4Cs Leadership Compass – your company-specific in-house program.

At the management level, self-reflection and the continuous development of key competencies are important. We support companies with this proven in-house training program, which sustainably strengthens their managers’ leadership effectiveness, role confidence, and teamwork skills.


4Cs Leadership Compass® – the leadership program.

Megatrends such as a constantly changing world of work, demographics, digitalisation, AI, New Work and the collaboration of four generations in the workplace require a constant review and realignment of collaboration and leadership. Based on international studies, our experience and our own analyses, we have identified four essential key competencies of collaboration and leadership that have the greatest influence on leadership quality and leadership culture. These are:

  1. Communication & Clarity
  2. Conflict & Emotion
  3. Change & Entrepreneurship
  4. Coaching & Compassion

4Cs Leadership Compass® – modules and focal points

In our proprietary concept The 4Cs of Leadership®, the four essential key competencies of cooperation and leadership are summarised and placed at the centre of this qualification, making leadership a new experience and agility a natural part of the corporate culture.

This qualification programme will enable you to reflect on your own personality, motives and attitude, recognise your own skills and potential and develop your behaviour in a targeted manner by means of internationally scientifically standardised, evidence-based profiling. This takes place in a business and role context.
Your in-house qualification programme for managers

This ILD qualification programme is generally divided into 6 modules and can be tailored to your company’s specific needs. For this purpose, a joint needs analysis and a content and methodological focus are carried out in advance. Proven modules and contents can be

Module 1: Find Yourself – Attitude & self-awareness

  • Trends in and basics of leadership
  • Self-reflection on leadership attitude and understanding
  • Key competences of cooperation and leadership

Module 2: Lead Yourself – Mastering Communication

  • Communication in transformations, crisis, conflict and stress situations
  • Profiling & development of communication skills

Module 3: Lead Yourself – Mastering Conflicts

  • Successfully managing conflicts
  • Profiling & development of communication skills

Module 4: Lead Yourself – Coaching others

  • Profiling & coaching others to develop competences and potential and to successfully manage different situations
  • Profiling & development of enabling competences

Module 5: Lead Teams – Designing of effective teams

  • Successfully leading and developing teams
  • Team profiling and alignment

Module 6: Lead Transformation – Shaping Change

  • Leadership is change, influence and entrepreneurial responsibility
  • Diagnosing potential for change, initiating and actively shaping change
  • Profiling & development of change competences

Final module: Leadership Kitchen

  • Leading is authentic, pro-active and consistent, adaptive and situational
  • Leading is proactive relationship management
  • Coached leadership and role simulations & feedback sessions

All modules include comprehensive seminar documentation, literature references and supplementary materials.


Benefits of our qualifications.

Qualification with a high degree of practical relevance: You will be trained by experienced HR top managers from renowned companies and, optionally, by HR professors and external lecturers from the business world. In addition to theoretical instruction, we ensure a high degree of practical relevance, ideally with a comprehensive exchange of insider knowledge, trends, and experiences.

Type of our qualifications.

The qualification is offered as an in-house concept (closed format) or as individual, part-time one-on-one coaching (specialist and role-related). The six modules can be booked individually and each lasts two days.

Target groups.

  • Managers
  • Experts and project managers with leadership responsibilities
  • Junior managers
  • HR professionals


Curious now?

If you would like to learn more about our offer or have a specific inquiry, please send us a message.

Your direct contact:

Frank Strathus
frank.strathus_at_leadership-institute.de