Spring Class 2023

Negotiation skills are one of the key qualifications of successful executives - its not just about negotiating for your company, but also about negotiating your own advancement and salary. Those who deal with the dynamics of negotiations and at the same time are aware of their impact as a female negotiator will successfully achieve their goal.

Target group: Specialists and managers who want to prepare for management responsibility in the first management level and/or for a CEO position. The module provides a comprehensive understanding of top-level management and provides the skills, knowledge and perspectives that combine to lead to managerial competence and leadership success.

Do you have difficulties getting your ideas accepted by your board of directors? Does your board take you seriously? Do your colleagues support you in your decisions? Having trouble with the unions?

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Stakeholder management per se is the overarching term for a company's alignment with its most important stakeholders. Identify, analyze and communicate - these are the three tasks in dealing with people and organizations

In this session, attendees will hear some of the crucial strategies that got Tine Snels first to the C-suite of a Dutch multinational and then to the board of a MDAX company in Germany. Participants will receive tips and tricks on how to effectively deal with being the "only woman" in the room. The participants get to know the different challenges and dynamics of the board of directors and the supervisory board. Finally, there will be an interactive question and answer session on the topic of success on the board.

Today, more and more companies are involved in founding startups. The aim is usually to create an environment in addition to the grown and often traditional corporate culture in which innovations can be implemented quickly, flexibly and unbureaucratically. 

Every manager can make a clearly defined brand out of himself. All you need is your own track record of performance and success and the knowledge of your 6 - 8 distinctive key competencies. In this workshop, you will work with Sabine Hansen on the example of 1 or 2 selected profiles from the group of participants and by means of a competence-based interview with the test persons, a success and strength profile, which you can then compare to work out the unique selling points (key competences). apply to others.

This session is not about expertise, your college degree or a survey of your professional merits, but rather the sharing of experiences and insights that have made you the professionals you are today.

Todays world has become a challenge for everyone who likes to plan and control. Constant change forces companies to transform. These changes can be scary at first, but in the end they will be effective.

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In an interactive session, you will explore with Andrea Kahlenberg how to lead complex change. How can you initiate a transformation? What are the non-negotiable points when initiating a transformation? Andrea Kahlenberg will provide you with a framework and principles to help you understand and structure the transformation process.

The business world is strongly male-dominated - what impact does that have on our impact and presence? We are often the only woman in a room full of men, how do we deal with this special position? Generations of successful women have copied mens appearance traits, from clothing to body language to tone of voice. But is that authentic and really effective?