First time boss! From employee to manager
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Because the change from team member to manager is often not easy, contains conflicts and raises many questions: What first steps should employees take if they are aiming for a managerial position? What role does work experience play in this process? What qualities make a good, modern leader? How do you deal with colleagues who were previously equal and maybe even friends? What can employees expect in a managerial position? What are the fundamental differences between the field of activity of a specialist and a manager? And how can leadership and social skills be learned? TheseCourses offer answers with tips from numerous renowned experts.
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Friendships with colleagues in the workplace: 10 Tips for dealing with the private in the job
Friendships in the workplace are a difficult topic, which is not only inherent in various studies, but also in the frequency of interview requests that we receive for ZEIT or MAXI, for example. Dealing with the topic correctly is particularly important for prospective managers. The job as a complex social network A job is a complex…
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Employee motivation for managers: Leadership roles
Everyone has their role and it can change. This also applies to you yourself. You too play the role of controller or organizer from time to time, in other situations you have to set processes in motion and in others you have to help stabilize the mood. Lion Tamer or Alpha Wolf? Systemic thinking gives us the opportunity to transform our personality...
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Requirements for tomorrow's executives: Fit for the Future?
The world of executives is becoming more and more unstable. The assumption that a company is run on the technocratic model of a trivial machine and that the helmsman “has everything under control” is still widespread, but has long since failed to do justice to reality. Coping with increasing complexity To this day, the requirements profile...
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Learning teamwork & teamwork skills: 2 X 5 tips for productive cooperation
Organizing teamwork properly is not easy. In order to ensure that everyone works together productively, the basic factors should be right. 2 X 5 points to watch out for. Teamwork: an excuse for social laziness? Teamwork gets a bad rap. “TEAM” is often used behind closed doors as an abbreviation for “Great, someone else does it”. And then there is...
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Yesterday a skilled worker, today suddenly a boss: 9 tips for IT & technology executives
If you want to get promoted, you have to manage staff. “Maximum punishment” is what many experts think. But there is still a long way to go before the calcified structures in many companies change towards sustainability. This is how you manage in the meantime. Be honest, leadership has never been your thing. Do you remember when you chose your career? You chose your…
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Young leaders: Looking for the right balance
Yesterday a colleague with equal rights, today a manager: This is sometimes a difficult situation, especially for young managers. And for different reasons. Interpersonal relationships as the greatest challenge Forming interpersonal relationships is without a doubt one of the greatest challenges for young executives – especially in middle management. Loyal behavior is important here, both towards one’s own superiors and…
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Bosses & executives as role models: Managers as role models [4 theses]
What does good leadership mean? And can managers be role models? Or is their image too bad to do justice to such a role? 4 theses on managers as role models. Managers as role models? Can managers, a profession whose image has been badly damaged by the financial crisis and other incidents, still serve as a role model today?...
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Getting recognition & respect: 8 tips not just for bosses
Respect, recognition for one's own performance, from the boss, from colleagues, parents, teachers or the partner - that's what everyone actually wants. Unfortunately, we don't always get what we want. This often depends on our own behavior! What science says about respect Other people, this is proven by the scientific studies of our…
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Yesterday colleague today boss: conflict as an opportunity
When irreconcilable interests meet, a conflict arises. To clarify, a solution must be sought and found. It is important to recognize signals and accompany solutions. New perspectives can also open up as a result of the intensive discussion involved in reaching a consensus. Conflicts must be Conflicts are commonplace. You can find them wherever independent people live and work together.…
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Leadership Management by Buddy: Authority despite niceness
Authority can certainly be combined with kindness and sympathy. These aren't opposites. How exactly does this supposed opposite work? Good leadership combines authority and kindness First, it's important to understand that authority and kindness are not opposites. Even if it is unfortunately often seen that way. And it is precisely these alleged opposites that must now be reconciled. Because good leadership...
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4 X 4 Tips for VUCA Leaders: Just Listen
The acronym VUCA describes difficult framework conditions of corporate management. VUCA leaders are responsible for these issues themselves. What's the best way to deal with them? Executives with VUCA characteristics What does VUCA have to do with leadership? The acronym for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity is used to describe or reflect general conditions and situations, not people. Nevertheless are…
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Feedback as a manager: 2 times 5 tips for constructive give & take
Giving feedback as a manager - do you do this in regular discussions for your employees? And do you get some too? 2 X 5 tips. Feedback as a gift So far, only one in five managers sets a good example and asks employees for feedback on their performance and leadership style. This resulted in a Talents…
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Strategically good decisions for executives: outliers or doers?
Regardless of whether it is a professional or private matter: life constantly demands decisions from us. This is often difficult because every decision involves risks and the exact consequences are not foreseeable. The decision-maker's dilemma Decision-making is the most important task for managers. That is why they are also often called decision-makers. But often deciding also means taking risks...
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Important rules for executives: learn to be boss - 10 bids
Can you boss? The most sensible answer is: "Depends on it." Of expectations, especially on the part of the employees. Of readiness, especially of the leaders. Of role definitions that list entitlements, expectations, rights and obligations. Changing executive roles Role definitions are subject to historical changes. Provided with a traditional core (conventions), zeitgeist phenomena flow into them. That keeps them agile. she spiegeln values...
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Easy decision making for executives: yes, no, maybe?
More salary, more responsibility, more career: A new position is created and offers a member of the team unexpected opportunities for advancement. Great news or dilemma? For the manager it is often both. Ultimately, the boss has to decide who he trusts with the position and accept that he alienates other employees. Negative emotions...
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Career planning & strategy for executives - 2 X 6 practical tips: Beware of the blind spot!
Managers often have a blind spot when it comes to career planning within their own company. There are so many possibilities. Old hands with a clinging reflex Young talents mainly look outwards – to other employers and supposedly better positions. An internal career is considered stuffy and simply no longer state-of-the-art, looking at…
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Young executives older employees: 3 tips to respect for new bosses
Young managers in particular have yet to earn the respect of their older colleagues. These tips show you how to do this. Give in or stand firm? "Well, was there a head coaching for you?" a former teammate asked me boldly when we met in front of my manager's office. I was extremely tense and about to give him the…
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Leadership Manual: 6 Tips for Managers
The basic structure of a general reference also applies to leadership references, but there are two essential conditions that must be met in order to create an appropriate impression. Why is a good job reference so important for specialists and managers? In order to have a successful career, one must demonstrate one's professionalism and competence. This is especially true for people who…
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Teams as managers - 6 tips: flexible management, away with the alpha animals!
Many companies have long noticed that in times of increasing uncertainty, regular trend breaks and increasing complexity, it is good to organize corporate management in a team instead of relying solely on charisma at the top. Good leadership: the devil is in the details But the devil is in the details: too often only a formal dual leadership or management team is installed, in which…
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4 competences for future leaders: Conflict resolution is a top priority
A study shows that conflicts reduce productivity in companies by 25 percent. A manager's top priority should therefore be to create a conflict-free environment in which the team members can work in the best possible way. The boss is in demand When the boss comes into the office in the morning, he immediately notices: The climate is icy - and that's not…
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