REALLY good executives are rare because mostly, they are poorly chosen and educated. But they are invaluable to a companies’ success as they are THE link between the general management and executing employees. As mediators between their partly opposing interests, they influence how fluent a company’s processes are and how well everybody’s needs and wishes are factored in.
The biggest challenge for executives and companies striving for development is that there’s no specific education for executives. Executives can only educate themselves further. But most instructions and trainings are based on standardised approaches and therefore barely cater towards the individual demands of executives. That’s a big problem, especially for (ambitious) executives and companies as they have to perform a balancing act between entrepreneurial and personal interests on a daily basis and therefore need a strongly individualized education.
My seminars embrace entrepreneurial AND personal interests and take place under nearly “real” conditions. I’ll also consider your entrepreneurial background, especially in my seminars for executives within a company.
My seminars mainly cater towards executives who are subordinated to the general management or c-level executives, i.e. supervisors. I am aware that C-level executives are executives, too. The principles which apply to subordinated executives apply even to them, too. However, entrepreneurial interests play a much bigger role here than at executives of lower hierarchy levels. If you, as a C-level manager, would like to work with me nevertheless, just get in touch with me so we can work something out for you 😉
Until then, learn about the most important fundamentals for executives from a personal and entrepreneurial perspective.
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Is a great human in the first place. After all, humans are their predominant working material - just like wood for a carpenter. That's why particularly executives should NOT differentiate between business and private life. If you want to be or become a strong personality you should always be that and not only in certain situations, right?! Otherwise, it also doesn't work (long) in this position - you cannot be a good leader at work while having no more power to fulfill your partner's, friend's or others wishes in your private life.
Ideally, executives gain energy from both entities - their corporate and private life - for each other. Which is a big bonus and specialty of their job in contrast to many others. That’s why it’s important that executives and companies create conditions under which particularly executives can perform this balancing act more easily in order to work better.
The exciting and tense thing with executives is that they need human AND entrepreneurial expertise. This combination is always valuable but in no other occupation is it as essential as for executives.
Their tools are their (inter) human skills with which they form their working material. Therefore, they should speak the language of the relationship aspect. At the same time, they have to always set boundaries which are linked closer to the content aspect in order to advance the development of their company.
It's in the nature of things that these opposites create inner and outer conflicts - for ALL parties. That’s why an executive’s single most important tool is the ability to regulate closeness & distance to themselves and others. It’s like a game: zone out to see things more clearly and make clearer, more sound decisions and zone back in to reach and connect people (incl. management) on a human basis.
The combination of strength and sensitivity is rare but extremely attractive and sought-after for humans and companies.
It's important for executives to constantly recognize, acknowledge, set and adjust boundaries for others and themselves. This includes the supervised and supervisors, i.e. C-level executives + chairmen!
Therefore, executives need psychic strength in order to make determined decisions and process everyday conflicts. At the same time, the need a keen sense to consider all different interests. In the end, executives should reach their co-workers (which still includes a higher management) emotionally or at the relationship aspect, respectively, if they want to motivate them.
Is BY FAR the most important tool with which executives implement something! Verbally as well as nonverbally. With others and also with themselves.
The better executives deal with their own and conflicts of others, the more fluent their entrepreneurial and private undertakings are (yes, this applies to every other employee, too, but for executives, this skill is even more important as mentioned before).
This does not necessarily mean that executives need to talk a lot - sometimes, a look says or a gesture means more than 1.000 words. But executives have to be ready and able to linguistically convey technical and human information. And they should undermine that with actions, too, i.e. being a good example (which, btw, also counts as nonverbal communication ;-) Otherwise, nobody takes them seriously.
Human expertise contains psychological knowledge, of course.
But it's much more important to implement this knowledge (your technical knowledge doesn’t even have to be that complex and profound). Our carpenter can have as much knowledge about his tools as he wants, but if he can't guide a hammer or saw the results will be awry. Therefore, executives should know HOW to communicate with people - WHAT you teach them is secondary.
I’m convinced that - at least in Germany - the importance of psychic skills is missed out in most (further) educations. Similar to the education of teachers where they mainly learn technical knowledge and it’s hardly emphasized how important human skills are in the everyday life at school. Right, you do work with your psyche in training sessions by solving some tasks, but very few trainers will tell or even explain to you why which psychic aspects are so important for executives (but those who do, are the REALLY good ones 😉
Are you ready for yet another sensation, nobody tells you (esp. in Germany)? Here you go:
The (inter-) human competence of executives not only is a mean to motivate employees who work "below" you but also to reach your supervisors - a mediator always works in BOTH directions ;-) Hence, executives have even more responsibility than CEOs in a way - for which they need a lot of strength + sensitivity.
Now it gets interesting as executives align their psycho power specifically in regard to entrepreneurial goals and values. Therefore, it is more than helpful if they have a good understanding of economic policies or even societies.
But are they also able to join that with the needs of your employees within the framework of your company? They should at least aspire to do so because employees who are supported "from above" work better. Psychic and physical resilience lead to less absence and fluctuation which creates a calm working environment.
And if they even step it up a notch, your employees are going to come up with more own ideas and other commitment so you can keep more development work in house and in turn save more energy.
As clearly as your entrepreneurial frame and goals might be set - as soon as humans enter the scene, a completely different dynamic develops. Entrepreneurial processes and structures also don’t always develop as planned as enterprises are led by and also address humans 😉 Therefore, executives should be able to react spontaneously to changes. And that’s where overview comes into play.
Executives should manage their own life as well as other areas of their business well because they can only cater towards human capacities, needs etc. so much, can only communicate so much so well and have only so much time and resources.
Being able to keep track of everything is the bread and butter of leadership. After all, executives have to bring people, activities, things etc. on the right track and lead them to a goal, respectively.
Entrepreneurial awareness is necessary to put the right employees into the right places and provide them with the right tools. In addition, understanding structures and processes inside and out of a company helps here, too, to make the right decisions.
Human awareness is important to be able to assess the capabilities and possibilities, hence the limits of their employees in order to match them to their tasks. As a leader of employees, executives are management masters, jugglers of thoughts, feelings and actions. It's also insanely valuable to know who works well with who. And they should also know about formalities like general presence (sickness etc.), of course.
People who need a lot of awareness need also be able to delegate, i.e. handing off tasks. That not only applies to the highest management but to subordinate executives, too. People who like to have as much control as possible, have to work a little harder here, to let lose.
In turn, your employees and your psychic and physical health will thank you. Because good workers WANT to work and use their skills. And if they get the chance and are successful they give even more. This, in turn, unburdens you and your work which should then work even more fluently.
You already got to know several goals of good leaders by now. Those mainly refer to personal and entrepreneurial characteristics. In order to reach those or implement them even better, we now concentrate on the operation of good leaders. There are some fundamentals of your everyday business life which are very important (to me).
If you want to lead well you should also 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 you should also part a bit of it. Yin & Yang and such 😉
If you don’t put yourself in the position of those below you from time to time, you can never truly understand how they feel, think and act. Your job - and especially your position - is no one-way road of force, it's quite the contrary. In times of big changes and uncertainty, your employees are already at their limit. They are much more willing to follow your advice if you appear like a human being.
The difference between you and your employees is that you are willing and capable to take responsibility for several people, actions and their consequences. This is exactly where your psychic strength comes into play: as a mediatoryou mainly need your power to process all the different interests, impressions etc. for yourself and others.
I already said it and I gladly say it again: as a mediator, you work in ALL directions, not only top down!
Don't be a coward and also show your supervisors their boundaries. I can not only tell you as a German what happens if everyone simply follows suit in order to avoid direct conflicts with your stressor. Leaders with no backbone are disgusting and history of mankind clearly shows that such behavior has always lead to misery!!!
Yes, it can cost your job if you work with hardcore morons (I'm speaking from my own experience) - but only under these conditions: a smart management rewards constructive feedback because it's essential to the survival and health, respectively, of a company.
In the end, it's also your job to positively impact the structures and processes of a company.
This way you not only prevent your company from getting a stroke or cancer, but also your supervisors, employees and especially yourself!
Verbal and nonverbal communication is one the mot important tools of executives which has a strong impact on employees, business processes, structures and even the reputation of a company.
Like in all partnerships, you should consider several aspects:
Will only benefit from the aforementioned - personally as well as concerning your profession and your company. Set a good example and show everyone how it's done properly - after all, you're not only an ambassador for your company (which still includes your private businesses) but also a role model of an important position which, unfortunately, has a pretty bad reputation (at least in Germany).
Good executives conduct different people and their interests, skills and possibilities. At best, it creates a balanced climate in their corporate and private life, including even that of their co-workers.
Just like the harmonic sound of a well-rounded orchestrate, you take care of fluent work processes und sweet company structures in which you and other employees shine. You’ll become a sought-after and popular key figure in your company and you also have the chance to improve the reputation of executives in general.
And all of that will also trickle to your private life - because your private enterprises (family, friends, hobby activities etc.) with all their employees (relatives, pets, acquaintances etc.) underlie the exact same principles 😉
In any case, you should enjoy that you deal with so many different people, tasks and circumstances on a daily basis and try to bring them together. You don’t have to like everybody and everything, but if you’re doing your job well, your flexible art of working with this very diversity will create a wonderful company climate which beautifully resembles you, executives in general, your co-workers and also your company.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a huge and honorable masterpiece!
My seminars consider personal AND entrepreneurial interests and take place under near “real” conditions. I gear towards the situation of the participants, but please feel free to tell me topics you would like me to convey predominantly or as a part of the event. In addition, you benefit from extremely flexible conditions.
Please contact me via Email when you’re interested, thank you.
15-20 Participants: different people or groups
Seminar Rooms: are located in Berlin Metropolitan Area, Germany
Dates: will be announced via mail when enough people are interested
Duration: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon / evening
Overnighting: you pay and organize accommodations for yourself
Catering: is included
Writing Tools: please bring your own - I don’t know your favourite fountain pen 😉
15-20 participants: different people or groups
Seminar Rooms: organization is up to you - somewhere in Germany or Europe - ask me if you’re even further away, we will work something out 😉
Dates: on application
Duration: Friday afternoon - Sunday afternoon / evening - shorter / longer on application
Overnighting: I’ll organize my own accommodation
Catering: you organize everything for the participants, I organize my own (of course, I gladly join you)
Technical Tools: we’ll previously discuss what’s necessary / possible
Plus, Travel Expenses
15-20 Participants: seminars with more than 20 participants take place in groups over several days, seminars with less than 15 participants on application
In your Company: somewhere in Germany or Europe - ask me if you’re even further away, we will work something out 😉
Dates: on application
Duration: according to prior agreement
Overnighting: I’ll organize my own accommodation
Catering: you organize everything for the participants, I organize my own (of course, I gladly join you)
Plus, Travel Expenses
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