Academy

The dissemination and reflection of management knowledge and behavioral competencies for successful application in leadership practice, both in bespoke executive academy programs and in collaboration with academic partners. Exploration of new learning forms.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must also have this ability!

Managers often consider themselves the most difficult employees, and the path to a leadership position is often paved by expertise and knowledge, performance, tenure at the company, or network connections. But just because one is suddenly given legitimate rights in a position and defined as a leader in the organization chart doesn’t necessarily mean that one is actually one in the eyes of colleagues and employees. If you’re standing in your garage at home, you’re not even a car anymore – or?! Anyone who wants to be a leader – must have that power – the power to lead, the necessary authority and earned respect over time in a role in which one must actively earn things as relevant to success as initiative, commitment, responsibility, identification, loyalty and possibly even passion for the respective work area of others. One is usually not prepared or trained for these particularities of this role – after all, „people join companies and leave bosses“.

At this point, a modern leadership development program must be initiated – it is necessary to reflect on the brand of a leader (leadership branding), sharpen it, change it, and develop its maturity (leadership maturity). Because the brand – the personal recognition value, the image, the reputation, and the gravitas – decisively determines success or failure in the role of a leader. 

It is therefore necessary to question attitudes and recognize patterns of thinking and behavior (What happens to you is what you are, what happens to you is what you think), but also to expand application-oriented leadership knowledge in the form of methods and tools that are suitable for practice, in order to make success tangible as a leadership force and thus to experience it for oneself. 

In all our training and development programs, as well as individual coaching and one-on-one sparring for decision-making situations that are politically sensitive and complex, these mentioned aspects are always at the center of our observations, content, feedback, and impulses. 

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This principle is implemented in our work with individuals, groups, and entire organizations, both in continuing education and in process support for changes, and thus in our business areas.