Agile & New Work

One of thyssenkrupp’s top strategic priorities is the sustainable stabilization of the financial situation. This task is not only within the responsibility of our executive board, managing directors and top leaders. We can only be successful if we think and act in an entrepreneurial way on all company levels. The prerequisite for successful entrepreneurial activity is a fundamental understanding of business economic mechanisms – which is conveyed in this practice-oriented program. For this purpose, you will not only concentrate on creating a deeper understanding for general key performance indicators to analyze the financial performance of a company but also on the direct transfer to your own area and tasks within thyssenkrupp. You will learn how to systematically evaluate cost and value drivers in your own area and how to adjust them to maximize the financial performance.

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

In any profession, making a good presentation is the be-all and end-all. Successful presentations require much more than colorful PowerPoint charts. Bad presentations and speeches are lost time and wasted opportunities.  Together with your trainer, you will work out what you need to do to spark the audience: How do I prepare properly? How do I practice a presentation? How do I make a good first impression? How do I place my message effectively? How do I convince – indeed, how do I inspire – my audience? 

As of a leader of a hybrid team, how can I Continue to lead successfully and set the necessary impulses? - Build and maintain connection and trust-based relationships within the team? - Maintain sense of identification and loyalty with the company? - Enable innovation/new ideas to emerge despite the lack of physical, informal touchpoints? - Achieve fairness in dealing with, evaluating and leading the team members? - Create transparency of information? - Maintain team motivation in virtual, hybrid working methods over a longer period of time?

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.

Let’s SCRUM! Meet your virtual thyssenkrupp colleagues Paula, Stefanie and Steve and see them working on a project using SCRUM as methodology. After completing this E-learning, you will have a basic understanding of the SCRUM framework and have gained first experiences with the application of SCRUM.

Do you know that about yourself? You are part of a change process that is necessary and already well planned – and yet the implementation does not work, and some team members are already in resistance. You are not alone, this is the case in 70% of all change processes! Whether it is the implementation of the New Year’s resolutions or the digitalization – change always means behavioral change and the “human factor” is not always sufficiently considered in its unpredictability. During this program, you will receive a practical toolbox to steer change processes in a pragmatic way. You will shed light on your own role in change processes and the appropriate inner attitude. Working with the toolbox and on your own attitude follows basic principles of agile work. In this way, you additionally gain a general understanding of agile methods and reflect on their areas of application outside of change management. Already during the program, in small groups you will start to develop concrete change measures for real change challenges in your team or project, working in an agile way. You will define the “why” of your own change challenge more clearly and understand how you can shape the change in a positive way.

To achieve the desired success on both sides in a feedback discussion, tact alone is not enough. Learn practical tools and strategies for giving and receiving effective and targeted feedback.

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?

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.

You ask yourself “what is litigation, why is it important for my daily work?” Litigation is a proceeding by which a party files a law suit against another in the civil court of law. The tendency that claims are litigated in construction projects has dramatically increased. Everyone, also you as a project team member, might be interrogated as a witness! In this E-Learning you will learn the do’s and don'ts in communication to support the position of thyssenkrupp in disputes.

The successful handling of smaller or larger customer projects is a main part of the business model of thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions and a challenge of the persons in charge. A key success factor for executing external customer projects is professional project management.This Program enables Project Managers and Project team members to apply PM methods and processes based on PME Guidebook 2.0 and PMI®. It includes methodologies of the bid phase as well as the execution phase of a project.

thyssenkrupp employees can find lots of relevant information for their usage of MS Teams. This E-Learning will help you to find helpful resources for the specific topics that you are looking for, understand basic and advanced functions as well as explore more effective ways to integrate MS Teams in your everday working life.

This eLearning module is a first introduction to projects and project work. You will receive an overview of the most important methods and process stepps of classical project management.

In this E-Learning you will learn what it takes to become a good sponsor and how you can make a difference for your projects.

In this interactive learning simulation you are a Project Manager. You will manage your own project team, have to make important decisions, negotiate with your Project Sponsor and will get feedback from a virtual coach.

The E-Learning is intended for those who would like to learn more about the basis and background of risk management. You will need about 90 minutes for the whole course, including the exercises. You can stop at any time, though, and save your current status.

You strive for the PM Specialist Certification @ tkIS. This program is your final training part to achieve it. As part of the certification you have to prepare a “My current Project” report and a presentation in advance. You present and discuss your project and receive valuable feedback of the trainer and the other participants. Cash is king! Therefore you will enhance your skills to improve your project cash flow. You will work on your conflict management skills and your PM role as „CEO of the project“.

The program focuses on strengthening your skills in strategy, entrepreneurship and decision-making. Additionally, you will discuss and reflect on agile leadership. You will learn techniques for effective decision making and apply them in concrete examples. Thus, you will expand your ability to take ideas and translate them into actionable, sustainable and innovative outcomes. This increases the performance and value contribution of your own area of responsibility. You will learn how to drive business in an innovative way, using available resources and in alignment with the corporate vision.

When a project hits a barrier, it can take an entire team into crisis mode. This program prepares you effectively on the one hand to realize the early warning signals of an arising crisis and how to prevent crisis. On the other hand it prepares you how to successfully deal with stakeholders and team members in case of project crisis. You gain a rich set of strategies and techniques for prevention, mastering and intervention of a project crisis.

Leadership in an environment that is characterized by high dynamics and complexity (dynaxity) requires a new “agile” leadership mindset, promoting an empowered, highly self-organized work force. This program provides a precise map of agile leadership and the associated behaviors. On the one hand, concrete practices, tools and methods are discussed and how these can be applied to one's own leadership style. On the other hand, deep personal experiences will be made possible, which will broaden the view of leadership in the long term, both in terms of self-leadership and the leadership of the entire organization.<br/> Intense coaching and reflection, as well as exchange and discussion on the following topics: - Why leadership must change and what this means for self-leadership - Constructively empowering teams and organizations to pursue company goals - Leading teams in a potential-oriented manner – role and strength-based cooperation - Development of personal leadership vision/one's own leadership model

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.

The successful handling of smaller or larger customer projects is a main part of the business model of thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions and a challenge of the persons in charge. A key success factor for executing external customer projects is professional project management.This Program enables Project Managers and Project team members to apply PM methods and processes based on PME Guidebook 2.0 and PMI®. It includes methodologies of the bid phase as well as the execution phase of a project.

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.