Contents
Understanding leadership: What is leadership?
- Characteristics of successful leadership - what skills do I need?
- Leadership without a superior function versus disciplinary leadership.
- Accepting and defining your own leadership role.
Your own positioning
- From colleague to superior: Achieving acceptance and recognition.
- Demarcation: dealing with proximity and distance to colleagues.
- The difficulty of "wanting to please everyone".
- Dealing with expectations, scope for action, boundaries and responsibility.
Sovereignty and charisma: how do I get there?
- The first impression: setting the right course from the outset.
- Confident appearance and recognizing your own impact.
- Build good relationships and create trust with self-confidence and knowledge of human nature.
Communication
- Communicate openly, respectfully and unambiguously.
- Ask the right questions, listen and argue.
- Standing up for your own point of view, having the courage to make difficult decisions.
- Dealing with resistance, conflicts, escalation.
Special features of virtual leadership
- Successfully overcoming the hurdles of virtual communication.
- Virtual team development.
- Run a successful online team meeting.
Integration and onboarding of new Employees
- Clarify roles and responsibilities.
- Align mutual expectations.
- Three levels of induction: technical (understanding processes), social (integrating into the team) and cultural (understanding the company culture).
- Knowledge transfer: Passing on your own experience, knowledge, solutions and tips.
Delegation
- Agree and accompany orders.
- Balance between trust and control.
- Obstacles and sources of error when delegating.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will learn how to lead and motivate colleagues and earn their respect even without being an "official" supervisor.
- You will learn how to communicate constructively and motivationally even in difficult situations, how to address critical issues and how to create an atmosphere of trust and cooperation.
- You improve your knowledge of human nature and can thus establish good contact with "your Employees".
- You will learn effective methods of employee integration and delegation.
Methods
A mix of methods including trainer input, interactive exercises, working on case studies, sharing experiences and peer case consultation.
A mix of methods including trainer input, interactive exercises, working on case studies, sharing experiences and peer case consultation.
Recommended for
team leaders and office managers in assistance and office management who manage colleagues, junior assistants, temporary staff, trainees, working students, etc.
Attendees comments
"I particularly liked the relaxed atmosphere and the practical part."

"I particularly liked the way the trainer conveyed the content and involved the participants. All needs and topic requests were addressed."

Seminar evaluation for "Competent leadership in assistance"







2239
Start dates and details

Thursday, 07.08.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 08.08.2025
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
Wednesday, 24.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 25.09.2025
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

Tuesday, 11.11.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 12.11.2025
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 15.01.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 16.01.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
The participation fee includes
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.