Annual Report StreetwiZe • Mobile School 2019

BARCO • Emerging Leaders Program
01/09/2018 • 30/06/2019
Saskia Dieleman
Bart Vanbellinghen
Bram Van de Putte
Hans Lamberts
BARCO
Belgium
The BARCO Emerging Leaders Program is a 1
year development programme for BARCO high
potentials. In this 1 year programme, promising
middle managers are given the opportunity
to develop both soft and hard skills, in a
cooperation with StreetwiZe and Vlerick
Business School.
Participants fly in from all continents. For this
reason offline modules are limited to the kickoff
and the closing (hosted by StreetwiZe),
whereas all learning bricks in between are online
modules hosted by Vlerick.
The programme kicked off with an offline
module in September 2018, hosted by StreetwiZe.
This first week focussed fully on leadership
development. Two parallel groups (30
participants in total) were taken to De Zande,
where they participated in a Belgian StreetwiZe
Expedition. The competencies needed
to co-create new Mobile School material, with
a very different target group in this unique
experience-based programme, are very similar
to those put forward by BARCO as crucial to
thrive as a leader in today’s BARCO environment.
The groups (one in campus Wingene,
another one in campus Beernem) had a parallel
experience and at the common closing
reflection day shared experiences, made links
with the BARCO leadership framework and
built personal action plans to translate the insights
towards their individual leadership challenges.
The leadership track ended with an offline
follow-up day 9 months later in Ghent, where we
challenged participants on how they had applied
the insights, what they came across and what
they have learned from these experiences that
could also be of interest for peers.
All the in-between learning bricks were hosted
by Vlerick and were organised online. The topics
Vlerick covered were related to business acumen
such as Finance, Strategy, Marketing and Business
Process Management.
The full program ended with a report-out to a
management delegation and an official degree
ceremony at the BARCO head offices in Kortrijk
(Belgium).
IMPACT
Tangible, impactful experience
Opportunity to practice crucial leadership competencies
Transfer of insights to each individual’s professional reality
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