SEED School for Executive Education and Development

General information

Located in the heart of Central Europe, SEED Business Leadership Program was established to fulfill Central & Eastern European corporate needs of managerial education. The program targets managers who have the prospect and potential of becoming C-level leaders of companies in the next five years. The training curriculum is organised around three major Leadership Essentials: developing oneself, one’s people and one’s business, simultaneously.

Raise your profile!
Since participants tend to find themselves at different points in their leadership journeys, trainers first conduct a 360-degree evaluation of participants and confront them with their individual self-assessments compared to the same assessments input by their managers and direct reports. Besides this, emphasis is placed on assessing an ownership mindset and becoming a role model. At the end of the program participants prepare a list of their personal leadership commitments to be fulfilled in the next period of their leadership journey.

Serve your people!
One group of modules in the Business Leadership program focuses on making great people decisions and leading teams. In this block, trainers show how great leaders should inspire and develop their peers and subordinates and how to communicate in order to bring the best out of their teams.

Drive your business!
By inspiring participants, trainers aim to help them become experts and excel at strategy development in their fields. Within the training program, strategic mindset becomes reformulated, while expertise is emphasized via instructive examples.
After the completion of the training, a three-month follow-up period begins that includes one-on-one mentoring and coaching sessions and ensures that participants internalise and apply the competencies developed vie the course of the SEED Business Leadership Program. As a final stage of the training, participants share their interim experiences and dig deeper into their leadership journeys at a three day back-on-campus session.

Distinctive values
What makes SEED Business Leadership Program so special?
Participants are the centre of attention: faculty to student ratio is 1:3.
Genuine executive trainers: trainers are leading executives with international backgrounds.
Real business experience: the curriculum is set up in close cooperation with leading regional companies. Beyond this, additional lectures by CEO guest speakers enrich the program.
Effective learning methods: the program places emphasis on matching content with teaching methods so as to provide the most efficient study experience.
Customized curriculum: the program is tailored to participants’ profiles identified in the prior assessment of them.
Excellent networking opportunity: participants come from all over the CEE region.
Long-standing personal development: individual mentors support the leadership journey of each participant during the three-month-long follow-up period.

Specific details
Dates: monthly, starting in February 2015.
Length: 3 days on-campus; 3 months off-campus follow-up period; 3 days on-campus.
Location: Hungary, outside Budapest.
Participant profile: talented managers with prospects of becoming C-level managers within the next five years. Open-mindedness, eagerness to learn and develop, and proficiency in English is expected.