Leadership skills for managers with practical experience

New tools - methods - practical coaching

This training is held in German.
As a manager, you have already gained several years of practical experience in managing employees and in complex and ambivalent situations of responsibility. This practical training course will expand your knowledge of current methods and the fundamentals of leadership. You will reflect on your leadership practice and personal patterns that shape and influence your leadership style. In a time characterized by uncertainty and ambivalence, you will gain security and focus. You will receive impulses and offers to readjust or optimize your leadership role. This interactive and process-oriented training is geared towards your concerns and case studies. With the necessary theoretical content, helpful psychological models and action-oriented exercises, you will develop your leadership skills and expand your understanding of leadership and the leadership tasks in your area of responsibility.

Contents

Timetable for your tour

  • Leadership as a profession - impulses for your professionalism.
  • Reflect on management practice.
  • Success factor leadership personality.
  • Efficient through appropriate management structures.
  • The balance between management and specialist tasks.
  • Dealing successfully with change.

Your role as a manager

  • Your management style - effects on motivation and performance.
  • The tension between employee expectations and company interests.
  • Professional self-management - being a role model and looking after yourself.
  • Recognize personal and organizational stressors and identify triggers.

Communication and conversation

  • Communicate effectively: Reviewing and practicing essential communication practices.
  • Giving and receiving feedback.

Tools and techniques for successful leadership

  • Delegation and integration of your Employees.
  • Prevent demotivation.
  • Integrating home office and new working environments in a meaningful way.
  • Strength- and solution-oriented leadership.
  • Using emotional competence in day-to-day management.
  • Leading successfully with goals.
  • Making and communicating decisions.
  • Efficient team networking - even in virtual and hybrid team situations.

Your day-to-day management in practice - developing solutions and dealing with contradictions

  • Current challenges in your management situation.
  • New Work, New Normal, VUKA & Co.
  • Finding solutions through collegial consultation.
  • Agree on practical implementation steps.
  • Dealing with difficult situations and conflicts.
  • Best practices.
  • Strategies for challenging leadership situations and practical case work.
  • Create awareness of paradoxes.

2 x 30 min. telephone coaching for successful practice transfer

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 reflect on and expand your leadership practice and thus increase your effectiveness.
  • You will take a constructive look at your leadership personality and recognize functional and dysfunctional patterns for your success as a manager.
  • You will learn about relevant instruments and tools that will make your daily management work easier and give you more freedom.
  • With individual exercises and practical examples, you will gain even more confidence and competence for your challenging management tasks and for employee management.
  • They develop attitudes and strategies to feel safe in the face of uncertainty.
  • In two in-depth telephone coaching sessions, you will consolidate the knowledge you have acquired and transfer what you have learned to your everyday work.

Methods

Individual and group work, exchange of participants, self-reflection, peer counseling, role plays, trainer input, exercises, feedback

Recommended for

Managers with several years of practical experience in employee management and in complex and ambivalent situations of responsibility. Managers with several years of management experience without previous management training. Experienced managers who need a refresher course.  

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training content:
4.4
Content comprehensibility:
4.7
Practical relevance:
4.5
Trainer expertise:
4.9
Participant orientation:
4.8
Method variety:
4.5
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5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT
3 days
in 10 locations
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32937
€ 1.940,- plus VAT
3 days
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07.07.2025
Berlin
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
andel's by Vienna House
andel's by Vienna House
Landsberger Allee 106, 10369 Berlin
Room rate: € 159,61 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
Days & Times
3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 07.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 08.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 09.07.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

18.08.2025
Live-Online
Booking number: 32937
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
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Days & Times
3 days
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Monday, 18.08.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 19.08.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 20.08.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

17.09.2025
Stuttgart
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport
Mövenpick Hotel Stuttgart Airport
Flughafenstrasse 50, 70629 Stuttgart
Room rate: € 136,25 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
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Wednesday, 17.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 18.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 19.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

27.10.2025
Hamburg
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Arcotel Rubin
Arcotel Rubin
Steindamm 63, 20099 Hamburg
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 27.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 28.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 29.10.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

03.12.2025
Munich/Feldkirchen
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Hotel Bauer Feldkirchen
Münchner Str. 6, 85622 Munich/Feldkirchen
Room rate: € 120,27 plus VAT.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Wednesday, 03.12.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 04.12.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 05.12.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

21.01.2026
Live-Online
Booking number: 32937
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
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Days & Times
3 days
Limited number of participants

Wednesday, 21.01.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 22.01.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 23.01.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

02.02.2026
Cologne
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 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.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 02.02.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 03.02.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 04.02.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

09.03.2026
Berlin
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
relexa Hotel Stuttgarter Hof
relexa Hotel Stuttgarter Hof
Anhalter Straße 8-9, 10963 Berlin
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3 days
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Monday, 09.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 10.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 11.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

18.05.2026
Frankfurt a. M.
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
relexa hotel Frankfurt/Main
relexa hotel Frankfurt/Main
Mertonviertel / Lurgiallee 2, 60439 Frankfurt a. M.
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 18.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 19.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 20.05.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

17.06.2026
Munich
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
The Rilano Hotel München
The Rilano Hotel Munich
Domagkstraße 26, 80807 Munich
Room rate: € 136,17 plus VAT.
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Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
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Wednesday, 17.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 18.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, 19.06.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

13.07.2026
Cologne
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Mercure Hotel Köln West
Mercure Hotel Cologne West
Horbeller Str. 1, 50858 Cologne
Room rate: € 108,11 plus VAT.
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3 days
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Monday, 13.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 14.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 15.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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.

03.08.2026
Live-Online
Booking number: 32937
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 03.08.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 04.08.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 05.08.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

14.09.2026
Hamburg
Booking number: 5831
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
Venue
Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Leonardo Hotel Hamburg City Nord
Mexikoring 1, 22297 Hamburg
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Train tickets to this event starting at € 51,90.
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3 days
Limited number of participants

Monday, 14.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Tuesday, 15.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 16.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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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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.

Booking number: 32937
€ 1.940,- plus VAT.
€ 2,308.60 incl. VAT.
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