Core format · Leadership development
Leadership development
that lands in daily work.
Making leadership work by having leaders work on what actually occupies them day to day. For us, leadership development is a means to an end: a leadership team becomes more effective together, sets ambitious goals and reaches them. And creates an environment where performance is enjoyable. As a program for a whole leadership level or as a confidential 1:1.
The trigger
Leadership teams make time for many things.
Just not for sharpening the axe.
Yet that is exactly where the biggest lever for better collaboration sits. It usually takes a trigger before a leadership team makes that time. Three we see again and again:
Scenario#1
A change at the top, a merger, a spin-off, the company growing or shrinking considerably. The leadership team wants to prepare for it.
Scenario#2
The boss resigns, results fail to show despite a shared strategy, a team needs a timeout. The leadership team wants to reshuffle the deck.
Scenario#3
No external trigger, but the ambition to stay ahead: new ways of working together, AI as a leadership topic, more value from the differences within the team. The leadership team wants to find the levers to get even better.
What we offer
Two formats, one principle.
The choice of format follows the trigger. What both share: someone from outside who names what stays unspoken inside the company.
Format#1
The program
for the leadership team
Several modules over a few months for a leadership team or a whole leadership level. The goal: a shared language for leadership and routines that last.
- ScopeThree to five modules over six to twelve months, 5 to 15 people, two facilitators from 12 upwards.
- TriggersChange at the top, merger, missing results, new ways of working together, AI as a leadership topic.
- How we workAnonymous pre-interviews as the entry point, content drawn from the interviews, practice phases between modules.
- StanceWhat everyone knows and nobody says reaches the table in the first module. You cannot solve what you will not name.
Format#2
The confidential 1:1
for the individual leader
Coaching and sparring for leaders who often know where to go, but not how. Advisors who understand, challenge and help you stay on it.
- ScopeSix to ten sessions over a few months, one leader, remote after the kick-off if preferred.
- TriggersFirst leadership role, next level, leading former peers, difficult conversations.
- How we workConcrete situations from everyday leadership, agreements are checked at the next session.
- StanceWe do not just ask questions. We say what we think and let the result be the measure.
How every program begins
The mind map from the pre-interviews.
A real diagnosis from a leadership team, anonymized. Every voice counts equally, nobody has to expose themselves in front of the team. The first module starts with this picture: the topics are on the table before anyone has to say them out loud.
How we run development programs
With us it does not feel like work.
It is, though.
Hard, honest and with a result that holds. Every program follows the same three steps.
Pre-interviews
Anonymous interviews with everyone involved, condensed into a mind map.
Name it
In the first module, what everyone knows and nobody says reaches the table. You cannot solve what you will not name.
Simplify
Twenty topics become three priorities, and everyone in the room sees what is dropped and why. The team sets its own agenda.
Deliver and stay on it
At the end of each module it is clear who does what by when. At the next module, it is on the table.
Alongside
Pit stops
Short reviews between the modules and after the program: what holds, what sticks, what needs a push?
After the program
How a leadership team notices the difference.
Change#1Decisions are made in the meeting, not afterwards in the hallway.
Change#2Conflicts reach the table while they are still small.
Change#3A leader resolves difficult situations themselves that used to escalate.
Change#4Agreements hold, even when daily business takes over.
Voices
What our clients say.
Deutsche Bahn
Bosch Service Solutions
Who you work with
Three partners who have led themselves.
As managing directors, in corporations, in start-ups. We work personally with our clients; the network joins when a topic calls for it. We are based in Cologne and work across the German-speaking region and internationally.
Contact
And what is on
your mind?
Write or call us directly. We reply within 24 hours. We are based in Cologne and work across the German-speaking region and internationally, in German and English.
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