Humour as a Leadership Skill - How to Lead With Laughter, Short Course | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands
7 days
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785 EUR/full
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This Humour as a Leadership Skill - How to Lead With Laughter course from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam teaches the skills of creating, selecting, and appropriately using humour to enhance one's leadership at work.

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Overview

Key facts

  • Developing humour skills (from humour appreciation to curating, producing, improvising, and knowing when to abstain from humour) is becoming a key interpersonal competence for accomplished leaders. 
  • This  Humour as a Leadership Skill - How to Lead With Laughter  course from  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam  aims not only to equip participants with research-based knowledge of types of humour and their different effects in leadership, but also with the ability to free their creativity and to practice with creating and using humour in leadership circumstances.
  • "I am just not that funny" is what many managers still say today, when asked whether they use humour at work. 
  • Only 50 years ago, managers would have similarly thrown their hands in the air and said, "I'm just not a born leader!". We know today that leadership can be developed. It is time to embrace the notion that humour can be developed too.
  • Participants will learn about the several types of humour and their effects on follower and organisational outcomes, about the psychological antecedents of humour, about factors that influence how humour is received by various audiences. They will practice with releasing their own creativity, deconstructing and reconstructing jokes, preparing a humour-supported business presentation, improvising with humour in direct interactions. 
  • They will learn to avoid common traps presented by humour in a work context, to master verbal and nonverbal humour and to create a "personal humour style" that fits their own personality and preferences.

Programme Structure

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Have a complete understanding of frameworks applicable to humour in leadership, its antecedents and outcomes, and conditions under which it may misfire.
  • Have enhanced self-confidence about being able to develop their humour abilities and the practical tools to do so.
  • Have a deeper understanding of their own "humour style" in connection with a deeper understanding of themselves as (future) leaders.
  • Be more effective communicators and influencers in a leadership context.

Key information

Duration

  • Full-time
    • 7 days

Start dates & application deadlines

Language

English
TOEFL admission requirements TOEFL® IBT
92

Credits

2 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL admission requirements TOEFL® IBT
92

Other requirements

General requirements

  • This course is ideal for master students and professionals who have at least several years of work experience and who are in a leadership position or are preparing for a leadership position. However, advanced bachelor's students are also welcome, as the course can actually gain from having diversity of experience in the classroom.
  • Knowledge about the basics of leadership theory and practice is desirable, though not mandatory.

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    785 EUR/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 785 EUR for the full programme during 7 days.
  • EU/EEA

    785 EUR/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 785 EUR for the full programme during 7 days.
  • Students, PhD students and employees of VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC or an Aurora Network Partner: €525
  • Students at Partner Universities of VU Amsterdam: €680
  • Students and PhD candidates at non-partner universities of VU Amsterdam: €785
  • Professionals: €995

Living costs for Amsterdam

1000 - 1500 EUR /month
Living costs

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