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Next Level Leadership Certificate (Certificate Course)

Fact sheet

Graduation
Zertifikat

Taught language
Englisch

Specialization
Leadership

Program Emphasis
Leadership

Course options
Certificate program

Locations
Mannheim

Contact

Contact person
MBS Open Courses & Certificates Team
Do you want to reach the next level of your career and strengthen your leadership profile? Get ready to take the next step with this three-module, on-site certificate program. We support you in sharpening your skills, defining your leadership goals and becoming the leader you strive to be. Grow your career with access to expert insights, a powerful network, and practical tools. Connect with driven professionals in a flexible, modular program designed to fit your busy schedule.

This is the program for you if you want to further enhance your leadership skills, develop your personal growth, and make a bigger impact at your company. The Next Level Leadership Certificate is tailored for young to mid-level managers with at least three years of leadership or project lead experience, either with or without an academic degree. You should have taken up your first leadership role and have good English language skills.

Learn from leadership best practices and work on your personal action plan to unlock your full potential as a leader, master the challenges of leading from a "sandwich" position, and sharpen your negotiation skills to achieve better outcomes and build trustful relationships with clients, stakeholders and team members. Finally, you will explore the ways in which AI will change leadership and what positive and negative effects a growing role of AI in leadership might engender.

Designed for real-world impact, this program features a mix of expert-led lectures, case studies, practical exercises, and dynamic discussions to deepen your understanding and sharpen your skills.

Program Emphasis

Best Practices in Influencing Followers
  • What works best in fostering engagement, performance, and satisfaction of followers?
  • How you can benefit from this knowledge
Best Practices in Leadership Career Advancement
  • How to build both personal and position power
  • What traits, habits, and actions foster leadership career success?
Self-Reflection and Your Personal Vision
  • My current self as a leader: Where do I currently stand and what results have I gotten so far?
  • My ideal self as a leader: The leader I strive to become in the future
Taking Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level
  • How to bridge the gap from the leader you are today (current self) to the leader you strive to become (ideal self)
  • Your individualized action plan for unlocking your full potential as a leader – both in terms of positively influencing others and advancing your own career
Leading in a Sandwich Position
  • Juggling priorities and expectations in the multiverse of Planets I – We – and It
  • Using the Ofman Core Quadrant model to discover hidden competences and pitfalls
Change Leadership
  • Identify opportunities and barriers to create organizational change and learning
  • “The Iron Law” of change leadership
  • Behavioural design and leadership experiments to create concrete and specific changes
  • The Pre Mortem framework as a method of prediction and mitigation of change failure or success
Negotiation for Leaders
  • How to deal successfully with difficult clients, team members and bosses?
  • Our skills to negotiate in challenging situations are amongst the most important success factors for our careers
  • Develop more trusted relationships with key stakeholders and team members
AI & The Future of Leadership
  • How AI will change the nature of leadership
  • How you as a leader can benefit from AI
  • What will change and what will remain the same – and what to focus on going forward

Requirements / Application

At least 3 years of leadership or significant project lead experience, good English language skills

Important Dates

Register by July 20, 2025, to save €1,000 with our early-bird offer! The final registration deadline will be September 2, 2025.

Tuition / Fees

€7,500, Early-bird price €6,500

Duration of study

Online Kick-off: September 10, 3-4 PM CEST,
Modules: September 17-18, October 16-17, and November 12-13, 2025

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