HOW TO BE A GOOD LONG-DISTANCE LEADER

Language: Slovenian / English

• Small virus, big consequences: What can we learn from the ‘gig’ economy?
• It’s time for post-heroic leadership.
• Building a culture of peer assistance and long-distance collaboration.
• High-quality relationships at work: From social distance to distant socializing.
• Crisis as an opportunity for new working methods and business models.

FORMAT: Online workshop, 3 hours

FACILITATOR: Miha Škerlavaj, SEB LU

THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND WAITING TO WORK FROM HOME

Language: Slovenian / English

From social distance to distant socializing.

• How to maintain employee affiliation (alumni approach)?
• How to stay fit, maintain productivity and psychophysical fitness to return to the office?
• What will my future look like?
• The psychology of coping with waiting to work from home – distance from people, information and work activities.

FORMAT: Online workshop, 3 hours

FACILITATORS:

Miha Škerlavaj, SEB LU

Matej Černe, SEB LU

Darija Aleksić, SEB LU

LEAN PHILOSOPHY AS THE BASIS OF EFFICIENT OPERATION

Language: Slovenian / English

• Lean philosophy as the foundation of »Bricolage« effective operations and relocation of resources to reduce resource requirements.
• Understanding the value flow in company processes.
• An entrepreneurial view of assets: What makes small businesses better than big ones.
• Tools for understanding the sources of value in a company.
• Process waste classification and identification
• Tools to reduce waste and improve lean process
• The concept of technology, planning and leadership to improve organizational performance.
• Lean philosophy, processes and IT.
• Establishing a culture of continuous improvement.

FORMAT: Online workshop, 2 + 2 hours

FACILITATOR: Rok Stritar, Entrepreneur Advisor.

DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING

Language: English

• What does it mean to be Data-Driven?
• Is that enough? What is Competitive Intelligence (CI)?
• Black Swans and Covid-19.
• Firm Performance in times of Covid-19.
• CI as a key pillar to mitigate Covid-19 impact.
• CI, Covid-19 & Digital Transformation (DX).

FORMAT: Webinar, 1,5 h

LECTURER: Luis Madureira, Founder and Managing Partner of ÜBERBRANDS

The Acronyms of Today: VUCA, COI and FOBO

Language: English

• VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity / Taxonomy of Black Swans and Covid-19.
• COI – Cost of Ignoring & Strategic Inflection Points – Covid-19 as an Inflection Point.
• FOBO – Fear of Becoming Obsolete – (Total) Innovation as the only way.

FORMAT: Webinar, 1,5 h

LECTURER: Luis Madureira, Founder and Managing Partner of ÜBERBRANDS

CHANGE AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Language: Slovenian / English

• Tools and approaches for promoting innovation.
• From creativity to innovation.
• Organizational culture that promotes innovation.
• Process of change management.
• Readiness and resistance to changes in the organization.

TIME MANAGEMENT AND SELF-ORGANIZATION

Language: Slovenian / English

• The effective use of energy in relation to self-organization.
• Identifying priorities and differentiation between tasks of differing importance.
• How to use time more effectively.
• Tools for more effective time organization.
• Action plan for the better use of time at home and in the workplace.

"DESIGN THINKING"

Language: Slovenian / English

• The role of entrepreneurship in the economy and society.
• The basics of the design thinking process and possible approaches/tools.
• Empathy and understanding of the customers’ needs.
• Prototyping and testing of possible solutions.
• Innovation and innovation cycles in the company.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Language: Slovenian / English

• Project management tools and techniques.
• Managing high-performing project teams.
• How to assess risk and anticipate future problems in the project lifecycle.
• Root out waste in every stage of the project — wasted time, money and effort that endanger a project’s success.
• Final reporting.

BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

Language: Slovenian / English

• How to become an effective leader and the most common mistakes that ineffective leaders make.
• The importance of trust, trustworthiness and task delegation.
• How leaders inspire, influence and achieve results.
• Enhance others’ perception of you as a leader with integrity.
• Build the right culture for people and processes to support your strategy.

NEUROLEADERSHIP

Language: English

• The neuroscience approach to innovation.
• The mindset of success.
• How to boost your brain for change, engagement, innovation and customer centricity?
• Purpose: why do you go to work every day?
• Empathy for winning over minds and hearts.

MOTIVATION AND TEAM LEADERSHIP

Language: Slovenian / English

• Getting to know, motivating and developing your coworkers.
• Promoting the inner motivation of the individual.
• Why is understanding the motivational factors of each individual important?
• How can I accept the motivational factors of colleagues that are very different from mine?
• The consequences of low motivation.

TEAM WORK

Language: Slovenian / English

• The critical ingredients needed to build a highly effective team.
• Techniques for translating team goals into individual goals and how to measure performance.
• How to build a safe environment where team members feel comfortable and confident enough to take risks.
• The importance of communication and team leadership.
• How to generate ideas, solve problems and build team spirit?

COMMUNICATION AS A TOOL FOR GOOD RELATIONSHIPS

Language: Slovenian / English

• Assertive communication.
• Giving and receiving negative feedback.
• Effective communication that reduces conflicts between business functions.
• Improving communication (between employees and with clients) and developing solid long-term relationships.
• Maintaining good working relationships, commitment to work, and loyalty to the company.

NEUROMARKETING

Language: English

• The marketing paradox: What is the problem with marketers today?
• Full understanding of the brain in the approach to marketing and sales and how branding works within the brain.
• Recognizing the impact on marketing research, PR, sales and negotiations
• Demonstrate practical neuromarketing technologies.
• Learn a comprehensive model for applying brain-based marketing.
• Make your own brain ‘marketing-smarter’ and achieve more!

NEW MARKETING STRATEGIES AND MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

Language: Slovenian / English

• The role and importance of marketing in the 21st century?
• How does information-communication technology (ICT) change marketing and its key elements?
• Consumer behaviour.
• The importance of storytelling for a company’s success.
• How important is interactive marketing, with an emphasis on mobile marketing and the marketing of online communities?

EMPLOYER BRANDING

Language: Slovenian / English

• How the game of recruitment has changed and what a company needs to do to position itself as the employer of choice.
• Factors that influence an employer brand.
• Developing an effective employer brand strategy.
• Useful and effective tools to build a strong employer brand.
• Defining an organisations’ desired brand personality.

NEGOTIATION

Language: Slovenian / English

• The importance of preparation before the negotiation process.
• How to choose the right process to craft deals that last.
• Negotiating with hard-bargainers.
• Understanding the psychology of influence in negotiations.
• Increase awareness of your strengths and weaknesses as a negotiator.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS

Language: Slovenian / English

• Understanding the meaning and importance of the accounting entries most commonly found on balance sheets, operating and cash flow statements.
• Develop financial models using comparable company analysis and discounted cash flow analysis.
• Learn about the monetary and financial statistics framework and understand their scope, use and main principles and concepts.

BUSINESS IN NUMBERS FOR NON-ECONOMISTS

Language: Slovenian / English

MONETARY POLICY AND BANKS

Language: Slovenian

• The changing role of development banks.
• Current issues of monetary policy in the euro area.
• Current aspects of regulation in banks.
• Bank analysis and macro-prudential measures.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Language: Slovenian / English

• The strategic role of digitalization in the organisation.
• Defining the current business priorities and creating a digital strategy.
• Digital transformation leadership culture within an organisation.
• The role of breakthrough innovations.
• Digital transformation in relation to customer experience.

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING

Language: Slovenian / English

INNOVATION: FROM IDEA TO THE SYSTEM

Language: Slovenian / English

DATA ANALYTICS

Language: Slovenian / English

• Introduction to data analysis: types of data analytics, analytical tools, analytic challenges, big data.
• Fundamentals of multidimensional analytics and associative analytics.
• Data preparation challenges (integration, cleansing, transformation).
• Further possibilities of data analysis.
• Forecast analytics (data mining).

DEVELOPING THE STRATEGY

Language: Slovenian / English

• Articulation of the strategy and strategic objectives.
• How to reliably implement the strategy.
• The importance of each individual in the implementation of the strategy.
• From vision to every-day decision-making.
• How to reliably implement the strategy?

PRODUCTION PLANNING

Language: Slovenian / English

• The conceptualization and organisation of the planning process in a manufacturing company.
• Creating a production strategy and its impact on production planning.
• A detailed overview of the operational planning of production (planning material needs, production capacities and the termination of production operations).
• The organisational aspect of the production planning process.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Language: Slovenian / English

• Career development: traditional vs. contemporary.
• Personal growth and career success.
• The analysis and development of a personal career network.
• Personal and career development in a hyper-integrated global environment.
• Creating a career plan.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Language: Slovenian / English

• A creative and constructive work environment as a basis for generating and transferring knowledge.
• Constructive ways of thinking and how to develop them.
• The importance of understanding personality types for the successful transfer of knowledge between colleagues.
• Preparing a personal knowledge development plan and identifying opportunities for knowledge transfer.

CONTRACT LAW FOR NON-LAWYERS

Language: Slovenian

• An overview of simple and complex institutes for the insurance of contractual obligations.
• Basic elements of contract law and contracts
• The modification and completion of contracts, the participation of a lawyer in concluding contracts.
• Representation of economic operators.