Leadership Skills - What Does It Take to Be a Young Leader?

Course Description

In this workshop you will learn about important aspects of an inspiring approach to leadership which engages you and your team members and which addresses, at the same time, current management issues. We will focus on communication skills that are essential for young leaders since they work with supervisors, employees, clients, colleagues or stakeholders, to name just a few. In this context their conversational and negotiating skills are quite vital to be able to communicate on the same level and to lead conversations into the right direction. This workshop is designed for careers inside academia.

Workshop topics:

• Leadership fundamentals: what is expected of an effective leader?
• How can I best leverage my personal experience to develop my own leadership style?
• Leaders as role models
• Motivation and enthusiasm as key success factors
• The importance of communication for effective leadership, tools and self-confident rhetoric
• The special importance of feedback meetings
• Typical categories of conversations at work and corresponding strategies, e.g. annual employee appraisals, performance evaluations, conflict resolution meetings or job interviews
• Convincing argumentation techniques
• Objection handling and what to do if situations get tricky
• Aspects of teambuilding and the prevention of conflicts
• How do I enter an existing team as a new leader?
• What helps to be accepted and appreciated by the team members?