Advanced Management

FUTURE-ORIENTED LEADERSHIP - STRENGTHENING PERSONAL COMPETENCIES

The certificate program "Advanced Management" gives you the opportunity to consistently improve your leadership skills. Through application-oriented and practical seminar content, you will embed your insights into your professional everyday life and strengthen your leadership personality. The program imparts essential methods and skills to recognize challenges and derive strategies from them to develop companies innovatively and effectively.

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Programme

The certificate programme "Advanced Management" provides you with new impulses for developing your leadership skills. The programme conveys essential methods and abilities to innovate and effectively advance companies in a VUCA world.

Objectives

• Practical knowledge transfer from experts and specialized lecturers
• Teaching innovative methods applicable directly in professional settings
• Expansion of personal networks and exchange with executives from other sectors and companies

Highlights

• Pleasant working atmosphere at the central university campus
• Current trends and best practices
• Design Thinking Workshop
• Diverse and dynamic learning formats including interactive discussions, case studies, and group work
• Renowned professors and trainers

Target Audience

(Prospective) executives or project managers from all fields and disciplines, with at least three years of professional experience, aiming to further develop their personal leadership skills.

Transforming Myself

In today's modern business world, leaders must develop and expand not only their technical skills but also their personal competencies. "Transforming Myself" emphasizes the importance of self-development for effective leadership. Through self-reflection, leaders recognize their strengths and weaknesses.

Day 1: Leadership Begins with Myself

• Roles and Responsibilities of a Leader: Self-Leadership as a Core Competency
• Self-Leadership with the Self-Leadership Process Model
• Transforming Myself - Using the "Values in Motion" Method

Day 2: Purpose as a Guide for Personal Career Development

• Purpose Canvas: My Purpose as a Leader
• Personal Competencies and Passions
• Developing a Personal Strategy with the Effectuation Model

Dates: January 21-22, 2025

Instructors: Dr. Nicolas Meier, Yannik Fleer

Transforming People

In a dynamic and highly competitive world, motivated and engaged individuals are the key to innovation and sustainable success. Motivation not only increases productivity and satisfaction but also fosters creativity and the willingness to take on new challenges.

Day 1: Corporate Entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Implementing Entrepreneurial Thinking and Actions in the Company
• From Idea to Implementation: Tools and Concepts
• From Idea to Implementation (continued) and Round-Up

Day 2: Purpose as a Guide for Personal Career Development

• Fundamentals of Storytelling: Conveying Ideas
• Crafting Visions and Core Messages with Storytelling
• Giving and Receiving Feedback through Storylistening
• Values Communication: Conveying Company Values and Culture through Stories

Dates: February 12-13, 2025

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Christian Schwens, Nora Feist

Module 3: Becoming a Driver of Change in the Company

Transforming Organizations

In today's fast-paced business world, companies need to be agile and continuously adapt to change. Technological innovations, shifting market conditions, workforce dynamics, and external influences are driving this transformation. To succeed and thrive, organizations must cultivate an adaptable culture that actively supports change and innovation. Strong leadership and employee engagement are crucial for navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities that come with transformation. This module will explore key concepts and practices through interactive learning, essential for successfully managing organizational change.

Day 1: Change Management

• Introduction to Change Management: Theories and Concepts
• Causes of Change: Analyzing the Need for Change
• The Change Management Process
• Communication Strategies and Techniques: Designing Effective Communication Plans

Day 2: Design Thinking

• Origins of Design Thinking as a Driver of Innovation
• Putting Users at the Center: Design Thinking as an Interdisciplinary Approach to Complex Problem Solving
• Organizational Conditions for Design Thinking
• The Design Thinking Process: Case Studies and Methods

Dates: March 18-19, 2025

Instructors: Adalbert Rajca, Katharina Leistenschneider

Optional Modul: Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Dates: 9 - 10 April 2025

During the two-day module, you will engage with the latest findings from science and practice in interactive formats, apply them to your professional context, and evaluate concrete approaches to solutions: for decision-making, increasing corporate value, and sustainable economic growth.

 

Day 1 - Finance I

•  Value-based management I: the role of the manager
•  Liquidity, profitability and financing: what role does the finance department play in the company's success?
•  Interpreting financial ratios: the business reality behind the numbers.
•  Value-based management II: How do financial ratios help in managing scarce resources?
•  Stability in uncertain times: Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity

Day 2 - Finance II

• Corporate valuation: forms and effects on strategy and enterprise value
• Corporate finance: Financing growth and supporting strategic development
• Mergers, mergers & acquisitions: Drivers of corporate value
• Communication: Shareholder and stakeholder, internal and external

All information at a glance

• Expert knowledge at first hand
• Imparting methodological knowledge and skills as important elements of modern leadership
• Varied format with practical knowledge transfer, case studies and group work
• Expansion of personal network through managers from other companies
• Acquisition of the "Advanced Management" certificate of the Business School of the University of Cologne