Effective Leadership

The goals of this course are:

• Demonstrate essential elements and correlations between result-oriented and employee-oriented leadership.
• Learn to effectively apply the instruments and methods of leadership.
• Recognize the importance of social competence and question personal leadership behavior in teams and in management processes.

Subjects

Basics of Effective Leadership

• Leadership skills as a basis for advancing professional careers
• Leadership skills as a prerequisite to achieving results
• Practical leadership, the role of the leader

Psychological Insights

Psychological patterns for effective leadership:

• Better understanding of human behavior
• Better understanding the behavioral patterns of employees, coworkers and superiors
• Situational leadership considering psychological insights

The Effective Leader

How to evolve into a successful leader:

• Harmony between leadership mission and personality
• Balance of professional and private goals
• Development of personal leadership potential
• Growing personal impact
• Coming across to others, convincing, prevailing
• Caring for coworkers, being a role model
• Gaining acceptance, trust and loyalty of coworkers; being enthusiastic about common goals
• Prerequisites for Successful Leadership
• Leadership culture and atmosphere
• Importance of trust and candor
• Leadership philosophy
• Scope and personal organization
• Rules and “guard rails“
• Incentives and reprimands
• Knowledge and learning effects

Personal Leadership

Leadership starts with development of personality

• Finding a personal professional style
• Setting priorities, time management
• Getting over inner barriers
• Problem solving in complex decision making situations
• Delegating and letting others shine

Becoming a Leader

• Characteristics of leaders
• What differentiates leadership personalities?
• Skills for thorough leadership competence

Leadership Behavior

Leaders take responsibility

• Leadership in special situations
• Strengths and weaknesses

Solution-Oriented Communication

• Communication as a leadership challenge
• Open discussion of opposite points of view
• Communication skills and bargaining skills as success factors
• Accepting or solving systematic conflicts
• Addressing home-made conflicts
• Techniques of solution-oriented communication

Social Competence

• Social competence as a prerequisite for effective leadership
• Elements of social competence
• Self analysis and second opinion
• Techniques for developing social and emotional intelligence

Application of Group Dynamics Rules

• Leadership principles and their effects
• Rules of group dynamics
• Applying the principles of group dynamics to lead employees and teams

Leading Teams to Peak Performance

• Creating a winning spirit
• Characteristics of successful team culture
• Hierarchical or nonhierarchical structure?

Leadership

• Developing from manager to leader
• Personal leadership behavior