From Hierarchy to Empathy: How Learn & Lead Changed My Perspective on Leadership and Learning

I have found Learn & Lead course very helpful and creative. It offered me a different point of view, especially another view at the old hierarchical structure in many companies. The usual Client – Trainer – Leader – Developer relationship seems in these days too rigid or dysfunctional at best.

As I have noticed myself, the old companies in our society follow the old habits of enforcing power and control from top to bottom, they usually don’t even bother with applying emotional intelligence, they see showing empathy towards both themselves and others as a mere weakness.

However, this course kindly offered to me a paradigm shift, a totally different approach or attitude towards relations among clients, trainers, leaders and developers in modern companies.

I have discovered that in order to build a successful company which meticulously takes care of their employees one needs to apply a holistic approach. If I want to work in an environment, which enables me to reach the full potential, I need to feel respected, appreciated and understood. I need to work among people with similar values and goals, in an environment where the positive attitude prevails over the negative thinking pattens.

To summarize a lot of values I was able to gain and share throughout the Learn & Lead course, it served me as a big encouragement that there are many like-minded people willing to change the old paradigm and bad habits in our society.

It has brought me a new sense of hope and a will to continue working on my personal goals towards the role model of the best teacher, fulfilling both the student needs and my personal growth.

Furthermore, the course showed me many powerful techniques and exercises I can incorporate in my classes, proving that the learning process does not need to happen strictly while sitting on a chair (as shown in the picture above). The combination of activities connected with the students’ movement in the classroom can significantly benefit them by improving focus, engagement and overall learning.

And last but not least, I have met a lot of interesting people. This beautiful experience offered me a new social network of like-minded teachers, beings pursuing the new paradigm shift in human awareness. Individual evolution or self-development has never been more imperative in this new era, almost fully overwhelmed by a constant flow of digital information.

Financované Európskou úniou. Vyjadrené názory a postoje sú názormi a vyhláseniami autora(-ov) a nemusia nevyhnutne odrážať názory a stanoviská Európskej únie alebo SAAIC. Európska únia ani SAAIC za ne nepreberajú žiadnu zodpovednosť.

Matúš Babčan
Jazyková škola VAGeS

10. júl 2025