Management and Leadership

Leading strong together: Co-leadership as a lever for effective leadership

Models, success factors, and practical tools for shared leadership

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In a complex, fast-paced working world, one thing is clear: leadership can no longer be achieved alone. Co-leadership combines skills, distributes responsibility, and creates space for genuine effectiveness. In training , you training how shared leadership works in practice, which models have proven successful, and which factors are crucial from a human, organizational, and cultural perspective. You will reflect on your understanding of leadership and develop concrete approaches to successfully introduce or strengthen co-leadership in your environment.

Contents

What co-leadership really means

  • From job sharing to genuine shared leadership: concepts, models, principles for success.
  • Variants in practice: Succession tandems, diversity, and junior-senior tandems.
  • Potential and limitations: When co-leadership works—and when it doesn't.

Living and shaping co-leadership

  • Success factors for effective tandems: trust, clarity, shared attitude.
  • Communication, decision-making processes, and conflict management as a duo.
  • Roles, responsibilities, and complementarity.

Embedding co-leadership in the company

  • Establishing framework conditions: organization, HR, target systems.
  • Dealing with prejudices, myths, and cultural barriers.
  • Change strategies: How shared leadership can be introduced and established.

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

· You will gain a clear picture of how co-leadership works—in practice and structure.

· You will learn about key models and success factors for effectively practicing or introducing co-leadership.

· You develop ideas on how you can initiate or support shared leadership in your area of responsibility.

· You reflect on your own understanding of leadership and experience how trust, clarity, and attitude make shared leadership possible.

· You will take away practical tools for establishing co-leadership in everyday life.

Methods

Input from the trainer, practical case studies, tandem exercises, transfer tasks, discussion, reflection, group work, and active exchange of experiences.

Recommended for

Managers, project managers, HR and organizational development managers who practice co-leadership or would like to introduce it in their company.


The training both for tandems that already lead together and for individuals who want to establish shared leadership in their own environment.

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23.03.2026
Munich
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Hamburg
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