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What it's all about
This program focuses on your learning abilities – your key competencies for change and growth. Use (neuro)science-based knowledge and tools to strengthen your self-efficacy. Drive your own development forward! Use the superpowers of ‘adaptability’ and ‘learning’ to actively pursue your career goals or personal changes.
Learning goal:
Get started! Actively work on your mindset, adaptability and self-management. This will enable you to seamlessly integrate self-directed learning and personal growth into your everyday life and consistently achieve your goals.
Duration
- March 11 - November 4, 2026
Format
- 8x1.5h virtual live modules
- 3x1h coached study groups
- ~15 minutes/week self-directed studying with journal or AI
Who can join?
- We approach ambitious employees - those who are keen to work on their adaptability
- Max. 150 participants
Investment
- This program will be covered by Bertelsmann. Employees invest their time and willingness to work on their mindset, self-leadership skills and learnability
YOUR Growth Booster is special!
What you will learn
You will work on simple, everyday capabilities to be ready for an ever-changing work environment.
- Shape individual targets in line with your personal values; plan how to follow up within your own ecosystem and work routine
- Work on your growth mindset, and belief systems
- Build healthy habits
- Discover how to make use of your strengths for experimenting
- Find ways to overcome obstacles with self-compassion
- Get in the flow of work: Actively switch between “studying” and “performance” zone
You've come to the right place, if...
- You're a Bertelsmann employee.
- You consider yourself an ambitious learner – you want to learn new things, but you often struggle with finding the time to study or applying what you've learned.
- You want to balance performance tasks and learning goals, but you also know that you would rather spend more time testing smaller methods in order to adjust your behaviour in the long term.
We are targeting this program to all employees, in particular to the following target groups, but all are welcome and can register!
- The Employee Scholarship participants
- „Your Campus“ Trainers
- Your Organization may has some wildcards for/incorporated in their local studying and development programs
What you can expect
- Highly interactive program with breakout sessions and many little exercises
- 8 virtual live modules accompanied by online modules for self-directed learning
- Coached peer study groups between the modules to reflect together
- Practical at work: Integrate your learning process on the job and record it in your learning diary
Duration
The program takes overall 9-months.
- You will meet 8 x in 1.5h virtual live modules to get new insights, exchange and discuss about your thoughts and progress. There will one module each month. The aim is to give you enough space in between the modules to exercise and test your new strategies.
- In addition, you should schedule 3 x 1h facilitated study groups. The groups will be scheduled around 1-2 weeks prior the next virtual module. This way you can discuss about your "consolidation tasks" or questions that may arise.
- Speaking of "consolidation": You should schedule about ~ 15 minutes per week to work on the follow-up tasks with your journal or AI buddy. We expect you to watch the content between the modules, but you can choose the timing that suits you best.
Schedule
The program takes place from March 11 – November 4, 2026. It will be 100% virtual but live and you will have plenty of time between the different modules.
Module 1 | The Journey Begins
Kick-Off: Get-together and Program Outlook
- Get-together: Meet your program peers
- Impulse: Learning means adaptability. How lifelong learning supports you to extend your comfort zone.
- The mix makes all the difference: future proof self-leadership aligned with a growth mindset.
- Program templates: Intro to templates e.g., value ranking, learning goal finder
- Work on your first "follow-up task" with AI
Module 2 | What Keeps Me going
Motivation and Key Values
- Motivation: What motivates you? About intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, basic psychological needs and how to create a fertile ground for motivation in everyday life.
- Purpose & values: Get helpful insights about values and identify your key values.
- Program Templates: Creating a fertile ground for motivation, learning goal canvas
Module 3 | Aligning the Compass
Goal Setting & Focus
- Goals: Setting demanding but not overwhelming goals. Value-goals-focus-funnel.
- Learning goal: What could be my first focused goal? Set up a stage plan focusing on just one aspect of your desired behavior.
- Program templates: Intro to the stage plan.
Module 4 | My (Super)-Powers
Strengths & Emotions
- Own resources: Identifying your own signature strengths and why they might be a hurdle sometimes; about "what" and "how" strengths.
- Strengths: How to use your strengths to follow up on your learning behavior.
- Fun and emotions: How having fun and making use of emotional science supports our studies.
- Elaborate how to use strengths for your learning goal with your AI.
Module 5 | My Training Plan
Key Competencies & Habits
- Habits: How to build new habits. Using habits to build your own learning routine or to follow up on your goals.
- Learning goal: Define the learning habit to start with for your mindset and behavioral change.
- AI Challenger: Is this your new habit scope doable, small enough, etc. Challenge your new habit goal for the next weeks.
Module 6 | When the Going Gets Tough
Self-Compassion & Stress Managment
- Growth and Fixed Mindset: Understanding the value of both and knowing when to apply each effectively. The abilities to consciously switch between different mental states.
- Hurdles: What are your main hurdles that stop you from pursuing your values, goals, and development?
- Self-compassion: Why self-compassion is more important than self-esteem, and how to train it.
- Learning vs. Performance: Balancing learning targets and performance tasks.
Module 7 | Pathways of Reflection
Learning vs. Performance
- Reflection: Why reflecting your learning strategies and mindset is key to boost your behavior.
- Circles of influence: Get to know your own circles of influence to focus your energy.
- Stress management: Distinction from extrinsic needs, how to really get rid of stress.
Module 8 | Continuing the Path
Wind-up
- Reflect on the past months in the Year-end reflection
- Elaborate your New Year’s learning resolutions and projects
- AI Masterprompt: Design your own AI "Growth Booster" agent, which will inhabit all your reflections, learnings and goals from this journey for your next year and supports you to follow up during performing.
- Program wind-up
