Contents
Why are many staff appraisals so difficult?
- Assessing contacts : appropriate reactions to different behavior of the parties involved in the conversation.
- Dealing constructively with emotional contacts.
Actively managing difficult conversations as an HR manager
- Go into the conversation, stay in the lead.
- convince contacts respectfully.
- Radiating confidence: Dealing with your own emotions.
- Consider body language.
- Recognize objections, attacks, evasive maneuvers and answer them confidently.
More security in critical staff appraisals
- Systematic interview preparation and follow-up.
- Bringing structure to difficult conversations.
- Argumentation strategies for different types of HR conversations.
- Conflict as an opportunity - gaining clarity and working out options for action.
- Conversation techniques for discussions with managers and Employees.
My role as HR manager
- Clarity of your own position vis-à-vis internal clients.
- Clarification of the assignment and preparation for the meeting with the manager.
- At eye level with managers.
Solution approaches for challenging HR discussions (incl. checklists)
- The appropriate design of HR discussions, e.g. discussions about suspected addiction/behavior, criticism, warning and separation discussions, discussions within the framework of company integration management (BEM).
This training is all about your practical cases. Take the opportunity to reflect on and practise these with the trainer and colleagues !
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 become more confident in dealing with difficult personnel discussions.
- You will get to know your conversational behavior in difficult conversations better and learn how to optimize it through feedback from experts .
- You will learn how to keep a better grip on a difficult conversation and manage it in a targeted manner.
- You learn to manage the triangular situation with managers and Employees more clearly.
- You will receive checklists and actionable recommendations for your everyday discussions.
- You will practise challenging HR discussions.
- You have the opportunity to reflect on and train your own cases.
Methods
- Simulations and exercises to optimize your communication skills.
- Processing of your real cases to ensure knowledge transfer.
- Personal feedback to further develop your communication style.
- Structured experts to deepen your knowledge.
- Simulations and exercises to optimize your communication skills.
- Processing of your real cases to ensure knowledge transfer.
- Personal feedback to further develop your communication style.
- Structured experts to deepen your knowledge.
Recommended for
HR manager, personnel officers and HR managers who want to improve their interviewing skills for difficult personnel interviews. Basic knowledge of communication and interviewing should be available.
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Attendees comments
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Start dates and details
Thursday, 26.06.2025
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 27.06.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 30.06.2025
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 01.07.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 18.08.2025
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 19.08.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, 14.10.2025
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 15.10.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
Monday, 24.11.2025
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 25.11.2025
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Monday, 12.01.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 13.01.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Wednesday, 11.03.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 12.03.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Wednesday, 08.04.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 09.04.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
Monday, 01.06.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 02.06.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Tuesday, 21.07.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 22.07.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
Thursday, 10.09.2026
09:30 am - 5:30 pm
Friday, 11.09.2026
08:30 am - 4:00 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.