International VDI Workshop - Modern Leadership Competences
with a certificate of attendance
- Understand basic leadership competencies
- Learn about how to give good feedback and manage performance
- Gain confidence when dealing with conflict
- Expand upon your team optimization and management skills
- Learn effective communication methods that will make an impact and achieve results

This practically oriented VDI workshop will give you a clear and lasting understanding of the key competencies necessary to succeed as a leader and to make an impact in technical environments and projects. From leveraging leadership techniques and using hands-on communication methods to learning how to encourage collaboration and avoid conflict, this workshop will give you the skills you need to strengthen your own personality as a leader.
To succeed is to lead
In today’s demanding and fast-moving technical environments, strong, effective and insightful leadership is often the key to the success of teams, projects and organizations. This practical VDI workshop will focus on honing the skills you need to strengthen your ability to deal not just with your own colleagues, but with customers, stakeholders and other leaders as well.
In a series of inspiring training sessions, you can take advantage of one-to-one trainer feedback and learn about the basic competencies of leadership, the significance of feedback and performance management, team optimization and effective communication skills, to name but a few. This highly specialized workshop will also look at modern leadership styles, which form the basis for agile leadership methods, project team leadership as well as virtual and lateral leadership. If you are a leader in a technical organization, then this workshop is ideal for you to take your leadership personality and skills to the next level and succeed.
Content of the Workshop
The VDI Modern Leadership Competencies Workshop will cover the following areas:
Introduction | |
Key-Leadership-Competencies | |
Feedback Competence | |
Performance Know-How | |
Communication Tools for Day-by-Day Purposes | |
Collaboration Competence | |
Basic Change-Handling | |
Conflict-Competence | |
Leadership Specials |
Target audience for the workshop
The VDI Modern Leadership Competencies Workshop is designed for the following professionals:
- Leaders in technical working environments
- Team leaders without disciplinary authority
- Experts in matrix-organizations and sandwich positions
- Leaders in project management or agile environments who want to enhance their basic leadership competencies
- Management trainees
Your Workshop Chair
Dr.-Ing. Klaus Kindler, Managing Director, Performance & Success GmbH, Hannover, Germany
Dr. Kindler is Managing Director of Performance & Success GmbH, which focuses on management excellence in the high-tech sector, specializing in medium sized enterprises working in IT and telecommunications as well as automotive supply.
Prior to this, he worked with Vodafone (previously Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH) since 1991. During this time he held various management positions and took charge of the nationwide expansion of the network. He was responsible for 1,800 employees. Throughout the course of his career, he has demonstrated a keen interest in high-performance leadership, which led him to move to the HR side of the business, where he took on the role of Director of Business HR in 2006. In 2013, Dr. Kindler founded Performance & Success GmbH.
Book now
You want to learn about effective leadership methods, including better communication, team and performance optimization and conflict management? You would like to take your leadership skills to the next level and gain the skills you need to succeed in technical environments? Then book your ticket for the VDI Modern Leadership Competencies Workshop now!
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