Leading High Performing Organizations

Leading in complexity.

Leadership is a task that has existed since people have been working on issues together. Today, our complex organizational world requires more leadership than ever. Increasing networking, ever deeper division of labor, unpredictable external factors, easy access to immense global knowledge ensure a variety of options for action at any given moment. Leadership reduces the options in the now to a manageable level and enables coordinated action.

Effective action in the face of increasing complexity requires openness in perception and awareness of one's own actions. Presence of mind is a vocabulary for this and a trainable skill. Leadership is conveyed through communication. It affects the context of the organization and the members of the organization. This achieves what is important for everyone: creating benefits for customers.

Details on the modules

1. Leadership systems and models
The view of how an organization functions determines the scope for shaping leadership. Modern leadership systems take into account concepts from systems theory, sociology and psychology in order to provide effective leadership approaches.
In the leadership systems module, we get "up to speed" on the topic of leadership. We extract what is useful from the models and separate the fashion. For each individual, it is about determining their own leadership system and recognizing the one in which they are integrated.

2. Fokus
Wer präsent ist, hat die Chance, alle seine Fähigkeiten zur Bewältigung einer Situation einzusetzen. Dafür müssen wir akzeptieren, selbst vielgestaltig zu sein und in mehrdeutigen Umgebungen zu agieren. Mit der Fähigkeit, den Fokus zu halten und bewusst einzusetzen, organisiere ich meine Energie und steigere meine Wirkung.
In diesem Modul beschäftigen wir uns mit Aufmerksamkeit und Wahrnehmung sowie dem Herstellen von Konzentration und Fokus als trainierbaren Fähigkeiten für Erfolg.

3.  Intention
The manager's action is intention translated into activity. The recognizability of the intention enables employees to join in. Clarity of intention focuses energy and avoids distraction. The limits of what can be intended come as answers to the questions: What am I allowed to want in the company? What am I allowed to strive for from a moral point of view?
The Intention module is about examining your own drivers as the basis for your current goals. We look at the object towards which my intention is directed, how I can maintain my intention and how I can deal with my inner pig dog. In short: what do I actually want, why and for what purpose?

4. Decision
Decision-making is considered a central task of leadership. With increasingly self-organized teams and a constant stream of changing requirements, the question arises anew as to which decision is a matter for the boss  and what the team decides.
We approach decision-making from different perspectives. In practical terms, it is about prioritizing and decision-making processes for individuals and groups. It is about proper delegation. It's also about the decision-making process and the right time for it. And did someone say implementation?

5. Communication
Communication is the channel through which intention, goal, decision and everything else travels from sender to receiver. There is no magic formula for getting communication "just right". And yet you can practise becoming more effective at it.
In the communication module, we focus on listening and asking good questions. We practise speaking more explicitly in order to become clearer. At the same time, we consider how to work together more and therefore have to explain less and how this can be transferred to everyday management practice.

6. Fields of action
The manager's work is carried out in specific fields of action. They use their skills such as intention and determination to provide direction, work on continuous improvement, develop other people and develop themselves.
In the fields of action module, we go through the four fields and hand out tools that can be put to good use the following day. We think about leadership from the object and answer the question of what should be influenced and how.

7. Effectiveness monitoring
Setting goals only makes sense if I monitor their achievement, whether they are my own goals or goals agreed with others. I have a wide range of options: Does the goal describe the activity, the performance or the effect? And who measures achievement and by what means?
In the impact monitoring module, we look at the practical and psychological benefits of objectives. We look at common goal-setting systems such as Management by Objectives, Objectives and Key Results, Key Performance Indicators and relate them to agile working. We show how to set up your own success indicators and discuss the examples provided by the participants. We are interested in the contribution of objectives and impact monitoring to success. After all, what counts in the end is the organization's ability to deliver.