Transformational leadership: leading beyond direction and control

Inspire employees - communicate visions - increase performance

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This training is held in German.
Exceptional performance arises when people experience meaning and take responsibility. This is precisely where transformational leadership comes in: it focuses leadership on inspiration, orientation, and development. In this training , you training with the principles of transformational leadership and reflect on your impact as a leader. You will learn how to sustainably activate potential and create effective, committed teamwork through vision, trust, and the targeted promotion of initiative.

Contents

The concept of transformational leadership

  • We introduce you to transformational leadership.
  • The relationship between managers and employees: The effect of role model and trust.
  • You focus on values: respect and recognition.
  • How to lead with goals instead of instructions.
  • You will learn how to identify and formulate common goals.
  • Leading with confidence—you'll learn how.

Guidelines for transformational leadership

  • Strengthening your role model status: How to lay the foundation for successful transformation with value-based leadership and trust.
  • Inspiration and motivation: You can increase motivation and commitment with purpose orientation, clear visions, and inspiring communication.
  • Intellectual stimulation: You 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

  • How to use organization as a means to an end.
  • You will learn to understand and manage the dynamics of the organization.
  • We look at how you can take structures and responsibilities into account in your everyday management activities.
  • You will optimize decision-making processes and procedures in a targeted manner.

Methods and paths to transformational leadership in your own area

You as a manager:

  •  You will reflect on your individual leadership role, your personal values, and your fundamental attitudes.
  • You can apply and optimize management tools professionally.
  • You know how to delegate responsibility through non-directive leadership.
  • You know methods for motivating and inspiring employees and teams.
  • You know how to strengthen personal resources for transformational leadership.
  • You will learn how to create an effective framework for self-organization, agility, and autonomous work.

Team leadership:

  • How to strengthen strengths, promote learning ability, and develop potential.
  • You can communicate in a meaningful way and know how to inspire and motivate employees.
  • You will learn to strengthen individual and team strengths through confident leadership and coaching.
  • You can promote learning ability and develop potential with targeted routines.
  • How can I effectively combine individual and collective interests?
  • We look at how you can increase entrepreneurial thinking among employees and teams.

Your practical cases are training and encouraged in training —use your cases to develop a concrete implementation strategy for your leadership.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.

Your benefit

  • You are familiar with the transformational leadership approach and know how you can inspire your employees to be more creative and perform better and take responsibility and self-direction in your role.
  • We use a successful, empirically confirmed leadership model with concrete recommendations for action and implement this effectively in your leadership practice.
  • 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.
  • We focus your leadership on the integration of values, meaningfulness and appealing visions of the future for more productive collaboration.
  • You improve performance and communication in your team through trust, inspiration, delegation of responsibility and individual support.

Methods

Our lively and interactive training on input from trainers, which is interspersed with exercises. You can expect case studies, best practice examples, exercises, discussions, exchanges of experiences, working aids, checklists, and transfer.

Recommended for

Managers from all levels and industries are welcome. Project managers are also in the right place here.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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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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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 [...]

Learn more here

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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2921
€ 1.540,- plus VAT
2 days
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4 Events
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09.06.2026
Stuttgart
Booking number: 2921
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
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Parkhotel Messe-Airport
Parkhotel Messe-Airport
Filderbahnstrasse 2, 70771 Stuttgart
Room rate: € 142,09 plus VAT.
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Tuesday, 09.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 10.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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29.09.2026
Düsseldorf
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Derag Livinghotel
Derag Livinghotel
Kirchfeldstraße 59-61, 40217 Düsseldorf
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Tuesday, 29.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 30.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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15.12.2026
Berlin
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Adina Hotel Berlin Checkpoint Charlie
Adina Hotel Berlin Checkpoint Charlie
Krausenstraße 35-36, 10117 Berlin
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Tuesday, 15.12.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 16.12.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • Catering during breaks and
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Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
18.03.2027
Munich/Feldkirchen
Booking number: 2921
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
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Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Münchner Str. 6, 85622 Munich/Feldkirchen
Room rate: € 126,63 plus VAT.
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Thursday, 18.03.2027

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 19.03.2027

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Booking number: 2921
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
€ 1,832.60 incl. VAT.
Plan course
2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
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