What is meant by leadership?

In principle, the term "LEADERSHIP" covers all characteristics that when combined together describe an effective, credible and dynamic management personality.

The characteristics are:

• Personal maturity
  Inner balance, an established value hierarchy, inner independence, ...

• Charisma
  Ability to have an effect on other people (convince, motivate, ...)

• Social skills
  Communicative skills (giving feedback, listening, asking, taking people seriously, ...)

• Management skills
  Ability to think in a strategic/networked way, organizational skills, use of methods

• Presentation skills
  Clear portrayal of relevant points of view, logical argumentation chains, linguistic eloquence, elegant manner, ...

• International skills
  Familiarity with different cultural customs, multilingual skills

Leadership skills

Only a few people are born with sufficient such skills. Most people have only one option: to work at things, practice, train and then see what learning progress can be made.

Our leadership services are specifically geared to top and middle management. There are two main focuses:

• Consistent examination of a manager's own personality

• Consistent involvement of staff and colleagues

This means that in addition to the views of the program participant it is also important to include the views of his staff, colleagues and superiors in his personal development program. After all, the quality of these relationships will ultimately determine corporate success. After this type of personal development plan has been drawn up the individual is not left alone to implement it in isolation; instead he receives active support from a coach in the form of a hundred-day program in a dedicated setting.

Our leadership program

We particularly emphasize the following elements in our specially designed leadership program:

Program start:

• Asking staff, colleagues and superiors how the leadership program participant's leadership style, quality of cooperation and management conduct are perceived (360° feedback)

• Manager's self-analysis of the same topics

• Analysis of the interview form by our institute

Brainstorming event:

• Examining and working through complex management scenarios

• Individual personal development consultation with each program participant
  Subject areas: Self evaluation/third-party evaluation and trainer evaluation based on initial observations; these are then used as a basis to formulate learning objectives

• Leadership conduct within the team, behavior in stress situations (outdoor exercises)

• Leadership review: how can a real leadership dialogue be established with staff

• Colleagues feedback session

Implementation phase:

• Implementing agreed measures, support from a coach for a period of one hundred days

• Specific attendance at training modules to reinforce/consolidate leadership skills

Analysis:

• New survey of staff, colleagues and superiors on how leadership qualities are now perceived

• Personal report by each individual participant on their progress

• Final informal evening presentation

Naturally, we always develop the leadership concept containing the aforementioned core elements in close consultation with our clients.

Please contact us if you would like more information on this subject.