Leadership
Are your leaders driving performance, or simply managing tasks? With tighter regulations and crew shortage, the maritime industry demands more than technical and managerial skills or years of experience.
You need leaders who build an open, trusting culture – where people speak up, work together effectively, and consistently perform at their best. Our courses develop this kind of leaders, shifting command-and-control styles into collaborative, performance-driving leadership.
Building a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture
Leaders shape the conditions that influence performance. And the strongest influence comes from the culture they build.
Our data reveals a clear pattern: Crews demonstrate improved safety behaviours and performance when leaders build an open and trusting culture.
Why? Because trust creates psychological safety. It’s a shared belief that it’s okay to share ideas, give feedback, raise concerns, ask questions, and admit mistakes without the fear of negative consequences.
That is how we learn, adapt, and improve – by discussing things openly. After all, problems hidden in silence can’t be solved, and accidents in maritime history have shown us just how costly that silence can be.
But when your leaders cultivate trust, they empower your crews to openly discuss, actively contribute, and continuously learn and grow. That is how a high-trust culture becomes a high-performance culture.
Maritime Leadership Courses
Leadership drives behaviour. Behaviour drives performance.
Each of our courses equips maritime leaders with the right mindset, skills, and behaviours to meet today’s growing demands and even inspire your next generation of leaders.
And since every team is unique, we also offer additional modules to tailor our leadership training programme to your needs.
Our Courses:
- Aligned with maritime industry standards
- Each course is a standalone theme with focused, practical outcomes
- Together, the five courses create a full leadership development journey
Maritime Leadership 1
Understanding Your Leadership Role
Experience alone doesn’t make a great leader – so what does? This course introduces the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of leadership. Participants will develop a strong leadership foundation by cultivating the right mindset, exploring leadership styles, and enhancing their self- and role-awareness.
Maritime Leadership 2
Communicating Effectively
Good communication keeps jobs and relationships running smoothly on board. This course teaches practical ways to give and receive clear messages and instructions. Participants will learn effective communication skills that enhance engagement, safety, and interpersonal relations.
Maritime Leadership 3
Building Your Team
How do you turn a group of individuals into an effective team? This course builds the skills to foster cohesion in a diverse maritime setting. Participants will learn how to deal with cultures, strengthen team dynamics, and support crew well-being for a more positive, inclusive, and safer work environment.
Maritime Leadership 4
Getting Things Done
Strong leaders know how to tackle challenges head-on. This course unlocks advanced skills in decision-making, conflict management, assertive communication, and leading change. Participants will learn how to foster responsible conduct, accountability, and adaptability.
Maritime Leadership 5
Growing Your Team
What is the key to sustaining performance? Continuous development. This course teaches leaders how to effectively set goals, appraise performance, and coach team members. Participants will also learn tools to assess their own behaviours so they can strengthen their leadership capability.
Additional subjects that complement leadership development
- NMentoring and Motivating People
- NCommunication and Soft Skills
- NCultural Awareness
- NHealth and Well-Being
- NPeople Performance Assessment and Management
We can make a change
By balancing industry know-how with out-of-the-box thinking, we transform strategy into daily work by using tangible tools we co-design with you and implement alongside you on board and in the office. Then we measure how effective we have been together.
Green-Jakobsen’s reach is worldwide—with more than 30,000 seafarers attending our industry-relevant people performance courses designed exclusively for the maritime industry.
Our flexible course solutions will meet your various learning and development needs to help improve your overall human performance.
- Helping rebuild and transform lives—that’s our social responsibility
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