Agile Teams Start with Intelligent Leadership

Contexts of change, uncertainty, and remote work highlight the limitations of rigid and outdated command-and-control hierarchies.

In this program, we explore collective leadership practices to mobilize talent and empower agile teams, aligned with organizational goals.

We refine techniques to structure and stimulate teamwork, communication, problem analysis, and idea-sharing, with the goal of responding to new challenges, managing change, improving solutions, and achieving results.

We practice ways to solicit and integrate others’ ideas, giving voice to diverse perspectives while fostering curiosity, learning, and resilience.

You will also have the opportunity to reflect on current and future challenges facing your team, discuss action strategies, and plan the application of techniques that promote agility, collective accountability, and trust—key elements of high-performing teams.

The program also includes:

  • Individual and group coaching sessions
  • 360º feedback questionnaire to identify strengths and development areas
  • Individual preparation work

Who is this program for:

• Managers and professionals with leadership responsibilities.

• Project coordinators who need to mobilize people without direct authority.

What makes this program transformational:

• Development of more agile, autonomous, and aligned teams.

• Strengthening communication, collaboration, and collective accountability.

• Improved decision-making and action orientation.

• Increased creativity and adaptability to change.

Explore the Program Structure

Discover the key learning modules and unlock your full potential.
keyboard_arrow_up Program’s Opening and Kick-off
Format:

In-person

Duration:

2h
keyboard_arrow_up Coaching Individual Session
Format:

In-person

Duration:

1h
keyboard_arrow_up High performance team’s basis: align results and build processes
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Learning Teams I
Format:

In-person

Duration:

1,5h
keyboard_arrow_up Social technologies to the effective collaboration: from the agile teams to the organizations
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Improving communication and decision making in teams*
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Learning Teams II
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Remove the development boundaries: feedback dialogues and power relations
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Mobilize the team for challenges of change
Format:

In-person

Duration:

10h30
keyboard_arrow_up Learning Teams III
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Leadership, Innovation, and Learning Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Format:

In-person

Duration:

6h
keyboard_arrow_up Closing
Format:

In-person

Duration:

1h
keyboard_arrow_up Learning Teams IV
Format:

In-person

Duration:

7h
keyboard_arrow_up Increase the performance: results, processes and continuous improvement
Format:

In-person

Duration:

3,5h
keyboard_arrow_up Final modules orientation
Format:

In-person

Duration:

0,5h

Faculty

 

Teresa Oliveira

 

Program Director

 

Paulo Nuno Lopes

 

Program Director

 

Joana Domingues

 

Executive Coach and Faculty in Executive Education

 

Hugo Lopes

 

Chief Strategy Officer & R&D Project Manager at Conkistadores

 

David Patient

 

Professor, People & Organizations Area at Vlerick Business School in Belgium

What our Alumni say

Want to know more?

Contact the program manager:

E-mail: andreia.hidalgo@ucp.pt
Phone: +351 214 269 846 

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