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Crash course: Understanding, motivating and leading Gen Y and Z

Successful leadership of young talent

This webinar is held in German.
As a manager, how can I motivate young employees? What drives them? What can I do to ensure that all generations work well together as a team? Together, we will take a look at your leadership behavior, learn to better understand the mindsets of Gen Y and Z and develop a strategy for your generation-oriented leadership. Sharpen your leadership style and use a concrete and practical toolbox to better understand, motivate and lead Gen Y and Z.

Contents

Generations Y and Z - a look into practice

  • Challenges and resistance in day-to-day management.
  • Areas of tension within the generations.
  • Myths.

Generation-appropriate management behavior

  • Effective and authentic leadership of Gen Y and Gen Z.
  • Use of different leadership approaches such as collaborative leadership, participative leadership and situational leadership.
  • Identify the profiles, potential, strengths and motivations of individual Gen Y and Z Employees and utilize them for the team.
  • Successfully delegating to Gen Y and Z employees.
  • Coaching and mentoring as management tools.
  • Clarity and adaptation of different roles of a manager.

Communication and collaboration

  • How do I create direct, open and authentic communication?
  • The use of technology for effective communication.
  • Communication in change processes.
  • Conflict management - dealing with misunderstandings and conflicts in a multigenerational workforce.
  • How you deal with difficult situations and employees.
  • Methods to promote self-organization and empowerment.
  • Promote integration and cooperation between different age groups.

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 receive quickly implementable tools to manage your Gen Y and Gen Z employees.
  • You develop your leadership personality in a constructive way with practical tools and remain authentic in the process.
  • They understand what drives generations Y and Z.
  • You will learn how to promote and utilize the potential of young people.
  • You reflect on your current roles and tasks as a manager.
  • You represent goals and opinions clearly and confidently and thus increase your assertiveness.
  • They discuss "no-goes".
  • With your practical toolbox, you can work effectively in a team with young employees.

Methods

The training is based on a balanced mixture of trainer of the essential technical basics, best practice examples and the lively exchange between the participants and the trainer.

Recommended for

Managers, team, project and group leaders.

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