"With the SIRIUS our leadership centre has undertaken a radical departure from the conventional leadership development and degree programmes, and established a very clear differentiation from other leadership programmes around the world" (2011 news communiqué)

Introduction - On tailoring, or made-to-measure

In our industrialised society one finds, at one end of the business spectrum, the production and trade of entire ranges of mass-consumption or "one-type-fits-many" products and services. At the other end of the spectrum there is tailoring, or custom-manufacturing by which products or services are partly designed and made for one single person or organisation. And then there is full tailoring: the entirely created and built on special order. In the current marketing era many consumers seek the "iconic", the "unique", with an exclusive branding of the product or of the service-tailoring. And, quality matters.

Focus - On grooming one leader at a time

In the leadership development programmes activity sector there are numerous ready-to-use or common track type of programmes, "versus" the truly tailor-made ones. Leadership development programs design that is intended for one person requires a specific form of craftsmanship or artistry. DR Leadership and the school have that form of expertise. In our tailored, individualised leadership development programs' concepts one finds the CHRONOS for Chief Executive Officers, and the SIRIUS, which aims at meeting the needs of leaders active at the many levels and in all sectors of society or organisations in general.

While the CHRONOS follows its own type of journey, the SIRIUS offers the unmistakably unique possibility of providing a fully made-to-measure programme. There is also the special option or "extra", namely the opportunity of earning a diploma or degree. Through the SIRIUS approach the personalised academic curriculum takes shape by assorting the entire sets of tailor-cut learning and development base materials, and of training and teaching modes and methods that are entirely tailored to one person, plus the contents of the mainstream curriculum being entirely embedded into the tailored sets. In terms of gains, the SIRIUS allows the harvesting of the combined benefits of the tailoring advantages, the individualised programme, plus the learning of the best leadership practices found in the mainstream courses, plus meeting the academic requirements for the diploma, or degree. With the SIRIUS our leadership centre has undertaken a radical departure from the conventional leadership development and degree programmes, and established a very clear differentiation from other leadership programmes around the world.

Craftsmanship - On proven methods and current trends

The SIRIUS craftsmanship process goes much further than that of its eponym-predecessor. Having been offered for almost ten years, the previously offered programme featured "only" the mainstream master's in leadership curriculum, yet with a blend of course delivery modes, mainly self-paced learning with personal tutorship and executive coaching. The programme was offered to executives residing in northwestern Europe (mainly in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands). With the advent of new and more performing means of telecommunication, and of faster and cheaper modes of travel across Europe, participants from the entire continent, and of some other parts of the world, are being welcomed by our DR Leadership unit staff, to experience their unique SIRIUS-designed programme. In sum, it is the tailor-measured and "hand-made" leadership development programme in the world, and also applies the formidable Coblence approach in personal leadership learning preferences. 

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