Topics Concept - St. Galler Business School

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Leadership for
Talents
2011
Nr. 77111 1st Accomplishment 2011
June, 17 – 19, 2011
Davos
(in english, Friday to Sunday)
Nr. 77211 2nd Accomplishment 2011
December, 9 – 11, 2011
Davos
(in english, Friday to Sunday)
Duration: 1 x 3 days
Course Fee: CHF 3200.– / E 2110.–*
* depending on the daily exchange rate, issuing
an invoice in E is possible.
Concept
Younger executives are typically in the
conflict of being simultaneously a leader
and a subordinate. The course “Leadership
for Talents” highlights methodologies
successful managers utilize and
which leadership skills are required to
cope with this conflict. Overall it ideally
prepares you for your challenges as a
manager in general management functions.
The 3-day seminar “Leadership for
Talents” provides the core concepts of
modern leadership and coaching approaches.
It helps to strengthen selfconfidence
in one’s own management
capacity by learning to apply proven
tools and concepts. Finally, the course
guides you to focus reflection and action
on topics that really matter for
success.
Topics
Assessing one’s own leadership
performance
Can leadership be learned?
Prerequisites for successful leadership
Analyzing and recognizing modes of
thought in everyday leadership: one’s
own role and how it affects subordinates,
superiors and colleagues
Activating personal potential; further
development of social and leadership
skills
Practical leadership techniques
Greater efficiency and effectiveness by
focusing on things that matter: priority
and decision management
Leading, not doing: how to delegate
correctly
Time management: avoiding time traps
with skillful working techniques
Agreeing objectives and handicaps in a
hierarchy manner; performance assessment
The key task of communication: how to
handle encounters concerning delegation,
criticism, assessment, recognition
and progress-checks
Leadership in difficult situations
Strategies for coping with conflict:
zero-sums games, working on conflicts
Handling “difficult” employees
Handling anxieties: insecurity, frustration
and lethargy
Overcoming everyday stress
Leadership, team leadership, coaching
Leadership as the basis for peak performance
The boss as coach
Professional teamwork, successful
group management
High work satisfaction with high performance:
people empowering, the selfresponsibility
principle
Project/line conflicts, struggles over resources,
coping with conflicting goals
Participants
“Leadership for Talents” (3-day seminar)
addresses younger executives preparing
themselves for the next higher and top challenge
in their career. These participants have
successfully passed already various qualifications
in management. The 3-day seminar is
especially designed as a supportive course
for participants not having visited extensive
leadership seminars yet, or as a refresher.
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