Chief of Staff - strategic business partner in the office

This training is held in German.
strategic partner, personal trainer, chief of staff - the role has many names and the potential for further career steps within your own company or outside. Long established in the USA and now arriving in German companies, this role offers career opportunities for senior and experienced assistants and project managers. Executive professionals are looking for new challenges and companies would do well to enable development and further empower assistants if they do not want to lose valuable employees and invaluable knowledge. In this training , you will learn from our expert, former board advisor and executive Diana Brandl, what skills you need to fulfill this role and take the next step in your career.

Contents

Can also be booked as a course with certificate - see booking number 41675!

Understanding of roles

  • Chief of Staff: definition and role clarification.
  • Insights into the Global Skills Matrix.
  • Prominent examples and developments in the role.

Location analysis and development opportunities

  • Positioning and SWOT analysis of your own role.
  • Define and build up a strengths matrix.
  • Entry into a specialist or management career via various projects, tasks and responsibilities such as PMO (Project Management Office).

Standing in the new role

  • Becoming visible: Not a job for the 2nd row.
  • Develop and apply positioning strategies.
  • Moderation of meetings and discussions.
  • Informal leadership and delegation.

Self and time management practices

  • From multitasking to monotasking - focus and concentration in the new role.
  • Establish and maintain a work-life balance.
  • Strengthen resilience with mindfulness techniques.

Job crafting with the manager

  • Compare and match expectation management.
  • Define the rules of the game and make clear agreements.
  • Introduction to the Business Model Canvas.

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 will find out what the job profile of a Chief of Staff looks like, receive an individual assessment of your current position and get inspiration for your next development steps. In addition to two high-quality learning days with our speaker, you will also receive valuable information on market developments, career opportunities and networking tips via your online learning environment. We have conducted a video interview exclusively for you with the former Chief of Staff of the Chairman of Google, who introduced and established this role at Google and is one of the pioneers of the CoS. Find out why the CoS role is part of the Global Skills Matrix. Get insights from the Chair of the World Administrators Alliance. Podcasts, valuable industry articles and contacts in the right Chief of Staff networks round off the training. We will prepare you intensively for your next career step! 

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Methods

Trainer input, coaching sequences, best practice examples, case studies, assessment of the current situation and goal analysis, involvement of the manager and numerous materials in the learning environment.

Recommended for

If you have a university degree and would like to take the first steps towards a management career in the company or if you have been supporting management for some time as a (senior) executive assistant, project manager or trainer and would like to develop your skills further, then this training is for you.

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Attendees comments

"A well thought-out and structured training - with many examples from the lecturer's own professional practice."

Carolin Spreda
Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V., Dresden

"Lecturers super personable and competent."

Christina Knittl-Frank
Hödlmayr Logistics GmbH

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Find out from Diana Brandl and Christopher Sorg what the role of Chief of Staff entails and what you can expect from the course:
Interview with Ann Hiatt Former Right Hand to CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon & Eric Schmidt of Google

You can watch 2 videos about the event.

Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Chief of Staff: Tasks, Skills & Salary

A Chief of Staff (CoS) works largely autonomously in contrast to administrative assistants (Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, Assistant to the Board of Directors/Management, etc.) and takes on a number of basic tasks with a clear focus on organizing time processes, the flow of information and decision-making processes in the company more effectively. The role is closely linked to that of the CEO. The Chief of [...]

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Find out from Diana Brandl and Christopher Sorg what the role of Chief of Staff entails and what you can expect from the course:
Interview with Ann Hiatt Former Right Hand to CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon & Eric Schmidt of Google

You can watch 2 videos about the event.

Articles, interviews or whitepapers on the topic

Chief of Staff: Tasks, Skills & Salary

A Chief of Staff (CoS) works largely autonomously in contrast to administrative assistants (Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant, Assistant to the Board of Directors/Management, etc.) and takes on a number of basic tasks with a clear focus on organizing time processes, the flow of information and decision-making processes in the company more effectively. The role is closely linked to that of the CEO. The Chief of [...]

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Munich
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27.01.2026
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Tuesday, 27.01.2026

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03.03.2026
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