Build confidence as a digital leader. Learn new leadership tools.
Digital leadership means that, as a leader, you must simultaneously expand both your ambition and your knowledge. To this end, training and coaching do not merely teach the skills that are essential for digital transformation in companies. They also help develop a new mindset for applying the acquired “digital skill set” with confidence in real-world situations.
During the training sessions, participants gain hands-on experience with leadership behaviors as digital leaders. For example, agile methods are used, such as “instant feedback” in employee management or “design thinking” in idea development.
In individual coaching sessions, self-confidence is built and personal challenges are addressed so that participants can apply their new insights in their daily work. The sessions also cover how to deal with resistance that digital leaders may encounter within their organizations.
The training sessions are tailored to the specific situation and requirements of each company. Managing Partner Michael Groß leads the sessions. Participants benefit from his practical experience and expertise as a lecturer on digital leadership and from his extensive experience conducting numerous seminars.
Here's what we offer
- Framework conditions for digital leadership, such as VUCA, Work 4.0
- Characteristics of digital leadership, including a comparison with traditional leadership, and parallel leadership processes in business practice
- Overview of the “Digital Leader Skill Set”
- Group work on opportunities and challenges, including those within your own company
- Summary in a matrix: These are the most important aspects for us that we need to address!
- Overview of key methods, e.g., think tanks, design thinking
- Case study in practice, followed by a group discussion: Which ideas are relevant and useful for our company?
- Exercise using an innovative method: “A New Product in 30 Minutes” (based on Design Thinking)
- Traffic light check exercise as a summary for each participant: This is what I can do starting tomorrow; RED = I’ll start this immediately; Yellow = I’ll continue this; Green = I’ll get started on this!
- Framework conditions for digital leadership, such as VUCA, Work 4.0
- Characteristics of digital leadership, including a comparison with traditional leadership, and parallel leadership processes in business practice
- Overview of the “Digital Leader Skill Set”
- Group work on the opportunities and challenges within your own company
- Summary in a matrix: These are the most important aspects for us that we need to improve!
- Overview of key tools, e.g., think tanks, design thinking
- Two case studies in practice, with work in 2 to 4 teams (depending on the number of participants):
- Which ideas are relevant and useful for our company?
- Conclusion as an outlook for Day 2
: Exercise using an innovative method, “A New Product in 30 Minutes” (based on Design Thinking)
- Summary of Day 1 results from the participants’ perspective
- Review of Day 1 and follow-up to the concluding exercise
- Digital Leader Force Field: individual assessment of one’s own leadership behavior using the force field analysis to identify the most important areas of action as a digital leader
- Team analysis: In small groups, results are exchanged, supplemented, and modified as needed
- “Needs Meter” for development needs: In pairs, participants use a role-play to determine the best individual next steps based on their needs
- Overview of the potential impacts of digital leadership on organizational structure and processes
- Teamwork: Options for action to further develop the organizational and operational structures within one’s own company; summary of results with the entire group
- Traffic light check exercise for each participant: This is what I can do starting tomorrow; RED = I’ll stop doing this immediately; Yellow = I’ll continue doing this; Green = I’ll start doing this!
- Realigning your own expectations and shaping others’ expectations
- Using your own strengths more flexibly to enhance individual performance
- Developing future scenarios and aligning skills and activities with them
- Making and revising decisions in uncertain situations
- Leading teams agilely and directing them toward what can be influenced
- Use mistakes to drive progress, not just to avoid repeating them
- Set priorities and continually readjust them to incorporate new ideas
- Dealing with the loss of control resulting from increasing complexity in the environment and within the company
During the so-called mandate clarification, the relevant needs of the coachee are identified and the coaching process is jointly defined. Prior participation in Groß & Cie. training sessions is not required.
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