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Leadership Essentials: Leading Yourself
Clear role orientation and effective self-leadership for technical leaders. Lay the foundation for successful team leadership.
8-9 May 2026 | 2 days | German | Vienna
What to expect
The leap from expert to leader: The challenges
Technical experts and specialists move into leadership positions – often without systematic preparation for the new role. The challenge: connecting operational expertise with strategic leadership, setting clear priorities while developing your own effectiveness. Many new leaders face conflicting expectations. They should lead while still delivering technically, develop teams while achieving project goals, and drive change while providing stability.
The question is: How do I lead successfully when the role itself is still unclear?
Your Path to Effectiveness: Sharpen Identity, Set Focus, Apply Tools
This seminar provides orientation and strengthens your leadership identity as the foundation for successful team leadership. Using scientific frameworks (such as the Performance Core) and interactive outdoor exercises, you learn to steer yourself effectively and experience your leadership impact directly.
You'll practice balancing operational tasks and strategic responsibility, benefit from structured exchange with other leaders, and receive concrete tools you can apply directly in your daily work.
Your Benefits at a Glance
- You gain orientation on leadership know-how and methods for effective self-leadership
- You become aware of your role and identity as a leader (foundation for team leadership)
- You learn to steer yourself effectively and set priorities correctly
Target Audience: From Technical Expert to Leader
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- Technical specialists and leaders as well as project managers
- Specialists in transition to leadership roles
- Emerging leaders (3-10 years of experience)
- Leaders focused on reflection and self-efficacy
Program Overview & Methods
- Leadership Identity & Mindset: Reflection on your own role: Where do I stand? How do I have impact? What distinguishes operational tasks from strategic leadership?
- Performance Core Framework: Understanding and applying the four performance dimensions of successful leadership work (Execution, Engagement, Enhancement, Enforcement).
- Leadership Value Chains: Analysis of the tasks that define real leadership success.
- Effective Self-Leadership: Strategies for prioritization (importance vs. urgency) and methods for efficient self-management.
- Practice Transfer: Work on your own case examples, structured exchange of experience, and peer feedback.
- Group Unit: Experience and reflect on leadership impact and team dynamics in real exercises.
- You gain orientation on leadership know-how and methods to lead yourself effectively
- You become aware of your role and identity as a leader, laying the foundation for successful team leadership
- You learn to steer yourself effectively
- Insights from research
- Work on participants' own practical case examples
- Structured exchange of experience and peer feedback
- Group exercises as practical experimentation field with direct feedback
Ihre Vortragende
Assistant Professor, TU Wien | Institute of Management Science
Dr. Kleinhanns-Rollé researches and teaches leadership in the context of change, team performance, and digital leadership. She leads executive education programs in leadership and brings current research findings directly into practice. Her expertise lies in developing leaders at the intersection of technology and management.
Dates & Registration
| Next date: | May 8-9, 2026, 09:00–17:00 each day |
| Registration deadline: | April 30, 2026 |
| Price*: | € 1,590 (incl. course materials, refreshments, certificate) |
| Early Bird Price: | €1,390 for registration by March 15, 2026 |
| Additional dates: | Autumn 2026 |
Prerequisites: Professional experience in technical/business functions. No academic degree required.
*: Further price reductions for members of the TU Wien Community. Details upon registration.
Certificate
After successful participation in both seminar days, you will receive a certificate from TU Wien Academy.
Presence and active participation in group exercises is required. For credit toward further MBA programs, a reflection or transfer task can optionally be submitted as a short written report.
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