Advanced Leadership Skills

Duration: 2 days Dates: 14 December 2026 15 March 2027 28 June 2027 13 September 2027

Getting the best out of people and organisations requires strong leadership skills. As products and services become ever more complex and knowledge workers play an increasingly important role in an organisation's success, it is essential to know how to lead and motivate.

Great leaders are characterised by a strong vision, genuine care for their team, real passion for their cause and the tremendous support they give to help people develop and become better at their work.

This course covers a range of topics relating to leadership and communication skills. It is ideal for people who already have experience leading or supervising staff and want to further develop their skills.

Managing Your Team’s Ambitions

  • How to set effective goals for your team
  • How to prepare brainstorming sessions
  • How to support your team in developing ideas so that you benefit from everyone’s contributions

Systematic Planning

  • Why are some leaders seen as too confusing or too demanding? How can you avoid this?
  • What is the 5-step planning technique, and how can it be used for problem-solving, brainstorming and general planning?
  • How can you use business planning guidelines to improve your leadership?

Giving a Speech

  • How can you improve your public speaking and presentation skills?
  • How can these strategies help you when speaking to your team?
  • What strategies help you improve the opening of your speeches – whether to your team, your customers or your stakeholders?

Crisis Management

  • What is a crisis?
  • What types of crisis are there, and what characterises each type?
  • What must you consider when handling a crisis?
  • What areas must you consider when planning crisis management?
  • What is a contingency plan?
  • What is risk management?
  • What options do you have for responding to risks, and how can you integrate them into your contingency plan?
  • What is the relationship between critical decisions and crisis management?

Leading People

  • How can you improve communication with your team by putting yourself in its position?
  • What strategies help you gather more information in difficult cases before expressing your dissatisfaction or saying something you might regret later?

Forgiving Others

  • What are the benefits of forgiving others?
  • How to use forgiveness to strengthen your team
  • What stops you from forgiving others?
  • What mistaken attitudes towards forgiveness exist, and how can you change them?
  • How do you apply the 6-step forgiveness sequence when forgiving others?

Delegation Skills

  • What levels of delegation are there, and what can you delegate at each level?
  • How to choose a delegation level based on how much control you want to retain and how much time you want to save
  • What strategies help you phrase your request when delegating a task so that it motivates the person?
  • What strategies help you minimise disruption for other team members so you can lead your team effectively as a whole?
Learning Solution

Firmenseminar, Individualcoaching, Klassenraumtraining, Online Live Webinar

Language

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch

Dates

2026/12/14, 2027/03/15, 2027/06/28, 2027/09/13, flexibel, auf Anfrage

Location

Brüttisellen, Lausanne, flexibel, auf Anfrage

After completing the course, you will be able to:

  • Understand your team’s ambitions and set goals in a way that makes your team more engaged and motivated to achieve them
  • Plan systematically with the 5-step planning technique to improve your brainstorming and problem-solving meetings
  • Improve your speech and public speaking to convey your vision more effectively to your team, customers and stakeholders
  • Analyse risks, create contingency plans to prepare for a crisis, and manage it as it unfolds
  • Improve your communication skills to give better feedback, reduce misunderstandings and help people grow so they become more productive
  • Overcome your fears and discomfort about forgiving and learn to forgive using a proven step-by-step technique
  • Delegate to the right people at the right level, phrasing your request so it motivates people and gets the best out of them

This course is ideal for people who already have some management experience.

This course builds on our Leadership Skills course. Participants are expected to already be familiar with the concepts covered there.

Price range: CHF1'100 through CHF4'800 excl. VAT

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