Contents
Into the creative studio of leadership! A creative mindset for your leadership
- The basis for enthusiasm: creativity as the key to innovation.
- Strong in implementation: effective innovation and creativity methods in practice.
- Living visions: Passion and creativity instead of too much security and control.
- Your own mood is decisive: Be convincing and live the mindset of enthusiasm - before, during and after work.
New communication formats - innovative conversation techniques - reflecting on and adapting attitudes
- Before you start: Find the right posture.
- Communication principles for genuine and direct contact with Employees.
- Taboos and sacred cows: having difficult conversations "differently".
- New forms of dialog - Diverse forms of discussion and approaches as a source of change.
- New added value in your working relationships.
- Unusual and effective questions bring constructive answers.
- Stories make (professional) life exciting! Storytelling to engage and inspire people.
A sense of purpose and appreciation as the basis for successful leadership
- Those who know themselves can lead others better: In-depth reflection on your own attitude and values as a manager.
- Stay calm when the going gets tough - strengthening your own level-headedness: sensible and constructive ways of dealing with tricky situations.
- Able to act and effective in every situation: Bring about a change of perspective using different settings and principles.
- Take courage! Lead without fear - be sure of yourself - build secure relationships.
- Mindfulness and appreciation in day-to-day management as a pillar of productive and effective collaboration.
Rethinking leadership: A selection of extraordinary methods for your leadership
- The museum.
- The sanatorium.
- The confessional.
- The world creator.
- The sermon.
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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
In this extraordinary workshop
- you will experience and learn how you as a manager can establish and shape a completely new form of cooperation.
- reflect your leadership behavior and your world as a leader in a unique way through a targeted change of perspective and revolutionary tasks.
- Use this safe laboratory and experimental situation to get to know and practise the effect of unusual methods and tools before you go into practice.
- you will recognize that permanent normality is the little brother of boredom in everyday management and learn how you can motivate and advance your Employees with "crazy" ideas and methods in a completely new and positive way.
- Use innovative and unusual interventions for sustainable changes in reality instead of the traditional standard management inventory.
- look at your leadership and management role from a completely new perspective.
- open up new horizons as a manager with new perspectives.
- increase your ability and desire to apply unorthodox methods and thus strengthen your role as an innovator in the company.
- Take your performance to a whole new level and sow the seeds for a change in the way you are perceived.
- focus on the development of your leadership, because people and their development are what you care about.
In combination with the innovation workshop "New Leadership" (booking no. 36544), you will receive a comprehensive program for contemporary and forward-looking leadership with Barbara Messer.
Methods
With the courage and willingness to think outside the box and embrace new methods and ideas, you give your leadership the opportunity to explore new and unexpected paths. Let yourself be "shifted" in a positive sense, be surprised and open yourself up to unexpected turns and alternative courses of action for individual and distinctive leadership.
Recommended for
Executives and managers who would like to reflect on and develop their personality and leadership role in an unusual and non-everyday training format.
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Start dates and details
Tuesday, 23.09.2025
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, 24.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Monday, 09.03.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 10.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Monday, 18.05.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 19.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Monday, 28.09.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.