Junior Management Program (JuMP)

Module 1: INSIGHTS MDI® Talent Insights personality assessment
The certified and globally recognized INSIGHTS MDI® Talent Insights personality assessment provides you with valid feedback on your talents and development potential as a manager. You use the results from your personality test to assess your self-image and the image you have of others. In addition, you will be able to look at your own Employees, assess them better and align your leadership actions accordingly.

Module 2: Presence seminar Leadership & Personal Business (4 days)

Day 1/2: Leadership

Getting to know each other and getting started

• Contents, objectives and process of junior management.
• Getting to know the participants.

Levels of leadership success: The B6! Leadership Circle for your focused alignment

What does leadership mean to you?

• Future task: How do you organize yourself, your team and your area of responsibility?
• Leading in the new normal and distance leadership 
• Essential elements of leadership and what leaders should know about them.

Where do you stand today as a management executive?

• Honest assessment of the current understanding of leadership.
• Positioning: Balance between targets and freedom of action.
• Mastering the "sandwich position" with confidence.

Leadership personality through self-leadership - leadership starts with yourself

• The elements of self-management.
• Self-management in changing work contexts of the New Normal.

Employee management

• Strengths-oriented leadership in practice.
• Important elements of employee management.
• Building successful teams - even in a virtual context.

Results-oriented management in all directions

• Make and implement decisions.
• Present your concepts and ideas - to top management and Employees.
• Self-marketing: How to polish your appearance - live and in front of the webcam.

Successful management tools

• Selected management tools based on practical examples.
• Individual feedback and tips.

Day 3: HR management 4.0 and change management in the digital transformation

The world of work in the digital transformation

• New Work - Gig Work - Industry 4.0: Skills maps and
  Challenges of the world of work 4.0.

• Framework conditions and design options for
  HR Management 4.0.

• Learnings from Corona & Co.

Business transformation and change management

• Basic models and thought patterns.

• Conceptual and personnel requirements.

• New roles and tasks in personnel management.

Day 4: Digital leadership and personnel development
Transformational personnel managementmanagement and digital leadership

• Transformational behavior patterns.

• Leadership & Performance.

• Leadership in times of New Normal, New Work, Gig Work & Co.

Fields of action for a digital learning and development culture

• Core processes and core competencies.

• Evidence-based recommendations for action.

Module 3: Practice transfer: utilizing success levers and design options

In this phase, you transfer the knowledge you have gained from the training to your day-to-day work as a manager. If you wish, the program tutor will support and guide you in this process. If you wish, you can use the accompanying e-learning library on the following topics

Future Leadership Skills, Persuasive Presentation and Change Management as a Manager:in and deepen your knowledge of the seminar content afterwards, regardless of time and location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis (duration of the e-learning courses up to 7 hours) and adapt the learning material to your available resources.

Module 4: Presence seminar Management Skills & Strategy (4 days)
Day 1: Basics of management

Strategic management

• Classic competitive strategies for companies and departments.
• Different strategic management processes, their phases and contents.
• Business planning: strategic planning, targets and key performance indicator systems.

Financial management and controlling

• Financial and operational accounting.
• Key figure systems for profitability and liquidity management: key figures, adjusting screws and options for exerting influence.
• Value orientation and value creation.
• Investment and financing decisions.
• Controlling as a management task.

Day 2: Business models in practice

Value proposition of business models

• Focus on customer benefits.
• Customer segmentation through customer-specific needs analyses and approaches.
• Close customer relationships as a factor for economic success.

Service provision

• Process and cost optimization.
• Forms of financing from private equity to mezzanine.

Yield mechanics

• Revenue models for generating sales.
• Contribution margins for controlling product management and product cycles.
• Cost structure in the company.

Day 3: Management skills in the new economy

Megatrends in the economy and their impact on strategy

• Digitalization, globalization, sharing economy.
• Mass customization and individualization.
• Working environments 4.0, New Work and new work tools.
• Sustainability - Business with sustainable use of resources.
• Influence of megatrends on all areas of the company.

Toxic business models and their dangers

• Disruption, disintermediation, substitution, size regression & Co.
• Which business models will survive?
• The importance for my company.

Know and evaluate modern management approaches

• Agility, autonomy, ambidexterity, unbundling, objectives and key results & Co.
• Effects and derivations for my management area.

Day 4: Innovation, disruptive markets and what you can learn from start-ups

Central role of management in innovation and change processes.

• Know and drive growth strategies.
• Product and market development.
• The Blue Ocean strategy.
• Frugal and disruptive innovations.

Know and integrate innovation processes and methods

• Design thinking as a methodical approach.
• Scrum - agile success model for product and project management.
• Kanban - focusing on the essentials.
• Lean start-up - hypotheses and prototypes as the basis for success.

Start-up culture

• Importance of roles and qualifications.
• Transfer of competencies.
• Holacracy: Transparency and participatory involvement in networks.

Module 5: Practical transfer and coaching: successfully implementing management know-how

Transfer the knowledge you have gained to your day-to-day work as a manager with the support of the program tutor. If you wish, you can also take advantage of up to 2 hours of accompanying virtual coaching. Here you can reflect on individual projects and integrate the new impulses into your practice. If required, use the accompanying e-learning library on the topics of business administration and controlling (duration of the e-learning courses up to 6 hours) and deepen your knowledge of the seminar content afterwards, regardless of time and location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis and adapt the learning material to your available resources.

Module 6: Webinar for successful practice transfer

In an in-depth 90-minute practical webinar, you will once again have the opportunity to meet your seminar group in a virtual room without having to travel and, with the support of a speaker, to reflect on the knowledge you have gained from the training and to complete the know-how for your everyday work as a manager.

E-learning library

If you wish, you can use the accompanying e-learning library for the practical transfer phases (Module 3 and Module 5) and deepen your knowledge of the seminar content afterwards (you have free access for up to one year after the program), regardless of time and location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis and adapt the learning material to your available resources. Please note: Completion of the e-learning courses is optional and not mandatory for successful completion of the program. 

E-learning content:

• Future Leadership Skills.
• Convincing presentations.
• Change management.
• Business administration for managers.
• Controlling for managers.