Leadership skills in consulting

Leading clients and teams successfully

This training is held in German.
Effective leadership of clients and your own team is key to successful consulting projects. Learn to build strong relationships with clients, create buy-in and deal effectively with additional concerns to avoid scope creep. Sharpen your ability to lead teams of consultants to deliver top performance: How do you delegate effectively? How do you ideally involve managers and partners ? What can you do to ensure that all team members are committed and contribute to the project goal? Perfect your leadership skills as a consultant and set yourself apart from the competition!

Contents

Leading clients

  • Building trusting client relationships with the "Trust Equation".
  • Manage stakeholder relationships in a targeted manner.
  • Dealing with additional concerns: Recognizing and avoiding scope creep.
  • Creating buy-in: How do you involve clients in problem-solving? How to conduct collaborative client conversations?
  • Change Management: Using the Influence Model to support change processes in consulting projects.

Leading teams

  • Leadership vs. management! The difference makes the difference: 5 practices for excellent leadership.
  • The team kick-off: A good start as a foundation for success.
  • Leading team members individually with a method (Skill-Will-Matrix) and customized approaches to promote productivity, performance and commitment of team members.
  • Effective feedback methods in the team.
  • Successful delegation: trust and responsibility as a basis.
  • Team members coach according to the GROW model.
  • Recognize and address team dysfunctionalities.
  • Managing partners or superiors and using the leverage effect.

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 how to position yourself as a "trusted advisor", build good relationships with your clients and use these for the success of the project.
  • You will learn how to increase client buy-in and effectively involve clients in problem-solving.
  • You can effectively deal with additional concerns and avoid scope creep.
  • You reflect on your leadership skills, recognize your strengths and areas for development and develop them further.
  • You lead your team to peak performance by managing team members individually, delegating effectively and involving partners and superiors effectively.
  • You will know how to set the ideal team dynamics and learn how to deal with difficult situations in the team in a solution-oriented way.
  • They know methods for eliminating team dysfunctionalities.

Methods

experts, presentations, group and individual work.

The training presents the methods and tools that large management consultancies use and teach their employees from the outset.

Recommended for

Experienced consultants, project managers and executives who want to take their consulting skills to the next level.

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Attendees comments

Varied exercises and reflection. Getting to know and directly trying out methods. Very competent trainer. Very good support and catering.

Imke Wagner
iteratec

Seminar evaluation for "Leadership skills in consulting"

4.7 from 5
with 33 ratings
training content:
4.7
Content comprehensibility:
4.8
Practical relevance:
4.4
Trainer expertise:
5
Participant orientation:
4.9
Method variety:
4.4
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34992
€ 1.540,- plus VAT
2 days
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08.09.2025
Hamburg
Booking number: 34992
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Arcotel Rubin
Arcotel Rubin
Steindamm 63, 20099 Hamburg
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Monday, 08.09.2025

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

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10.12.2025
Mannheim
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Leonardo Royal Hotel
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Augustaanlage 4-8, 68165 Mannheim
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Thursday, 11.12.2025

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18.03.2026
Berlin
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centrovital Hotel
centrovital Hotel
Brauereihof 6, 13585 Berlin
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Wednesday, 18.03.2026

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Thursday, 19.03.2026

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13.07.2026
Munich
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Hotel Prinzregent München
Hotel Prinzregent Munich
Riemer Str. 350, 81829 Munich
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Monday, 13.07.2026

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  • extensive working documents.
The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Booking number: 34992
€ 1.540,- plus VAT.
€ 1,832.60 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
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The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
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