Module 1

Challenging Conversations

People have different skills and perspectives. They come from all walks of live. To create effective collaboration constant alignment is required. This is a time-consuming task for every manager. Saving time and resources is key.

  • Reading People
  • Understanding Differences in Personalities
  • Overcoming Resistance
  • Leading Transformational Dialogues
  • Creating Value in Cooperation

Day 1

The Mental Frame

Creating spaces for cooperation and unfoldment of potentials.

The Behavioural and Linguistic Tools for a New Generation of Leaders

  • Professional Scanning: In which way people „see“ and classify each other.
  • Classifying real cases: The hidden structure of difficult people interactions.
  • Five fundamental personalities: How people think, feel and cooperate.
  • Building contact and trust quickly.
  • Recognizing and influencing psychological processes.
  • Overcoming resistance.
  • Creating a state of mind for reliable actions.

The Case

  • Conrad, the expert, does not share his knowledge with others.

Interaction Guidelines and Exercises

  • Case Profiling
  • Role Simulations
  • Modular short exercises
  • Reflection of own case situations
  • Preparation of the first practical phase

Day 2

The Cases

  • Julia, often takes over tasks from others and carries “Monkeys” on her shoulder.
  • Santosh, the quick and impatient, often loses contact with others.
  • Mehdi, the creative, doesn’t finish anything and prefers to start something new.
  • Boris, the dominant, leads and leaves no room for others.

Day 3

The Cases

  • Helen doesn’t feel comfortable to perform Outbound Calls to new customers.
  • William avoids decision making.
  • Charles is deeply demotivated and avoids to talk to his manager.

Transfer

  • Reflection of own case situations.
  • Applying Toolbox to real scenarios