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Ready for Takeoff: Leadership in the Cockpit

Effective Leadership Under Pressure: Clear Decisions, Effective Communication, Confident Team Leadership

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This training is held in German.
True leadership shines through when the going gets tough—and that’s exactly where this training begins. You’ll take a seat in the flight simulator of an Airbus A320 or a Boeing 737 and experience firsthand what real leadership under pressure means: no theory, no role-playing—just real-time decisions, clear communication, and confident action in situations that really matter. The principles of the cockpit are precise, proven, and applicable to your day-to-day leadership: maintaining your bearings when information is lacking, building trust when time is of the essence, and making the right decisions when they have significant consequences. Through FORDEC, checklists, closed-loop communication, and a personalized approach to human factors, you’ll develop tools that work in the world’s most demanding environment—and, in the future, in your own demanding day-to-day leadership role.

Contents

Leading confidently under pressure

  • Take responsibility in critical situations.
  • Consciously manage and regulate stress.
  • Make clear decisions even under time pressure.

Communicate Clearly and Foster Collaboration

  • Practice communicating clearly.
  • Establish a clear division of roles.
  • Promote effective teamwork.
  • Apply methods from the Cockpit.

Making Agile Decisions in Dynamic Situations

  • Assess and evaluate risks.
  • Analyze information in a targeted manner.
  • Use FORDEC to reach well-structured, sound decisions.

Understanding and Utilizing Human Factors

  • Recognize the influence of perception on leadership behavior.
  • Understanding the Effects of Stress and Emotions.
  • Identify team dynamics and deal with them professionally.

Reflection and transfer

  • Analyze and optimize your own behavior in the simulator.
  • Receive and process constructive feedback.
  • Applying the insights gained to leadership practice.

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'll strengthen your ability to take action—even as the pressure mounts.
  • you'll make decisions more clearly, in a more structured way, and faster than before.
  • You use checklists as a powerful management tool for complex situations.
  • You’ll foster a genuine culture of learning from mistakes—one that demonstrates strength, not weakness.
  • You use FORDEC specifically to make well-informed decisions in situations of uncertainty.
  • You can improve your communication in the long term with closed-loop communication.
  • You can see the impact you have as a leader in real time—unfiltered and direct.
  • You'll gain confidence in dealing with stress, conflicts, and crises.
  • you apply cockpit principles directly to your day-to-day leadership work.
  • You'll receive specific feedback to help you grow personally.

trainers

Theo Bergauer

Robert Stolz

Methods

The two-day training leadership training, flight simulation, and practical application.

The scenarios are applied to typical leadership challenges: decision-making under uncertainty, crisis communication, conflicts, delegation, trust, and collaboration in dynamic situations.

Day 1 – Focus on Leadership: An intensive training session focusing on leadership under pressure, communication, decision-making, role clarification, and human factors. You’ll challenge assumptions you’ve taken for granted up to this point.

Day 2 – A Cockpit Instead of a Conference Room: You take the controls—in a real flight simulator. Realistic scenarios are applied to your leadership challenges: direct feedback, immediate application. Decision-making under uncertainty, crisis communication, conflicts, delegation, and trust—experienced firsthand.

Optional: Transfer coaching is available to help you deepen your understanding and apply what you've learned to your own leadership practice.

Recommended for

Executives, managers, and project leaders who want to do more than just react in dynamic, complex, and critical situations—they want to actively shape them. For people who seek responsibility, make clear decisions under pressure, and want to take their leadership skills to the next level.

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42841
€ 2.490,- plus VAT
2 days
in 2 locations
3 Events
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20.10.2026
Mönchengladbach
Booking number: 42841
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Tuesday, 20.10.2026

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, 21.10.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
16.03.2027
Munich/Hair
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Tuesday, 16.03.2027

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, 17.03.2027

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
01.06.2027
Mönchengladbach
Booking number: 42841
€ 2.490,- plus VAT.
€ 2,963.10 incl. VAT.
Venue
Arrival via Deutsche Bahn
Travel at reduced rates by booking via the learning environment.
Days & Times
2 days
max. 12 attendees

Tuesday, June 1, 2027

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Wednesday, June 2, 2027

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
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Booking number: 42841
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Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
Booking number: 42841
€ 2.490,- plus VAT.
€ 2,963.10 incl. VAT.
Plan course
2 days
max. 12 attendees
Fee includes
The participation fee includes
  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.
Participants will be charged directly by the hotel for their hotel accommodation. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.
Transfer coaching bookable
2 hours of transfer coaching - live and online with your trainer ensures that you can put what you have learnt into practice in your day-to-day work.
If you book at the same time as your training, you save 10 % on the price of the transfer coaching of € 390,- excl.
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