Effective Leadership from the Start – Confident in Your New Leadership Role
Master Your Transition into Leadership, Including AI Insights
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'll learn about different leadership styles and have the opportunity to try them out. You'll also learn how to use AI to apply different leadership styles appropriately depending on the situation.
- 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'll learn how to precisely formulate and carry out various delegation tasks with the help of AI.
- 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’ll explore practical examples of AI in day-to-day management and gain your first hands-on experience using modern AI tools.
- You will find your own harmonious employee- and situation-oriented leadership style.
- You will benefit from real-world relevance, useful examples, and collegial exchange.
Methods
Our dynamic, interactive, and practical training is characterized by concise presentations, lively discussions, varied exercises, and real-world application examples (such as the use of AI in day-to-day management).
We’ll work on real-world examples, review your cases, and provide personalized feedback. During peer consultations, you’ll exchange ideas with others and have the opportunity to network with your group.
This applies to both our in-person events and our online events.
Tool
Recommended for
We welcome aspiring leaders and executives from all industries who are about to take on leadership roles or have recently done so. Project managers are also welcome here.
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, 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.

