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Successfully starting your career as a junior professional

Professional appearance, effective body language and convincing communication.

This training is held in German.
Do you want to be confident in your new job right from the start? This training will give you the tools you need to be confident in your day-to-day work. You will learn how to successfully master your first steps on the job, how to integrate yourself into the team and organization and how to communicate confidently - whether in a conversation with your manager, in small talk with colleagues or when networking. You'll also learn how to impress with body language, business dress code and modern manners - from e-mail to business lunches. In this way, you will build up the crucial future skills that will make you successful as a junior and young professional.

Contents

Your career start - secure your head start now

Paths through the career labyrinth

  • You should know this as a career starter.
  • The first steps in your new job.

The basics of office politics

  • Signal loyalty: This is how cooperation with boss and team works.
  • Small talk with new colleagues: the art of easy conversation.
  • You should NEVER do that - that way you avoid political mistakes.
  • That's how you deal with intrigue.
  • Networking is important: good relationships with colleagues.

Business dress code - clothes make the man

  • From casual to formal.
  • It's the details that matter.

Do you know the good manners?

  • Successful communication: what you need to know about posture, looking, listening and making excuses.
  • e-mail: tips for polished e-mail
  • Correct greeting: Who greets whom first, introduce yourself correctly and make yourself known.
  • Use your first and last name at work.
  • Safe at the table - "learning by doing". From canteens to business lunches, you can't not work.

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

  • Get off to a confident start: gain confidence for your first steps in your new job.
  • Appear professional: impress with your appearance, body language and communication.
  • Navigate cleverly: Understand the rules of "office politics" and avoid mistakes.
  • Build up your network: Make contacts and strengthen your relationships in everyday working life.
  • Get Future Skills: Develop the key skills for sustainable success.

Methods

Theory input, large group and small group work, discussions and exchange of experiences, role plays, practical tips, individual feedback, working on own topics and questions.

Recommended for

Young/junior professionals, young specialists and managers, career starters and trainees who want to ensure that they know and internalize the secrets of a confident appearance in order to give their own career a decisive edge.

Open Badges - Show what you can do digitally too.

Open Badges are recognized, digital certificates of participation. These verifiable credentials are the current standard for integration in career networks such as LinkedIn.

With them, you digitally demonstrate the competences you possess. After successful completion, you will receive an Open Badge from us.

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42292
€ 890,- plus VAT
1 day
in 3 locations
3 Events
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27.11.2025
Cologne
Booking number: 42292
€ 890,- plus VAT.
€ 1,059.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Best Western Plus Hotel Köln City
Best Western Plus Hotel Cologne City
Innere Kanalstraße 15, 50823 Cologne
Room rate: € 133,81 plus VAT.
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Thursday, 27.11.2025

09:00 am - 6:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
10.06.2026
Munich/Feldkirchen
Booking number: 42292
€ 890,- plus VAT.
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Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Münchner Str. 6, 85622 Munich/Feldkirchen
Room rate: € 126,63 plus VAT.
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Wednesday, 10.06.2026

09:00 am - 6:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
22.09.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Oberursel
Booking number: 42292
€ 890,- plus VAT.
€ 1,059.10 incl. VAT.
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elaya hotel frankfurt oberursel
elaya hotel frankfurt oberursel
Zimmersmühlenweg 35, 61440 Frankfurt a. M./Oberursel
Room rate: € 128,49 plus VAT.
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Tuesday, 22.09.2026

09:00 am - 6:00 pm

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  • extensive working documents.
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1 day
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Booking number: 42292
€ 890,- plus VAT.
€ 1,059.10 incl. VAT.
Details
1 day
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
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