Competent leadership right from the start
Your confident start in your new leadership role
Contents
Your leadership personality
- We work out how you can successfully manage the transition from specialist to manager.
- You reflect on your own leadership behavior and receive suggestions for further development.
- You will learn about different leadership styles and have the opportunity to try them out.
- Together, we will look at how you can deal professionally with uncertainty, resistance, and difficult personalities.
Key management tasks and tools
- How do I manage with target agreements and promote innovation?
- Delegating professionally: You will learn how to successfully transfer responsibility to your employees.
- You will learn how to motivate your employees, promote their potential, and develop their skills.
- In the tense atmosphere of the "position," you clarify and mediate the different interests.
Communication & Conversation Skills
- Listen actively, ask specific questions, express yourself clearly, build trust, and strengthen relationships through feedback.
- Having difficult conversations: How can I address criticism openly and respectfully?
- You will learn how to recognize critical situations in good time and resolve them constructively.
Actively shaping your first 100 days – sharpening your profile
- How to recognize beginner's mistakes and pitfalls and how to avoid them.
- Clarify expectations from above and below.
- Sharpen my profile and communicate within the team.
Your everyday cases are welcome—feel free to bring your practical cases to the training
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
- You gain confidence and direction for everyday management tasks.
- You avoid typical mistakes, recognize obstacles, and learn how to avoid them.
- You will receive a toolkit of methods, conversation techniques, and leadership tools that will help you manage your employees.
- You can resolve challenging situations with difficult employees and handle them well.
- You will find your own harmonious employee- and situation-oriented leadership style.
- We look at how you can navigate confidently between management and the team.
- You will benefit from real-world relevance, useful examples, and collegial exchange.
- You return home with strong motivation, confidence, and a supportive network.
- You exchange ideas with other managers and benefit from the experiences of your group.
Methods
Our lively, interactive, and practical training thrives on concise input, lively discussions, and varied exercises. We work on specific practical examples, deal with your cases, and provide individual feedback. In collegial consultations, you exchange ideas with others and can network with your group.
Tool
Recommended for
Specialists and junior managers who want to take on management responsibility in the near future or have recently taken on this responsibility.
Further recommendations for "Competent leadership right from the start"
The Haufe Akademie's leadership skills training program
Leadership competencies are skills that are particularly important for managers, such as communicating convincingly and effectively, resolving conflicts through constructive discussions or delegating successfully by trusting the performance of others. Many new managers lack leadership skills because they are still working too hard on their technical issues instead of fulfilling their leadership role. At the end of this leadership skills training course, you will have the necessary tools to master your new role professionally.
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Start dates and details
Thursday, 26.02.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 27.02.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 09.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 10.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 26.03.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 27.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 16.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 17.04.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 23.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 24.04.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 29.04.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 30.04.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 07.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 08.05.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 19.05.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 20.05.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 11.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 12.06.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 01.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 02.07.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 06.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 07.07.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 20.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 21.07.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 03.08.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 04.08.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 10.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 11.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 28.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 30.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Tuesday, 13.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 14.10.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 26.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 27.10.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 10.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 11.11.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 17.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 18.11.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Thursday, 19.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 20.11.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 03.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 04.12.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 14.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 15.12.2026
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 18.01.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 19.01.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 02.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 03.02.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 08.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 09.02.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
Wednesday, 17.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 18.02.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 04.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 05.03.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 18.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 19.03.2027
08:30 am - 4:30 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.

