Modules

Every manager faces the challenge in the initial phase of the career: what the key dimensions of the job and the related performance drivers are.

This course sets the scene for the whole TLP, outlining the map of priority topics managers have to deal with. On one side, it includes interpreting the situation at hand, identifying the key problems to be solved, as well as using thorough analysis to design both the solution and the implementation plan. On the other hand, the course focuses on the activities managers have to engage in to make sure that their organizations are ready for daily delivery of top performance, both in terms of infrastructure (such as assets and processes) and in terms of human capital (employee competences and motivation). The approach taken underlines the need to deal with challenges in a holistic way, reflecting the nature of managerial life in business organizations.

Lecturer: Nenad Filipović

Duration: 2 days

In an era where technology drives business success, leaders must possess both technical expertise and strategic insight. This two-day course is designed for early-career STEM professionals aiming for management roles, equipping them with the technological knowledge and practical skills needed to enhance organizational effectiveness and foster innovation.

Participants will explore core technological competencies, emerging technology trends, data-driven decision-making, and frameworks for aligning technology with business strategy. Through interactive sessions, case studies, and hands-on exercises, they will develop the ability to lead technology-driven projects, manage change, and build a culture of continuous learning and adaptability.

Lecturer: Vedran Podobnik

Duration: 2 days

Teams and their use in organizations have become one of the buzzwords of modern organizational life, and they are increasingly employed to manage complex problems, create change efforts and accomplish organizational output. Therefore, it has become a key skill for success for managers to manage teams effectively and create growth and development in teams.

The course gives a broad overview of teams and allows participants the opportunity to apply the basic concepts of teams and teamwork in practice.

After the module, participants will be able to understand the characteristics of effective teams, the connection between the team composition and team tasks/roles, advantages of teams and team processes (e.g. development), as well as the importance of team’s dynamics (such as conflict and change) and how to deal with it.

The module allows teams to learn from their own experience based on practical exercise.

Lecturer: Hendrik Sebastiaan (Drikus) Kriek

Duration: 2 days

The course focuses on one of the most critical managerial competences – making effective decisions in the function of solving concrete business problems. It highlights the duality of challenges managerial face in this area.

In the morning the course deals with effective structuring of the rational thinking needed to understand and evaluate the decision-making criteria. In the afternoon it deals with the other side of the process: the emotional factors influencing the individuals and teams who make the decision, as well as the effects they have, such as biases or procrastination.

The course highlights the importance of clarifying the assumptions we hold, as well as the often-hidden impact of personal profile and team dynamics on the quality of the decisions.

Lecturer: Nenad Filipović

Duration: 1 day

Managers who are not directly responsible for finance or accounting functions are often exposed to a challenge of not understanding the professional terminology used in that field. At the same time, the ability to positively influence company performance depends on the correct planning, reporting and interpretation of financial results.

The course will focus on: 

• Understanding of the language and concepts of financial and management accounting as well as its application in the company's everyday practice. 
• Developing better communication skills and fostering greater confidence in communicating with specialists. 
• Evaluation and interpretation of the usefulness of different costing approaches by analysing their practical applications as well as their motivational aspects. 
• Using these new learned techniques and information immediately in practice. 

The participants will be engaged in a simulation allowing them to see how various managerial decision they made in a concrete situation affected the company performance.
 

Lecturer: Igor Magdalenić

Duration: 2 days

Technical managers need to understand complex software development processes in order to manage software projects. By understanding the principles of different development methodologies, planning and managing resources, and ensuring quality and compliance, participants will be able to lead teams effectively.

This course covers critical aspects of the entire software development life cycle (SDLC). Topics include understanding team roles, planning software projects, managing development methodologies, ensuring software quality through various testing methodologies, risk management and effective technical leadership.

Lecturer: Mario Kušek

Duration: 1 day

Strong project management competency empowers leaders to excel in their role and lead their organizations to achieve business goals. Effective leadership requires the ability to successfully plan, execute and monitor projects, while successful project management requires effective leadership and the ability to manage a complex, changing environment. As projects and their environments become more complex, especially in the technical field, the need for project management knowledge and skills increases among individuals, project teams and across the organization. Furthermore, project management concepts are applicable in a wide range of fields.

This course provides insight into the knowledge areas and skills required for project management competency and utilizes several practical case studies and group discussions to explore project management concepts, techniques, and relevant case studies in an interactive format that encourages the sharing of ideas, experiences and best practices, ensuring an engaging learning experience.

Lecturer: Željka Car

Duration: 2 days

The course focuses on the strategic perspective: it starts by looking at disruption and innovation, continues with reviewing strategic drivers from the environment, and then focuses on internal drivers requiring modifications of the current business model.

The course will look at three essential issues of strategic management:

• How should managers „read signals“ from various external and internal sources, including but not limited to the strategic implications of „VUCA“ environment, new needs of potential or existing customers, competitors, technology, regulators, own customer facing or support staff, global functions etc. 
• How „strategy on paper“ gets „connected“ to consistent and agile action at different levels of the organization? By connecting, we mean turning intentions into a set of actionable items, as well as moving the organization to swift execution, but also setting the proper organizational culture needed for it.
• What does the above mean for us and for me personally, now and in the near future? By that we want to avoid staying abstract, at the level of „nice to know“ facts, but rather to create deeper insights and desire to apply them in daily practice.

Participants will enhance their understanding of how change processes depend on the context (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) in which it happens, including the strategic objectives and organizational setting. 
 

Lecturer: Nenad Filipović

Duration: 2 days

Participants in this course will gain essentials for anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of IT infrastructure in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. The course provides the skills necessary to design and manage scalable, secure, high-performance IT systems while understanding concepts such as cloud computing, virtualization, and automation that are becoming increasingly important to operational efficiency.

This course provides an overview of the core elements of IT architecture and infrastructure. It describes the main components and key design principles and then looks at the critical infrastructure components, including servers, storage solutions and network devices, as well as best practices in infrastructure design. The course also covers concepts such as cloud computing, virtualization and software-defined networking, with an emphasis on how these technologies provide flexibility and scalability.
 

Lecturer: Marin Vuković

Duration: 1 day

During the course participants will develop basic understanding of what research and development is, how it can be classified with focus on the applied research organization. It will be provided and discussed parameters for effective and productive R&D organization based on general concepts and experience. It will emphasize building a required working culture to find and keep most relevant experts for efficient new technology development.

Participants will analyse the full organizational process from innovative thinking towards new product development based on the technology strategy correlated with business plans. It will discuss organizational, resource, and financial challenges to create sustainable processes and have satisfied employees to continuously improve work results and keep successful business results. The discussions will be based on theoretical concepts and current trends analysis.
 

Lecturer: Darko Huljenić

Duration: 2 days

​In an increasingly digital world, understanding cybersecurity threats, risks, and mitigations is essential for protecting your organization's assets, reputation, and business continuity through informed decision-making.

This course focuses on the technical and strategic skills needed to understand, manage, and respond to cybersecurity risks effectively from a leadership perspective. It gives a wide overview of the cybersecurity field, emphasising basic cybersecurity concepts, the current cybersecurity threat landscape, the protections provided by security technologies, and the basics of security management. The topics are presented through relevant real-world examples, case studies and group activities.

Lecturer: Ante Đerek

Duration: 1 day

The course is designed to support managers in developing their individual and collective skills related to establishing a leadership style, which inspires themselves and members of their organizations to achieve the most possible in a situation. It also aspires to serve as a catalytic event in shaping appropriate attitudes needed for change leadership.

The first part of the course focuses on leadership competences required in the current business experience, as well as on the requirement that the leaders constantly unlearn old behaviors and learn new ones. Through self-assessment and various practical exercises, the participants will be able to identify different aspects of their leadership profiles, as well as how their profiles impact their performance and their ability to interact with others. The participants will also obtain insights into how they as individuals with the right leadership attitude can support their company in reaching its business objectives. They will be required to reflect deeply on their contribution to the organization and the effects they have on their colleagues.

Lecturer: Pierre Casse

Duration: 2 days

During this course the participants will develop their ability to understand and implement customer centric approaches to formulating business strategies and executing them effectively.

The course first focuses on the need to identify possible market segments and understand their potential for our organization. We will also discuss how to establish customer needs and wants as well as the competitive situation in the segment. Based on that the course will further turn attention to developing value proposition adequate for the chosen segment, communicating it to the market, as well as developing the remaining strategic components of the marketing mix (product and service assortment, price positioning and developing effective channels to reach the customers). Examples from different industries will be covered, spanning both the B2B and B2C space. Along with key attributes of creating and capturing value, the course will discuss issues related to sustaining value through consistent brand development efforts and new product and service development. Finally, we will discuss the link between marketing strategy execution, customer acquisition and retention, and financial results in the form of revenues and profitability.

Lecturer: Marius Claudy

Duration: 2 days

This course will be devoted to ability to communicate effectively as being among the most important ones of the list of managerial competences. The focus of this module will be on enhancing presence and effective communication. Instead of communicating in one universal style, the most effective leaders and managers develop a range of styles and skills to suit the variety of stakeholders, customers, and situations in which they operate. It will encourage the development of communication influence through understanding of communication frameworks, discussion of application in organizations, and immediate practice. A discussion-based environment will help participants reflect on their strengths as communicators as well as what they would like to develop.

An important part of the course will be a practical exercise in which the participants will have to prepare and deliver a managerial presentation, which will be recorded, and they will obtain candid feedback about their performance.

Lecturer: Dorothy Grandia

Duration: 2 days

This course gives an insight into what processes are and how to describe them. In a world where competition is ever growing it is essential to always make processes more efficient. Learning how to map processes with the aim to find improvement potential and better understand bottlenecks will enable leaders to raise competitiveness both in manufacturing and office processes/areas. Failures or non-conformities happen in all organizations. The difference between unsuccessful and successful organizations is in the approach of fixing an issue or making sure to learn from it and making sure that it doesn’t repeat.

In hands-on workshops simple lean methods will be introduced to be able to find root causes of problems, ensuring a solution that makes processes more competitive and sustainable.
 

Lecturer: Žarko Janić

Duration: 3 days

This course explores how disruptive technologies reshape industries, redefine business models, and create entirely new markets.

Participants will examine historical and contemporary examples of transformative innovation, from paradigm-shifting breakthroughs to ongoing technological revolutions that continue to challenge existing business structures.

The curriculum delves into the strategic impact of emerging technologies - including artificial intelligence, blockchain, automation, and advanced computing - on business transformation. Participants will learn to develop forward-looking transformation strategies, anticipate shifts in competitive landscapes, and leverage disruptive innovation to drive sustainable advantage.

The course also addresses the challenges of integrating radical technological change, including resistance to disruption, adaptation of organizational structures, and the dynamic interplay between technological possibilities and market forces. While risk management and cybersecurity are considered in this context, the focus remains on leading transformational change rather than risk containment.

At the end of the course, participants will be equipped to recognize, evaluate, and respond to disruptive technological forces, preparing them to shape and lead the next wave of transformative business evolution.

Lecturer: Dubravko Sabolić

Duration: 3 days