type
Leadership Lectures
DELIVERY FORMAT
In-Person / Online
DURATION
1-2 hours
facilitator - participants RATIO
Unlimited
Overview
Welcome to a transformative journey towards leadership enlightenment, offering learning opportunities from experts and practitioners on leading effectively in today’s dynamic and complex world. IQL’s Leadership Excellence Bites, delivered by distinguished experts in the realm of leadership, are meticulously designed to inspire, empower, and elevate managers and HR professionals at all levels.
Drawing upon cutting-edge research and real-world insights, combined with our extensive experience and models, these sessions aim to deepen knowledge, foster innovative thinking, and equip participants with tools to navigate the dynamic landscape of leadership. Expert speakers deliver compelling, practical lectures, providing actionable insights, vivid examples, and relevant strategies to thrive in a disruptive world and drive real impact.
Whether you are aspiring, emerging, or established leaders and HR experts, these lectures will inspire you to take leadership to the next level, stay ahead of the curve, and make a positive difference in organizations and society.
Please browse to the “program journey” section for available lectures.
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| Lecture Name | Details | Lecturer/s |
| Leadership in times of disruption | Tailored to equip managers with the skills to thrive in an era of rapid change,this session delves into the key factors driving disruption and critical tensions managers must navigate in such transformative periods. Attendees will gain insights into balancing people-focus with task-focus, aided by a practical tool designed to effectively manage this balance. This lecture is perfect for those seeking to understand and lead effectively through the challenges and opportunities presented by disruptive forces in the business landscape. | Gali Raz |
| Leading and collaborating in times of crisis | Crises are unpredictable, complex, and stressful, requiring leaders to act quickly, decisively, and effectively. Working in a diverse, global environment, leading and collaborating with others in times of crisis is an extremely challenging task. To do this effectively and sensitively, it is important not only to learn helpful practices and tips, but also get acquainted with our human operating system, and how crises impact us. This lecture will provide managers with an in-depth understanding of the key characteristics of crisis and the human mechanisms of coping with it. It will also equip them with effective strategies and best practices to lead and work collaboratively and efficiently with colleagues and managers within a context of crisis. | Iris Isakov |
| Driving a culture of innovation | Uncover the essentials of cultivating an environment that not only supports, but actively propels innovation. Explore the barriers that hinder innovation and delve into the cultural aspects that managers must nurture to foster an innovative mindset. This lecture is key for those looking to understand and implement strategies that encourage creative thinking, problem-solving, and progressive change in their organizations. It’s an opportunity to learn how to create a workplace where innovation thrives. | Gali Raz |
| Fortifying resilience | Explore the essential elements of resilience by delving into IQL’s SHIELD resilience framework, which includes the following integral components: social capital, hope, inner dialogue, efficacy, learning agility, and determination. This session offers practical tools to strengthen resilience, whether focusing on individual fortitude or team robustness. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of resilience and strategies to reinforce it in various contexts, enhancing their ability to thrive in the face of challenges. | Merav Samuk |
| Inclusive leadership | Tailored for managers navigating the complexities of organizational dynamics. Delving deep into the value of fostering an inclusive work environment, this session unpacks the barriers and biases that often hinder progress. Discover actionable insights on overcoming these challenges, equipping managers with tools to champion inclusivity within their teams by learning how embracing diversity not only enhances workplace morale, but also fuels innovation and success. Elevate the leadership journey and cultivate a workplace where every individual’s unique contribution is not only acknowledged but celebrated. | Reli Israeli |
| Enhancing Engagement | When was the last time your managers felt truly engaged at work? What does it really mean? With whom or with what do we engage? Disengagement at work is not a new phenomenon, but employees feel more at ease leaving their jobs when their engagement level drops, now more than ever befores. While many factors contribute to this, employee retention and engagement continue to be a key challenge for leaders around the globe. What was once “nice to have” has become a “must have” and requires a holistic perspective, looking at both the system level and the employee levels. Aside from system-level changes related to strategy, organizational culture, and processes, managers have a key role in driving employee engagement as those who have the highest daily interaction with employees. They need to have increased awareness of their employees’ engagement levels and practical ways of impacting them. This lecture will tackle key business and labor trends so managers gain an understanding of how they impact employees.The Engagement Battery model for building employee engagement will be demonstrated and used to explore how to strengthen engagement in different levels of the organization. | Gali Raz Iris Isakov |
| Shared Lead | Disruption, which for many has become the new normal, relates to a personal and organizational state that redefines the borders of what we do, who our customers are, and the value we create. This requires constant innovation, agility, and adaptability to change (in the system, product, and human aspects) within inherent complexity. Solo leadership, characterized by linear and hierarchical relationships, is no longer enough to successfully thrive in disruption. This requires harnessing the power of many. Shared Leadership is a foundational element for leading within a complex world. It enfolds not just the mindset of leading together, but the critical practices of influencing together and moving from being an effective team of leaders to a leading management team. This lecture provides a deeper understanding of the context in which leaders operate and its impact on leadership. It also introduces the concept of shared leadership and how it relates to the leadership role, and provides key insights and practices for implementing shared leadership. | Shula Dela Pergola Gali Raz |
| Succeeding in sports – coach as leader | Sports is a fascinating arena that can teach organizations and managers about leadership, resilience and determination, dealing with challenges, connecting to passion, and continuous improvement. Competitive coaches must lead for results within a structured framework and a competitive environment of constant improvement. A successful coach knows how to extract the best from athletes, stretch their capabilities to the maximum, and make them believe in their coach and in themselves. This lecture will revolve around the path to success; what it requires from the coach and the athlete, and the leadership and mental tools that coaches use to lead athletes to amazing achievements, tools, and practices that any leader would find valuable and relevant. | Hila Harel |
| Managing Energy & Motivation- Sports and leadership | One of the key challenges competitive coaches experience is helping their athletes manage the energy needed to succeed. The levels of energy and stimulation or wakefulness have a critical impact on the athlete’s capabilities and performance, and they are influenced by many factors such as abrasion, dealing with setbacks and failures, background noise, conflict, and diverse personal reasons. Professional athletes know how to regulate and manage their energy, create recovery times, deal with abrasions, and self-motivate in rough times. In this lecture, we will delve into and analyze the topic of energy and its impact on results, and work with tools through which coaches and athletes own and manage personal and team energies, tools that can be successfully implemented in the business world. | Hila Harel |
| Elevate Leadership Presence & Brand: The power of Style& color | Explore the fascinating interplay between appearance and leadership perception. An HBR study revealed a correlation between executives perceived as more competent and those rated as ‘well- groomed.’ Delve into the psychology of color and discover how it influences mood, perception, and decision-making. Learn how your clothing style and color choice can be a strategic tool in shaping powerful leadership presence. Don’t miss out on this journey into the visual elements that leave a lasting impression in the professional realm. | Merav Samuk |
| Managing burnout – energy boost | Explore balancing personal and organizational demands with energizing resources, to equip participants with strategies to maintain a healthy balance and prevent burnout. This lecture is tailored to provide realistic, effective strategies for managing demands and resources, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. Through the introduction of the Energy Boost tool, participants will gain practical knowledge and exercises that enhance both team spirit and individual well-being. This lecture offers a genuine opportunity to learn how to nurture a productive, burnout-free environment in both personal and professional settings. | Reli Israeli |
| Leading virtual teams | Explores the challenges and opportunities inherent in the evolving landscape of hybrid work management, focusing on three key elements: establishing trust, effective synchronization and coordination, and maintaining a sense of belonging among team members. The lecture provides managers with insights and practical tools to navigate these challenges, ensuring productivity and team cohesion in a hybrid work environment. This session is crucial for managers adapting to the mix of remote and in-office work, offering strategies to leverage the strengths of both modalities for organizational success. | Iris Isakov |
| Building partnerships | A comprehensive approach to fostering effective collaboration both within teams and across organizational boundaries that emphasizes the importance of shared goals, open communication, trust-building, and managing ego to create a conducive environment for successful partnerships. Attendees will learn practical strategies for deepening mutual understanding, rewarding collaboration, and creating structures that promote cooperative work processes. This session is ideal for those seeking to enhance both internal team dynamics and external organizational relationships, providing a balanced perspective on achieving collaborative excellence in a variety of contexts. | Gali Raz |
| Paradoxical leadership | A thought-provoking lecture designed for today’s complex business environment. This session delves into understanding complexity as a web of paradoxes and cultivates a ‘both/and’ mindset rather than the traditional ‘either/or’ approach. Participants will learn about the key tensions managers face in the modern workplace and discover effective ways to navigate these challenges. The lecture will equip managers with principles and practical strategies to manage paradoxes effectively, enhancing decision-making skills and leadership effectiveness in handling diverse and often conflicting organizational demands. | Gali Raz Merav Samuk |
| Managing & accelerating org talent | Talent is one of the most used terms in the HR world today. CEOs C-suite executives, alongside people experts and executives, are preoccupied with their organizations’ abilities to manage their most expensive resource, the one that will make or break their success today and in the future. However, the approach to the notion of talent is very diverse, as is the approach to how it should be managed. How do we approach the ‘vital many’ vs the ‘select few?’ How do we effectively accelerate the development of our key value generators? What are the key success factors of our talent programs, and why are they not working? This lecture will tackle some of these challenges. Starting with some key notions in the world of talent, with focusing on the challenges of managing organizational talent and creating effective talent acceleration processes for organizations of all kinds, from huge conglomerates to start-ups are dealing with scale. | Iris Isakov |
| Building a culture of synchronized empowerment | Growing organizations are faced with many challenges, one of which is finding the right balance between dedicating time and resources for effective alignment between the different parts to ensure movement towards one common direction, on the one hand, and empowering the different parts to work autonomously, so the organization can keep its speed and agility on the other.. Navigating the tension between these two seemingly contradicting demands is difficult, especially when a cultural adjustment needs to be made to the organizations’ mindset and way of working. The lecture will map the challenges of alignment and empowerment (autonomy) and will give a framework for leading the needed cultural change. | Shula Dela Pergola |
| Entrepreneurship & Leadership | Our world is constantly on the move. Faster, wider, more complex. Every day new pains and challenges emerge that create new needs. Entrepreneurship is born out of those pains and challenges. It continually closes those gaps and responds to new challenges by bringing solutions. Solutions needed by the world, and by our organizations. How do you become an entrepreneur? What is the process of creation? How is an idea born and incubated, and how does it become a reality? What is the leadership aspect of entrepreneurship and innovation? What is the leader’s role in creating a space for innovation? These are some of the aspects we will explore in this lecture. | Eli Hillman |
Lean & Mean: Formats Tailored at Your Choice
In-Person/Online
- Lectures are relevant for a wide range of group sizes, as part of large conferences or town halls, or within existing leadership programs or offsites.
- Available online and face-to-face.
- Tailor-made lectures, adapted to the organization context are also available upon request.
- All lectures can be extended to workshops.
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