Our New Leadership Training is designed as a cycle. All content is assigned to the domains “Leading Yourself”, “Leading Others”, “Leading Business” and “Leading Beyond” and divided into different modules.

We introduce various tools and methods that are applied in different contexts in several modules. This not only expands your leadership tools, but also deepens them.

Each format includes the introduction of theories, methods and guidance, trying them out, reflecting on them and then transferring them to everyday management. Each of your questions will be answered by coaches – in the seminar or in the workplace.

In this brief session, leaders are getting connected and familiar with the purpose, format, goals, logistics of the learning journey and collectively define the ground-rules for their collaboration.

Module: Leadership in Transition

In this fundamental module, you will recognize the limitations of traditional leadership approaches and develop a deep understanding of the requirements of modern leadership in a VUCA world (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity). You will learn how leadership models have developed historically and why new leadership skills are indispensable in times of digital transformation and artificial intelligence. The module enables you to distinguish between different leadership contexts and adapt your leadership role to the situation in order to remain capable of acting in complex and uncertain environments.

• Understanding VUCA as a new leadership paradigm – Recognize the effects of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity on your leadership work

• Recognizing the limits of traditional leadership – Understand the risks of hierarchical structures, such as limited information flows and slow decision-making processes

• Discover dialogical collaboration – Learn about new forms of collaboration such as agile methods, holacracy, and sociocracy

• Develop ambidextrous leadership – Master the art of using both exploratory and exploitative leadership approaches depending on the situation

• Understand AI as a leadership tool – Demystify artificial intelligence and use AI as a reflection partner in uncertain situations

• Distinguish complexity from complication – Apply the CYNEFIN framework to make context-appropriate leadership decisions

Module: Leadership Identity

This module focuses on the conscious development of your personal leadership identity through deep self-reflection and understanding of unconscious influences. You will learn how your values, experiences, and corporate culture influence your leadership behavior and how you can use these insights to authentically develop your leadership role. Through practical exercises on deconstructing realities, you will remain capable of acting even in uncertain times and can successfully integrate new leadership principles into your daily work.

• Uncover unconscious influences – Use the iceberg model to reflect on how values and beliefs shape your leadership identity

• Combine personality type and leadership style – Discover how your individual strengths shape your leadership role and how to use them optimally

• Decipher corporate culture – Analyze cultural influences using proven models from Schein and Hofstede

• Deconstruct reality constructs – Break automatic stimulus-response patterns for more conscious leadership decisions

• Navigate areas of tension – Identify and resolve conflicts between personal values and organizational expectations • Integrate new leadership principles – Develop concrete strategies for integrating modern leadership approaches into your everyday work

Module: Leading Transformation

In this module, you will master the art of shaping and accompanying both your personal and organizational transformation. You will understand the psychological mechanisms of change processes and learn how to guide others through uncertain phases of transformation as a mentor and coach. With practical tools and AI-supported future scenarios, you will develop the competence to initiate and sustainably anchor cultural change through the conscious design of interactions.

• Understanding transformation processes – Use the hero’s journey as a model to navigate the phases and dynamics of change

• Constructively overcoming resistance – Develop strategies for dealing with fears and intrinsic and extrinsic resistance

• Shaping culture as a social process – Influence corporate culture through the conscious design of interactions and behavior patterns

• Use AI for transformation—Use AI-generated future scenarios as triggers for personal and organizational development

• Act as a mentor—Establish coaching skills to guide teams through chaotic and uncertain phases of transformation

• Develop visions of the future—Formulate inspiring visions and use management tools such as PESTLE and value maps

LEADING OTHERS

Module: Core Leadership Tasks in the Future

This module gives you a clear understanding of essential leadership tasks and shows you how to distinguish between management and leadership and integrate both aspects. You will learn to strike a balance between traditional leadership tasks and promoting self-organization, while at the same time using AI as a supporting tool. The module enables you to apply agile and dialogical methods, thereby strengthening your employee’s personal responsibility and self-efficacy.

• Master core leadership tasks – Master goal setting, planning, decision-making, delegation, control, and feedback

• Promote self-organization – Strengthen personal responsibility and self-efficacy in your team

• Integrate AI into leadership tasks – Use artificial intelligence to support your daily leadership work

• Apply agile methods – Implement dialogical and agile principles in your leadership practice

• Analyze leadership paradigms – Understand different cultural leadership approaches and their effects

• Balance management and leadership – Distinguish between leadership and management tasks and integrate both effectively

LEADING OTHERS

Module: Effective collaboration

In this module, you will develop the ability to create a safe and ethically sound working environment characterized by trust, appreciation, and shared goals. You will learn how to deal with increasing ethical tensions, establish psychological safety, and formulate an inspiring purpose. Through practical AI applications and the integration of different value systems, you will create a culture in which people can develop their full potential.

• Establish psychological safety – Create an environment in which mistakes are seen as learning opportunities

• Ethical leadership in the AI era – Develop AI governance and navigate ethical conflicts in the stakeholder economy • Build a culture of trust – Use the trust equation to systematically strengthen team relationships

• Communicate purpose and meaning – Formulate inspiring goals at the individual, team, and organizational levels

• Integrate generations and cultures – Understand different value systems and leverage diversity as a strength

• Use AI in practice – Master prompt engineering and use AI tools for better decisions

LEADING OTHERS

Module: Promoting performance

This comprehensive module equips you with all the skills you need to build and lead high-performance teams. You will develop a coaching mindset, master appreciative communication, and learn to inspire through powerful storytelling. With practical workshop methods, dialogical processes, and AI support, you will create the conditions for flow states and exceptional team performance while specifically promoting individual strengths and using diversity as a driver of innovation.

• Coaching skills as a leader – Lead through questions and strengthen self-efficacy with methods such as GROW

• Develop high-performance teams – Create flow conditions through strength orientation and intrinsic motivation

• Design workshop formats – Use liberating structures and dialogical methods for effective team processes

• Master communication – Master appreciative communication, active listening, and constructive feedback

• Inspire with storytelling – Transform factual topics into emotional stories and use AI for powerful narratives

• Use diversity as a strength – Integrate different thinking styles and perspectives for innovative solutions

Module: Designing the Business of Tomorrow

In this future-oriented module, you will develop the skills to proactively adapt your business model to upcoming challenges. You will learn to think like a futurist, identify megatrends, and translate external influencing factors into strategic opportunities. Using tools such as the Business Model Canvas, Future Cones, and data-driven approaches, you will design sustainable business models that integrate economic, environmental, and social goals.

• Develop hyper-awareness of trends – Analyze influencing factors and megatrends using futurist methods and AI scenarios • Drive business model innovation – Use the Business Model Canvas to further develop your value proposition

• Strategically integrate sustainability – Understand SDG/ESG frameworks and tap into opportunities in the circular economy

• Develop data-driven strategies – Formulate hypotheses and validate them with the Data Project Learning Card

• Anticipate AI impact – Assess the impact of artificial intelligence on your future business model

• Build business capabilities – Identify the necessary skills and create a concrete transformation roadmap

New Leadership differs from traditional leadership approaches in terms of context. Every successful innovation was scaled at some point. The requirements quickly changed towards quality, cost efficiency, control – and the skills required for this. Traditional leadership models and management systems have a wealth of experience in this domain (“exploit”). However, many companies now find themselves in the innovator’s dilemma: the way of thinking and acting that generated innovation must now give way to stability and order.

Innovation and change, however, take place in the chaotic or complex domain (“Explore”). The requirements here are completely different: experimentation, rapid learning, risk minimization and rapid implementation through iteration, cross-functional and interdisciplinary collaboration, high communication requirements. The skills required for this are completely different and are no longer traditionally present. New leadership is a further development – not a replacement – of the previous leadership model.

(The terms Explore and Exploit go back to Alexander Osterwalder and his work on “Business Model Innovation”)

Managers play a fundamental role in the implementation of New Leadership in companies. By looking at organizations as social systems, managers have the opportunity to change interactions (collaboration, communication, idea generation, decision-making processes, etc.). Change in the direction of New Leadership does not happen by announcing it on PowerPoint – but in the daily thinking and actions of managers.

New Leadership Training can help managers in a changing world of work by not only providing theoretical impulses, but by going deeper: through experimentation, experience and reflection, basic convictions are made visible and changeable. We not only teach skills and competencies, but also principles. These are points of reference for daily decisions and bring sustainable change not only to the individual manager, but to the culture.

In our New Leadership Training, we teach 8 meta-competencies: self-reflection; understanding social systems; dealing with complexity; dialogical leadership & collaboration; creativity, co-creation and innovation; business model design; data literacy and ecological and sustainable development. These meta-competencies integrate a variety of other competencies and skills.

New Leadership Training offers companies and their managers two important advantages: practicability and anchoring. Almost every company – from regional SMEs to large corporations – has understood that it needs to change. But many change measures in companies are not coordinated – or even contradict each other. With our integral approach, we turn all participating managers into co-creators of change. They become aware of the complexity of transformations, but at the same time receive new thinking models, methods and tools.

With the New Leadership Training, transformation is no longer “ordered” to employees or “pushed” by a small team of organizational developers, but initiated and accompanied by all managers with a common understanding and from the heart of the organization.

We deliver the New Leadership Seminar in a wide variety of formats: in conventional classes, but enriched with e-learning, curated content for self-study, as a live online or hybrid event. There is no one right form, it depends on your framework conditions, the content requirements and the openness of the participants. Online-only seminars are practically impossible for this major topic.

The full New Leadership Training lasts 12 days and takes place over a period of 6-12 months. It integrates a series of face-to-face training sessions and online sessions, while participants work on case studies in parallel and are supported by triangility coaches.

This makes the New Leadership Training a modern training course for managers and provides the foundation for a future-oriented management culture.

At best, every employee in a leadership role. Our New Leadership principles are new to everyone, so we do not impose any restrictions on our part. The mix of first line managers, middle and senior executives in particular often creates an interesting dynamic and a fruitful exchange.

Each training or program is developed to meet the specific requirements of your company. This begins with a co-creation, concept phase, iterative improvements and a roll-out. We don’t do anything “off the shelf”, but immerse ourselves deeply in your culture and structure. In this way, our work becomes part of your organizational development.

Admittedly, this is a challenge. How do you combine universal New Leadership principles and new leadership skills with very specific, strategic topics such as digitalization, AI or sustainability?

And how do you adapt this to your company? We master this through our community of trainers from different disciplines, who are integrated into the development process from the outset and “speak the same language”. This means we cover a diverse range of topics, but work together with the same spirit.

All of the trainers in our community have their own leadership experience, have all completed in-depth external coaching and/or trainer education and have also taken part in our internal train-the-trainer programs.