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Negotiation Skills Basics

Every day, we conduct countless negotiations, consciously or unconsciously, both in private and in business, in order to achieve concrete goals. Negotiating is therefore one of the most urgent management skills of today's business and the key to business success. During this program, you will acquire basic negotiation skills that will enable you to professionally prepare and effectively conduct negotiations in your daily business. You will get an aggregated overview of the most important basics of a negotiation and gain insights into different techniques that can be applied in different negotiation situations.

Thinking out of the box – What the hell is "agile"?

This interactive impulse session will give you insights why agile concepts are helpful the context of “Dynaxity” (increasing dynamic and complex working environments). It will cover where agile approaches makes sense (and where not). In addition we will have a short deep dive in agile project approaches like “SCRUM” and “Kanban”.

High performance through concentration and resilience

This program offers you practical strategies to help you focus 100% of your attention on the most important task. You will learn how to sustainably increase your attention span and the speed of cognitive information processing. News from intelligence and brain research will help you to fully utilize valuable potential in order to produce high-quality results. Instead of always being busy, you will be productive and achieve your goals with satisfaction. Keeping your own needs in mind and better recognizing your body's warning signals helps to counteract the development of stress at an early stage. You will learn to get out of the perfectionism trap and apply individual strategies to deal with stress even in particularly demanding situations.

PowerPoint @ tk: Create appealing slides in corporate design

In this training we will introduce you to the basics of corporate design as part of corporate identity and how you can use the wide range of PowerPoint functions to create appealing presentations in thyssenkrupp corporate design. But what exactly are corporate design and corporate identity at thyssenkrupp? You will find out in this workshop. Using the thyssenkrupp styleguide, we will familiarize ourselves with the visual language and typical elements of thyssenkrupp presentations, applying useful resources and PowerPoint features in this regard. This will give you the tools you need to create presentations that not only meet thyssenkrupp’s design standards, but are also worthwhile and convincing.

Confidence and courage – What we can learn from historical pirates today

The world is turning faster and faster, is becoming more incalculable and constantly presents us with new challenges. Are there strategies to deal with this development constructively, even to make it controllable and usable for us individually? The historical pirates of 400 years ago did not know stable framework conditions, they were always and everywhere in mortal danger and had to act permanently more agile, faster and more surprising than their opponents in order to be successful. Their clever, unconventional and daring strategies provide us with an excellent role model for today.

Leading beyond Authority – Shaping collaboration, driving topics and projects

The program addresses the challenges teams are facing today: How can you cope with the complexity of today’s work environment, your role and your task? How can you convince your team members and colleagues to engage with your topics and contribute to your project? How can you achieve clarity regarding team goals and desired results and take everyone with you? How can you shape an appreciative and constructive team culture? We will get to the bottom of these and other questions in this program. You will reflect on the challenges of leadership without authority and be able to face them. You will understand your influence on trustful and goal-oriented cooperation and how to establish an appreciative and constructive team culture. You will discover important leadership tools and the basics of agile collaboration and be able to establish the team structure appropriate for the respective project goal.

Mastering your Transition Successfully

This program provides you with the tools, time and structure to specifically prepare yourself for your new role and its added management and leadership responsibilities.<br/> You will understand why the first 100 days in the new position are so important, learn the dos and don’ts as well as the success factors and challenges.

Speed reading techniques and memory training – How to manage the high amount of information

The amount of information we have to absorb every day is constantly increasing. Knowledge is today mainly delivered in digital form. Today, e-mails and electronic formats are our essential sources of information. Recognizing the essentials quickly and accurately and remembering it later is becoming increasingly challenging. By changing old habits, using amazingly simple and practical techniques, you can make this process easier and work more efficiently in the future.

Work Smarter, Not Harder – Workhacks for self-management & collaboration

High work pressure, diverse projects, changing teams, remote collaboration – all of this is looking for tips & tricks to optimize your skills. In this one-day, virtual training, you will discover and reflect on how you can optimize your working methods and strengthen collaboration in teams. You will dive into the topic of hybrid working and learn how you can increase your efficiency. <br/>You will expand your intercultural understanding and learn how to integrate this knowledge into your everyday work. In order to better organize your professional and personal everyday life, you will develop and reflect on practical skills in time and energy management that will help you. You will improve your communication skills through active listening, among other things, and thus strengthen your interpersonal relationships. And finally, master the art of constructive feedback to create an environment of continuous improvement.

Successful appearance in front of groups – Directly experience your own effect

In this program you will discover and develop your personal rhetorical potential. You will learn step by step the tools for effective performances. Proven exercises and detailed feedback support you on this path. You will experience and improve your personal impact on the audience. Your awareness of an understandable and powerful speech and voice will be reawakened. In this way, you will succeed, for example, in getting messages to the point and speaking fluently, without ""uhs"". Supplemented by the variety of expression possibilities by means of body language, you will manage to carry your audience along from the beginning to the end of your performance. Professional preparation and follow-up will help you to constantly improve your performances.

Presence with voice and body

You will learn how to use your body and voice to manage yourself, situations and the contact with others in an appreciative way. You will appear calm and powerful, even in emotionally tricky situations.

Excel - Discovering and using the basics

The course covers the most basic functions for everyday work and enables you to make simple data entries and formatting. The course covers the following topics: Introduction to the program interface, data input, filters, copy and paste functions, simple formatting, first steps with Excel formulas and functions, the most important keyboard shortcuts, efficient data management.

Excel - Expanding and extending functions

The course teaches the most important functions for everyday work and covers a wide range of features. The training covers the following topics: Basics refresh (simple formatting, filters, simple functions, copy and paste functions), Cell formats, Conditional formatting, Dropdown menus, Advanced function (mathematical, Statistical, Date, Logic, Lookup, relative and absolut cell references), Excel diagrams, Pivot tables & pivot diagrams.

PowerPoint - Discovering and using the basics

The program offers you an overview of the possibilities of PowerPoint and how these can be used in everyday working life, without going into too much detail. The goal of the training is to get confident in using the most frequently used PowerPoint functions. You will learn how to create your own presentations and insert elements such as text, images, tables and links. You will be able to create simple graphics and change the (general) slide layout (keyword: slide master).

Hot Topics

Lean & Agile
For most of us, lean and agile have become buzzwords and sometimes it seems that they have become terms that are used as a solution for everything. But what does lean and agile actually mean and where do the terms come from? What are lean and agile values, principles and common methods? Do you have an understanding of when to use lean and agile approaches – and when not?

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Leading and Working in a Hybrid World
Hybrid working – The interplay of people, some working in physical teams with others working virtually at the same time. The programs thatt you find in this hot topics provide you with the best possible support for the challenges of changing cooperation.

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Leading in Dynaxity
Our working world is characterized by high dynamics and complexity: Dynaxity. Control and management approaches that have been successful so far reach their limits of effectiveness. This hot topic includes learning opportunities for the development of a basic changing attitudes for leadership in a dynamic and complex world.

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Pathways to a Healthy Workforce
The selection of programs in the hot topic “Pathways to a healthy workforce” bridges the gap between entrepreneurial performance and the fundamental prerequisites for this – the health and satisfaction of employees and managers.

What our clients say

Sales Excellencetk
Federn und Stabilisatoren GmbH

Martin Meischein

"Together with the thyssenkrupp Academy we produced e-learnings as video trainings for our CRM system, which exceeded our expectations for quality and utility. The training videos facilitate the global rollout of the system and make the on-boarding process of new colleagues convenient and autonomous. Our colleagues at the Academy accompanied us in the didactic conception of the digital learning content, introduced us to the usage of the production tool and provided professional support throughout the entire process."

Manager Operation Service
thyssenkrupp Presta AG

Martin Jenny

"The program Leadership Communication offers the opportunity to reflect on the personal leadership skill to arouse emotions. Experienced and competent facilitators give advice and feedback on your leadership presence and behavior. Furthermore, you will get the chance to give and receive valuable feedback from your colleagues and thereby train this skill as well."

Business Developer/ Technical Specialist
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG

Erika Niino-Esser

"With rapidly growing teams at thyssenkrupp nucera I am happy to share our knowledge within our company. Thanks to the Digital Learning Team of the tk Academy we created an E-Learning-Series as well as a SimpleShow to support the on-boarding and development of our new colleagues. The work with the tk academy has been not only successful on a business level but also a great pleasure. A true success story!"

Leiter Arbeitsschutz
thyssenkrupp AG

Dr. Jörg Arnold

"The Pathways program of the thyssenkrupp Academy makes it possible to experience how change processes for improving the safety culture can be initiated and controlled at the operational level. Quite practical, without all bells and whistles. A great experience!"

General Manager Operations
thyssenkrupp Bilstein GmbH

Andreas Müller

"Our front line leadership transformation program together with the Academy created great impact. It is not a classical training with lectures and seminars. Shift leaders translate a new way of leadership directly in concrete improvement projects."

Leiter des globalen IT-Sicherheitsdienstes
thyssenkrupp Business Services GmbH

Dörthe Pult

"Intensive, highly relevant and cutting-edge programs with positive impact on my day-to-day business. I can strongly recommend the Academy's offerings."

Global HR Business Partner Bergbautechnologien
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions

Tina Siegert

"The Academy not only helped me develop myself both personally and professional with interesting trainings but also supported me in my role as Global HR Business Partner with workshops focused on concrete tools that added value to our business."

For Teams & Organization

Performance Culture
We are operating in a world that requires businesses to manage growth and performance at the same time. We can support your business to build the organizational capabilities for sustainable performance – in terms of leadership, strategy, customer approach, operations, innovation, etc.

For Teams & Organization

Digital Transformation
Developing and driving digital business is a matter of technology, but it also requires an organization that can continuously adapt and evolve and it requires the right people skills. We can customize your digital transformation journey with you, giving inspiration on technologies and organizational practices and helping you upskill your people in current digital skills.

For Teams & Organization

Customer Centricity
More and more, customers are uncompromising in demanding quick and competitively priced customized solutions. We support you in building an organization that puts your customer in the center and help focus your people and processes on an outstanding customer experience.

For Teams & Organization

Agile Organization
Numerous solutions for enhancing organizational agility have evolved, and it is quite challenging to work your way through the jungle for the specific solution that is right for your business. With our programs we help you identify and customize the agile organizational set ups, methodologies and tools that move your business forward.

For Teams & Organization

Business Model-Innovation
Our constantly changing market environment is putting pressure on our businesses to permanently adapt our strategy, products, processes and business approaches. Our programs give you insights on how business model innovation works and how continuous business renewal can be built into your business system.

For Teams & Organization

Team-Workshops
Are you in need of a quick intervention for your team, such as a project kick-off, a leadership team retreat, a team workshop, ….? Together we can design something that will fit your situation.

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