WELCOME TO NMP 27
IN OCTOBER 2022!
A notable number of the leaders who in recent years have lead the reinvention of news media have experienced NMP as a valuable context for generating, formulating and debating ideas and thoughts for leading change in their mediahouses and teams — and for inspiring themselves.
Yet every new “edition” of NMP forms and brings a new situation, different challenges of leadership. The new programme starts as worklife is transitioning out of a pandemic that for two years has taught us to do almost all work individually, with increased self-leadership and even work from home. For leaders the challenges include developing new solutions for improving a culture of shared purpose and innovating together in a hybrid set-up of work.
At the same time, the challenge remains of leading our teams to practices and performance that make the most of the digital production technology that is now the basis of the industry. Leaders must also make all this work in a context where the development of our Nordic societies, national, regional and local, is more fuzzy than before.
“More than before, we make the new NMP ‘start where you are at’ as a leader. Before the first NMP session in October, we engage you in exploring and specifying the current development needs of yourself and your team to help you make the most of your time in NMP. “
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Bo-Magnus Salenius and David Loid, programme directors of NMP
WHAT IS NMP?
NMP is a Leadership Programme and a Programme for Change.
AS A PARTICIPANT YOU WILL:
- gain knowledge and inspiration for leadership that enhances understanding and inspires your team
- be better prepared to lead company culture and teamwork to create better work practices
- discover ways to help employees develop their self-leadership and be better team-workers
- gain new ideas to enhance the organisation of work
- be inspired and be in dialogue with other leaders in order to refine your personal vision
WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM NMP?
NMP is for leaders with a drive and desire to renew and improve current ways of working and performance. And who want to challenge themselves.
NMP is not a beginner’s course in Leadership, but it will benefit leaders interested in change and renewal regardless of their years of work experience.
THE YEAR WITH NMP
PREPARATION: Self-evaluation and goal-setting with the coach
WHEN: August – September 2022 (online)
Getting ready.
In order to prepare for the Programme, we will help you take a closer look at yourself and your team. After this evaluation, we will help you identify personal goals to focus on during the Programme. The NMP Team will also develop the subsequent sections of the programme based on this information.
WORKSHOP COPENHAGEN: "Understanding Customer Perspective"
WHEN: 5-7.10.2022
WHERE: Copenhagen, Denmark
The focus and goal of the first workshop is to help each participant to strengthen their personal view of the customer perspective that provides a core part of the shared purpose of a team. Learning-by -doing in Copenhagen, the participants will also discover ways in which customer perspective can be explored deeply with their home teams.
A big part of the workshop activity is carried out as fieldwork in groups that will study and challenge the customer perspective for newsmedia. The participants will combine observations from other industries, use digital technology, their own experiences, as well as research in customer perspectives, in order to renew their view of their own company activities. The method to be applied has been developed by Dr Henrik Blomgren from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, who will also be joining the coaches in Copenhagen. The workshop will be concluded by presentations and dialogue on the results and suggestions from the fieldwork.
In the first workshop, we lay the foundation for the trust that will allow us to develop even deeper discussions as the Programme moves along.
WORKSHOP BERGEN: “Expectations for Development and Innovation"
WHEN: 23-25.11.2022
WHERE: Bergen, Norway
In the second workshop the NMP group will be asked to collaboratively explore the question; how will the need for development and innovation change within our field, and what are the drivers of change? Based on this work the group will be asked to work out and present solutions for how they aim to respond with leadership for development and innovation in their work.
The second NMP workshop will take place in Mediecity in Bergen – the largest assembly of companies and research on innovation in the Nordic countries. The main task for the participants will be to identify forces that lead to change and renewal within newsmedia. Participants work in groups and will meet with several innovative organisations from Mediecity and with Norwegian newsmedia leaders. The groups will be coached by NMP specialists to formulate questions for developing their leadership solutions.
WORKSHOP HELSINKI: “Leading teams in change from within”
WHEN: 8-10.2.2023
WHERE: Helsinki, Finland
In the workshop in Helsinki, the participants will develop hands-on solutions for improving work and performance in their teams ‘from within”. Furthermore, media leaders state that the two years of the Pandemic have created even more need for new ideas about work practices and leadership supporting team-learning.
A starting-point of current research is that development and renewal of work and culture be approached as learning-process, not as a top-down project. Change-as-learning grows from day-to-day activities, feedback seeking behavior and sharing examples of new behaviors. Leadership is a combination of coordination and individual coaching (vertical leadership) with teams participating in leading development activities (horizontal leadership).
During the workshop, participants will explore experiences of accomplished leaders who offer inspiration and insight about leading change and performance in digitally interactive teams. Coaches and specialists on team-learning and leadership facilitate the groupwork for developing hands-on solutions for leadership.
WORKSHOP SKELLEFTEÅ: “Self-leadership and personal leadership”
WHEN: 29-31.3.2023
WHERE: Skellefteå, Sweden
In the last workshop of NMP, participants will develop practices for supporting strong self-leadership of employees with balancing input of personal leadership from the leader.
Research on work in digitally anchored and knowledge-intensive operations show high levels of self-leadership, of employees governing the set-up and the running of their own work. During the Pandemic, this level of self-leadership has risen even further. An increase in self-leadership is also widely considered necessary for achieving the sustainable, inclusive and productive organisations of work for the future. At the same time, current work-life shows great variation between employee capacity for self-leadership. For the leader, the question is: How can I personalise my leadership to different levels of self-leadership and the need for support, and ensure that all colleagues are strongly connected to a shared culture?
During this final workshop, participants will work together as well as with coaches and specialists to develop practical solutions for their organisations.
THE NMP TEAM
The NMP design team develops and creates the programme in close collaboration with a selection of NMP advisors (senior industry leaders and NMP alumni). Click here for the full list of speakers and coaches who participated in the previous NMP programme.
DAVID LOID
Director of NMP
David Loid is specialised in strategy development and rhetoric, and has since the 90’s worked as a consultant in communications, branding and strategy development.
BO-MAGNUS SALENIUS
Director of NMP
Bo-Magnus Salenius is the long-standing Programme Director of NMP. He is known for creating ways to accelerate culture change and strengthen leadership in organisations.
Katarina Graffman
Anthropologist, author
Dr. Katarina Graffman is a pioneer of consumer anthropology. In the past two decades she has helped organizations better understand and serve their customers, using her ethnographic tools.
PAULA KIRJAVAINEN
Adjunct Professor, Leadership consultant
Paula Kirjavainen has 25 years of experience consulting and managing knowledge intensive businesses. She is especially passionate about strategic leadership development and cultural transformations.
Ralf Blomqvist
Consultant, author
Ralf Blomqvist has more than 20 years of experience of customer driven change management in various industries. Ralf is a partner of Main Dialog and a popular lecturer.
Wim Gijselaers
Professor
Professor Wim Gijselaers chairs the Department of Educational Research and Development at the School of Business in Maastricht University. This is one of the largest and leading research groups on team learning and challenges of building expertise.
Henrik Blomgren
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Henrik has about 20 years of experience working with strategy and marketing. He describes himself as an educator, explorer, academic, entrepreneur and facilitator. Special interest in industrial change and leadership in times of digital transformation and disruption.
Annika Häggblom
Learning Coach
Annika Häggblom is the Learning Coach of NMP. Annika creates the structures and opportunities for learning, exploration and insights during the programme.
SIGN UP FOR NMP 27
Welcome onboard NMP! We look forward to taking this journey together with you. When you have finished the programme you will know exactly why everybody before you keep talking about their NMP-experience. NMP is a challenging programme for those committed to building the future of the news media industry. Here you will find all the tools you need and the network that will help you reach your goals. The journey starts today.
THOUGHTS ON NMP
THE NMP WAY OF WORKING
As opposed to traditional leadership programmes, the NMP-sessions are not filled with endless powerpoint presentations. In NMP time is dedicated to co-working on solutions and finding answers that will serve all participants. The learning process of challenging with questions and taking part in dialogue is lead by experienced and passionate coaches, firestarters, knowledge creators and researchers in the fields of leadership, customer relations, society and media.
QUESTION-DRIVEN LEARNING
NMP is an intensive learning process that builds on collaborative knowledge-creation and question-driven learning. The process is driven by good questions and in each sessions participants are challenged to develop their own questions relating to the the theme at hand. We work together on each others questions – knowledge is created through dialogue.
The starting point for creating engagement and dialogue in the sessions is found in concrete questions posed by leaders in different organisations. Armed with new tools, concepts and research results our participants go about creating their own understanding of and answers to the questions presented. An important aspect of the knowledge-creation process is leaving the meeting room in order to visit, observe and interact with reality. NMP not only develops participants’ understanding of the themes discussed. In NMP we put great emphasis on supporting the change that participants are working on in their own organisations. Going from understanding to real action requires hands-on experiences and a desire to use the new tools in practice.
THE NMP WAY OF WORKING
As opposed to traditional leadership programmes, the NMP-sessions are not filled with endless powerpoint presentations. In NMP time is dedicated to co-working on solutions and finiding answers that will serve all participants. The learning process of challenging with questions and taking part in dialogue is lead by experienced and passionate coaches, firestarters, knowledge creators and researchers in the fields of leadership, customer relations, society and media.
QUESTION-DRIVEN LEARNING
NMP is an intensive learning process that build on collaborative knowledge-creation and question-driven learning. The process is driven by good questions and in each sessions participants are challenged to develop their own questions relating to the the theme at hand. We work together on each others questions – knowledge is created through dialogue.
The starting point for creating engagement and dialogue in the sessions is found in concrete questions posed by leaders in different organisations. Armed with new tools, concepts and research results our participants go about creating their own understanding of and answers to the questions presented. An important aspect of the knowledge-creation process is leaving the meeting room in order to visit, observe and interact with reality. NMP not only develops participants’ understanding of the themes discussed. In NMP we put great emphasis on supporting the change that participants are working on in their own organisations. Going from understanding to real action requires hands-on experiences and a desire to use the new tools in practice.