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Certificates: Design Thinking" certificate
Digital Leadership" certificate -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
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Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 5 Weeks
Design Thinking
Introduction to Design Thinking (approx. 1.5 days)
Design Thinking process at a glance
The most important rules and phases of Design Thinking
Practice-oriented approaches and applications
Digital tools and AI in the innovation process
Phase 1: Research (approx. 0.5 days)
Methods of user-centered research
Interview techniques and needs analysis
AI-supported research and information processing
Phase 2: Synthesis (approx. 0.5 days)
Analysis and structuring of findings
Development of problem definitions and personas
Visualization and clustering of results
Phase 3: Ideation (approx. 0.5 days)
Creative techniques for developing ideas
Methods for finding and evaluating solutions
Use of generative AI in the ideation process
Phase 4: Prototyping (approx. 0.5 days)
Development of initial solution approaches and mockups
Introduction to rapid prototyping and click dummies
Digital tools for the visualization of concepts
Phase 5: Testing (approx. 0.5 days)
Methods for carrying out tests and feedback rounds
Analysis and optimization of solution approaches
Iterative work and agile further development
Project work (approx. 1 day)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Digital Leadership
Challenges of the digital transformation (approx. 2 days)
Digital leadership - big picture
Differentiation between leadership - digital leadership - digital business leadership
VUCA environment/BANI environment
Limits and challenges of digitalization in leadership
Consequences of digitalization for the market and competition
Customer expectations in the digital age
Leading people in the digital transformation (approx. 4 days)
How do people "work"? (Findings from neurobiology)
Systemic perspectives on the individualization of leadership
Tasks and roles of the manager in digital change
Motivation as the basis for self-management and leadership
Emotional intelligence as a key competence
Self-management and decision-making in complex environments
Dealing with uncertainty and complexity in the digital world of leadership
Remote leadership and leading hybrid teams
Promoting digital skills in the team
New Work/Agile Leadership (approx. 2 days)
Work 4.0 - basics of a new world of work
Self-organization and self-management in a digital context
Team collaboration in digital times
Remote collaboration: tools, methods and rituals
Strategic and operational leadership in practice
Building, developing and supporting teams
Basics of agile methods (e.g. Scrum, Kanban - overview)
Designing organization and transformation (approx. 2 days)
Selection and introduction of digital processes, methods and tools
Change and transformation management
Ambidextrous organization (ambidexterity)
Dealing with skepticism and resistance in change processes
Analysis of the digital maturity level of organizations
Artificial intelligence as a management tool (approx. 2 days)
AI in everyday management
AI as a manager - competition or help
Effects of generative AI on work
Dealing with big data as a digital leader
Responsibility and risks
Digital business models, goals, strategies, key performance indicators and KPIs (approx. 3 days)
Value creation processes and digital business models
Development of goals and strategies
Defining key figures for process control
Defining and measuring key performance indicators (KPIs)
Introduction of objectives and key results (OKRs) as an agile target system
Project work (approx. 5 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
The design thinking approach can be used to develop innovative and user-centered solutions for complex challenges. You will get to know the principles and the structured, iterative process of design thinking and learn how practice-oriented tools, digital tools and artificial intelligence support creative and interdisciplinary innovation processes.
You will also be able to contribute effectively as a specialist and manager in a modern, digitally networked working environment. You can contribute to the development of key strategies to implement processes in a meaningful way.
This course is aimed at specialists and managers from all areas of the company who are involved in digitally networked, global work structures and want to successfully support processes and employees there.
Furthermore, with your newly acquired knowledge of digitalization processes, you have an additional qualification that is in demand at companies of all sizes.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).