Motivating, delegating and leading with goals

Performance management for leading employees and teams

This training is held in German.
As a manager, you constantly have your hands full - take the pressure off yourself! Leading with goals helps you enormously - if you do it right. Whether you are delegating tasks, discussing objectives, giving criticism and feedback or promoting motivation and identification: crisp objectives and ten-minute target-setting meetings make your life easier. In this training course, you will learn proven methods, techniques and tricks with which you can maximize your benefit from the target agreement and minimize your effort.

Contents

Increase your own effectiveness and leadership efficiency

  • Personal strategies and goals that you are pursuing.
  • Leadership principles and values that are important to you.
  • The expectations of your Employees, your superiors and other people.
  • Employee constellation: types and distribution of roles in the team.
  • Provide Employees with the necessary orientation, convey meaning and values and make their own visions palatable.

Leading with goals: Relief instead of burden for leaders

  • Management tasks and situations in which management by objectives takes the pressure off.
  • Maximize the benefit of the target agreement - minimize your own effort.
  • Limits and typical mistakes when leading with goals.
  • Design delegation as a "small target agreement".
  • Formulate goals correctly and make them clear and understandable.
  • The difference between objectives, measures, tasks and projects.

Keep it simple: prepare and follow up on target agreements and manage them confidently

  • What goals, values and motives does the employee pursue? The right goals for every employee.
  • Optimally implement target development and target specification down to employee level.
  • Recognize potential conflicts of interest.
  • Find metrics and key figures and formulate measurable qualitative targets.

Short, concise, crisp: the ten-minute target agreement

  • ... or even if two or five minutes are enough.
  • Formulation of competence, behavior, performance and success targets.
  • Consider the wishes, goals and ideas of every employee.
  • Agreement on hard facts and soft skills.

Leading with goals for difficult Employees

  • Target agreements with low performers, squabblers and hens.
  • Counteract absenteeism and fluctuation with targets.
  • Increase Employees ' skills with the help of targets.
  • Allaying fears of change, dealing competently with resistance.

Ensuring success: Supporting implementation and target achievement

  • Relieve yourself in case of queries and problems from the operational work area of your own employees.
  • Check interim targets - react competently if targets are not met.
  • Coach Employees during implementation.

Working on specific practical cases from your own day-to-day management work using peer case consultation

 

 

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

  • After this training , you will have your own, individual and authentic set of practicable action strategies for different management situations and employee constellations of the present and the future.
  • You will encounter tried-and-tested techniques that will help you to minimize the effort involved in agreeing targets and maximize the benefits.
  • You will learn how to deal with your employees in the right way in terms of leadership psychology.
  • You will learn to derive specific team and individual goals from overarching objectives and to formulate these in a way that is employee-oriented, understandable and motivating.
  • You know how to integrate qualitative goals, development goals, projects to be realized and tasks to be completed into the target agreement.

 

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Methods

The focus is on the specific cases - and goals! - of the participants. Don't expect slides and a projector. Instead, expect an exchange of experiences among managers, individual and group work, inspiring and leadership-psychologically based impulses, practical exercises on formulating target agreements, on difficult conversations with employees and on special conversation situations based on practical cases of the participants.

Recommended for

Managers at all levels and in all areas of the company who want to reduce their workload by leading by objectives and learn how to minimize the effort involved in target discussions, maximize the benefits and also develop the full potential of their employees and teams.

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04.09.2025
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13.10.2025
Stuttgart
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02.03.2026
Berlin
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Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof
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23.06.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Sulzbach (Taunus)
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