Welcome to the thyssenkrupp Academy

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.

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 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.

In today's work environment, remote work and working on the go are becoming increasingly important. While the flexibility and comfort of hybrid work offer many advantages, managing time effectively and dealing with potential distractions can be challenging. At the same time, it’s becoming harder to truly disconnect as work and personal life increasingly overlap.  This program teaches you methods to minimize distractions in your daily home office routine and plan your tasks efficiently. You will develop strategies to enhance your self-organization and motivation, helping you maintain your drive even when working from home. Finally, you will learn approaches to establish a clear boundary between your professional and personal life, promoting a healthy work-life balance and preventing burnout.

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.

The program offers you an overview of the possibilities of PowerBI and how to use it in your day-to-day work. The aim of the training is to enable you to use the basic functions of PowerBI with confidence. In addition to tips on working with data, you will learn how to create your own dashboards, how to customize the view and how to use the software in different application areas. You will be able to provide ready-made dashboards and create a live preview, such as from simple data combinations.</br>What is PowerBI?<br/>Power BI allows you to import data from various sources and visualize it in appealing charts and reports. This data can be explored interactively. Powerful analysis tools and real-time data integration make it easy to work with existing datasets. You can easily share reports and integrate them into Microsoft products. The platform is scalable, cloud-based and mobile. It also enables companies to make data-driven decisions and gain insights into their data.

You apply structuring skills and pyramidal communication in order to better communicate your concerns in meetings and presentations “to the point”. In this so-called pyramidal communication, the core message is at the beginning of your verbal or written communication, to be subsequently explained in a logical manner with the "best" numbers, data and facts – ideal for your internal decision templates or external customer presentations.

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.

The amount of information we have to absorb every day is constantly increasing. Knowledge is today mainly delivered in digital form. Today, e-mails and electronic formats are our essential sources of information. Recognizing the essentials quickly and accurately and remembering it later is becoming increasingly challenging. By changing old habits, using amazingly simple and practical techniques, you can make this process easier and work more efficiently in the future.

The course covers the most basic functions for everyday work and enables you to load simple data sources using Power Query in Excel and perform data transformations.