DE-BIASINGthe C-Level Team

From the C-Suite for the C-Suite:Led by C-level Master Coaches

+ Boardroom Insiders

3-month Programme “designed-to-impact”• 2 Residencies of 3 days in total• 1:1 Coaching throughout• Digital Guide for daily self-management

Top Team aligning and growing as a joint Learning Community

Decision-making in disruptive times

What sets DE-BIASING apart Results you can expect

You

Whenever companies get into rough seas, the verdict is quickly stated: Management failure! But managers are only human beings: Research shows that even the most intellectually-gifted professionals default to biases. Your ability to think critically and see patterns drives your success. But our thinking gets entrenched or falls back to shortcuts. You may observe these failings in others without recognizing them in yourself. DE-BIASING helps you avoid these pitfalls: you identify your individual and collective biases and prepare yourself for more effective decision-making.

Distorted perceptions tempt managers like everyone else to judge, decide and act irrationally. But at the top, the consequences can be dramatic: Biases and thinking routines in the C-level team are the root causes for poor decisions at the top – they result in collectively less effective decisions as the high individual IQ in the boardroom would suggest.

DE-BIASING is not going to tell how to negotiate a merger or to structure your portfolio. But your success is about more than these technical skills. It is about the way you build awareness and manage your individual and collective biases and thinking routines.

Let us state clearly: Errors of perception or biases are not weaknesses of individual managers, but human. These distortions are caused by our highly efficient, automatically and unconsciously working mental "routine system", which judges quickly. The problem with this intuitive system? It is susceptible to errors and tempts managers to act only in routines. So: What biases shape your own and your team`s decision-making? And how to cleverly avoid those biases?

Insights from insiders… you work with boardroom insiders, leading C-level coaches and advisors. Thus, DE-BIASING is rooted in 20+ years of coaching and consulting C-suite executives and their teams in challenging situations.

Practice for impact… you anchor your insights into daily work in a thorough 3-month Self-learning Phase between the 2 Residency Modules. We support you with 1:1 coaching + structured practices based on our innovative 12-week Digital Guide.

Top Team as Learning Community… you will develop your top team as a Learning Community, sharing reflections on challenges and successes with your peers throughout your structureddaily learning impulses.

are leading a C-level team – each peer with many years in the executive fastlane. But you are aware that in these times of complexity and disruption any routine thinking – even if rooted in past success – is a barrier to access your full potential as a top team.

For you and your team, self-renewal is imperative: Staying ahead of the challenge means staying curious, courageous and committed to personal growth.

Being a Conscious Leader in the C-suite requires mental agility. While confronted with the challenge to perform in a complex and ambiguous environment, you have to sustain the mental energy to transform yourself for continuous self-growth – as an individual and jointly as a team.

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Sharpen your self-awareness on the spot to grow into a truly conscious top team

Strengthen the top team`s foundations systematically as a joint Learning Community

Role-model a growth mindset individually as a leader and collectively as a top team

confronts you as the Team at the Top with unprecedented complexity and pressure. Your decisionsare prone to routine thinking or biases – you sense: as a Top Team you have to unchain your brain.

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Do you know your individual and your team`s collective biases? Neuroscience research shows that even top managers default to biases. Thinking routines can easily turn into a Fixed Mindset that endanger effective decision-making.

Risk of Fixed Mindset

Mastering de-biasing

Designed-to-impact

Customized approach

DE-BIASING elevates your game as a Top Team

DE-BIASING helps you to face the challenges that come with routine thinking. You will identify and master individual and collective biases – by learning about latest Neuroscience insights…

… and elevating your game through sharpened self-awareness + self-management as an executive and as a team. You arm yourself with pragmatic and simple methods against biases or perception errors at the top.

DE-BIASING is a 3-month programme to lift your self-awareness and self-management to a higher level. It combines 2 Residency Modules off-the-job, 1:1 coaching + 12 weeks digitally guided daily practices – thus creating immediate return for your company, your peers, your team and yourself.

Identify individual and collective biases that can get in your way to perform at your best

Learn how to continuously manage routine thinking traps jointly as a team

Your journey into a growth mindset

Consciously focus your attention on sound decisionsand reduce distortions in pivotal situations

Build connectedness with your team peers on a deeper level as co-learners

Learn how to de-bias your routine thinking fromlatest insights in Neuroscience research

DE-BIASING allows you to

Programme structureA 3-month Collective Growth Journey as a Team

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Module 11.5 daysLocation

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Pre-programme

Check-InWork

Post-programmeAlumni Circle

Network + Events

Module 31.5 daysLocation

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Module 23 months

Digital Self-learning+ Coaching

Conscious actionthrough reflection

1:1 coaching+ peer work

Prior to the start of Module 1, you will prepare with a Check-In Questionnaire and Pre-work to be ready for the joint start.

In Residency Modules 1+3, your programme leads and coaches will support you with current leadership thinking and a blend of methods, including INSEAD groupcoaching, Harvard case-in-point teaching, attention training and mindfulness practices. You will have ample time to reflectindividually and collectively. This will ensuretranslating your new awareness into impactful actions.

After the programme, you will be invitedto join our exclusive Alumni Circle. Thus, you will get connected with other C-level peersto refresh or deepen your learnings and to have frank, reflective exchange.

During Module 2, the 3-month Self-learning Phase between Residency Modules 1 and 3 you will act yourself collectively with your team peers into a new self-awareness, led by your Coach and our tailored Digital Guide: Each day you are offered input, tasks for reflection and train-the-brain micro-techniques to lift your self-awareness and self-management. You will feel the difference day by day, transfering your insights into regular team behaviour.

Become crystal clear about your team`s strengths +how those in overdrive push you into a fixed mindset

The programme extends over 3 months, including 3 days in two ResidencyModules.

DE-BIASING is designed-to-impact: The Residency Modules provide you with a transformational space off-the-job to learn, practice and reflect with your personal coach and your peers.

To ensure the transfer of your insights into real-life, you are supportedthrough personal 1:1 coaching and our Digital Guide Reflect4Impact that helpsyou enhance your self-awareness on-the-job through daily practices for 12 weeks.

Questionsyou might have asked yourself within the last 12 months

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DE-BIASING strengthens your leadership impact as a top team through sharpened awarenessand enhanced management of your individual and collective team biases.

We are successful individuals – BUT how can we build strong connectedness as a team, beyond following team rules?

We are a solid top team – BUT how can we decide at our best to transform ourselves and our organization?

We know how to manage – BUT how can we lead from a higher ground based on a deeper understanding of human dynamics?

We function under pressure – BUT where can we find the space and time to step back, reflect and re-calibrate ourselves?

De-Biasing for Better DecisionsSharpen your awareness for Cognitive Biases in decision-making Your learning results

DE-BIASING offers you a unique blend of daily practice in awareness building with latest research in Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Behavioural Economics and Emotional Intelligence.

De-Biasing you Self

De-Biasing your Team

De-Biasing your Organization

• Recognize your personal cognitive biases and behavioural patterns• Learn to spot situations in which you risk to slip into ego-depletion• Deepen your self-awareness to activate your Reflective System• Build your capacity to keep yourself in a growth mindset

• Understand how individual biases accumulate into collective biases• Recognize how collective biases push you into bad decision-making• Learn techniques for systematic de-biasing in the midst of action • Strengthen team awareness to build a collective Reflective System

• Recognize how biases contribute to behaviour patterns in your company• Identify spots in your company with highest risk from biased decisions • Foster your capability for active de-biasing to boost performance • Learn how to anchor de-biasing capabilities across your organization

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of capital business projects showperformance shortfalls due to theinfluence of cognitive biases*

90%

It’s hard to acceptthat we have limited access to the workings of our minds, butit’s true:

You know far less about yourself than you feel you do.

Daniel Kahneman

OBSERVE

ORIENT

DECIDE

ACT

Information – Gathering data and facts

INTERPRETATION – FLAWED BY COGNITIVE BIASES

Interchange – Agree on course of action

Interaction – Impact on outside world

Confirmation Bias

Self-Serving Bias

Action Bias

Narrative Fallacy

Authority Bias

Availability Bias

Group Think

*Scott Keller and Colin Price, Beyond Performance

… Bias

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Your team – a strong partnershipYou benefit from insights from the insiders: Throughout your journey you will be fully supported by your programme leads and coaches.

Prior to his coaching work, Kai was Member of the Board of Winterthur Group, being responsible for European Marketing & Sales, as well as Member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse E-Business. Prior he was a senior consultant with McKinsey, focusing on Financial Services and Strategy & Organization. Knowing the board room from within, Kai is a trusted advisor and sparring partner at eye-level.

Dr Kai W. DierkeC-level Coach + Advisor, Professor for Leadership

Dr Anke HoubenC-level Coach + Advisor, Professor for Leadership

Kai W. Dierke and Anke Houben work as a duo in leadership coaching for the boards of leading corporations in Europe. They are panoramic senior professionals: Building on 20+ years in the business, they embody a unique blend of experience in executive positions, strategy consulting, and leadership coaching + development.

They founded DierkeHouben Leadership Partners in 2003, a Premier Leadership Coaching and Development Boutique for C-suite leaders and top talents stepping up to highest leadership roles. Their company was ranked as one of the “TOP 10 Leadership Development Companies in Europe 2019” by HRTechOutlook.

Their clients in coaching and consultation on leadership, team performance and culture transformation are board members and top teams of Euro Stoxx 50/ Dax 30 and mid-cap companies – covering a broad range of sectors like financial services, telecommunications, technology, pharmaceutical industry, transportation, consulting, public sector.

Both are Adjunct Professors on Leadership at the international HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the No. 2 Business School in Germany 2019.

Their recent book “Gemeinsame Spitze. Wie Führung im Top-Team gelingt” was published by Campus. They publish regularly in Harvard Business Manager and other Journals.

Since 2003, Anke is Member of the Coaching Faculty at the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre. Prior she served in management functions at Bertelsmann Media and as a senior consultant with Arthur D. Little, focusing on Strategy & Organization. In her coaching work as a boardroom insider, Anke integrates methods from INSEAD, Harvard and Daniel Goleman`s Emotional Intelligence Coaching.

DE-BIASING embarks the whole top team on a joint learning journey, thussecuring the growth of each individual member AND the team. Positive peer pressure and the collective experience secure lasting results.

Throughout your 3-month journey you are supported by your personal coach, Anke Houben or Kai Dierke. Your coach will become your trusted advisor who facilitates your self-awareness and accelerates your learning.

The integrative approach of working with boardroom insiders, providing state-of-the-art knowledge, complements to a highly interactive learning setting – tailored to your specific challenges as a top team.

What`s unique about DE-BIASINGFrom the C-suite for the C-suite

DE-BIASING is designed to impact within 3 months. Beyond 2 Live Modules and 1:1 Coaching, you are supported by our Digital Guide, offering daily practices to lift your self-awareness + self-management on-the-job in 12 weeks.

Joint learning

Personal

Tailored blend

Real-life effective

Taming collective biases and cracking routine thinking for better decision-making is one of the key leadership challenges today. We guide you into deep introspection AND offer inspiration for joint thinking.

Key challenge

Contact detailsA strong partner for your success

Do you have questions?Contact us for more information

Dierke Houben AGAm Dürrbach 5PO Box 521 CH-6391 EngelbergSwitzerlandTel: +49 160 94620762 Connect with Kai Dierke or Anke Houben on

leaders@dierkehouben.comwww.dierkehouben.com

Anke HoubenTel: +49 160 94620762anke.houben@dierkehouben.com

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Fee customized –to size of top team and company