Contents
Leadership - a challenging task
- What leadership is all about: leadership skills and personality.
- What leadership responsibility requires: Responsibility in the matter and for the employees.
- What it means to master sandwich positions: Loyalty to management - recognizing employee interests.
Guided tour - first-hand experience
- My personal view of leadership.
- My personal experience of leadership situations.
- My reflection on these experiences and the derivation of concrete steps for my own decision.
Leadership - your own potential and areas for development
- Positioning: Where do I currently stand in the company/organization?
- What image of humanity guides me?
- What values do I represent?
- What talents and strengths do I have and how could I use them as a manager?
- Which of my own stress reactions do I know and how do I deal with them?
Specialist or management career?
- Weigh up the pros and cons in a change of perspective.
- Prepare the concrete details of my further professional development path.
- Celebrating the plan for the future.
Learning environment
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.
Your benefit
- You will gain a picture of what it means to be a manager and can clarify for yourself whether and how this role can fit into your personal life plan.
- Using situations from your own everyday working life, you will gain clarity about your own potential, your skills and areas for development with regard to leadership.
- You will develop the necessary basis to make a conscious decision for a specialist or management career and will be able to argue this to third parties.
- You will develop your ability to self-reflect as an essential basic competence for authentic leadership.
Methods
Trainer input, case studies and best practice examples, exercises, discussion and exchange of experience, group work. Seminar documents support reflection and assimilation of the content.
Recommended for
subject matter experts who want to prepare and make their decision regarding a specialist or management career.
Further recommendations for "Setting the course: Successful specialist or management career?"
Seminar evaluation for "Setting the course: Successful specialist or management career?"







Start dates and details
Monday, 15.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 16.09.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 29.09.2025
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 30.09.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 09.10.2025
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 10.10.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 04.12.2025
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 05.12.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 18.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 19.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.