not." - Arnold Beisser
Every aspect of our program is designed to heighten awareness of the self and the situations you are in. Awareness is at the source or the base of everything. All the other management skills can be built upon a heightened level of awareness.
In this program, managers will:
- learn to use your Self as an instrument of change
- have courageous conversations
- focus on experience in the ‘here and now’
- create active experiments
- learn to deal with resistance (their own and of their teams)
- explore the difference and the roles of what we do and who we are
- there will be room for doing and for being.
Program Benefits
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Strategic Organizational Advantages
By attending the "From Resources to Relations" leadership development program, your middle managers will gain the skills and insights necessary to drive significant organizational improvements, ensuring long-term success and sustainability.
- Enhanced Strategic Mindfulness: Develop greater awareness of personal and organizational dynamics to drive strategic decision-making.
- Organizational Health: Gain insights into the functioning of organizations, identify dysfunctions, and implement effective interventions.
- Adaptive Leadership: Learn adaptable approaches to address challenges at both individual and organizational levels.
- Team Cohesion and Performance: Identify and address patterns hindering teamwork to improve group cohesion and resilience.
- Creative Resistance Management: Turn resistance into valuable feedback for effective change management.
- Innovative Learning Culture: explore a culture that balances stability and change, short-term and long-term goals, autonomy, and collaboration.
- Role Clarity and Self-Awareness: Promote self-awareness among team members and clarify roles within the organizational context.
- Transformational Leadership: Embrace a way of being that embodies desired changes, serving as a model for others.
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