Seminars for mixed groups:

Here, all different kinds of people get together - be it CEO, manager, mother, artist, athlete or your neighbor. After all, my most favorite colour is colourful. Because diversity is THE strength of heterogenic systems which are more efficient, resilient and more sustainable than mono cultures while achieving more attractive and richer results.

We’ll learn much more and also enjoy our shared journey much more intense through this smart, ingenious approach.

This seminar is for you if you

• want to win in ALL areas of life and
• already are experienced with personal development‍
• you therefore know how important the COMBINATION of private and business life is for successful leadership (see seminar topics below)
• consequently, you are able to focus on the BIG picture much easier and also‍
• evaluate and use the extremely various backgrounds of the other participants much better.

Conditions:

Groups of approx. 15 people

Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon/evening (other days on application, but always 2-3 days)

Chosen locations around Berlin, Germany

Incl. food & drinks (no alcoholic beverages)

Special: I’ll gladly come to you (Germany, Europe) if you provide space and food & drinks for all participants. Dates are flexible, too. Incl. travel allowance.

Prices, registration, announcement of dates etc. via email. This way, everything remains exclusive.

Learn about the topics in the paragraph “seminar topics” below.

The classic:

Here, it’s all about executives of the common, “classic” definition. Those are basically all c-level employees (deciders) below the management board of companies who manage several “operating employees”.

The line between everyday business and private life is much sharper here than for the leaders mentioned above who, alone by their position (at the top or the same eye level), have much more room and therefore capabilities to shape for their own personal development and that of the people around them. The balancing act between private and business life leaders in the classical sense have to make on a daily basis is much more strenuous.

Being this strained, it’s much more likely that you haven’t reflected and consciously worked with yourself or leadership as a topic itself. Above all, a lot of executives are brought into this position by accident or because of personal favour (kids of a boss or so).

That’s why in this seminar, you’ll learn applying the basics (see seminar topics below) first:

• Why leadership starts in your private life and why the latter matters so much for your job.
• How can I foster my private life and how do I balance it with my business life?
• How do I permeate supervisors?
• How do I communicate with subordinate employees, too?
• Balance or fragrance?

One thing’s for certain: We’ll have lots of fun.

But be careful:

I create leaders who are mature, accountable citizens that further COMPANIES, not your sensitive ego! Because strong leaders strengthen a company and its players, including you. So, if you also want to become successful from an entrepreneurial perspective, it’s inevitable that you sometimes need to get set boundaries “from below” 😉

Conditions:

Seminars either take place in your company itself or at a location of your choice.

20 participants max. - if there are more executives, we’ll divide them into groups over several days.

One seminar per day (approx. 8h). Several days/group on application.

Incl. travel allowance.

Independent of the level or environment, good leadership always contains the same qualities and principles which always leads to similarly good results, ideally. The difference is how exactly they are composed and how well they are executed.

In this paragraph, you’ll roughly learn about the most important qualities and principles of good leadership which you can gladly treat as preparation. Applying and developing them is part of our seminars where we cater specifically to your context, mainly environment, personality and goals.

Fundamentals of good leadership

There are some fundamental correlations of leadership which are hardly ever considered and talked about. But without these basics, your success will lead to nowhere.

1.1 Leadership is not restricted to your business life!

Rule #1: Good leaders are ALWAYS good leaders, not only in their job!

After all, you (ideally) spend most of the time out of the office where you also have better chances to develop your leadership competences because the players and conditions of this environment are much more forgiving. In addition, leadership is connected to so many different areas of life like hardly any other topic.

But if you run away from private conflict, you’ll never be able to develop the human competences which are needed in a company.

Good leadership starts in your PRIVATE LIFE

So, if you’re completely obsessed with your career, it won’t work - neither with me, nor with others and definitely not with the issue itself since you’ll burnout or get cancer sooner or later (unless you’re a psychopath or something similar) - and I do not support that.

1.2 Leadership goes in ALL directions

There’s something closely related to the most fundamental basic rule which you’ll nearly never learn in leadership/executive seminars, particularly in Germany:

The (inter) human expertise of leaders is not only needed to motivate employees “below” them, but also to reach their supervisors - remember, a mediator always works in BOTH directions 😉

Therefore, leaders/executives of companies have even more responsibility than the management board itself.

But this principle applies to far more life areas and starts from scratch like everything else: We are equally responsible to educate our parents like they are for bringing up us. Or the bus driver. Or teacher. Or family doctor. Or politician. Basically, every person or institution which supposedly has more power over us than we over it!

2. OPPOSITES attract = embrace & process conflicts

Rule #2: Leaders are often torn between the stools because they join contradicting interests.

It already starts with somebody always being unsatisfied when you make a determined decision. This conflict is the most extreme for leaders in the classic sense, i.e. executives of companies where entrepreneurial interests (strengthen a group) and personal interests (strengthen an individual) are often contradicting each other. But you also know it from parent-child conflicts when they just do NOT get ice cream now.

Good leaders PROCESS inner & outer conflicts!

So, if you’re not willing to accept, endure and approach uncomfortable feelings, you don’t have a strong leadership personality. Of course, you can develop that and I wish you all the best for it, but for a successful collaboration with me, you should be more highly developed.

The better leaders process their own conflicts and those of others, the more fluent (= efficient) your private or entrepreneurial businesses are. Remember, your main business as a leader is to motivate and coordinate HUMANS.

3. INNER strength leads to success

Ultimately, good leadership is predominantly a function of personality + its development. Therefore, you should mainly critically question YOURSELF. As a leader, your core business is not to delegate other people but to constantly process your own emotions & thoughts 😉 Reflecting with the help of psychoanalysis etc. are your main tools thereby.

Your biggest gain: high self-awareness = high foreign awareness which tremendously helps you to bring the right people with the right tools to the right locations & times for their perfectly fitting activities - and thereby do your own job extraordinarily, unburden and elate yourself and others and ultimately cash in the according success for yourself and others!

Qualities & results of good leadership

The fundamentals mentioned above demand and foster certain character traits which are essential for good leadership. The biggest and coolest gain is that these causes are often results of good leadership at the same time which, in turn, leads to exponential growth of both. Therefore, you and the issue you’re fighting for, will become more and more successful 😊

1. Leadership is TAKING CHARGE: Strength & Sensitivity

Good leaders are in charge. They take the lead or things incl. people in their own hands, thereby lead the way and set boundaries. But remember, it’s particularly important to constantly recognize, accept, set and test boundaries.

Therefore, leaders need psychic strength to make determined decisions and to process everyday arising conflicts.

At the same time, it needs fine sense in order to consider all different interests. Sensitivity is the solution with which you reach humans emotionally or at the relationship aspect, respectively - which also includes developing a sense and understanding for your own conflicts & potentials.

The combination of strength & sensitivity is very rare but extremely attractive and desired by people and companies

For that reason, and also because it’s THE symbol for (good) leadership and it’s contrasting connection, the combination of these two characteristics comes in first and has its own paragraph (even though it’s actually “only” a part of human expertise ;-)

2. Leadership is SEDUCTION: Human expertise

If you want to motivate and coordinate people, you should also have a certain level of understanding humans (pun intended ;-) But besides basic psychological knowledge, you should also and particularly be able to implement your knowledge in order to reach goals. HOW do deal with people is much more important here than concentrating on the WHAT (see relationship aspect vs. content aspect).

Fortunately, it only needs very few psychic capabilities to achieve that:

Communication

BY FAR the most important instrument with which leaders implement something, is communication! Verbally and nonverbally. With others and also with themselves. Communication is THE lubricant to resolve conflicts and shape many other structures & processes.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that leaders should talk a lot. Sometimes, a look or gesture is worth more than a thousand words. However, leaders should be willing and able to communicate human and technical things verbally. And they should also undermine it with actions, i.e. setting good examples (which is nonverbal communication, too). Otherwise, nobody is taking you seriously.

Flexibility

Conditions and goals can be set as clearly as possible - as soon as humans interact with each other, it creates a very distinct dynamic. Even entrepreneurial processes and structures don’t always go to plan as companies, too, are only led by people and cater to them 😉 Therefore, you should also be able to flexibly react to changes.

In addition, you can also only cater so much to human capacities, needs etc., can only communicate so much and so well and you also have limited time and other resources - in your entrepreneurial and private life. That’s why you should pay close attention to how you invest which energy.

Overview

Overview is quintessential when it comes to leadership and one of the two fundamental traits with which you’re able to recognize a professional.

Overview is necessary to lead people, actions, things etc. to a certain goal. As a leader of people, you should be able to overview their capabilities & possibilities and therefore their limitations, too, which means evaluating them and aligning them to their tasks. It’s also super valuable to know who works how with who, here.

That’s why good leaders are management masters, juggling thoughts, emotions and actions. Which also involves devolving tasks and paying attention to how intensely who does what with who - which involves you, too, since you want to live a healthy and fulfilled life!

Mutuality

If you want to lead well, you have to be able to follow well - just like a good teacher is always a good student (and vice versa). And if you have a lot of power yourself, you should also empower others, i.e. give something of it. Yin & Yang and so, you know 🤗

The difference of (good) leaders is that they are willing and capable to take responsibility for several people, actions and their consequences. And that’s exactly where our psychic strength comes into play: as a mediator, we predominantly need this power to process all the different interests, impressions etc. with ourselves and others (see above).

Ideally, good leadership leads to mutual understanding and consequently support with appropriate, outstanding results for EVERYBODY and everything.

3. Leadership is EXECUTION: Technical expertise

It should actually be self-evident: If you want to be a good leader, you should have a certain understanding of and for an executed task.

You don’t need to be an expert for it - that’s why you have co-workers - and I’m convinced that, with a lot of feeling, knowledge and good questions (to the experts), one can develop really good technical understanding. However, it’s inevitable for good leadership that you are able to put yourself in the position of the problems & potentials of your executing co-workers!

Depending on the context, it’s more or less necessary that you’ve also done certain tasks yourself: A saucier in a professional kitchen usually is the most experienced chef which just makes sense. And a teacher who shapes the curriculum and therefore a school’s everyday (in Germany, it’s usually the assisting head of school), NEEDS to be able to operate the necessary program used therefore, otherwise chaos will break lose. On the other hand, a father doesn’t necessarily be able to sew clothes to foster his daughter’s passion for fashion.

I got to know “leading = executing” from Arben Veseli, one of the three managing directors of one of Germany’s biggest and most controversial marketing agencies of Andreas Baulig. I found it quite interesting and kind of like him, so I gladly acknowledge it here.

But of course, it’s also super primitive if you regard leadership SOLELY as execution. This attitude will never lead to extraordinary results for your companies’ and your own life! That’s why this actually fundamental trait comes in last - above all, one can navigate around it pretty well like I pointed out above.

(Entrepreneurial expertise)

Leaders in companies (executives) are subject to some peculiarities, hence I only point them out at the end and in parentheses:

• in this case, it’s extremely helpful to also understand internal and external structures & processes of companies (predominantly regarding economic policy and society) in order to make the right decisions
• nowhere else is it as critical, i.e. essential but also sensitive to assert yourself over your boss(es) - after all, it’s your job to positively shape the structures and processes of a company and prevent it, your boss(es) and other employees as well as yourself from a heart attack or cancer
• leaders with a lot of entrepreneurial responsibility should chose the separation of their business and private life particularly carefully and depending on their personality‍
• consequently, the balance between business and private life becomes more important here, too, and you ideally gain energy from both for its significant counterpart (no, it definitely does not necessarily mean 50/50 since it strongly depends on your personality ;-)

In short, everything’s a bit more intense here which entails greater dynamics and responsibility for oneself and others.