Sophia
Opatska
Opatska
Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School at the UCU
Duration
3 days
Languages of the course
English and Ukrainian
City
Lviv
Leading Organizations in a New Era
“Leading Organizations in a New Era” is a unique program of the UCU Business School, the Center for Leadership of UCU, in collaboration with the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, Ivey Business School for top-level leaders, addressing today’s most pressing issues. “The idea of creating the training in 2021 was influenced by the pandemic and the consequences caused by this crisis. This year’s program is directly related to organizations operating in wartime conditions. In the second iteration of the program, we try to find solutions for effective leadership in these circumstances. 80% of the content is updated and unique”, shared Andrew Rozhdestvensky, Professor of Leadership, CEO of the Center for Leadership of UCU.
Value of the program
Tools and methodologies you will master:
- Key tools for working with organizational culture and values in the organization, applying them in remote work conditions;
- Advice on how to prepare your organization’s leaders for crisis situations and periods of uncertainty;
- Tools for rapid analysis of your organization, effective monitoring, and coaching of your team;
- Methods for assessing leaders using Key Leadership Indicators;
- Tools for monitoring mental health in your organization;
You will consider four unique case studies:
Case Study “3DP”:
- Understand the importance of reflection on the “learning to be a leader” process, promoting self-awareness necessary for effective leadership and personal growth;
- Feel the significance of coaching, mentoring, and feedback for leadership development;
- Learn how to actively manage your leadership career and the importance of identifying needs that determine success in the next position;
- Gain a clear understanding of the factors influencing career disruptions.
Case Study “Barry-Wehmiller”:
- Learn how leadership impacts organizational culture and how culture impacts company effectiveness by engaging employees;
- Find out what truly motivates and engages people;
- Formulate and reconsider your personal assumptions about motivation;
- Understand the responsibilities of a leader to subordinates in your organization;
- Gain insights into leading transformational changes in the company.
- Case Study “Maple Leaf”:
- Understand that Leadership is a function of Competence, Character, and Commitment;
- Consider how to restore trust after an organizational crisis.
Case Study “Maple Leaf”:
- Understand that Leadership is a function of Competence, Character, and Commitment;
- Consider how to restore trust after an organizational crisis.
Case Study “Transparency International”:
- Work with a simple yet effective environment monitoring tool;
- Learn how to assess the performance of leaders when achieving planned strategic results is objectively impossible (Key Leadership Indicators);
- Receive a checklist for quick analysis of your organization.
Program Structure
- Character of the Leader. Model of 11 Virtues
- What is the importance of effective Leadership?
- Why is the character of the leader important and how should one properly follow it?
- How is organizational culture related to the character of the leader?
- Find out which systemic tools for working with character and organizational culture are currently the most relevant?
- Crisis Management and Communications
- Communication with stakeholders during a crisis: what contributes to success?
- What are the best practices of crisis management that a leader should apply daily?
- Trust in the leader: how to restore it if lost?
- What is the role of deep personal leadership in a crisis?
- Leadership Development, Mentoring, and Coaching
- Career derailment of high-potential employees: causes and impact.
- What is the leader’s role in talent management?
- Open and effective conversation between the leader and company employees: how to ensure it correctly?
- Why does coaching and mentoring not always happen? And how to see them from the right angle?
- How to manage your leadership career?
- Mental Health in Organizations. How to avoid losses due to low employee health
- Culture of psychological stability: algorithms for creation and implementation.
- How to increase team resilience and prevent emotional problems?
- How knowledge of the mechanisms of psychological difficulties (exhaustion, obsessiveness, depression, and anxiety) can help leaders create a context of mental health in employees?
- Improving employee mental health: implementation of relaxation, breathing, and physical exercises.
- Leadership with values and convictions. Organizational culture management
- What influences employee engagement?
- Employee motivation: what is its secret?
- Why is employee engagement important for any organization?
- How to be a leader in a VUCA environment. Leadership and Commitment
- How to timely scan the environment for uncertainty?
- Leader’s commitment: why is it important?
- What are Key Leadership Indicators and how to define them?
- How do leaders’ Commitment influence the organizational development of the company?
Each block of the training program will be accompanied by case studies.
For Whom
The program is designed for the highest level of management in technology companies, specifically:
- owners, founders, and CEOs;
- HR directors (Business Partner level);
- other TOP management executives (COOs, CFOs, CIOs, etc.);
- as well as participants who seek to expand their leadership knowledge through international case studies.
Sophia Opatska
Founding Dean and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Lviv Business School at the UCU, Vice Rector for implementation of UCU strategy at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship.
Background:
Sophia Opatska received her education from Ivan Franko University in Lviv, a degree in International Economic Relations, and defended her thesis work in Management and Human Capital Development, a member of the Board of Directors of European Federation of Catholic Universities (FUCE). She studied at Executive Education programs the University of Michigan Business School (USA), IEDC- Bled School of Management (Slovenia), China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and had on-the- job training at InnoSpace Company (Denmark) and at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland). In 2017, she was on a semester fellowship at Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA). Sophia Opatska is a founder and supervisor of the Global Shapers project in Lviv and an Advisory Board member at the Emaus Center.
Work Experience:
From 2001 to 2004 she held the position of the MBA Program Director at the Lviv Institute of Management. From 2004 to 2007 Ms. Opatska worked as MBA Director at Kyiv Mohyla Business School (kmbs). In 2007 she worked on building the personnel development and training system for Concern Galnaftogaz OJSC. She is Founding Dean of Lviv Business School at the Ukrainian Catholic University, which she had been leading for 10 years. From 2016 Sophia is Vice Rector Academic Affairs at the Ukrainian Catholic University and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LvBS.
Career history:
Her areas of expertise are Organizational Behavior and Learning Organizations, Organization Development, Entrepreneurship. Sophia is a contributor to a number of cases on above topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and specifically Ukraine which is still overcomming its post communist past. Her focus at work is – creation of Entrepreneurial University and ecosystem around it.
sopatska@lvbs.com.ua
Andrew Rozhdestvensky
Professor in Leadership, HR&OD, CEO of UCU Center for Leadership.
Andrew Rozhdestvensky served as a profiler and analyst in Israel’s security service, where he specialized in counter-terrorism matters, including special communications and negotiations. Later he became HR Business Partner-Retail at Oschadbank with subsequent promotion to Head of Personnel and Training in the bank (35,000 employees). Rozhdestvensky adjusted classical sales techniques to the bank’s needs and then started tailoring training programs to suit the needs of other areas of business (telecommunications, IT industry, agriculture etc.). As a result, he started his own business – a consulting company with emphasis on developing and tailoring personnel training systems for specific businesses.
Andrew provides assistance to organizations specializing in childhood cancer and alcohol and drug rehabilitation. He is a member of the movement “Change Ukraine – Start with Yourself” and organizer of the Everest 2025 project. Mr. Rozhdestvensky received a higher education degree in Psychology from the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, did his post graduate studies at the G.S. Kostiuk Institute of Psychology in Kyiv and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He also successfully completed Anna Vlasova’s HRM School.
Contact Person
Oleh Sten
Manager of Executive Education Program
+380 98 746 9497
osten@lvbs.com.ua
