Leadership Development Program

Areas of Focus

Leadership Skills at a Glance

• What skills do successful leaders possess?
• What personality traits should an executive have or develop?
• What experiences and studies can an leaders learn from?

Everyday Leadership, the Importance of Managing the Situation

A successful leader must lead correctly in many different situations.

• Typical, everyday leadership situations
• Judging the leadership situation correctly
• The principles behind effective leadership in an era of change, globalization and digitization

Managing Yourself

Successful leadership begins with managing yourself.

• Your own management style
• Self-management and time management
• Attributes of your work techniques
• How do I conduct myself when making a decision?
• Willingness to trust people
• How to deal with the subject of delegation
• Improving my personal efficiency

My Own Leadership Personality

• The personality of a leader is decisive
• «Stage presence», appearance, charisman
• Analyzing my personality type
• Recognizing my own strengths and weaknesses, developing my strengths

Communication and Conflict Management

• The importance of you as «brand»
• The image of an executive
• The principles of successful communication
• The correct way to handle conflict

Using your Mental Strengths to Master Everyday Leadership Challenges

Inner strength can move mountains – you only have to use it.

• Self-confidence and willpower
• Releasing your own potential
• Power and power struggles
• Sustaining motivation
• Leading difficult discussions in a convincing way

Choosing the right Employee and Team Member

To attract the «right» employees, and then choose and use them in the right places are vital factors in effective, successful management.

• To be popular as a leader
• Giving employees jobs that match their abilities, using diversity
• Developing teams

Leading Employees  and Teams

• Motivational leadership as key to success
• Motivational theories and what value they really offer
• Nothing will work without trust
• How to multiply your own abilities
• Leading teams in international settings

Self-Organization and Intrapreneurship

Executives who do everything themselves can be more effective, if they learn how to training employees to develop entrepreneurial qualities on their own.

• Have high expectations, encourage and coach
• How to identify staff talent and develop it
• How to get an employee’s intrapreneurial talent to blossom

Leading with Objectives

Approved and accepted objectives are the first step to good results.

• Successful leadership focuses on objective-achievement
• Developing the right objectives
• How to formulate objectives correctly, how to measure objective-achievement

Evaluating Performance

Experience tells us that even experienced managers have a hard time evaluating their employees fairly.

• Evaluating performance
• Holding a qualification interview
• Constructive criticism

Corporate Culture and Identity

The challenges facing companies today can only be successfully mastered with employees who reflect their company’s corporate culture in everything they do.

• What is our corporate culture and what about my team?
• What corporate culture do we need to have, how agile are we?
• Opportunities to effect a desired change in corporate culture
• Practical examples from the business world

Change Management

Organizations tend to be sluggish and cumbersome. At the same time, internal and external changes require from them the ability to change quickly.

• Fit for change – how to prepare
• What is required to drive change implementation?
• Programs for making your company quicker and moren agile
• What mistakes must you avoid?