Welcome to the thyssenkrupp Academy

Participants will learn how to act as leaders in complex, technology-driven environments and how to foster innovation capabilities. At the core lies continuous adaptability as a key driver for future readiness. They will gain insights into how to deal with uncertainty, develop alternative future scenarios, and unlock creative potential through the targeted use of artificial intelligence in combination with human intelligence. The session will also explore how to analyze the organizational context, use tradition as a foundation and orientation for innovation, and create space for exploration.

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.

Target group segmentation: Learn how AI recognizes patterns in customer data and helps you define target groups precisely. - Content creation: Automate the generation of social media posts, blog articles, offers, and emails with AI-powered tools. - Trend analysis: Use AI to identify market developments early on and adjust your strategies accordingly. - Campaign optimization: Understand how AI evaluates real-time data to allocate budgets in a targeted manner and maximize the success of your campaigns. - AI-powered customer engagement: Develop chatbot-powered strategies to efficiently tap into new markets and build lasting customer loyalty. - Technical and ethical framework: Recognize the opportunities and limitations of AI in marketing and use AI responsibly.

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.

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 program offers you a platform for intensive self-reflection with regard to challenges that determine the typical daily routine as a manager. Together with other participants you will learn how to create a performance-enhancing work environment for your team. You will reflect on your personal leadership values, your approach and your style in conflict situations and you will certainly gain some additional insights regarding the best mindset to deal with conflicts even more successfully. More than ever before, being a leader additionally means leading in times of constant change. Therefore, on the one hand, in this program we take a look at how change from the outside is implemented in a team. On the other hand, we will discuss how to implement ideas and suggestions in your area of responsibility on your own initiative as the responsible manager.

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.

How can you clearly formulate expectations, assign responsibilities transparently, and stay in dialog even in difficult situations? A helpful method that supports this is the Supporting Dialog from the Focus 5 Toolbox. In this program, you will learn how to use the Supporting Dialog as a structured leadership tool – in one-on-one conversations, in performance reviews, or in team meetings. You will work specifically on identifying root causes rather than combating symptoms, and develop a keen eye for the emotional dynamics in conversations.<br/>You will learn how to clearly define goals, responsibilities, and performance indicators such as KPIs or OKRs, use feedback effectively, and create psychological safety – even when you need to speak plainly or address consequences. You will reflect on your own attitude toward leadership, responsibility, and development and expand your ability to combine coaching, feedback, and consequences at the right moment.

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”.

In this program you will gain a better awareness of your own leadership style within your project and its influence on the behavior of your project team. You will be enabled to effectively lead your project team and expand your competencies in this regard. In addition, you will learn to exercise your project leadership role in a purposeful way based on trust, a good project culture and emotional intelligence.

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.

Inner strength and a good way of dealing with yourself are the basis for a self-confident appearance as well as for a good cooperation with colleagues, superiors, employees and customers.  Dealing well with yourself - what sounds so simple is sometimes a fine art. This is not least due to the fact that the many challenges in everyday life often leave little time to reflect on oneself, on one's own life. As a consequence, we constantly lose the inner contact to ourselves. Therefore, take some time for yourself in this seminar. Experience the many possibilities for more power and serenity in life. Develop clarity about your own personality, recognize constricting thought patterns and learn to let them go. Learn the central pillars of self-awareness, do your personal values check, question your own values and recognize new possibilities for action.

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.