Leadership skills for the first management position
Developing leadership strength - acting with confidence
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Contents
My role as a new manager
- Who are my leadership role models?
- You reflect on your understanding of leadership and your leadership behavior.
- You develop your own leadership style.
- Role reversal: How can I handle this with confidence?
Management tasks and tools
- Systemic clarification of tasks—quick and reliable.
- Decision-making: We look at how you can make decisions holistically.
- Assign tasks and responsibilities to your employees clearly and simply—delegation.
- How do I agree on and monitor goals?
Systemic leadership
- What does "systemic leadership" mean?
- What does my system look like and what are the different expectations?
- You analyze the essential requirements of your environment.
- You will learn about the cornerstones of effective and efficient leadership.
Convincing (leadership) communication
- What is successful communication based on?
- You are able to recognize and take different needs into account.
- How can I ask specific questions and get clear answers?
- How do I communicate in a way that is appropriate to the situation and target group and shows appreciation?
Your cases from everyday work are welcome - feel free to bring your practical cases to the training .
Learning environment
Your benefit
This interactive, practical training course teaches you the key leadership skills you need to start your career in management:
- You develop a systemic understanding of leadership in the interaction between team, organization, and environment.
- You analyze typical challenges from your everyday management routine.
- You apply key management tools confidently and in a practical manner.
- You recognize expectations, dynamics, and interactions within the system.
- You strengthen your role and attitude in a targeted manner and make clear decisions in challenging situations.
Methods
Our lively, interactive training thrives on engaging with the participants' practical cases. In addition, short multimedia theory inputs are offered. In the respective exercise phases, you can expect role-plays, exercises, and exchanges between participants, as well as constant self-reflection. Through collegial consultation, your skills will be further reflected upon and deepened.
This applies to both our in-person events and our online events.
Tool
Recommended for
Specialists, managers, and junior managers from all industries who want to prepare for their roles, as well as newly appointed managers in positions of responsibility who want to develop their leadership skills.
Project managers are also welcome.
The training suitable for all industries.
Leadership skills training: a successful start to leadership
Anyone who has been promoted to management is faced with a major challenge: their area of responsibility no longer just includes the day-to-day business that their colleagues within the company are entrusted with. Junior managers bear a lot of responsibility for their team, sometimes have to make far-reaching decisions and act as an intermediary between employees and management. In order to find their way in their new role, specialists with management responsibility should be aware of the following questions: What leadership styles are there? What are the typical management tasks? What does convincing communication look like? You can find detailed answers to these questions in our leadership skills training.
Successfully mastering the role change, demonstrating leadership skills
Our trainers explain in a practical way which leadership tools you can use and support you in developing your personal leadership style. The trainers pay particular attention to critical leadership situations that arise sooner or later in business: In this training course, you will be given the tools you need to conduct difficult conversations confidently and constructively. After a short theoretical section, you will work on practical exercises and role-plays to develop solutions that will equip you for leadership in management. After all, if you have the necessary leadership skills such as integrity, authenticity and a sense of justice and can apply important leadership techniques such as personnel development and discussion management, you will be respected and valued as a manager.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 22.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 23.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 29.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 30.06.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 02.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 03.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 09.07.2026
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Friday, 10.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 20.07.2026
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Tuesday, 21.07.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 07.09.2026
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Tuesday, 08.09.2026
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 17.09.2026
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 28.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 29.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 05.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 06.10.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 19.10.2026
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 26.10.2026
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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- extensive working documents.
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 03.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 14.12.2026
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 18.01.2027
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Monday, 15.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 25.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, 26.02.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 08.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 15.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, 16.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 18.03.2027
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Friday, 19.03.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 29.07.2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday, August 13, 2027
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, August 30, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, August 31, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, September 27, 2027
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09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
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