Management seminars
For motivating leadership

The Work-Life Academy offers a comprehensive range of seminars, workshops and lectures on leadership development. In exclusive in-house events, your managers can get fit for New Work, remote leadership or hybrid teams, or strengthen the leadership motivation of your junior staff.

Find online lectures on all topics related to leadership in our calendar of events. All lectures are recorded, so you can access them conveniently and flexibly.

Promote the further development of your managers in interactive formats - for example on the topics of employee motivation or leadership culture. Our trainers focus on needs-based and experience-oriented learning.
 

There is little free capacity in managers' diaries. Our mix of e-learning and live coaching offers your managers maximum flexibility. Thanks to online tools that are independent of time and place, they can learn without deadline pressure and stay connected to their learning goal through personal live coaching sessions.

Group coaching sessions offer a cross-departmental or cross-company space for reflection and exchange. In 90-minute sessions, our coaches support your managers in analyzing and developing their personal leadership style. Our coaching offers are available in online or face-to-face format.

With the "Mindance" app, you provide your employees with a platform for training their mental health. "Mindance" offers a tailor-made complete package of digitalized training programs and workshops with certified coaches.

Our in-house seminar "Female Leadership" is designed to empower women in management positions and support their professional development. It is aimed both at women who are motivated to move up into management roles and at experienced female managers.

Contents:
- Empowerment: building self-confidence and assertiveness, overcoming stereotypes
- Authentic leadership: developing and refining a personal leadership style, effective communication
- Conflict resolution: expanding skills for constructive conflict resolution
- Career strategies: key skills for career advancement, career planning
- Networking: Building and maintaining professional networks, taking gender aspects into account

Goals:
- Building a strong and diverse network of women in the company
- Strengthen leadership qualities and establish more self-confidence in the leadership role
- Better understand and master the challenges and potential associated with the role of a female manager
- Develop and successfully implement a clear career advancement strategy

In the BANI world, characterized by fragility, fear, non-linearity and indeterminacy, mindful leadership is a key strategy for managers. This approach, which integrates mindfulness into management, helps to deal with information overload and high levels of stress. Through mindfulness training, managers improve their self-control, which has a positive impact on the team and the organizational culture.

Contents:
- Inner clarity and calm: using Jon Kabat-Zinn's "MBSR" techniques to promote self-awareness and self-regulation
- Emotional leadership: developing empathy and emotion management in the team, based on Goleman's model of emotional intelligence
- Neuroscientific foundations: understanding the effects of mindfulness on the brain and its application in professional life
- Practical transfer of mindfulness in everyday leadership to improve focus and decision-making

Objectives:
- Learning techniques for calmness in pressure situations, increasing the ability to concentrate and inner peace
- Improving self-control and self-organization through mindfulness for more effective leadership
- Developing stress resilience to cope better with challenges
- Promoting emotional intelligence and effective, appreciative communication

Remote teamwork is now an integral part of working life, and the trend shows that the world of work will be increasingly remote. It is therefore essential to provide managers - whether experienced or new to the field - with effective methods and basic skills for these challenges. An interactive dialog promotes the exchange of knowledge and enables participants to learn from the diverse experiences within the group.

Contents:
- Inspiring from a distance: virtual motivation strategies and setting clear goals
- Communication culture: Establishing a common understanding of the team while taking individual needs into account
- Strengthening the virtual community: Promoting team spirit and efficient moderation of online meetings
- Network management: Promoting virtual networks and cross-team exchange

Goals:
- Set clear goals and expectations for virtual teams
- Ensure effective communication and engagement
- Successfully moderating virtual meetings
- Promote employee motivation through activities and individual feedback

Our 360° feedback offer for managers is a comprehensive solution for developing leadership skills. It combines self-assessments and external assessments from various hierarchical and project levels with the manager's self-perception.

This creates a holistic picture of your leadership strengths and potential. This approach helps to identify strengths and areas for development and forms the basis for targeted development measures and an improved feedback culture within the company.

Supplemented by individual or group coaching, we support managers in discovering and utilizing their personal development potential.

Contents
- Definition and analysis of leadership tasks: Based on the in-depth leadership profile of the LINC Personality Profiler
- Self-perception and perception of others: systematic comparison using the LINC Personality Profiler
- Determining leadership strengths: Systematic identification of strengths and development potential
- Definition of leadership competencies: Definition of leadership competencies in the organization
- Coaching based on the feedback results: Implementation of individual and/or group coaching sessions

Goals
- Holistic leadership profile: Determination of a comprehensive leadership profile
- Recognizing and using potential: Identifying and using unused potential
- Promoting a feedback culture: Strengthening an open feedback culture in organizations
Consistent understanding of leadership: development of a common leadership image
 

As a manager, it is crucial to understand not only different motivational tools, but also the individual needs of team members. In our "Motivation in Teams" seminar, you will learn how to influence a positive and inclusive work environment. The goal is to maximize the engagement and satisfaction of each team member and effectively address personal feelings.

Contents:
- Fundamentals of motivation and its impact on the team
- Identification of individual barriers to and drivers of motivation
- Techniques to increase engagement and satisfaction in the team
- Methods for valuing diversity and individuality in the team

Objectives:
- Expanding knowledge of motivational team leadership
- Ability to recognize and use individual motivational factors
- Creating an inclusive and motivating working environment
- Promoting a diversity-conscious and appreciative leadership style
- Maximizing the commitment and satisfaction of each team member

 

This workshop is aimed at prospective managers who are at the beginning of their leadership journey. The aim is to provide them with the essential tools they need to successfully lead their own team. We use practical examples and interactive methods, such as peer counseling, to teach the basics of leading discussions, team development and motivating team members.
The seminar creates a link between leadership theories and the everyday challenges faced by participants to help them develop a personal and effective leadership style.

Contents:
- Building and strengthening networking skills
- Basics of the role and requirements of a manager
- Strengths analysis (LINC Personality Profiler) and development of personal learning goals
- Fundamentals of team leadership and conflict management
- Methods for leading in change processes and digital leadership skills

Objectives:
- Talent identification and development for future management tasks
- Retention of promising talent within the company
- Development of an individual and effective leadership style
- Teaching practical leadership skills in real work situations
Promoting networking and collegial support among managers