Leading with presence: leading confidently in challenging times
Martial arts inspiration for a clear mindset and confident action
Contents
Presence and charisma
• Reflect on and refine your personal leadership style.
• Clarify your own positions on key leadership aspects.
• Make conscious decisions: How do I want to be perceived?
• Use methods to specifically strengthen your presence and impact.
Fast, structured decision-making
• Use systematic approaches for decision-making processes.
• Identify relevant criteria and prioritize them sensibly.
• Clarify your own decision-making logic based on your personal "feel-good factor."
• Make decisions clearly, confidently, and with conviction.
Ability to remain calm and act effectively in stressful situations
• Understand the mechanisms of hecticness and stress.
• Reflect on your own contribution to stress dynamics.
• Consciously control your own behavior in hectic situations.
• Apply appropriate measures to reduce stress.
Self-confidence and self-efficacy
• Define clearly: As a manager, what do I allow and what do I not allow?
• Intervene appropriately in each situation and consciously take on a leadership role.
• Set clear boundaries for yourself and others.
• Use procedures to set boundaries consistently.
Strategic action
• Develop an appropriate balance of closeness and distance with employees.
• Reflect on your own reactions to closeness and distance.
• Clarify situations: Where is more closeness helpful, and where is more distance helpful?
• Consciously shape your scope for action.
Mastering challenges in a targeted manner
• Identify your own leadership challenges.
• Understand your personal contribution to their development.
• Recognize the impact on energy, time, and leadership clarity.
• Derive measures for coping and relief.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
Your benefit
Benefit from the training:
- Clear stance and confident presence: Martial arts techniques help you strengthen your body language, build natural authority, and appear more confident, calm, and decisive in negotiations or difficult conversations.
- Structured thinking under pressure: You will learn to make quick and clear decisions in challenging situations. This will enable you to lead your team confidently and provide guidance even in complex situations.
- Inner peace and ability to act: You develop a mindset that helps you stay focused in stressful situations, regulate your emotions, and act constructively—for more stability and clarity in everyday life.
- Strengthened self-efficacy: You build confidence in your own abilities and set clear boundaries—toward employees, colleagues superiors. This strengthens your leadership role and your inner attitude.
- Greater awareness of team dynamics: Mindfulness and keen observation skills help you to better understand behavioral patterns and handle interpersonal situations with greater confidence.
Methods
This extraordinary training combines experiential leadership with selected martial arts techniques that allow you to physically experience how posture, focus, and presence influence your leadership. Practical trainer input, reflections in individual and group work, and direct feedback help you recognize patterns and transfer new impulses for action into your everyday leadership. All exercises are voluntary, require no physical fitness, and pose no risk of injury; mutual touching is part of individual methods and is also voluntary. On the first evening, a group dinner promotes exchange and networking within the group. Please keep this evening free if possible.
Recommended for
Managers at all levels who want to fulfill their leadership role with greater clarity, presence, and inner strength. Particularly suitable if you want to improve your decision-making skills under pressure, appear more confident, set boundaries more consciously, and develop your leadership skills holistically—both physically and mentally. Ideal for anyone who wants to rethink leadership and strengthen their impact in the long term.
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Start dates and details
Monday, 04.05.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 05.05.2026
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.
Thursday, 26.11.2026
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 27.11.2026
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, 08.03.2027
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, 09.03.2027
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.

