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Efficient Meetings for Leaders – How to start improving our meeting culture today

Are you frustrated with endless meetings that yield no clear results? Do you and your team struggle to manage daily tasks because you're constantly jumping from one meeting to the next? Despite everyone's dissatisfaction, has this situation remained unchanged for years? In our online training "Efficient Meetings for Leaders", you will learn why it is so difficult to change the meeting culture in a company and what you can do to counteract it. You will receive concrete ideas on how you and your team can quickly achieve significant improvements with small steps and how to implement these changes permanently. You will also get practical ideas on proven methods, tools, and roles, and learn how to test and embed them within your team over a period of 4 weeks.

Efficient Meetings 1 – Your time is valuable: Small steps, big impact!

Are you frustrated with endless meetings that yield no clear results? In this online training "Effective Meetings 1," you will learn why it is so difficult to change the meeting culture in a company and how you can make a positive contribution yourself. You will learn how to better organize your meetings and use your time more efficiently to achieve better results. You will receive ideas on how to behave specifically in inefficient meetings with other people to be efficient yourself while remaining a team player.

Discovering Inspirational Leadership

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. 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.

Forming Leadership Mindset

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.

Leading Through Coaching

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.

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”.

Beyond the Limits 2.0 – Learning behavioral and communication patterns under stress conditions in the flight simulator.

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.

Successfully managing improvement projects as a leader – Lean Six Sigma Champion Training

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.

Successfully supporting improvement projects Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Training

- Introduction to Lean / Six Sigma - Problem-solving process - Tools and methods of the DMAIC cycle: Define – Measure – Analyze – Improve – Control

Time management in a hybrid world – How to stay organized and motivated

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!

Leading in Dynaxity – Leadership Reflection

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

Negotiation Skills Advanced

Negotiations are not always easy and smooth, let alone conflict-free. A successful negotiator is not only expected to have the right strategy and arguments at hand, but also to be competent in negotiation psychology, to have an instinct for complex interrelationships and a confident, convincing performance. In this program you will acquire extensive knowledge and tools for the correct handling of the most diverse difficult negotiation situations and behavioral patterns of negotiation partners. At the same time you sharpen the perception of your own typical behavioral patterns in a negotiation, recognize the added value of team negotiations (but also their risks), and know how to apply specific tools and tactics in a negotiation. A further topic is negotiation at a distance, which has gained importance especially due to the Covid-19 pandemic: How can I build up empathy with my negotiation partner despite distance, how do I deal with stress caused by the new digital medias and what are the Do's & Don’ts of digital negotiations?

PowerPoint @ tk: think-cell

The program offers you an overview of the possibilities of think-cell, whose biggest advantage is its simple handling. You will learn how to create meaningful diagrams with aid of think-cell and get a feeling for the right choice of diagrams, taking into account the thyssenkrupp corporate design. The goal is to be able to create worthwhile diagrams by using think-cell, which will enable you to create presentations on a next level.

PowerPoint @ tk: Create appealing slides in corporate design

This course shows you how to efficiently design presentations in the thyssenkrupp corporate design. With the help of the thyssenkrupp styleguide, you will also learn which formatting and visual language are used at thyssenkrupp. In addition, effective tools and sources will be used.

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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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