New Leadership Programs for new managers

Concept

• This program gives you the orientation and promotes the skills you need to face New Work and the challenges it poses to you as a leader.
• The structure of this program consists of a total of six seminar days - with six weeks of practical and self-study phases in between. Accompanying tools and learning content are available to you during the three months of the program.
• The self-study phases serve to apply what you have learned in your professional practice and to ensure maximum practicability for you.
• You learn according to the principle of structured freedom (focus on business skills and individual development areas) and the proven interval principle: reflect - apply - exchange.

Throughout your learning journey:

• To work on your topics, you can use the B6! Workbook is available to you.
• Two hours of practical coaching are available for each participant - your focus time to work individually on your issues.
• The exchange within the group is organized in a self-directed manner.
• The digital learning content is available to you for the entire duration of the program and up to one year after completion of the program.

Module 1 (attendance, 2 days)

Leading yourself: Leadership basics and self-management
 

Introduction

• The B6! Leadership Framework - orientation in a complex leadership context.
• Structured freedom.
• Future skills: digital literacy, digital collaboration, agile working.

Leadership role and models

• B6! and Self Development - no development without orientation.
• The role change: reflecting on your own understanding of leadership and leadership behavior.
• Clarity on expectations and requirements.
• leadership models and styles as well as their own positioning.
• Situational approach to leadership - tried and tested and highly topical.

Positioning and areas of development

• Attitude, mindset and skillset in New Leadership.
• Self-leadership: effectively develop self-leadership as a competence and develop your personal performance potential in order to increase your self-efficacy.
• Focus on your leadership personality.
• Individual focus: personal goals and career.

Module 2 (self-study phase)

Be yourself & grow!

• Practical training in the leadership and self-development skills from Module 1.
• Support through digital content, tutor and self-assessment.

Module 3 (attendance, 2 days)

Leading Others: Managing employees and teams

People empowerment is a particularly challenging task in day-to-day management. Leading employees to success - what does that mean in New Leadership? Transparency and professional leadership communication, appreciation and empathy are at the top of the list. What opportunities do I have as a manager to influence people's behavior? What approach makes sense in upward, downward and lateral leadership? How do you deal with diversity? How does virtual or hybrid team leadership work successfully in everyday life? In these two days with a lot of practical relevance and concrete tasks, you will get to grips with these topics in theory and practice.

Contents

People Empowerment

• How much and what kind of leadership does my team need?
• Give employees responsibility - guide self-organization.
• The manager as coach.
• Diversity management: dealing with employees and teams in change, conflict and crisis situations from the perspective of employees' inner drivers.

Team leadership

• Team roles and their importance.
• Delegation and control.
• Conversation techniques for good conversations with employees.
• Tools and techniques of team leadership.
• Team leadership remote vs. hybrid vs. onsite.
• Good to know: How-to conflict management.

Leadership in the company

• Leading upwards.
• Lateral leadership: colleagues and/or project teams.
• Communication at eye level.
• Good to know: Dealing with misunderstandings and conflicts.

Module 4 (self-study phase)

Be connected & inspire!

• Practical training in team leadership skills and people empowerment.
• Support through digital content, tutor and self-assessment.

Module 5 (attendance, 2 days)

Leading Business: Achieving top performance as a team

As a manager, you want to actively shape the future of the company instead of managing it. It is important to you to focus on the human factor and the individual strengths of the employees to be managed. You will get to know proven and new organizational/communication and leadership methods and techniques and apply them in practice. The module contains all the important points to help you lead in a methodical, meaningful and situational way that suits you, the company goals and the employees and teams to be led. See change as an opportunity and maintain an overview and confident leadership under stress, pressure, etc.

Contents

The holistic design of an organization

• Organization of tasks and goals.
• Structures, processes and tools.
• Organizational culture - development, moderation, synchronization.
• Good to know: How-to change management.

Operation Management

• Task execution - self-responsibility, enabling, problem solver.
• Deciding, administering and managing projects.
• Error and courage culture, dealing with fears and uncertainties.
• Process innovations - methods.

Performance management means value management

• Evaluation and controlling.
• Feedback - Feed Forward, Rewards and Benefits.
• Positive psychology: celebrate successes, individualize needs, rewards, compensation and benefits.
• Learning and agreements - Promoting employees' personal and professional satisfaction, health, motivation and performance.