Welcome to the thyssenkrupp Academy

The program provides you with an overview of fundamental leadership topics. You will be introduced to the most important management tools for professional leadership. You will understand your role as a leader and the expectations towards this role. You will be able to selectively apply different options for action as a leader and to master typical leadership situations successfully. Furthermore, you will learn how to lead teams in a systematic way and how to establish smooth collaboration in the team.

You will be able to use the most important argumentation techniques confidently and to convince your interlocutor of your concerns even in the face of resistance. You know the decisive factors of personal assertiveness. This will enable you to steer conversations confidently and to assert your own point of view. You know the meaning of status games and can vary your behavior according to the situation. You have a tool at hand with which you can view and influence every day and professional interactions from a completely new perspective. You know how to defuse tense, difficult situations, speak plainly and embody positive authority in a credible way.

Professional moderation helps in meetings and workshops, despite the different expectations of the participants, not to lose the red thread and to move forward together. The commitment of the participants grows when goals are clearly defined and results can be recorded and reviewed. In this program, you will learn techniques and methods to gain even more confidence in your moderation role. With the learned facilitation techniques, you will be able to lead information, planning, or decision-making processes in groups. Your goal-oriented facilitation will produce sustainable results and the participants will work effectively. You create an open communication atmosphere, ensure understanding among the participants and contribute to the clarification of conflicts.

Especially in uncertain and dynamic times, our personal stress management is challenged: Tasks and goals change constantly, permanent change challenges us and in all of this, we try to balance private and professional goals and expectations. In short: stress is pre-programmed. In this program, you will learn how to deal with these challenges and remain calm and confident even in demanding times.

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.

In this virtual program you will get security in the use of MS Teams and improve your facilitator skills. You learn how to use MS Teams functions such as chat, webcam and breakout rooms in a new way that makes MS Teams meetings much more effective. You get concrete ideas how to increase participants‘ attention by using different interactive elements. You get tips and tricks how to efficiently structure and organize your MS Teams meetings.

The technological development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially Generative AI, opens up unimagined possibilities – and much faster than anticipated, but also with many possible directions. But what is certain: AI will be an integral part of all our lives in a few at the latest, and the sooner we get to grips with the possibilities, the better we can actively manage the potentials and challenges ahead. In our exclusive AI Bootcamp, you'll discover the future of AI for your business in two consecutive half days. On the first afternoon, you will learn via various impulses and expert presentations which technological developments will determine the next few years and which scenarios may occur. This will help you better understand the strategic importance of AI for your customers and your business. The next morning, you will actively participate in a workshop. You will develop a realistic AI scenario and define your strategic positioning. Our goal is to inspire you to understand all facets of AI, to derive the impact on your business model and to develop first short- and long-term approaches. Join us and secure your spot in this AI Bootcamp now to start unlocking the full potential of Artificial Intelligence for your business.

Leadership in an environment that is characterized by high dynamic and complexity (dynaxity), requires the structure and design of (more) agile organizational units. This does not require less leadership, but rather a different kind of leadership. This program therefore provides a precise map of classic and agile leadership and the associated attitudes. In addition to understand the new concepts, the program offers possibilities for a personal internalization of the underlying way of thinking which finally enables a real expansion of the leadership repertoire in practice. Contents here are: - Why leadership changes and must change - Constructive handling of ambiguity, dynamics and complexity - Leading teams in a potential-oriented manner – role and strength-based cooperation

Project work is increasingly becoming a daily task at thyssenkrupp. Whether it's external customer projects or internal changes – the structured handling of projects is a key success factor for achieving the project goals set, completing the project on time, and using resources efficiently. In this program, you will learn to apply project management methods and processes to projects according to the latest industry standards.

Project Managers and their core teams often work under extreme pressure. They have to collaborate in a highly dynamic environment, challenged by many unforeseen situations every day. In this training you will experiment and learn how to work and make decisions as a high performing team under highest pressure.

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”.

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.

Managers and employees responsible for improvement projects (project owners), as well as OPX multipliers. -Get to know Six Sigma@thyssenkrupp -Introduction to Six Sigma – roles and tasks -Get an overview of DMAIC and DFSS (Design for Six Sigma). -Be part of a simulation. -Be introduced to project examples and organization of Six Sigma rollouts.