Junior Management Program (JuMP)

Module 1: INSIGHTS MDI® Talent Insights personality assessment
The certified and globally recognized INSIGHTS MDI® Talent Insights personality assessment provides you with valid feedback on your talents and development potential as a manager. You use the results from your personality test to assess how you see yourself and how others see you. You will also be able to look at your own employees, assess them better and align your leadership actions accordingly.

Module 2: Presence seminar Leadership & Personal Business (4 days)

Day 1/2: Leadership

Getting to know each other and getting started

• Contents, objectives and process of junior management.
• Getting to know the participants.

Levels of leadership success: The B6! Leadership Circle for your focused alignment

Where do you stand today as a manager in management?

• Honest assessment of the current understanding of leadership.
• Positioning: Balance between targets and freedom of action.
• Mastering the "positionposition" with confidence.
• Essential elements of leadership and what leaders should know about them.
• Leadership and AI: future skills to stay in the "pilot's seat"

Leadership personality through self-leadership - leadership starts with yourself

• The elements of self-management.
• Self-management in changing work contexts of the New Normal.

Employee management

• Strengths-oriented leadership in practice.
• Important elements of employee management.
• Building successful teams - even in a virtual context.
• Insights into AI-supported reflection, evaluation of feedback discussions.

Results-oriented leadership in all directions

• Future task: How do you organize your area of responsibility?
• Make and implement decisions.
• Present your concepts and ideas - to TOP management and employees.

Successful management tools

• Selected management tools based on practical examples.
• Practical input: Overview of AI tools for management practice; e.g. meeting preparation, communication, decision-making aids.
• Individual feedback and tips.

Day 3: HR Management 4.0 and change management in the digital transformation

The world of work in the digital transformation

• New Work - Gig Work - Industry 4.0: Skills maps and challenges of the world of work 4.0.
• Framework conditions and design options for HR Management 4.0.
• AI skills for management: data understanding, prompting, competence, legal and ethical aspects.

Business transformation and change management

• Basic models and thought patterns.
• Conceptual and personnel requirements.
• New roles and tasks in HR Management.

Day 4: Digital leadership and personnel development
Transformational personnel managementmanagement and digital leadership

• Transformational behavior patterns.
• Leadership & Performance.
• Leadership in times of New Normal, New Work, Gig Work & Co.
• AI in HR Management: use of AI models in recruiting, onboarding and employee development. Responsible and innovative use of AI as a manager.

Fields of action for a digital learning and development culture

• Core processes and core competencies.
• Evidence-based recommendations for action.

Module 3: Practical transfer: utilizing success levers and design options

In this phase, you transfer the knowledge you have gained from the training to your day-to-day work as a manager. If you wish, the program tutor will support and guide you. If you wish, you can use the accompanying e-learning library on the topics of future leadership skills, AI in everyday management, persuasive presentations and change management as a manager and then deepen your knowledge of the seminar content at any time and from any location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis (duration of the e-learning courses up to 7 hours) and adapt the learning material to your available resources.

Module 4: Presence seminar Management Skills & Strategy (4 days)
Day 1: Basics of management

Strategic management

• Classic competitive strategies for companies and departments.
• Different strategic management processes, their phases and contents.
• Business planning: strategic planning, targets and key performance indicator systems.
• AI-supported strategy development: How to use AI tools for scenarios and analyses?
• Critical reflection of AI-generated results.

Financial management and controlling

• Financial and operational accounting.
• Key figure systems for profitability and liquidity management: key figures, adjusting screws and options for exerting influence.
• Value orientation and value creation.
• Investment and financing decisions.
• Controlling as a management task.

Day 2: Business models in practice

Value proposition of business models

• Focus on customer benefits.
• Customer segmentation through customer-specific needs analyses and approaches.
• AI integration in new business models.
• Close customer relationships as a factor for economic success.

Service provision

• Process and cost optimization.
• Forms of financing from private equity to mezzanine.

Yield mechanics

• Revenue models for generating sales.
• Contribution margins for controlling product management and product cycles.
• Cost structure in the company.

Day 3: Management skills in the new economy

Megatrends in the economy and their impact on strategy

• Digitalization, globalization, sharing economy.
• Mass customization and individualization.
• Working environments 4.0, New Work and new work tools.
• Sustainability - Business with sustainable use of resources.
• Influence of megatrends on all areas of the company.

Spotlight AI 

• Influence of generative AI on business models.
• Optimize work processes and organization with AI support.
• Leadership requirements in the context of AI.
• Shaping the AI mindset in your own area of responsibility.

Toxic business models and their dangers

• Disruption, disintermediation, substitution, size regression & Co.
• Which business models will survive?
• The importance for your company.

Know and evaluate modern management approaches

• Agility, autonomy, ambidexterity, unbundling, objectives and key results & Co.
• Effects and derivations for your management area.

Day 4: Innovation, disruptive markets and what you can learn from start-ups

Central role of management in innovation and change processes.

• Know and drive growth strategies.
• Product and market development.
• The Blue Ocean strategy.
• Frugal and disruptive innovations.

Know and integrate innovation processes and methods

• Design thinking as a methodical approach.
• Scrum - agile success model for product and project management.
• Kanban - focusing on the essentials.
• Lean start-up - hypotheses and prototypes as the basis for success.
• AI as a driver of innovation.

Start-up culture

• Importance of roles and qualifications.
• Transfer of competencies.
• Holacracy: Transparency and participatory involvement in networks.

Module 5: Practical transfer and coaching: successfully implementing management know-how

Transfer the knowledge you have gained to your day-to-day work as a manager with the support of the program tutor. If you wish, you can also take advantage of up to 2 hours of accompanying virtual coaching. Here you can reflect on individual projects and integrate the new impulses into your practice. If required, use the accompanying e-learning library on the topics of business administration and controlling (duration of the e-learning courses up to 6 hours) and deepen your knowledge of the seminar content afterwards, regardless of time and location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis and adapt the learning material to your available resources.

Module 6: Webinar for successful practice transfer

In an in-depth 90-minute practical webinar, you will have the opportunity to meet your seminar group again in a virtual space, without having to travel, and to reflect on the insights you have gained from the training with the support of a speaker and to complete the know-how for your everyday work as a manager.

E-learning library

If you wish, you can use the accompanying e-learning library for the practical transfer phases (Module 3 and Module 5) and deepen your knowledge of the seminar content afterwards (you have free access for up to one year after the program), regardless of time and location. You control the intensity and depth of learning yourself on a voluntary basis and adapt the learning material to your available resources.

Please note: Completion of the e-learning is optional and not mandatory for successful completion of the program. 

E-learning content:

• Future Leadership Skills.
• Convincing presentations.
• Change management.
• Business administration for managers.
• Controlling for managers.