Welcome to the thyssenkrupp Academy

The future starts now, because Artificial Intelligence is increasingly finding its way into our everyday working lives and will shape and change them. AI can already be found in our production and manufacturing, but it will also become part of our applications such as Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. AI will support and relieve us in many areas, open up new possibilities, simplify our processes and improve our performance as an organization. We will use it to generate texts and images, create concepts and proposals and to process information. So it's time to get to grips with the topic of AI and be curious in order to exploit the full potential of AI in the future. This program helps you to understand and classify the basics of AI and takes away any fear of contact with AI systems in a playful way. Regardless of your current knowledge and previous experience with AI, you will learn the necessary skills in dealing with generative AI and language models such as Copilot, GPTs and other AIs.

Increasing efficiency with AI – Automate time-consuming tasks and optimize workflows. - Opportunities and challenges – Understand how AI creates added value in logistics and what risks you need to deal with. - Practical applications – Gain insights into proven AI techniques, targeted prompt strategies, and role-specific solutions. - Data-driven decisions – Use AI-supported analyses to make informed decisions. - Compliance and risk management – Identify and minimize risks while efficiently implementing regulatory requirements.

Efficient lead qualification: Use AI bots to identify potential customers and prioritize leads. - Competitive analysis: Let AI gather information about competing products and evaluate them from the customer's perspective. - Personalized customer communication: Use AI bots to quickly and accurately create customized messages, product and service explanations, offers, and content. - Sales pitch optimization: Develop compelling sales strategies for different target groups with the help of AI bots. - Automation of routine tasks: Take the pressure off your team by automating time-consuming processes such as scheduling appointments or preparing quotes. - Preparation for meetings and negotiations: Let AI bots compile relevant information and arguments to help you prepare for customer meetings and contract negotiations.

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally transforming the way we work – and it's happening now. Those who understand the basics and recognize the potential today will be better equipped to lead with confidence, make informed decisions, and drive innovation tomorrow. With our two-part program “Fast Lane to AI – Your Personal AI Boost”, you'll receive a solid foundation and personalized support tailored to your real-world challenges

The world is changing with increasing speed. What has made you successful so far does not guarantee that it will continue to do so. Focus 5 offers concrete methods and tools that set the frame for sustainably successful leaders, teams and organizations. This program gives you an insight into these leadership practices and helps you to integrate them into your day-to-day leadership and bring them to life together with your team. The result: you will increase the performance of your team as well as the motivation and satisfaction of your employees. Your leadership style becomes more secure, even in uncertain times. Decide for yourself how you want to shape the future for you and your team.

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.

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”.

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.

You will discover coaching as a powerful leadership tool which you can use to enable your people to both achieve peak performance and to reach their full potential.

Introduction Lean Six Sigma @ thyssenkrupp - Methods of process improvements - DMAIC approach - Define Project management of Six Sigma projects - Measure Identification of critical customer & business requirements - Analyze Cause analysis and process mapping - Improve Development of solutions - Control Process control and monitoring

Today, working from home and remote is becoming increasingly important. But while the flexibility and convenience of hybrid working offers many benefits, it can also be a challenge to manage your time effectively and maintain motivation. In this program, you will learn how to optimize the way you work to stay productive and organized and how to manage multiple challenges with less stress and more focus by using appropriate methods and prioritization. You will manage your time more confidently and improve your work performance!

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.

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.