Leadership skills

Good employees are hard to find—and even harder to retain. A structured onboarding process communicates to new employees from the very beginning that they are welcomed and valued. It helps them quickly familiarize themselves with their tasks, processes, and the company. This has a long-term impact on their motivation and commitment to their organization. This training guides you in shaping the three phases of onboarding, from the moment the contract is signed to the end of the probationary period. It focuses on clearly outlining expectations, responsibilities, and processes. Key areas include advancing professional expertise, fostering team connections, and communicating the company culture at multiple levels.

Not all leadership is the same. There are numerous models that explain which leadership would be ideal for which personality type and for which result. This e⁠-⁠training course looks at these different development models, but then focuses on a type of leadership that is geared towards the level of development of the respective employee. This is because employees need a different type of leadership depending on their skills and individual motivation. It shows ways in which the individual motivation level can be determined. It also looks at the assessment of employees‘ skills. Finally, suitable forms of leadership are presented for the different forms of motivation and competence.

Ensuring employees' mental well-being is crucial for companies and management—not just due to the substantial economic impact of mental health problems annually. Therefore, prevention and support must be deeply integrated into everyday management practices. This e⁠-⁠training course explains how different leadership styles can make a leader either a resource or a stressor for their team. It details the benefits of transformational leadership and guidance on how to arrange daily work to prioritize employees' mental health. The importance of recognition and providing appropriate autonomy in tasks is also highlighted. Moreover, it promotes the creation of a supportive company culture and outlines how managers can safeguard their own mental health, considering the specific challenges they encounter.

Success today doesn't guarantee relevance tomorrow. This holds true for both individuals and entire companies. With the world evolving rapidly, so do the requirements for professional skills. To stay competitive, companies must cultivate a forward-thinking learning culture. his e⁠-⁠training course offers insights into the supportive conditions needed across three key areas: organizational structure, corporate culture, and leadership dynamics. Managers, serving as role models, play a crucial role in granting employees the autonomy to chart their own paths of learning.

Everyone makes mistakes. It's inevitable and often necessary for learning and growth. Utilize the potential of mistakes in your team! However, ensure that the negative effects of mistakes are addressed quickly and effectively, and subsequent errors are prevented. This can be achieved by establishing a positive error culture within your team. In this e⁠-⁠training course, you will learn how negative and positive error cultures differ and the values and norms underlying a positive error culture. Additionally, you will be equipped with various methods to empower your team members to handle mistakes confidently.

The focus of this training is about building positive connections among employees from different generations and between managers and team members of various ages—both on a personal and professional level. The e⁠-⁠training course aims to spark ideas for smooth intergenerational collaboration and provides tips on the challenges and potential conflicts that managers might encounter. It also sheds light on the opportunities that come with working across multiple generations.

Employees want praise and recognition - for what they accomplish every day, but also for good decisions, success and stressful work phases. Recognition is an important tool in social interaction: it not only motivates, it also shows us that we are doing something right and performing our tasks well. When confirmation is lacking, it usually affects not only the employee's satisfaction, but also their job performance. How do you manage to adequately recognize the work of your employees? How can you show appreciation to your employees? And how can you also show this to yourself? These are the questions addressed in this e⁠-⁠training course.

This course focuses on preventing and proactively addressing the factors that lead to employee turnover. The e⁠-⁠training course provides insights into positive employee retention, explores common reasons for job changes, and offers potential countermeasures that leaders can implement. It begins by examining the different types of turnover, then delves into what constitutes an attractive company culture and what employees expect. Additionally, the course covers the entire employee lifecycle, from successful recruiting and onboarding to exit interviews. This e⁠-⁠training course helps participants understand turnover, recognize its positive aspects, and provides practical tips for managers and HR departments on how to effectively reduce turnover in their company.

Human beings have a strong need for connection and belonging. We want to be "allowed to play," to be part of a group, to be valued, to help shape things and at the same time to feel a sense of responsibility to the task and to the group—both personally and professionally. If your employees do not feel that they are allowed to "play along", this has a direct negative impact on the performance and competitiveness of your company, i.e., on the success of the company. That's why this e⁠-⁠training focuses on how you can make your employees feel like they're in the game and keep them engaged. As a leader, you play an absolutely key role in this and can actively work on various commitment factors that research and this e⁠-⁠training will provide you with. So, off you go!

Female leadership is a complex topic with many facets. In this course, we focus on what women can do themselves to be successful or become more successful leaders. It's not so much a question of how women lead or whether they are better leaders. Instead, we present the biggest difficulties women who (want to) take on leadership roles face. And most importantly, we focus on approaches they can take to deal with these difficulties. After an introduction to the topic, five of the most common obstacles are identified and learners are given practical and action-oriented suggestions for dealing with them constructively.

Let's face it, managers often know in advance which conversations with employees will be challenging. This could be due to an employee's recent inappropriate behavior or perhaps a sudden, unannounced absence. Managers often hesitate to directly address criticism during these talks to avoid upsetting the employee. However, in challenging conversations, transparent communication and an open attitude are essential. Some managers also struggle to remain respectful and keep a cool head in difficult situations, which hinders constructive dialogue and successful conflict resolution.

Performance reviews and appraisal processes are key tools in leadership and human resource development. But many managers don’t always view them as positive experiences. They often feel awkward and tense, with employees seeming unmotivated or anxious. But it doesn’t have to be that way! When conducted with appreciation and clear objectives, reviews can be a game-changer. They can facilitate effective communication and play a crucial role in strengthening the relationship between employees and managers. In this e⁠-⁠training course, participants will learn how to unlock the full potential of performance evaluations and appraisal processes. We’ll go over everything you need—from preparation to conducting, and following up on reviews, whether in person or virtually.

Everyone is unique. Nevertheless, we always see similar personality traits in different people. Type models help us to understand people better as they simplify a complex world. In your role as a manager, you deal with a wide variety of employee types and should know how best to deal with whom. So that all employees in your team can fully use their potential, it is important to address them individually according to their personality or personality type, to understand them, challenge them and develop them. Type-appropriate leadership enables you to do exactly that. You can assess what type of person your counterpart is and then accurately select the strategy from the repertoire of actions to help to understand them in the best possible way. This way, you not only succeed in responding to individual employees in a way that is appropriate to their personality type but also in forming teams in such a way that similarity has a mediating effect and difference has a stimulating effect.

More job satisfaction, greater creativity and better employee performance—these are just a few of the benefits of transformational leadership. In times of structural change in the world of work, this modern management style paves the way for satisfying what employees want and need. With the help of transformational leadership, employees can become more motivated. Furthermore, they can enjoy the advantages of possessing a clear vision, serving as role models, receiving and giving individualized attention, and questioning conventional practices. This e⁠-⁠training course will present the core elements of transformational leadership in detail, reinforced by illustrative examples. Participants will also learn how they can apply a transformational leadership style for providing optimum support to their employees.

This e⁠-⁠training course is about successfully leading hybrid teams and shaping the new working reality between working remotely and in-person at the office with a view to the future. Participants learn how they can establish binding rules as a basis for hybrid collaboration and where the limits of hybrid work lie. In addition, despite the physical distance, hybrid team meetings and team spirit are two essential components of this e⁠-⁠training course. Other focal points are the concept of fairness and the individual needs of employees working from home and in person at the office.

The majority of companies are now making a deliberate decision to favor diversity. International cooperation, demographic changes, women in management positions and individuality in the workplace — the general conditions for professional and private life have changed and there is a demand for tolerance and respect in our diverse society. But what does "diversity" actually mean? What are the advantages of diversity for a company? And how can managers promote this diversity step by step and establish it as an integral corporate value? That is what this e⁠-⁠learning course is all about.

Leading virtual teams is a skill that can be learned. The participants will learn how to motivate virtual teams remotely and in a media-appropriate way. They will learn to build trust between the individual team members working in different locations around the world. Another focus area of the e⁠-⁠learning course is for the participants to learn how to promote social networking in a team. In the last chapter, they will learn how to give effective feedback even remotely.

Communication is the fuel that powers all teamwork. This also applies to virtual teams. In this e⁠-⁠learning course, participants will learn how to establish efficient communication in virtual teams. They will learn which digital media is suitable for which occasions and what they should think about when choosing a respective medium. Further, users will learn to regulate collaboration on their virtual teams, how avoid media-induced misunderstandings, and finally, how virtual meetings should be conducted.

It is the dream of every manager to develop an idea, get the employees together, distribute the tasks - and then the process runs straight to the goal. Nothing could be further from reality - resistance will arise. Klaus Doppler, the "pope" of change management, presents the four pillars of change in our e⁠-⁠learning course "Change Management". He thus imparts fundamental knowledge about change processes.

In this e⁠-⁠learning, participants get to know the model of the Johari Window. It shows the difference between the perception of others and the perception of oneself. The Johari Window clarifies the "blind spot" and shows why the "secret" will remain a secret. This course teaches that "giving feedback" does not mean "praise" or "criticize". Rather, it is about being open to self-perception through feedback from outside.

Professional moderation, videos, and explanatory films teach how managers can successfully shape change processes. This e⁠-⁠learning introduces the best-known change models and the individual phases of a change process. It also provides concrete measures and tools for the individual phases and sheds light on how to address resistance. Exercise questions, transfer tasks, key messages and a final test tie all of the content together.

More and more projects are being executed outside of traditional corporate hierarchies, by interdepartmental or even intercompany teams assembled based on competencies. In teams like these, there is often no disciplinary leader. Instead, the team has a lateral leader. That leader is then responsible for the project results but without being a superior in charge of the team. In this course, we will explain what exactly the special characteristics of lateral leadership are. We will use a practical example to show you how lateral leadership operates and what leadership tools are of special importance.

Learn the basics for your job as a team leader by setting realistic goals and motivating the team for the long run. This course teaches you how to ensure a clear distribution of tasks within your team and how to not only agree on, but implement goal-oriented rules. Furthermore, this e⁠-⁠learning includes measures to promote constructive communication and shows the participants how they can use simple means to sustainably promote trust and cohesion on their team.

Delegating is more than just "do it"! Participants will learn which tasks can be delegated in principle and which ones must not be passed on under any circumstances. They learn to develop requirement profiles in order to be able to assign respective activities to appropriate employees. Additionally, learn the four stages of the delegation discussion, avoid back delegations, and learn to check agreements and deadlines.

New employees will take on important responsibilities, and influence the working atmosphere and team dynamics. Therefore, the selection and hiring process should be given sufficient consideration. In this e⁠-⁠training, learn how to conduct professional, goal-oriented interviews with applicants. You will learn how to create a job description step-by-step, develop a requirements profile from the job description, prepare interview guidelines, and then conduct the interview. Highlights include the art of asking the right questions, how to follow up on the interview, and how to make a final selection. You will also learn ways in which companies can "appeal" to candidates as attractive employers.

When employees hide behind their desks, it may not be because of ill will or convenience. They often lack knowledge, ability and confidence in themselves. So how can managers motivate their employees to come out of their shell and conquer new tasks? In this e⁠-⁠learning, the participants will learn helpful methods of employee motivation. This courses focuses on "self-efficacy".

For managers, the rule is: intervene as little as possible, but as much as necessary in a conflict involving their own employees. As a starting point, it is important to also recognize hidden conflicts and assess their severity. The theoretical basis for this is provided by Friedrich Glasl's model of the nine stages of conflict escalation. It clearly shows how conflicts can escalate if timely intervention is neglected. For each escalation stage, managers will learn various methods of conflict resolution - from the promotion of independent conflict resolution to mediation and arbitration as well as to the intervention of power.

Employee appraisals are a central control instrument in day-to-day management. They are the basis for a mutual exchange of information and intensive relations with employees. Michael Lorenz presents the different occasions and forms of employee appraisals. He imparts important background knowledge to the participants and also provides them with numerous practical implementation tools.

Teams are becoming more diverse, as members can often hail from different countries and cultures. Consequently, intercultural communication is becoming more and more important, especially at work. In this e⁠-⁠learning course, users will learn what "culture" means and discuss important concepts from the works of Geert Hofstede and E. T. Hall. Participants will also learn how to become more aware of cultural differences and receive valuable leadership tools with which to manage intercultural teams. The aim of the course is to enhance the intercultural skills of the participants.

Decisive strength is an essential skill in an ever faster changing environment. Participants can develop and expand this competence in this multimedia e⁠-⁠learning. Learn to quickly categorize a task, discern what needs to be done immediately and what can be postponed, and other methods that can help with good decision-making.