Leading without Words

Have you had enough of those typical seminars for managers?

Here you have the chance to experience leadership intensively and interactively.
You will experience the perfect combination of cognitive, visual, auditory and haptic learning.
You will learn to convince others through your body language and expression.

 
 
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Are you dissatisfied with the result of the management seminars you have attended?

Are these activities familiar to you?

  • Making notes on whiteboards

  • Post-its, post-its, post-its….

  • Filling up index cards with your concerns

  • The cumbrous accumulating of your daily business points

  • Endless discussions and PowerPoint battles

  • Video recordings and the subsequent feedback rounds

  • Frontal instruction with the trainer in monologue-mode

The result: you invested time and money, but little of consequence actually changed.

Your high expectations of the seminar were often not fulfilled.

“A conductor can hear his or her character, because an orchestra
will immediately mirror each gesture."

JULIA SCHWARTZ, CONDUCTOR & TRAINER LEADING WITHOUT WORDS

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LEADING WITHOUT WORDS IS DIFFERENT

You will get the unique opportunity to conduct musicians.

You will experience leadership on an intuitive level and understand the impact of your performance.

For it is so that an orchestra decides in the first minutes whether or not it will cooperate with a new conductor.

It is therefore crucial for a new conductor to establish rapport with the orchestra as soon as possible, as this will influence the orchestra`s willingness to cooperate.

“Managers can uniquely profit from this different form of leadership. They will develop a profound understanding of their own agency and motives. A new repertoire of conscious actions will result and expand infinitely.”

CARMEN KRAUSHAAR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF LEADING WITHOUT WORDS

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Here is a list of skills that managers can learn from conductors

 
CLEAR DEFINITION OF GOALS

A conductor will focus on the goal of conducting a concert with concentrated preparation. However, managers might lose Managers, however might lose sight of the big picture and become overly focused on micro-management.

 
CONFIDENT LEADERSHIP INSTEAD OF CONTROL

A confident style of leading is the main crux for a conductor, who - in the context of an orchestra - is the only performer who doesn’t play an instrument. What is more, the conductor is the coordinator of all the components of the orchestra and brings these to achieve peak performance.

 
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ERROR-CULTURE

It is frowned upon for a conductor to interrupt the orchestra because of mistakes because it worsens the achievement of the group. Musicians know exactly who has made the mistake and they give each other feedback to this end. Managers can learn to allow self-regulation in their groups.

 
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PERMISSION TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS

Many conductors show their emotions and use them to electrify their musicians. For passion and enthusiasm are important motors for motivating them. Rationality by itself will only encourage a lesser effort.

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APPRECIATION & PERCEPTION

Each team member plays a role that deserves to be seen. A conductor will look at and give entrances to the musicians who are about to play. Managers should give their team members this attention in whatever way is appropriate for the job at hand.

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BALANCE BETWEEN HARMONY & FRICTION

Musicians are top talents who develop optimally when their personal artistic interpretation is given space. Analog to this in business practices would be to strengthen diverse characters and points of view in order to get the best results, not to demand harmony from team members.

 

HERE IS WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS SAY

“It became clear to me how important posture, voice and non-verbal communication are. There are many similarities between conducting and corporate leadership which I could take with me.”

Fabiana Oscari-Bergs, Manager of Gobar Deutschland GmbH


 

“Leading Without Words– this seminar was an impressive experience – the perfect balance of cognitive, visual, auditive and tactile learning.”

Annette Kempf, CEO Eclipseina GmbH


“Leading Without Words is an extraordinary and special management seminar and training. The impact via a practical and playful approach is immediately perceptible. I can enthusiastically recommend this seminar to every aspiring manager and corporate personality.

Mai Dang-Goy, TEVOL® Stark Wachsen – individually and entrepreneurially with personality and organizational development

 
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Leading without words – 6 reasons to participate

 
  1. You will learn to make an impact through your posture, speech and breathing.

  2. You will get feedback about your conducting and can draw parallels to your style of leadership.

  3. You will experience the impact of your own performance.

  4. You will develop appeal through the use of your emotions.

  5. You will have a fascinating experience in which you will get a glimpse of the musical world of conductors and instrumentalists.

  6. You don’t need to be able to read music to participate.

“Inspiring and surprising: you get out of your comfort zone! A unique and impressive seminar that strengthened me in my new leadership role and inspires me to further develop my career.”

SARAH LORENZ, MANAGER AT ERNST & YOUNG 

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The experts at Leading without words

 
 

Carmen Kraushaar,

headhunter and career coach

Carmen Kraushaar has been an advisor for over ten years as partner in the QRC Group. She is instrumental in filling specialist and leadership positions.

She developed the idea for Leading Without Words, powered by the desire to make leadership emotionally graspable.

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Julia Schwartz

conductor, composer, singer

Julia Schwartz is a trained singer and choral conductor.

In Leading Without Words she passionately conveys leadership tools via conducting.

CHoose the right offer for your company

The seminar can be given in English or German.


Find Your Voice

TEAM-EVENT

  • Suitable as event-highlight, team-event, pre- or post-workday program

  • Length: 3 hours

  • 12-20 participants

  • Group singing with the possibility to try your hand at conducting

  • Here no instrumentalists are involved: the participants form a choir

 

Leading Without Words

OPEN SEMINAR

  • Fixed dates with participants from various companies

  • External location

  • Length: 1 day

  • Small group with 8 (prospective) leaders

  • Each participant can conduct

 

Leading Without Words

COMPANY-INTERNAL EVENT

  • Fixed group of participants from your company

  • Dates will be coordinated with your company

  • Location: in your own facilities

  • Length: 1 day

  • Small group with 8 (prospective) leaders

  • Each participant can conduct

 
 
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FAQs

  • No, it is not necessary. Only well-known pieces of music will be used.

  • You don’t need musical talent to profit from the seminar.

  • The seminar is for experienced leaders but prospective ones can also profit from it.

  • The seminar is one day long. Follow-up sessions can be booked.

  • The in-house seminar takes place in your company’s facilities or at another location.

    The location of the open seminars will be communicated in advance.

  • The seminar can take place in English or German.

 

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