Contents
Management and courage
- Courage as a core competence of managers in the VUCA world.
- Being a driver of change: change is with the brave.
- Rethinking effectiveness in management. Having authority without being authoritarian.
- No new start without courage: boldly launching innovation processes and transformation.
- Overcoming fears - taking risks - showing backbone.
- Success = courage + perseverance + resilience.
- Leadership concepts rethought.
Balancing courage
- An outline of courage psychology.
- Where there is courage, there is also fear.
- The phenomenon of "German Angst".
- Developing and maintaining courage in times of crisis.
- Over-courage is rarely good - about the lack of humility.
Courage as a success factor for companies and their managers
- Overcome complacency and comfort - make decisions.
- Those who lead with courage win: What courage can achieve.
- Facts and figures: Measurable effects of courage and fear.
- Courageous Employees: top decisions and high performance.
Creating a framework for courage in the company
- Creating a corporate culture of courage.
- Moving ingeniously at the limit: Leaving the comfort zone in a controlled manner.
- Creating the right environment for innovation.
- Create and allow shared competence.
- Use self-reflection and open feedback professionally.
Courage and communication
- The future is made of courage.
- Communication as an economic factor.
- Motivation for courageous Employees.
- Courage can be learned: develop courage - conquer fears.
- Be courageous - stay courageous.
- Consciously confront dissonance.
- Making safe decisions under uncertainty.
- Strategies for emotional emergencies.
Courageous role models and courageous success stories
- The Shackleton myth.
- Steve Jobs and his courage for unconditional innovation.
- Elon Musk: Courage for new business and attacking the established.
- Reflect on your own courage spectrum and write your own courage story.
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 know why courage is the success factor for entrepreneurs, managers and leaders and know the connection to your professional situation.
- You will reflect on your attitude and management position in the light of current change and strengthen your courageous willingness to make decisions for a successful future.
- You know why you need courage as a manager in order to lead yourself and your team successfully in the long term.
- You will learn ways to courageously drive forward major decisions and strengthen your mindset to follow these paths.
- They can distinguish the boundary between cockiness and recklessness and true courageous greatness.
- You know how you, as a manager and courageous role model, can spur your Employees on to outstanding performance.
- You know the framework conditions for success and how you can take bold steps in your own company.
- You will expand your learning areas for your leadership development using real leadership scenarios and completely rethink your attitude to leadership.
- You will deal with your courage spectrum, get to know courageous role models and recognize why luck is with the brave.
- You will receive helpful tools, methods and strategies to continuously integrate courage, decisiveness and the will to succeed into your daily leadership routine.
Methods
Lecture, trainer input, discussion, reflection, case studies, role plays, events, coaching, feedback.
The training includes live experience units in which you can safely experience real courage, push the limits of your comfort zone if necessary and have fun in the process. Effective summaries, transfer aids, checklists and one-pagers help you to transfer your new experiences and thoughts into your everyday work and keep them alive in your daily practice. The topics and content of the training are always geared towards the participants' lives and needs.
The price includes a group dinner and a subsequent fireside evening with intensive input and personal exchange on courage and management. Two valuable books on courage and management complement your transfer to everyday business life.
Recommended for
Executives and managers at all levels who want to establish courageous action and decision-making as a success factor in their leadership.
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Attendees comments
"My expectations were fulfilled: two days full of exchange of experiences and valuable discussions. The Haufe Akademie always has the best trainer , very good venues and always perfect organization."

"The seminars and the knowledge gained from them are exceptional."

"Two days of great impulses from Peter Baumgartner (Leadership & Communication), lots of valuable tips, an enormous amount of practical experience, great people and the impressively simple realization: leadership means making people great. Flat, tired, exhausted. Head is full, but totally happy and full of drive."

Seminar evaluation for "Courage in management - leadership training for change-makers, movers & shakers"







Start dates and details
Thursday, 11.09.2025
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 12.09.2025
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 04.12.2025
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 05.12.2025
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 05.02.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 06.02.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 16.04.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 17.04.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 17.09.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 18.09.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Rethink: Courage as a success factor for managers
The seminars in the Rethink series are aimed at all managers and executives who want to rethink their leadership personality and cultivate qualities such as courage and assertiveness. In his training "Courage in management: The leadership seminar for change-makers, movers and shakers", Peter Baumgartner helps participants to leave their comfort zone in a controlled manner and establish more courageous thinking and action.
Master challenges with more courage and determination
Transformation processes, innovations and new business areas in particular often require managers to make courageous decisions. Peter Baumgartner shows participants how to make confident decisions even in uncertain situations. After all, anyone with responsibility in a company is probably familiar with this: Far-reaching decisions often trigger fears and resistance. This training supports you in mastering your inner conflicts and moving forward with courage.
This training on courage in management is part of the Rethink series of the Haufe Akademie and gives managers the incentive to anchor qualities such as courage and decisiveness in the corporate culture.
Rethink for leaders – the exclusive training -Series of Haufe Akademie supports you in initiating changes and facing new challenges!