Leadership or management course: When was the last training course completed?
According to a survey on our education platform, the respondents' last training was so long ago (date of graduation):

• 17 % in less than one year
• 7 % in one year
• 14 % in two to four years
• 24 % in five to ten years
• 10 % in more than ten years
• 28 % have never done any further training

For a leadership or management course, these answers also show roughly who completed training and how long ago.

A survey has produced the following results on this question:

• 40 % know exactly what their vocation is
• 44 % more or less know their vocation
• 16 % do not know their vocation

Before attending a leadership seminar or management course, it is worth finding out what your vocation really is.

A management seminar on leadership imparts practical knowledge and skills for modern management practice. The aim is to prepare managers for current challenges and provide them with tools for effective and responsible action. Typical topics include

• Leadership and strategy - the basics of effective leadership and strategic thinking
• Agile methods - use of agile approaches in dynamic working environments
• Personality and impact - self-reflection, appearance and personal development
• Time and self-management - increase efficiency and make targeted use of your own resources
• Dealing with different types of people - leadership skills in dealing with diversity
• Generation management - successfully managing employees from different age groups
• Negotiation management - strategies for convincing negotiations
• Rhetoric and presentation - performance skills in meetings and public appearances
• Change management - shaping change and supporting employees in the process
• Focus in everyday working life - concentrating on the essentials despite a high workload
• Decision-making skills - making well-founded decisions under uncertainty
• Communication and appraisal interviews - Communicating clearly and purposefully
• Leadership in projects - leading project teams and taking responsibility
• Leading or coaching? - Understanding roles in modern leadership culture
• Writing references - creating legally compliant and meaningful wording
• Legal basics - basic knowledge of employment contracts and labor law issues
• Risk management - recognizing, assessing and controlling risks

These contents provide an overview of typical focal points in leadership training courses. The content may vary depending on the school, provider and course selected.

Tip: To find out the specific course content for a particular management seminar, we recommend contacting the relevant school directly. You can simply use our contact form to submit a question - it will be automatically forwarded to the desired school.

A seminar on leadership without a superior function or leadership without authority imparts practical skills for all those who assume leadership responsibility without formal authority - for example in projects, teams or specialist management functions. The focus is on the ability to convince others through communication, personality and professional authority.

Typical contents are

• Fundamentals and development of a personal leadership approach
• Success factors for effective leadership without a position of power
• Building trust and natural authority
• Convince through clarity, attitude and reliability
• Making conscious decisions and communicating them transparently
• Communicate goals effectively and anchor them emotionally
• Conversation techniques for activation and motivation
• Situational leadership in different contexts
• Giving constructive and effective feedback
• Control of group and team processes
• Dealing with informal power in everyday working life
• Promote personal resilience and mental strength

These topics are particularly aimed at people who work in an interface function, take on responsibility or lead others in terms of content without having a formal leadership role. The aim is to develop leadership skills in a targeted manner, even without hierarchical authority, and to apply them in practice.

Note: The exact learning content may vary depending on the school or training provider. To clarify individual content or if you have any questions, please use our contact form, which can be used to forward an inquiry directly to the desired school.

The requirements for executives and managers are:

• Ability to lead employees and work in a team
• Good knowledge of business administration
• High sense of responsibility
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Mental resilience and stress resistance
• Ability to reflect and analyze
• conceptual skills
• Confident demeanor and assertiveness
• humane basic attitude

Leadership seminars impart practical knowledge and targeted methods to strengthen leadership skills. The content is aimed at both prospective and experienced managers and covers key topics of modern leadership.

• Content for new or future managers:
  • Analyze and reflect on personal behavior patterns
  • Recognizing and shaping your own role as a manager
  • Raising awareness of individual preferences when dealing with employees
  • Strengthening skills in relationship management
  • Understanding tasks and expectations of managers
  • Develop an authentic and effective leadership style
  • Get to know central management tools
  • Apply management tools in a targeted and situation-specific manner
• Content for experienced managers:
  
  • Mastering complex challenges in day-to-day management
  • Finding the balance between operational management and strategic planning
  • Assess your own leadership skills and competencies
  • Deepen personal and social skills
  • Comparison of self-perception and external perception
  • Developing solutions for challenging management situations
  • Planning and control of management activities
  • Using communication in a targeted and effective way
  • Creating the conditions for successful collaboration
  • Targeted use of situational leadership

Leadership seminars not only offer theoretical knowledge, but also promote practical implementation in everyday working life. The aim is to further develop your own leadership personality and to act confidently and effectively in a wide variety of situations.

Each educational institution determines the exact learning content independently. It is recommended that the content is requested directly from the respective school. A contact form is available as a support tool, with which the request can be forwarded directly to the desired school.

The following options are available for further training in management and leadership:

• Leadership seminar
• Self-management seminar
• Crash course for managers
• Employee management course
• Team leadership training
• Management course for beginners
• Course for experienced managers
• Leadership training
• Coaching in management
• Coaching for managers
• Management seminar
• Leadership course
• Change management seminar
• Digital transformation in the management sector
• Industry-specific management and leadership seminars

Good leadership includes a comprehensive range of management tools consisting of both direct and indirect measures. Managers can use the following tools to exert a direct influence on an employee's experience and behavior:

• Recognition and praise
• Feedback and criticism
• Staff appraisals
• Target agreements
• Planning a career together
• Building trust
• Expectation management
• Task assignment
• Work organization
• Participation in decisions

All these areas are discussed in a good leadership seminar. Leadership skills can be acquired through a leadership seminar.

The following topics are covered in a management seminar:

• Strategy and management tasks
• Organization and planning management
• Leadership, communication and personnel management
• Manager
• Responsibility
• Principles
• Main tasks
• Tools
• Conduct negotiations
• Project management
• Accounting and legal issues
• Marketing, public relations, supplier and customer relations

An employee management course provides practical knowledge on how to lead teams effectively and develop employees in a targeted manner. Participants deal with the most important fundamentals of leadership and learn how these can be successfully implemented in everyday working life.

Typical contents of such a course are

• Fundamentals of modern leadership
• Development of high-performing teams with clear target agreements
• Application of central management tools in practice
• Relevant aspects of labor law
• Communication within the team and among superiors
• Building a constructive feedback culture
• Motivation techniques and promotion of team cohesion
• Employee promotion and development
• Conduct professional employee appraisals
• Duty planning as well as absence and resource management
• Strategies for dealing with conflicts

These subjects make it possible to deal with specific management issues and develop individual solutions. A special focus is placed on the direct transfer to everyday working life, whereby the skills acquired can be applied directly.

Important: The exact course content may vary depending on the training provider. Each school determines the course content itself. In order to obtain binding information, it is advisable to contact the respective school directly. A contact form is available for a quick and targeted inquiry, which forwards the question directly to the selected school.