Workshop Leadership Dual Track
STRATEGIC-PRACTICAL WORKSHOP FOR IMPACTFUL AND RESILIENT LEADERSHIP
Discover how to be the leader you want to be and can be in your context.
Find out how to balance the tactical and the strategic to achieve results without compromising your health in the process.
Short-term focus, urgency, chaos and the day-to-day consumes all our energy. The focus on achieving results at any cost is becoming greater and greater. We struggle to find the time, the way and the focus to be more strategic, to think, and learn.
With the help of the workshop and the guidance of the Leadership Dual Track approach, find out how:
- Develop a strategic vision of your company and increased self-knowledge to be the leader you want to be in the context of your job.
- Identify and prioritize what to do, how to do it and when to do it in order to have more impact and continue to grow professionally with less effort and wear and tear.
- Use the tools and methodologies of design, research and management of products and services.
About the workshop
The workshop offers a safe and collaborative space for learning, reflection and practice, with the support of a small group of peers (max. 6-8) and Gaby Prado, a professional with 30 years of experience and mentor (EMCC certified practitioner coach).
The workshop combines theoretical approaches applied to the real world, individual reflection exercises, group discussion, and an experimentation and learning process.
Who is this workshop for?
- Digital and user experience professionals (design, research, product management or CX)
- Managers, Directors, Head of, Team Leads,
- Individual Contributors (IC) and “Team of One”, who strive to provide value with their work, work better and achieve results for clients and business.
- Questioning, dedicated, curious, self-demanding and passionate people.
Registration open for Workshop May-July 2025
In-person workshop (Barcelona)
- Discovery:
Every Thursday from May 2025, 17:00 to 20:00 - Optimization
Thursday June 26 and Thursday July 24, 18:00 to 20:00 - 1:1 mentoring
days and times to be arranged
Online Workshop
- Discovery
Every Tuesday from May 2025, 17:00 to 20:00 CET - Optimization:
Tuesday 24 June and Tuesday 22 July, 18:00 to 20:00 CET - 1:1 mentoring
days and times to be arranged
Registration for the course is by application and invitation after an interview.
Detailed information
Leadership Dual Track: what is it and why it would be good for you?
Leadership Dual Track is an approach that combines Lean Thinking, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, resilient leadership, change management and business strategy to:
- Discover and define what we want, should and can do, when, in a more efficient and strategic way, through a (challenging and empathetic) look.
- inward, to know what we want, expect, need and can do, and
- to the system and context of which we are a part.
- Learn how to be more efficient, combining and linking tactical tasks and deliverables ( “Track 1”) with the strategic (“Track 2”), and turning important strategic tasks (that no one expects) into priority tasks, maximizing your time and energy.
- Use Lean methodology to find the key tasks, prioritize and action them through a process of Discovery and experimentation + continuous optimization.
One simple, practical example: The DTL approach helps you to turn a regular task like going to a stakeholder meeting to talk about a project (Track 1) into a contextual research session for your internal customer, or to intentionally develop your network of allies and Champions (a must for resilient leadership and change management).
Topics
Leadership vs. Management
- Different types of leadership.
- Influence: what it is and how to develop it
- Leading “from the middle” or without hierarchical authority.
- Resilient leadership
Time management
- Time management
- Priorities and Prioritization
- Delegation for resilient leadership.
Change management
- Key concepts of change management, for when the organization does not have a high level of digital or customer experience maturity.
Self-knowledge
- Our values, needs and preferences vs those prevalent in our company. Identify common ground, opportunities and gaps.
- An ideal leader vs the leader you want and can be (and what for)
- The silent enemies: burnout, imposter syndrome, personalization, self-demand and perfectionism.
- Conflict management
- Managing expectations
- The real world: how to go on when we don’t want to, but we have a choice.
Strategic and systemic thinking
- What is systems thinking and how can it help us?
- Discovery: Taking distance to map and analyze the company as a system
- Stakeholders as our “users” and “clients”
- Analysis of the as-is and definition of the to-be of our relationship with the company.
Workshop Dynamics
The program is divided into three parts:
- Discovery
- 4 workshops of 3 h/workshop, with one break .
- During the workshops we will combine
- Review of theory, challenge
- Group and individual discussion and reflection
- Practical exercises
- Optimization
- 2 workshops of 2h/workshop, at the end of the Discovery process, each one in the following two months, to accompany you in optimizing your action plan and continue learning based on the results obtained from the practical experiments.
- 1:1 mentoring
- The program includes two individual mentoring sessions (1 h), at the beginning and at the end of the workshops.
Between sessions: you should reserve 2-4 hours between sessions for individual analysis and reflection.
Tools we will use
- Face-to-face workshop: paper, whiteboard, post-its or Miro (on your own computer)
- Online Workshop: Google Meet, Miro
Cost
On-site Workshop (Barcelona)
- Your company pays: 1.680 €.
- You pay: 1.235 €.
- Early Bird: 1.110 € for registrations before April 20.
- If you are unemployed: 599 € (to be paid in three installments: registration, start and end of Discovery)
Online Workshop
- Paid by the company: 1,670 €.
- You pay: 1.199€.
- Early Bird: 1.093€ for registrations before April 20.
- If you are unemployed: 499 € (to be paid in three installments: registration, start and end of Discovery)
Registration
As the group is so small, registration for the course is by request and invitation to ensure that the group is well-balanced in terms of experience, profiles, knowledge and expectations.
Gaby Prado
- Professional with 30 years of experience in the digital and omnichannel world, in areas ranging from design, research and content to strategy, organizational design and cultural transformation.
- EMCC Mentor/Coach.
- Passionate about learning, understanding, solving problems and finding the most efficient way to work.
