Extend your leadership skills

Effective Leadership Training

New in a management role? Need to build your toolbox? Or would you like to bring your leadership skills up to date based on insights from the latest research?

Whether you want to consolidate, review, or expand your knowledge base in leadership, communication, team dynamics, or self-management: With me you will receive practical input with lasting effects.

Individual steps of a leadership training

    • Understand the need for leadership training.

    • Think through expectations regarding content and scope.

    • Offer an outlook on potential content and the next steps.

    • Decide together whether a collaboration would make a meaningful impact.

    • Discuss proposal for leadership training and refine it together.

    • Prepare implementation of the training (e.g. book a workshop room, invite participants to preview the content, create material for the workshop, etc.)

    • Implement specific training sessions.

    • Ensure that takeaways are transferred to everyday life.

    • Gather and incorporate feedback about training sessions and their content on an ongoing basis.

    • Review the impact of training sessions.

    • Identify any need for further action and tackle it together or celebrate what has been achieved.

"Pascal designed and implemented the leadership curriculum for us. His particular strength lies in adapting his knowledge and training to the individual specificities of an organisation and responding to the specific needs of individual employees. Pascal produced a very good experience for us and he has now become part of our regular coaching team."

Ramona Ritzmann, Head of Clinical Operations AO Innovation Translation Center

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Examples of past leadership trainings

Strengthening leadership skills as part of a cultural transformation (AO Foundation)

Prompt: Team leaders with different levels of leadership training

 

Contents of the leadership trainings over course of 1.5 years

  • 1 day to strengthen leadership skills: Clarification of the concept of leadership and the associated tasks, presentation of different leadership styles to derive an understanding of one's own leadership, acting out various leadership situations.

  • 1 day to strengthen communication skills: Introduction to communication and its core elements, testing out of various tools such as active listening, working with the inner team, self-assessment for the targeted use of body and voice, feedback about dealing with cultural differences.

  • 1 day on self-management: Recognising and handling stress factors, assessment of time management and prioritisation with transferable take-aways for day-to-day management, review of work-life balance and assessment of resilience.

  • 1 day on conflict management: Introduction to conflict and conflict dynamics, discussion of how to address and resolve conflicts, introduction to conflict mediation as a manager.

  • 1 day on change management: Introduction to the various forms of change, presentation of and pressure-testing different change models, discussion of team dynamics and tools to positively influence them.

Developing consulting expertise as a project manager (Migros)

Prompt: Empowering technical experts and project managers for consulting activities

 

Contents of the 1-day workshop

  • Clarification of the differences between the roles of consultant, coach and project manager

  • Introducing and exploring the various steps of a consulting session.

  • Working with communicative tools to further strengthen consulting skills.

  • Derive transferable goals to ensure the sustainability of knowledge.

Would you like to make your own start with team and organisational development?

Leading in tomorrow's world: exploring the future of leadership as a team in a playful way

The world of work is changing and so is leadership. How will it be organised in the future? Will there still be leaders, and what will their tasks look like? Discover what tomorrow’s leadership may look like in a playful manner together with your team.

Exploring mindset: keeping up with different ways of thinking

Irrespective of how our work together is set up – traditionally with hiearchical structures or in a self-organised way – our mindsets, our ways of thinking, have a significant influence on the way we work together. In their book Spiral Dynamics, Don Beck and Chris Cowan describe the different levels of consciousness for people, teams and organisations and how these can be further developed. A short summary can get you started with this topic.