Evolving into the Manager Role
Stepping into a leadership position brings new demands – and opens up tremendous opportunities. This course gives you the key competencies you need for a confident and effective start in your manager role.
Course topics:
- Understanding team leadership: what it means to take responsibility for others.
- Recognizing different personalities and working styles, and addressing them purposefully.
- Communicating clearly and situationally, resolving conflicts, and giving constructive feedback.
- Making sound decisions systematically and approaching challenges with creativity.
- Motivating your team, developing individual strengths, and unlocking potential.
- Managing time effectively, setting priorities, and maintaining balance in your leadership role.
- Consciously reflecting on your leadership impact and continuously developing as a leader.
This course gives you the tools and impulses you need to take on the manager role with conviction and lead your team strongly from day one.
- Clearly separating the leadership role from the technical specialist role
- Understanding the interpersonal dimensions of leadership
- Grasping your own information responsibilities as a manager
- Embracing and living decision-making accountability
- Anchoring a unifying vision within the team
- Developing a powerful and motivating vision for the future
- Formulating the vision clearly and communicating it compellingly
- Understanding how a clear vision drives team engagement
- Identifying and leveraging your own leadership strengths
- Providing orientation and motivation through your own actions
- Actively encouraging new ideas and inspiring the team
- Building a culture of appreciation and mutual respect
- Formulating messages clearly and arguing persuasively
- Deploying talents situationally and developing them with intention
- Strengthening relevant skills and qualities within the team
- Establishing a performance-supporting culture and mindset
- Planning development strategically and with a long-term perspective
- Preparing team members for future tasks and roles
- Sustainably strengthening engagement and retention
- Supporting individual development through coaching and targeted encouragement
- Actively fostering effective collaboration within teams
- Distributing tasks meaningfully and transferring clear accountability
- Supporting implementation and reviewing results constructively
- Preparing meetings in a structured way with a clear focus
- Inviting the right people with intention
- Developing a clear agenda that keeps the meeting on track
- Planning the use of digital tools in a meaningful way