Create your own future.
For you, your clients, your team and
your mentee!

In 12 months you will become a Playful Business Leader

After 12 months of training you become a Playful Business Leader, a true contemporary leader fit for the future: for your colleagues, for your mentee, and in your private life. Over the course of a year you will have 6 days of training about communication skills, motivating and engaging with everyone around you, including your colleagues, your clients and your family. In addition, you will be paired up – after an extensive intake with both you and the child – with a child in your area. You will become a mentor to this child and the two of you will meet up 1-3 times a month.

High-end trainings

 

The Training Programme starts with basic training about mentorship, communication and coaching. Subsequently, you receive 6 in-depth trainings on different elements of communication and coaching. These trainings provide you with scientific knowledge and practical tools for your professional life and for your mentorship.

The leadership programme entails the following elements:

  • Be self-aware: you learn how to analyze yourself and to act more consciously building on theoretical knowledge of and practice with transactional analysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, core qualities, growth mindset, coaching techniques, intercultural communication and non-violent communication.

  • Understand the other person: using transactional analysis and non-violent communication techniques you learn how to better analyze and understand the other person. Truly seeing the other person regardless of his/her behavior or words is the basis for better communication.

  • Connect and communicate effectively: now that you have a better understanding of yourself and the other person, and have acquired skills in choosing how to communicate and connect with the other person, you can do this more consciously and thus communicate, connect and lead more effectively.

Why a combination of substantive training and mentorship?

 

Why do we combine high-end professional training with the mentorship of a child?

  • Your mentee accelerates your personal and professional development! In your efforts to connect effectively with your mentee who most likely lives in a completely different environment from yours, you will be forced to reflect on who you truly are and how you can connect with someone outside of your usual environment.

  • Your perspective on life, ability to reflect on yourself and empathy will be strengthened. Your mentee will most likely trigger new perspectives and will enrich your realm of possibilities in your line of thinking, as your mentee thinks differently from you.

  • It’s very likely that your mentee triggers issues within you that also play a role at work and at home. If this occurs, we consider this an invitation to start your journey within yourself and study your surroundings - as a result of which you will grow as a professional and as a person. We know this from experience as it happens with every participant.

  • In this time of major societal challenges, it is essential for every company to be at the heart of society. Aware of its surroundings. Your experience with your mentee will enrich your life and will turn you into a professional who is aware of it’s society and socio-economic context, while being full of strength, empathy and self-confidence.

In this programme you will learn how to become a true leader of today and fit for the future. The training programme provide you with scientific knowledge and practical applications that you can immediately use in your work and practice in your capactiy as a mentor as well. Your time investment therefore not only yields something for yourself, but also for a child, your career opportunities, your company and customer satisfaction!

Coaching, intervision and event

 

In addition, we offer 5 coaching sessions per participant, to support your personal development in this training programme. We also organize peer-to-peer learning sessions with the other participants in your group to share experiences of your mentorship and the trainings and to learn from each other. There is also a closing event in which all mentors and children come together to festively wrap up the year!

Who have already become Playful Business Leaders?

  • 'The imagination of a child', that's the superpower I would choose! As far as I am concerned, so much more (innovation) potential can be realized with this. Both in business and in our society. I have learnt a lot and can give something back. Valuable combination!'

    Marjolein Boer, Founder of Maritime Sisters

  • Erik Verbruggen

    'I'm participating in the Playful Business Leaders course to develop myself in the field of communication and connection and I want to make an impact on others on a social level.'

    Erik Verbruggen, project developer at Vink Bouw BV

  • 'Because of the Playful Business Leaders programme I have started to apply connective leadership more consciously. I have been able to deepen my leadership skills in several areas and levels. The programme has provided valuable insights and tools in the areas of communication, growth mind-set, and inclusive leadership. The combination of training with useful insights and tools and also direct practical applicability through mentorship, at work and at home have been a real success for me!'

    Sophie van den Arend, Manager Marketing Shell Fleet Solutions

  • Nicole van Rij

    'The opportunity to be able to develop further as an inspiring leader and at the same time to be able to give something back to society immediately appealed to me. I started with great enthusiasm and now I look back on it with great pleasure and satisfaction.'

    Nicole van Rij, Sales en Marketing Director Informed Group

  • 'The Playful Business Leaders programme has given me many insights about communication. By communicating openly and showing interest, you can learn a lot from each other. This will not only help you now, but for the rest of your life!'

    Marit Maxwell, Digital Community Manager, NLC Health

  • 'You can create so much more at work through better communication in which everyone is respected. The training courses of the Playful Business Leaders programme provide good tools for constructive dialogue. The combination in which you can also contribute at a social level, ensures special encounters and moments that put you on the ground with both feet and makes you think critically about how you can be of significance to someone else!'

    Dominique Gevers Deynoot, International Network Manager, Provider relations bij Eurocross Assistance

Which leadership skills do you learn in the programme?

Our programme offers a rich variety of training subjects, combining theory with practical application. Our participants consist to a large extent of middle- and senior management of large organisations such as Shell, the national Police, Unilever and construction companies. Our participants have achieved through this programme:

  • A higher sense of self-awareness

  • The ability to reflect critically on oneself and others

  • Consciousness on your own leadership values and principles

  • The ability to empower others

  • More effective communication

  • The ability to lead with more empathy and understanding of societal issues

  • More purpose in their lives

Would you like to learn more?

Sign up to our newsletter or any of the free webinars that we organize regularly! We are also happy to call you to tell you more about our programme and answer any questions you may have.

We also offer in-company workshops to get a taste of our programme. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

What will you do in this programme?

  • Training

  • Mentorship

  • Peer-to-peer coaching

  • Professional coaching

  • Sharing experiences

  • Playful Leader!

 

The Programme

  • Mentorship training: how to be a good mentor?

  • 6 thematic training days on communication, coaching and motivation

  • 12 months of support by Moll Academy

  • 1-3 times a month: meeting up with your mentee, throughout the entire year

  • Peer-to-peer learning with fellow participants

  • 5 sessions of professional coaching 

  • Closing event with the other participants and mentees

Learning Objectives

After this course you will be a Playful Business Leader, a real leader of today and the future, who:

  • Is able to make real contact with yourself and your environment with strength, self-knowledge and self-confidence

  • Communicates, motivates and connects with your team and customers more effectively and playfully

  • Has an enhanced ability to reflect, to put things into perspective and experience more empathy

  • Has knowledge of human behavior and how you can influence it

  • Based on everyone's talents you can empower yourself and others

  • Has an open growth mindset has and can therefore innovate and creatively achieve anything you want

  • Is pleasant colleague who achieves goals efficiently and in harmony

  • Has an increased sense of purpose has by really meaning something to a child

  • Can put things into perspective thanks to your mentorship

  • Has learnt life skills that are indispensable in work and private life

  • Experiences a better work-life balance and more resilience

Training Days

  • 1. Basic training by Moll Academy

    • How to be a good mentor?

    • Understand how a child's brain functions

    • Learn the basics of coaching and mentoring

    • Learn about resilience, staying focused and communication with children

  • 2. Transactional Analysis and Core Qualities by Susan Moll, Psychotherapy Practice

    • Become aware of your own behavior and style

    • Gain insight into how you are being influenced and how you can influence others

    • Learn why communication can sometimes be so difficult and get practical tools to improve this

    • Improve collaboration with those around you

    • Learn to see through the 'games' that people play with each other and to play with these skillfully yourself!

  • 3. Growth Mindset and Life Skills by Somaya Moll, Director, Moll Academy

    • Understand the growth mindset and learn how to apply it

    • Broaden your knowledge on life skills and their application

    • Learn to structurally convert your communication skills into the growth mindset, in your work and with your mentee

    • Learn to how create positive change in all your communication with others

  • 4. Nonviolent Communication by Marie-Cecile Widdershoven, Development Economist and Nonviolent Communication Trainer

    • Get tangible tools to stand firmer in personal leadership

    • Strengthen your empathic listening skills (listening to what is behind the words of the other person, even when things get tense)

    • Get triggered less quickly and stay in touch with the other more easily

    • Learn to coach in a value-driven manner: distinguish between the why and the how

  • 5. Inclusive Leadership by Sophia Dijkgraaf, Executive Advisor on Strategy and Development

    • Explore what an inclusive leader is

    • Learn through which glasses you look at the world

    • Learn to see and appreciate different perspectives and thereby achieve better results

    • Become an inclusive leader yourself

  • 6. Talent-based work by Moll Academy

    • Discover your own talents and those of others

    • Learn how to use your talents and those of others

    • Empower yourself and your colleagues constructively

    • Learn to use concrete tools and actively get to work as a Playful Business Leader!

 
 

 Mentorship

We conduct thorough intakes with both the professionals and the children (including their parents) who register. Based on these intakes, we match a professional with a child. The first meeting takes place together with Moll Academy.

The professional and the child meet 2-4 times a month, they are free to determine further details together. We do recommend that you agree on a fixed time, after consulting the child's parents.

It is discussed with each professional and child pair what you are going to do together. Everyone's interests may vary: one child would like nothing better but to play soccer together, while another child has never been to a museum and would be very happy to do something cultural with its mentor! The simplest activity can in fact be the most powerful. Consider the following options for activities that mentor and child can do together:

Sports: play soccer together in the neighborhood or cycle to the beach!

Creative: making a cool mind-map on your future plans, making pancakes or painting in nature!

Cultural: visiting a museum, taking part in a workshop or comparing the facades of the canal houses in Amsterdam together!

Or just doing something very simple: having a nice chat about anything, on a bench in the neighborhood!

Happiness can be that simple!

Guidance from us

Moll Academy guides all mentors and their mentees in the following way:

  • Intake with child and parents

  • Intake with the professional

  • Making the match and guiding the professional and child pair

  • Making agreements about the first weeks together

  • Regular contact about how the professional and child are doing

  • Suggestions for activities

  • Closing event for all mentors and children

Customization for each pair

  • Meaningful use of time for professionals and children

  • Broadening the living and experiential world of children and professionals

  • Talent development of the child and the professional

  • Application of the  trainings by the professional (think of practicing nonviolent communication or storytelling)

  • Learn from each other and grow together in a safe environment

 
 

Peer-to-peer learning

 

You can take part in Peer-to-peer learning sessions together with fellow participants. These take place either on Zoom or on location, depending on the group’s preferences and the government’s rules. The purpose is to exchange experiences as a mentor, but also to pose questions to the group, for example about a situation in which you were confronted with something by your mentee (this can be anything). Participants listen respectfully to each other's question and give each other suggestions about the situation. The aim of is to learn from each other.

 

Coaching

 

Moll Academy coaches the professionals and children throughout the entire process in a general sense through the trainings and overall guidance. The professionals are also offered two coaching sessions by a professional coach, in which they can discuss topics about their personal and professional development.

 

Target Audience

  • Professionals who are looking for personal development, professional development and who want to be socially active.

  • Professionals who would like to grow as a person and as a professional by learning to better communicate, motivate and connect.

  • Professionals who would like to increase their resilience and improve their focusat work.

  • Professionals who would like to use their knowledge and experience to benefit a child.

Dates

The Training Programme starts multiple times a year. The registration deadlines are announced on our website in a timely manner. Each group has a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 participants. Multiple groups can start at the same time. The Training Programme lasts 12 months.

The next group starts on 5 April 2023. The training dates will be defined in consultation with all participants per group.

Price

  • Training Programme Playful Leaders (Dutch, in Amsterdam or The Hague): € 4.995

  • Training Programme Playful Leaders (English, in Amsterdam or The Hague): € 5.495

  • Training Programme Playful Leaders private trajectory (individual): € 14.995

  • Training Programme Playful Leaders for companies (tailor-made group trajectory adapted to your company): price in consultation

Moll Academy BV is CRKBO certified and therefore this training programme is exempted from VAT.

A maximum of two places within each group are open to people with financial constraints. Claiming these places is only possible after written motivation and explicit permission on the basis of modified conditions. Please contact us for more information.

Would you like to learn more?

Sign up to our newsletter or any of the free webinars that we organize regularly! We are also happy to call you to tell you more about our programme and answer any questions you may have.

We also offer in-company workshops to get a taste of our programme. We are looking forward to hearing from you!