Leadership Training Courses: Live & Virtual

The SCARF model acts as a central part of our seminars, and provides a valuable framework for understanding and addressing key motivational drivers within a leadership context:

• Status: Recognizing and acknowledging the importance of each team member’s status and contributions, fostering an inclusive and respectful environment that values diverse perspectives and expertise.
• Certainty: Providing clarity and transparency in communication, setting clear expectations, and reducing ambiguity to establish a sense of security and confidence among team members.
• Relatedness: Cultivating positive relationships and building a sense of connection among team members, fostering collaboration, empathy, and a supportive team culture.
• Autonomy: Encouraging and empowering team members to take ownership of their work, providing autonomy within defined boundaries, and promoting a sense of independence and accountability.
• Fairness: Ensuring equitable treatment, fair distribution of resources and opportunities, and impartial decision-making processes to promote trust, engagement, and a sense of justice within the team.

Conflict is an inherent aspect of any team or organization, and effective conflict management is crucial for leadership success. Our training focuses on equipping leaders with strategies to identify, address, and resolve conflicts constructively. This includes techniques such as active listening, negotiation, mediation, and problem-solving approaches that foster understanding and collaborative resolutions.

Feedback exercises and tools are essential components of leadership development. Leaders learn effective feedback skills, including providing both constructive and positive feedback, active listening, and fostering a feedback culture within the team. Tools such as feedback models and structured feedback sessions enhance communication and performance improvement.

Team-building activities play a significant role in fostering a positive and collaborative team culture. Our virtual live leadership training courses incorporate team-building exercises, trust-building exercises, and collaborative projects to strengthen relationships, enhance communication, and create a cohesive and high-performing team.

Strengthening resilience is vital for leaders to navigate challenges effectively. Our virtual live leadership training courses focus on the seven pillars of resilience, including optimism, self-regulation, self-efficacy, social support, mindfulness, purpose, and gratitude. Leaders learn techniques to enhance their resilience, cope with challenges, and support their team members in building resilience.

Motivation is a key driver of individual and team performance. Online leadership training incorporates methods to strengthen self- and team motivation, including goal-setting, recognition, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation strategies, and creating an inspiring vision that aligns with individual and team goals.

Leading with agility is essential in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment. Online leadership training emphasizes the importance of adaptive and agile leadership approaches that embrace change, flexibility, and continuous improvement. Leaders learn to foster innovation, empower team members, and create an environment that encourages experimentation, learning, and growth.

Networking skills are crucial for leaders to build meaningful connections and expand their professional relationships and knowledge. Our online leadership training offers techniques and strategies to enhance networking skills, including effective communication, active listening, and leveraging networking opportunities.

Innovation thinking is essential for leaders to drive organizational growth and success. Online leadership training focuses on developing innovation thinking by providing tools, methodologies, and exercises that foster a culture of innovation within the team. This includes techniques such as brainstorming, design thinking, and encouraging diverse perspectives.

Becoming a great motivator is a fundamental aspect of effective leadership. Our virtual live leadership training courses equip leaders with the skills to inspire and motivate their team members. This includes effective communication, goal alignment, providing constructive feedback, recognizing achievements, and fostering a positive and supportive work environment.

Listening and decisiveness are critical leadership skills. Our online leadership training focuses on improving listening skills, understanding non-verbal cues, and making informed decisions based on collected information and perspectives.

Overcoming perfectionism and micromanagement is essential for leaders to foster a healthy work environment. Our training supports leaders in understanding the negative impacts of perfectionism and micromanagement and provides strategies to delegate tasks, trust team members, and focus on outcomes rather than control.

Developing trust and providing employees with autonomy are vital for effective leadership. Our training emphasizes trust-building and creating a culture of trust within the team. Leaders learn techniques to delegate tasks, provide autonomy, and empower team members while maintaining accountability and support.

Balancing stress as a leader is crucial for personal well-being and optimal performance. Online leadership training addresses stress management techniques, including cognitive, regenerative, and structural stress management, helping leaders maintain a healthy work-life balance, manage stress effectively, and support their well-being.

Michael was born in Germany in 1976 and worked as an adventure reporter for German TV networks from 2002 to 2016. His docu-series “How to Travel the World for Free” was nominated several times for awards in Germany. His book of the same title had a great success in the US with invitations to the Today Show and Tonight Show together with Katy Perry. The TV series of the same name aired on ZDFneo in Germany and PBS television nationwide in the US.

Michael has won various awards for different challenge projects, such as the ZDF VJ Newcomer Award. Since 2013 Michael lives in the US state of Colorado and works as a trainer, speaker and coach both in the US and in Germany. He gives his online formats for German clients from his home office in the USA.

Other TV series and books: “Trade Up – from an Apple to a House”, “2,000 Miles on a Razor Scooter in 80 Days”, “50 States of Wigge”.

Michael’s best known keynotes are “LEADER Success” and “The Challenger Mindset”, which he delivers to companies in German and English. In addition to the keynotes, he provides soft skills seminars on a variety of topics including motivation, time management, resilience, stress management, change management and one-on-one coaching for employees and leaders.

Links: Stress Training for Managers; Motivational Training; Prominent Speaker

Mai 2025: Boston, USA

Juli 2025: Leipzig, Germany

August 2025: Dresden, Germany

November 2025: Denver, USA; Phoenix USA