Leading effectively in the sandwich position

How to master the balancing act between leading and being led

This training is held in German.
As a new manager, you often find yourself in a "sandwich position" between your employees and management. This means you are sometimes faced with conflicting expectations. Focus on four levels in this leadership training course to consolidate your position: dealing with yourself, with your Employees, with superiors and with colleagues. Get to know helpful tools and solutions for your day-to-day management. Use effective strategies right from the start to react flexibly and confidently to the new requirements.

Contents

Management starter:in in the "sandwich" position

  • Know the areas of tension and pitfalls as a new manager.
  • The 360-degree view of the "sandwich" roll.
  • get to know ways of meeting the different requirements.
  • Know your own values and goals.
  • Clarify your own role and find your personal management style.

Myself as a manager

  • Keeping an eye on your own needs and limits.
  • Dealing with pressure to perform and expectations.
  • Dealing with different interests and requirements.
  • Managing work-life balance.

My Employees and I

  • Actively and professionally shape relationships with Employees .
  • Dealing professionally with Employees ' expectations.
  • Know the central tools for employee management.
  • Translating strategic goals into the operational world.

My superiors and I

  • Understand and clarify expectations "from above".
  • The:Lead your own: boss .
  • Making successes visible at the top.

My colleagues and I

  • Know the principle of lateral leadership.
  • Create cooperative working relationships.
  • Understanding "micropolitics" in the company.
  • Build sustainable networks and relationships.

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

  • They know and reflect on the typical pitfalls of new managers in the "sandwich position".
  • You will know the success factors that are the basis for long-term satisfying and successful management activities.
  • You clarify how you want to fill your management position.
  • They develop a feel for micro-political contexts.
  • You will receive an overview of the most important management tools.
  • You will develop the first steps for implementing the findings of the seminar in your practice.
  • They clarify individual conflict situations resulting from the "sandwich" position as required.

Methods

Impulses, guidance for individual reflection, work in small groups, peer counseling, trainer feedback, work on own cases.

Recommended for

Management starters with authority to issue instructions and brief management experience who want to consciously perceive and shape their management role between superiors and employees.

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20.08.2025
Frankfurt a. M.
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