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Transformation and balance

Transformation and balance are two pivotal elements of the expected role and practice by leaders, and at all levels. Acting as a transformational lever that lifts the organisation to the achievement of its mission, a leader also ensures that the goals are shared by each member of an organisation that evolves to its new equilibrium. One major objective in our leadership programmes is the initiating of a transformation process: the growing into being a better prepared leader, including the finding of an improved if not - ideal - personal balance.

Perception, development and mastery

In our leadership curricula there is a process of guiding each participant to the mastery of improved managerial competencies, to the discovery and the deployment of untapped leadership abilities, and to a full-width perception and vision of the environments in which he (she) will evolve during his (her) career.

We prepare or groom our programme participants (the term participant  is preferred to that of student)  to junior and senior executive leadership- or in leadership education roles. At various stages throughout the programme, a participant gains a myriad of new insights and experiences. They allow him (her) to succeed in the face of the numerous challenges and changes entrusted to him (her) by an organisation and its people. In essence one learns how to become a guide...

The leader: a guide, and through curricula too

A leader-guide, with his (her) specific talents, skills, and competencies, responds effectively to the daily managerial, leadership, and related challenges. In fact, the description of the full scope, the depth and width that our leadership development programmes strive to attain, simply surpasses the spectrum of a 'mere' curriculum, and forms the norm of our school's comprehensive programmes.

Reaching the individual objectives

Each educational member of our institution fully underwrites the school's mission: to actively contribute to the learning of the indispensable competencies and skills each guide-leader of a human organisation needs to demonstrate, in becoming a true master in the art of leadership.  "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit" said Aristotle, more than two thousand three hundred years ago. And that is still valid today, and in the future as well.

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[1] first published on-line in 2001; edits in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010. © Copyright 2001-2010, THIERRY Graduate School of Leadership o.b.o. Jean-Pierre Bal. All rights strictly reserved for all countries.