Courage in management - The leadership training for change-makers, movers & shakers
Rethinking leadership - exclusively with Peter Baumgartner
Contents
Management and courage
- Courage as a core competence of managers in the VUCA world.
- Being a driver of change: change is with the brave.
- Rethinking effectiveness in management. Having authority without being authoritarian.
- No new start without courage: boldly launching innovation processes and transformation.
- Overcoming fears - taking risks - showing backbone.
- Success = courage + perseverance + resilience.
- Leadership concepts rethought.
Balancing courage
- An outline of courage psychology.
- How courage changes everything.
- Developing and maintaining courage in times of crisis.
Courage as a success factor for companies and their managers
- Overcome complacency and comfort - make decisions.
- Those who lead with courage win: What courage can achieve.
- Courageous employees: Top decisions and high performance.
Creating framework conditions for courage in the company and areas of responsibility
- Creating a corporate culture of courage.
- Moving ingeniously at the limit: Leaving the comfort zone in a controlled manner.
- Creating the right environment for innovation.
- Create and allow shared competence.
- Use self-reflection and open feedback professionally.
- Embracing new AI trends and technologies with confidence in the digital era.
Courage and communication
- The future is made of courage.
- Speed through trust.
- Communication as an economic factor.
- Motivation for courageous employees.
- Consciously confront dissonance.
- Strategies for emotional emergencies.
Courageous role models and courageous success stories
- The Shackleton myth.
- Steve Jobs and his courage for unconditional innovation.
- Courage for new business and for new and unusual success stories.
- Reflect on your own courage spectrum and write your own courage story.
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
In this training
- You use courage as a factor for success in your situation as an entrepreneur, manager, and leader.
- You reflect on your attitude and position current change and strengthen your decision-making ability for a successful future.
- you will learn why you need courage to lead yourself and others to lasting success.
- you will explore ways to courageously drive decisions forward and strengthen your mindset to continue along these paths.
- you will learn how to motivate your team to achieve outstanding performance as a manager.
- You will expand your leadership development based on real leadership scenarios and rethink your attitude.
- you will find that crisis management is always successful when leadership is successful.
- you will receive helpful tools, methods, and strategies that you will want to integrate into your everyday leadership activities right away.
Methods
Lecture, trainer input, discussion, reflection, case studies, role plays, events, coaching, feedback.
The training includes outdoor elements with role-playing games and group dynamic exercises, where you can safely experience real courage, but also enjoy pushing the boundaries of your comfort zone. Effective summaries, transfer aids, checklists, and one-pagers provide practical help in transferring your new experiences and thoughts into your everyday work and keeping them alive in daily practice. The topics and content of training always training towards the participants' lives and needs.
The price includes a group dinner followed by an evening around the fireplace with intensive input and personal exchange on the topic of courage and management. Two valuable books on the subject of courage and management and a personal gift of courage will complement your transfer into everyday business life.
Recommended for
Executives and managers at all levels who want to establish bold action and decision-making as a success factor in their leadership.
Further recommendations for "Courage in management - The leadership training for change makers, movers & shakers"
Start dates and details
Thursday, 16.04.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 17.04.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Thursday, 17.09.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 18.09.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Thursday, 03.12.2026
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 04.12.2026
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Thursday, 11.03.2027
09:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday, 12.03.2027
08:00 am - 3:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
The price includes a group dinner on the first evening.
Rethink: Courage as a success factor for managers
The seminars in the Rethink series are aimed at all managers and executives who want to rethink their leadership personality and cultivate qualities such as courage and assertiveness. In his training "Courage in management: The leadership seminar for change-makers, movers and shakers", Peter Baumgartner helps participants to leave their comfort zone in a controlled manner and establish more courageous thinking and action.
Master challenges with more courage and determination
Transformation processes, innovations and new business areas in particular often require managers to make courageous decisions. Peter Baumgartner shows participants how to make confident decisions even in uncertain situations. After all, anyone with responsibility in a company is probably familiar with this: Far-reaching decisions often trigger fears and resistance. This training supports you in overcoming your inner conflicts and moving forward with courage.
This training on courage in management is part of the Haufe Akademie 's Rethink series and gives managers the incentive to anchor qualities such as courage and decisiveness in the corporate culture.
Rethink for managers - the exclusive training the Haufe Akademie supports you in initiating change and facing new challenges!

