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Program for successful leaders

Develop your skills in managing modern teams.

SELECTIO Leadership Academy is a one-year development program that builds the leadership skills needed for leading modern teams. We develop managers who know how to create a relationship of trust, recognize the potential in differences, create responsibility for the result, and open the possibility for personal and professional development. In 12 steps, we implement individual changes for every participant!

What will you learn

The most sought-after program for developing modern-day leaders.

  • retain the best team members
  • raise motivation, engagement and trust
  • create connection and commitment amongst team members
  • manage relationships and conflicts
  • create and communicate a clear vision
  • initiate and implement change

Workshop Schedule

Group open for applications - start in February 2025

5.2. │2025.

Leading Yourself to Lead Others

  • What is leadership and why is it important?
  • Leadership competencies
  • Where are my opportunities for development?
  • How can I develop as a leader?

6.3.│2025.

Understanding and Driving Change

  • Understanding the roots and nature of the change process
  • Change management models on a personal and group level
  • Planning the change process
  • Executing the change process

10.4.│2025.

Goals as a Tool to Stimulate Intrinsic Motivation

  • The importance of goals and how to define them
  • The importance of KPIs and how to define them
  • The role of goals and KPIs in organisational culture
  • The role of goals and KPIs in driving strategy

8.5. │2025.

Understanding and Managing Emotions

  • Emotional intelligence and its role in leadership
  • Recognizing and managing emotional states
  • The impact of stress on productivity and motivation
  • Reducing the negative impacts of stress

10.6. | 2025.

Relationship Management

  • Communication skills as a tool of emotional intelligence
  • Relationship management
  • Conflict prevention
  • Conflict management

18.9. | 2025.

Team and BELBIN® Team Roles

  • Team vs. group of individuals
  • What makes the team efficient?
  • Group dynamics
  • Managing group dynamics

16.10.│2025.

Time Management and Self Management

  • Efficient time management
  • Prioritising and multitasking
  • Delegation as a tool for team efficiency
  • Delegation as a tool for team development

6.11. | 2025.

Managing Diversity in a Team

  • Diversity management
  • Individual and group differences in the team
  • Managing communication between teams
  • Conflict prevention and management

4.12. | 2025.

Providing Feedback as a Motivational Tool

  • Feedback as a motivation and development tool
  • Feedback – DO's and DON'Ts
  • Motivation and motivational factors
  • Motivation strategies

22.1.│2026.

Identifying and Developing Employee Potential

  • The importance of competencies
  • Leader as coach
  • Competency development methods
  • Assessing competencies and identifying talent

19.2.│2026.

Coaching Skills for Managers

  • What is my leadership style?
  • Developmental levels of team members
  • Situational leadership model
  • Choosing the right style and successfully developing a team

26.3. │2026.

Wrap Up Session

  • Recapitulation of acquired knowledge and skills
  • Reflection on personal growth
  • Leader's plan for further development
  • Action plan

Group 9 - June 2024

Group 9 - June 2024

13.6. │2024.

Leading Self to Lead Others

  • What is leadership and why is it important?

  • Leadership competencies

  • Where are my opportunities for development?

  • How can I develop as a leader?

18.6. │2024.

Understanding and Driving Change

  • Understanding the roots and nature of the change process
  • Change management models on a personal and group level
  • Planning the change process
  • Executing the change process

12.9. │2024.

Goals as a Tool to Stimulate Intrinsic Motivation

  • The importance of goals and how to define them
  • The importance of KPIs and how to define them
  • The role of goals and KPIs in organisational culture
  • The role of goals and KPIs in driving strategy

10.10. │2024.

Understanding and Managing Emotions

  • Emotional intelligence and its role in leadership
  • Recognizing and managing emotional states
  • The impact of stress on productivity and motivation
  • Reducing the negative impacts of stress

14.11. │2024.

Relationship Management

  • Communication skills as a tool of emotional intelligence
  • Relationship management
  • Conflict prevention
  • Conflict management

Modul 19.12. │2024.

Teams and BELBIN® Team Roles

  • Team vs. group of individuals
  • What makes the team efficient?
  • Group dynamics
  • Managing group dynamics

16.1. │2025.

Time Management and Self Management

  • Efficient time management
  • Prioritising and multitasking
  • Delegation as a tool for team efficiency
  • Delegation as a tool for team development

13.2. │2025.

Managing Diversity in a Team

  • Diversity management
  • Individual and group differences in the team
  • Managing communication between teams
  • Conflict prevention and management

20.3. │2025.

Providing Feedback as a Motivational Tool

  • Feedback as a motivation and development tool
  • Feedback – DO's and DON'Ts
  • Motivation and motivational factors
  • Motivation strategies

17.4. │2025.

Identifying and Developing Employee Potential

  • The importance of competencies
  • Leader as coach
  • Competency development methods
  • Assessing competencies and identifying talent

15.5. │2025.

Coaching Skills for Managers

  • What is my leadership style?
  • Developmental levels of team members
  • Situational leadership model
  • Choosing the right style and successfully developing a team

5.6. │2025.

Wrap Up Session

  • Recapitulation of acquired knowledge and skills
  • Reflection on personal growth
  • Leader's plan for further development
  • Action plan

Group 8 - February 2024

Group 8 - February 2024

15.2. │2024.

Leading Self to Lead Others

  • What is leadership and why is it important?

  • Leadership competencies

  • Where are my opportunities for development?

  • How can I develop as a leader?

21.3. │2024.

Understanding and Driving Change

  • Understanding the roots and nature of the change process
  • Change management models on a personal and group level
  • Planning the change process
  • Executing the change process

25.4. │2024.

Goals as a Tool to Stimulate Intrinsic Motivation

  • The importance of goals and how to define them
  • The importance of KPIs and how to define them
  • The role of goals and KPIs in organisational culture
  • The role of goals and KPIs in driving strategy

16.5. │2024.

Understanding and Managing Emotions

  • Emotional intelligence and its role in leadership
  • Recognizing and managing emotional states
  • The impact of stress on productivity and motivation
  • Reducing the negative impacts of stress

10.6. │2024.

Relationship Management

  • Communication skills as a tool of emotional intelligence
  • Relationship management
  • Conflict prevention
  • Conflict management

12.9. │2024.

Teams and BELBIN® Team Roles

  • Team vs. group of individuals
  • What makes the team efficient?
  • Group dynamics
  • Managing group dynamics

17.10. │2024.

Time Management and Self Management

  • Efficient time management
  • Prioritising and multitasking
  • Delegation as a tool for team efficiency
  • Delegation as a tool for team development

21.11. │2024.

Managing Diversity in a Team

  • Diversity management
  • Individual and group differences in the team
  • Managing communication between teams
  • Conflict prevention and management

12.12. │2024.

Providing Feedback as a Motivational Tool

  • Feedback as a motivation and development tool
  • Feedback – DO's and DON'Ts
  • Motivation and motivational factors
  • Motivation strategies

23.1. │2025.

Identifying and Developing Employee Potential

  • The importance of competencies
  • Leader as coach
  • Competency development methods
  • Assessing competencies and identifying talent

20.2. │2025.

Coaching Skills for Managers

  • What is my leadership style?
  • Developmental levels of team members
  • Situational leadership model
  • Choosing the right style and successfully developing a team

13.3. │2025.

Wrap Up Session

  • Recapitulation of acquired knowledge and skills
  • Reflection on personal growth
  • Leader's plan for further development
  • Action plan

Instructors

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People and Culture Lead, SELECTIO

Ana Frlan Bajer

Ana Frlan Bajer joined SELECTIO in 2007 as Head of Recruitment and Selection Projects. In 2013, she was employed by IKEA Croatia where she participated in the preparation, planning, and implementation of selection and employment of over 300 employees for the first IKEA department store in Zagreb. As an internal coach, she also participated in onboarding of the same employees. Upon completion of the project, for family reasons, she moved to Singapore where, through volunteer work, she gained valuable multicultural experience. Upon her return to Croatia, she returned to the SELECTIO Group and began to engage in what she loves most, namely, training and human resource development.

Ana has worked on the development and implementation of several leadership programs. She has held many workshops in the fields of communication skills, teamwork, time management and goals, professional stress, motivation, etc. In addition to being an HR consultant and coach for external clients, she also works on the development of HR processes within the SELECTIO Group.

Other professional experience includes consulting projects, certification on the Employer Partner certificate project of excellence, and career counseling.

She is a psychologist and psychotherapist with an integrative orientation.

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Senior HR Consultant, SELECTIO

Jasna Belamarić

As the initiator of the program for the development of senior government officials and a long-term collaborator of the State School of Public Administration, Jasna has educated multiple generations of managers. She established programs for several courses and devised and implemented numerous educational and developmental initiatives. She holds a master's degree in psychology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and has trained in several psychological disciplines, accumulating 20 years of experience as an HR professional, trainer, and consultant for human development. At the Higher Education Institution for Entrepreneurship, she lectured on Organizational Psychology, and today, in addition to HR consulting, she engages in executive coaching as well as research on organizational climate and job satisfaction.

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Head of Assessment Department / HR Consultant, SELECTIO

Ana Petelinšek

With a master's degree in psychology, Ana joined the SELECTIO Group in 2017 within the Recruitment and Selection department. She led numerous complex searches in various industries and collaborated with international companies such as Henkel, Heineken, Fortenova Grupa, Dukat, Coca-Cola, Tele2, INA, Schneider Electric, and British American Tobacco.

 

Her experience also includes work on consulting projects such as the Employer Partner Certificate and the Excellence in Challenges award, where she had the opportunity to evaluate HR practices for domestic and international organizations, in addition to which she participated in and led projects examining the organizational climate and employee satisfaction.

 

In the role of trainer, she participated in a multi-year employer branding project to empower young and unemployed people to enter the labor market. In addition, she developed training content and held various trainings and webinars with a focus on leadership and soft skills.

 

Her experience in psychological counseling includes work on the Employee Counseling and Support Program, as well as therapeutic work within a private psychological center and a student counseling center at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. In addition, she is currently under supervision for a Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist.

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Managing Partner, SELECTIO

Aleksandar Zemunić

Proud of the opportunity to grow and develop alongside the SELECTIO Group, a leading consulting company in human resources management, Aleksandar Zemunić has been collaborating with an exceptional team of HR professionals who have successfully completed some of the most significant projects for the domestic labor market for 20 years. He earned a master's degree in Human Resource Management from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and a bachelor's degree in Financial Management from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Osijek. He is a lecturer on numerous HR topics, a licensed BELBIN® team roles methodology advisor, and a certifier of excellence in human resource management as part of the Employer Partner project. He is also a recipient of the Chevening scholarship, administered by the British Council. His areas of expertise include organizational and personnel analysis, human resource management strategy, competency systems, performance management, motivation, and rewards, as well as employee recruitment and selection.

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Head of Organizational Development and Consulting, SELECTIO

Martina Udovičić

Martina has a master's degree in psychology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and holds an MBA from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana. She has extensive experience in human resource management and business development. In the consultant firm SELECTIO she is responsible for the branches of business that include HR consulting, education and development.

Projects of importance include HR audit, organizational development, management assessment, and building leadership capacity in organizations such as Abbvie, British American Tobacco, Coca-Cola, Erste bank, Heineken, Hekel, INA, Infobip, LIDL, Philip Morris International, Pliva, Procter&Gamble, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Molson Coors, etc.

As a team lead of the Department of Organizational Development and Consulting, Martina's goal is to develop solutions that meet the actual needs of companies. Over the last ten years, she has been developing and improving the global flagship project Employer Partner certificate which represents the standard of excellence in human resource management.

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Senior People and Culture Consultant, SELECTIO

Iva Raguž

Within the SELECTIO Group, Iva started on recruitment and selection projects and led a large number of complex customer searches in various industries with a focus on sales and marketing. As a Recruitment and Selection Project Manager, she had the opportunity to work for numerous international companies such as Henkel, Heineken, Philip Morris International, Styria, Hrvatski Telekom, IKEA, Pliva, Coca-Cola, and others. She researched the market, conducted interviews, assessed candidates' competencies, and gained an excellent insight into the labor market.

As an HR Consultant and trainer, she has participated in the development and implementation of programs focused on personal and professional development. She has held numerous workshops in the field of communication skills, change management, team dynamics, time management, coping with stress, and many others.

As a trainer, she participated in a large multi-year youth empowerment program to enter the job market.

Other professional experience includes consulting projects, certification in the project of excellence in human resource management Employer Partner certificate, and career counseling.

She graduated in psychology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

Be part of the new generation of leaders.

Contact us and become a part of the generation that will make the key difference between good and top companies. Depending on the needs, it is possible to organize an in-house program with focusing on specific thematic units. Contact us for more information! 

We offer a 15% discount for holders of the Employer Partner certificate, 10% discount for startup companies and 10% discount for the unemployed and for multiple participants of the same company.

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