Crazy Days for Leaders

The completely different leadership training with Barbara Messer

This training is held in German.
Do you see yourself as a doer and creator? This Rethink workshop will turn your established thought patterns upside down, change your mindset and challenge your personality! Have you never been a fan of using the same methods and strategies forever? With an innovative understanding of leadership and new methods, you will inspire Employees, colleagues and superiors and remain effective - with unique results. To do this, you will constantly venture into new territory, explore new ways of doing things and constantly challenge your creativity and innovative strength. Discover free spaces in which new things can emerge and be dared, and open yourself up to experiences and impressions in which you "shift" your previous thinking. With Barbara Messer, a master of inspiration, you will receive a firework of creative methods and impulses. With new formats, processes and methods, you will be able to put unconventional ideas and unusual plans into practice. Turn your existing leadership "upside down", open up new horizons and create completely new perspectives for yourself and your Employees.

Do you have the courage to turn the established upside down?
With rethink training courses, you can change your mindset and discover new horizons. 
 

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.
  • ...

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.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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Seminar evaluation for "Crazy Days for Leaders"

4.3 from 5
with 14 ratings
training content:
4.3
Content comprehensibility:
4.1
Practical relevance:
4
Trainer expertise:
4.7
Participant orientation:
4.4
Method variety:
4.3
On-site training together
Booking number
35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT
2 days
in 4 locations
4 Events
German
Events
Train several employees internally
Pricing upon request
  • Customized training courses according to your needs
  • Directly at your premises or online
  • Cost advantage from 5 participants
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23.09.2025
Mannheim
Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Leonardo Royal Hotel
Leonardo Royal Hotel
Augustaanlage 4-8, 68165 Mannheim
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
Days & Times
2 days
Limited number of participants

Tuesday, 23.09.2025

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, 24.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

09.03.2026
Cologne/Lower Kassel
Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Hotel Clostermanns Hof
Hotel Clostermanns Hof
Heerstraße 2A, 53859 Cologne/Niederkassel
Room rate: € 125,13 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
Days & Times
2 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 09.03.2026

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday, 10.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

18.05.2026
Munich/Feldkirchen
Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Münchner Str. 6, 85622 Munich/Feldkirchen
Room rate: € 126,63 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
Days & Times
2 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 18.05.2026

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday, 19.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

28.09.2026
Hamburg/Ahrensburg
Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Hotel am Schloss Ahrensburg
Hotel am Schloss Ahrensburg
Am Alten Markt 17, 22926 Hamburg/Ahrensburg
Room rate: € 125,55 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
Days & Times
2 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 28.09.2026

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Tuesday, 29.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

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Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

Booking number: 35024
€ 1.990,- plus VAT.
€ 2,368.10 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • 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.

The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.

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