Personal leadership
As an employee at Radboud University, you are given your own space within which to develop your qualities.
What is personal leadership?
You take your own initiatives and decisions. Together with your manager and your team you discuss the possibilities and limits. This makes you responsible and accountable for how you do your work.
To do this well, you will from time to time have to learn new skills or acquire knowledge. So that you remain vital, make optimal use of your talents and are broadly employable.
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Through personal leadership, I became aware of my own strengths again.
Astrid van Noort, team manager Strategie Beleid & Ontwikkeling, talks about her personal experience with personal leadership.
“This year I took part in a training programme on personal leadership. In this programme, I reflected back on who I was and what I stand for. As a result, I am now more aware of my own power, I feel stronger, and I find it easier to make choices. Since then I have shifted the focus in my tasks, to create more depth and pleasure in my work.”
By continuing to develop, I make the work more enjoyable for myself.
Bjorn Teeuwen, Head of Marketing and Communications Faculty of Arts, talks about his personal experience with personal leadership.
“At work, I've always had opportunities to grow and develop. This led me in past years to follow a language training programme, attend conferences, and take part in a staff training week abroad. But I can also grow in my immediate tasks, for example by trying out new tasks and projects, and giving them my own twist. Coming up with new ideas and seeing how things can be improved. In this way, I not only make my work more fun for myself, but I also try to make it more effective for the organisation. If I find a new project ‘scary’, I think to myself: ‘Why would I not be able to manage this?’ So don't let yourself get knocked off your feet, and make the best out of it!”
For me, personal leadership is not waiting, but experiencing by doing.
Katja Laumans-Bakers, CPO development manager, talks about her personal experience with personal leadership.
“I believe in learning through experience. When I was appointed development manager at CPO, I started giving presentations and coaching team development. At first, I found this really scary, but once I was standing in front of a group, I found myself really enjoying it, and getting positive energy from it. Things that matter to you are often also a bit scary. These are two sides of the same coin. With the support of my supervisor, I learnt to challenge myself more and more to try things outside of my comfort zone, with my insecurity tucked under my arm. All these experiences have helped me to grow into my role, and they’ve made my work more meaningful. To me, personal leadership is therefore mostly a question of doing it.Not waiting, not thinking, not procrastinating, but experiencing things simply by doing them.”
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