Social skills - your key to success

This training is held in German.
Your professional success depends on more than just your technical expertise, commitment and intelligence. It also depends on your social skills - if you want to get ahead. It is often the little things that influence the course of a conversation, a presentation or a business deal. In this training course, you will learn how to achieve maximum effect with minimum effort. This will make you a sought-a:r contact with your internal and external target groups.

Contents

Self-knowledge is half the battle

  • Self-image: How am I knitted and what is important to me?
  • External image: How do I come across to others?
  • What do I like in social contacts with others, and what do I like less?
  • What is easy for me, what costs me energy?

Adjusting to other people in a targeted manner

  • Understanding the thought and action patterns of others: recognize the preferences of your contacts.
  • Winning others over: create closeness and trust.
  • Convince and motivate others: Recognizing and using needs.
  • Empathize with others: use your emotional skills.
  • Consider interactions and potential conflicts between different people.

Testing and improving socially competent behavior

  • Wish - ask - demand: Conveying messages skillfully.
  • Saying no: clearly, authentically and avoiding offense.
  • Give constructive feedback and criticism: I-messages help.
  • Transfer to everyday life: practical tips and work on your topics.

Key social skills in business

  • Making first contacts successfully: Winning sympathy, using small talk.
  • Speeches and presentations: how to adapt to the audience.
  • Conflict prevention: how to avoid resistance from the outset.
  • Defuse conflicts through respectful communication.

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 quickly recognize how your:e contact is knitted.
  • You can find out what really moves others.
  • You will quickly warm up and be able to work with others.
  • You make sure that your:e contact listens to you with interest.
  • You will learn how to increase the chances of your counterpart agreeing to your proposals.
  • Targeted use of your social skills will help you reach your goal faster.

Methods

trainer, varied exercises, self-assessments, external perception and feedback, situational work, case studies from the participants' everyday work, targeted video feedback.

Recommended for

Specialists and managers and anyone who wants to use their social skills to better understand other people and convince them of their own concerns.

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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Attendees comments

"I particularly liked the fact that the participants were able to contribute their own case studies. There was an open, relaxed atmosphere."

Christiane Hauth
TMD Friction Services GmbH

"I particularly liked the small group and the interactive work with the trainer."

Boris Bub
Dachser SE

"I felt well looked after and advised all round. The course of the seminar and the lecturer were very pleasant."

Andreas Ollek
protec service GmbH

"I can recommend the training because the trainer responded to individual needs and was very motivating in the way she gave feedback."

Kevin Strosing
Prosoc

"I particularly liked the nice atmosphere, the good mix between theory and practice with precise use cases, the small group size of six people and the structure of the seminar, which was first general and then specific and individual."

Gabriel Blazevic
Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH

"I particularly liked the exchange with people from other companies and the training the training."

Anusche Safavi
Sprint Sanierung GmbH

Seminar evaluation for "Social skills - your key to success"

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Content comprehensibility:
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Practical relevance:
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Trainer expertise:
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Participant orientation:
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5367
€ 1.590,- plus VAT
2 days
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21.07.2025
Frankfurt a. M.
Booking number: 5367
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Leonardo Royal Hotel Conference Center
Leonardo Royal Hotel Conference Center
Mailänder Straße 1, 60598 Frankfurt a. M.
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Monday, 21.07.2025

09:30 am - 5:30 pm

Tuesday, 22.07.2025

08:30 am - 4:30 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

08.09.2025
Berlin
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Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof
Mercure Hotel Berlin Tempelhof
Hermannstraße 214-21, 12049 Berlin
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Monday, 08.09.2025

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  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

16.10.2025
Stuttgart
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Parkhotel Messe-Airport
Parkhotel Messe-Airport
Filderbahnstrasse 2, 70771 Stuttgart
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Thursday, 16.10.2025

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17.11.2025
Hamburg
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Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Mexikoring 1, 22297 Hamburg
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Monday, 17.11.2025

09:30 am - 5:30 pm

Tuesday, 18.11.2025

08:30 am - 4:30 pm

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11.12.2025
Düsseldorf
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Novotel City West
Novotel City West
Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf
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The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

12.02.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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DOLCE Hotels & Resorts Bad Nauheim
DOLCE Hotels & Resorts Bad Nauheim
Elvis-Presley-Platz 1, 61231 Frankfurt a. M./Bad Nauheim
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Thursday, 12.02.2026

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Friday, 13.02.2026

08:30 am - 4:30 pm

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27.04.2026
Munich
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Hotel Prinzregent München
Hotel Prinzregent Munich
Riemer Str. 350, 81829 Munich
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Monday, 27.04.2026

09:30 am - 5:30 pm

Tuesday, 28.04.2026

08:30 am - 4:30 pm

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The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

08.06.2026
Berlin
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Hotel am Borsigturm
Hotel am Borsigturm
Am Borsigturm 1, 13507 Berlin
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06.07.2026
Cologne
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Best Western Plus Hotel Köln City
Best Western Plus Hotel Cologne City
Innere Kanalstraße 15, 50823 Cologne
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The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

03.09.2026
Frankfurt a. M.
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relexa hotel Frankfurt/Main
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Mertonviertel / Lurgiallee 2, 60439 Frankfurt a. M.
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Booking number: 5367
€ 1.590,- plus VAT.
€ 1,892.10 incl. VAT.
Details
2 days
Limited number of participants
Fee includes

The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

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