Transformational leadership: leading beyond direction and control

Inspire Employees - convey visions - increase performance

This training is held in German.
The world of work is changing rapidly. Especially in times of New Work, digital transformation and the current shift towards sustainability, you as a manager need skills and an understanding of leadership that goes beyond management and control in order to motivate your Employees to achieve exceptional performance. Get to know the concept of transformational leadership and shape creative and effective collaboration, even in new work contexts. With inspiring and motivating leadership, you can promote agility and self-organization, increase commitment and enhance personal responsibility. Tap into your own and your Employees ' potential, increase the effectiveness of your leadership and promote appreciative and productive collaboration.

Contents

The concept of transformational leadership

  • Presentation of transformational leadership.
  • The relationship between managers and Employees: the effect of role models and trust.
  • Focus on values: respect and recognition.
  • Leading with goals instead of instructions.
  • Recognize and formulate common objectives.
  • Leading with trust.

Guidelines for transformational leadership

  • Strengthen your own role model: Creating the basis for successful transformation with values-based leadership and trust.
  • Inspiration and motivation: Increase motivation and commitment with a sense of purpose, clear visions and inspiring communication.
  • Mental stimulation: Encourage Employees to take responsibility, contribute their own ideas, promote collaboration and work in a self-organized manner.
  • Individual leadership: Recognizing different needs as a manager and supporting Employees in a solution-oriented and individual way.

Organizations, structures and processes - giving meaning to the framework

  • Using the organization as a means to an end.
  • Know and control the dynamics of the organization.
  • Observe structures and responsibilities in day-to-day management.
  • Optimize decision paths and processes in a targeted manner.

Methods and paths to transformational leadership in your own area

  • Reflection on the individual leadership role, personal values and basic attitudes.
  • Strengthening personal resources for transformational leadership.
  • Strengthen strengths, promote learning ability, develop potential.
  • Methods to activate and inspire Employees and teams.
  • Strengthen individual and team strengths with trusting leadership & coaching.
  • Handing over responsibility through non-directive leadership.
  • Create an effective framework for self-organization, agility and autonomous working.
  • Meaningful communication Inspiration and activation of Employees.
  • Combining individual and collective interests in a targeted manner.
  • Promote learning ability and develop potential with targeted routines.
  • Apply and optimize management tools professionally.
  • Increase entrepreneurial thinking among Employees and teams.

Develop a concrete implementation strategy for your management based on your practical cases.

Learning environment

Once you have registered, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services relating to this training course in your online learning environment.

Your benefit

  • You are familiar with the transformational leadership approach and know how you can inspire your Employees to be more creative, perform better and take responsibility and self-direction in their role.
  • You use a successful, empirically confirmed leadership model with concrete recommendations for action and implement this effectively in your management practice.
  • You optimize your management work in the face of rapid and continuous changes in the world of work and react flexibly and agilely to changing conditions and transformations.
  • You reflect on your leadership and your self-image as a manager.
  • You focus your leadership on the integration of values, meaningfulness and appealing visions of the future for more productive collaboration.
  • Through trust, inspiration, delegation of responsibility and individual support, you improve performance and communication in your team.

Methods

In-person events

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, transfer.

Live online events

Trainer input, case/best-practice examples, exercises, discussion, exchange of experience, work aids, checklists, transfer.

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Recommended for

Managers at all levels.

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Transformational leadership

Communicate visions, inspire and strengthen motivation with non-directive leadership While the transactional leadership style is designed in the sense of a barter transaction (reward in exchange for goal achievement), the transformational leadership style goes beyond this and changes not only the behavior but also the attitudes of all those involved by encouraging and intellectually stimulating employees in the company. Addressing and exemplifying [...]

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Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Transformational leadership

Communicate visions, inspire and strengthen motivation with non-directive leadership While the transactional leadership style is designed in the sense of a barter transaction (reward in exchange for goal achievement), the transformational leadership style goes beyond this and changes not only the behavior but also the attitudes of all those involved by encouraging and intellectually stimulating employees in the company. Addressing and exemplifying [...]

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Transformational leadership

Transformational leadership is a leadership style in which managers act as role models and thereby gain the trust, respect, recognition and loyalty of their employees. Employees are motivated by the leadership style of transformational leadership and inspired to change (transform) their behavior and their willingness to learn and perform.

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03.06.2025
Frankfurt a. M./Oberursel
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Berlin
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