6-months of blended learning, 50-hour curriculum with six future leadership topics, 6 half-day workshops, <12 participants, public enrolment, lifetime access to all videos and tools.
CLICK to join/register for the next FREE TEAMS meeting with Gerald introducing the program or watch the recorded intro event VIDEO below.
Blended Learning
How we learn here
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Individual preparation (2 hours): self-paced learning using the video instructions and tools.
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Preparation in small groups (2 hours): follow the video instructions how to meet and work in small groups.
- The full group meets for the next 4-hour training workshop facilitated by the trainer for deepening knowledge and skills, more group exercises and personal feedback.
- Transfer learnings and get feedback from peers
Course Curriculum
Why an 'Uncommon Leadership Program'? In 2021, the HR leader of a global company asked if deloop could offer specific leadership trainings adding increasingly relevant topics on to their existing development programs:
Crisis Leadership, Leading and Working Across Cultures, Leading Generational Diversity, Leading through Intrinsic Motivators, Coaching Skills, Leadership in a VUCA World - those were the trainings that were developed along with new models and tools based on recent scientific findings.
Participants kept recommending them and more trainings were held highlighting both the importance of and the demand for building up these specific leadership skills.
Hearing the feedbacks was encouraging so all six parts were together into deloop’s new half-year blended learning curriculum ‘The Uncommon Leadership Program’.
You are welcome to join!
Gerald Renger, October 2023
- Intrinsic Motivators: About this Course (2:33)
- 1 Intro and goals (6:32)
- 2 motivating factors and a case study (8:49)
- 3 motives and desires - an advanced assessment tool (1:53)
- 4 conversations on motivation and team cohesion (2:32)
- 5 personal style - self assessment (11:16)
- 6 professional personality intro self-assessment task assignment (6:10)
- 7 professional personality interview task assignment (6:13)
- 8 intrinsic motivators - dimensions and examples (12:23)
- 9 awareness of personal intrinsic motivators (2:44)
- 10 transfer into leadership practice (3:52)
- 11 Leading through intrinsic motivators All Slides
- Generations: About this Course (1:15)
- 1 intro agenda and goals (11:54)
- 2 becomeing aware of assumptions conclusions bias - exercise (11:26)
- 3 the generation map - self-assessment tool assignment (9:47)
- 3a a simple generations questionnaire V3
- 4 building trust - mutual mentoring opportunities and cases
- 5 mutual mentoring - case studies and task assignment (13:28)
- 6 negotiating win win opportunities (13:39)
- 7 wrapping up and more good resources (1:33)
- 8 Leading diverse Generations All Slides
- Across Cultures: About this Course (6:19)
- 1 intro and crosscultural team case (6:19)
- 2 my personality and culture - task assignment and breakout (1:45)
- 3 subconscious bias and the leadership task (2:48)
- 4 resisting assumptions - how to hit the PAUSE button (3:06)
- 5 the important cultural dimensions explained
- 6 my multi-layered cultural personality self-assessment and task (3:35)
- 6a a simple culture questionnaire XLS
- 7 emotional tensions and task assignment (3:28)
- 8 managing tensions - the value square and task assignment (6:18)
- 9 how to build trust with anyone - the trust cycle (7:10)
- 10 a universal communication model (7:52)
- 11 common misunderstandings of communication roles (5:52)
- 12 decyphering communication roles across cultures (1:52)
- 13 more good reading
- 14 Leading across Cultures all slides
- Coaching: About this Course (0:55)
- 1. Coaching - Agenda & Content
- 2. Workshop preparation
- 3. Input - Earning the right to coach (1:20)
- 4. Self reflection - Coaching mindset
- 5. Input - Case Study - Buidling a coaching relationship (6:37)
- 6. peer feedback -Coaching mindset check
- 7. Input - Summary Building a Coaching Relationship (2:58)
- 8. The 4 Phases Of Coaching - Check List
- 9. Practice tool - What To Ask Starter Kit
- 10. Input - Effective Coaching Process Models (2:36)
- 11. The 7 Step Coaching Process
- 12. The 4 Step Coaching Model
- 13. Input - Getting Ready For Practice (2:25)
- 13a. Peer Group Formation
- 14. Peer Coaching Groups (10:48)
- 15. Peer Coaching all Slides
- 16. all slides - Coaching
- 17. Course Feedback: Your Comments & Learnings
- Crisis: About this Course (1:57)
- 1 - Agenda
- 2 - Crisis success factors and leadership skills (4:36)
- 3 - The human factor - a case study (6:10)
- 4 - Crisis communication success factors (4:44)
- 5 - work sheet My crisis story
- 6 - The real work concept - feeling accountable (5:42)
- 7 - Self-reflection work sheet accountability
- 8 - Behavioral and crisis archetypes (8:14)
- 9 - Self-reflection my archetype
- 10 - Archetypical over-reactions and hot to balance them (4:44)
- 11 - Self-reflection - my over-reactions and what I can do
- 12 - Work sheet and Reflection - How do I find inner calm
- 13 - Self-assessment - My crisis leadership skills & personal learning goals
- 14 - Psychological drivers intro and self-assessment (2:20)
- 15 - Drivers Self-Assessment Instructions (1:43)
- 16 - Drivers questionnaire & self assessment XLS
- 16a - Drivers questionnaire & self assessment NUMBERS
- 17 - Drivers explanations and learning how to balance them (9:37)
- 18 - Work sheet - my drivers and how I can balance them
- 19 - Crisis Leadership and Communication - all slides
- 20 - Leave your course feedback & comments
- 21 - Further Reading
- 1) Disarmament Experiment - How Our Current Thinking Fails With Complexity (13:13)
- 2) Assumptions About Leading In a VUCA World (5:51)
- 3) Case Study from a Truck Manufacturer (3:55)
- 4) Rethinking Leadership - Transitions (4:58)
- 5) How Leaders Re-Build Trust (8:03)
- 6) Key VUCA Leadership Skills (4:24)
- 7) Discussion - How To Make A Difference As A Leader (5:00)
- INTRO Courageous Leadership in a VUCA world - (10:35)
- VUCA Tool and case study - Courageous Leadership - (10:04)
- Courageous Leadership in a VUCA world all slides
- VUCA Tool and case study - all slides
- Workshop Slides and Notes
The Six Parts explained
… Part 1) leading through intrinsic motivators
Understand the influencing factors of the ‘The Trust Cycle' and learn how to create psychological safety in your team. Use practical tools to discover deeper motivational forces and strengthen your skills to tap into your own and your team’s true intrinsic motivators and use your full power and potential to perform at your best.
… Part 2) leading people that are a lot older or younger
Fast changes in technologies and in society have led to changing values, ways of connecting and working. Learn more about how today’s diverse generations in the workplace show different preferences and how to best communicate and collaborate. Use our self-assessment tool to become more aware of bias and assumptions. Learn how to change perspective and build mutual mentoring relationships to use this new kind of diversity as a strength to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s marketplace.
… Part 3) leading people from diverse cultures
Most teams today are culturally diverse teams or work with stakeholders from different continents and countries who have very different behaviours, preferences and values. Learning to see, understand, and collaborate with each other can be challenging as most of it is subconscious and taken-for-granted. Our self-assessments and tools will help you see how you personally differ from both your own and other country cultures, how to build trust and connection across cultural divides, learn from each other, and communicate and work successfully as a team.
… Part 4) leading, coaching, peer coaching
You know the basic concepts and tools of coaching. You have used them in your leadership practice and found that building a coaching relationship with your team is not so easy. Learn how to become a better listener and how put your team members in the drivers’ seat so you can more easily take the role of their coach.
… Part 5) leading and communicating in times of crisis
Understand your personal crisis reactions and behavior, strengthen your inner balance and learn how to steer teams through rough patches. Use our cisis-behavior self-assessment tool and get concrete hints far personal growth. Understand the success factors in crisis communication, and use tools that help people take of ownership in challenging situations and actively drive solutions.
… Part 6) leadership in a VUCA world
For some people and countries Volatile/Uncertain/Complex/Ambiguous - VUCA has been the normal for a long time. For others it may look like a new normal. Organizations and teams supposed to be smart together under VUCA conditions often end up working against each other. We have simulated teams in complex situations and put together the leadership skills required to enable teams and organizations to learn how to stay connected in situations that have the potential to divide and build the bridges they need to perform together.
Hi, my name is Gerald,
I’m here as your travel guide to learning and change helping you reach your goals. I’m a German engineer by education and a passionate change leadership coach and performing artist. Living in Germany, Australia and now Shanghai has allowed me to work with people from all Europe, the US, China, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and more.After my Mechanical Engineering (PhD) studies in Chemnitz I started working for Daimler in Stuttgart in 1991 and soon became member in Dieter Zetsche’s change management team. That’s when I began to study culture change, leadership coaching, group dynamics, psychology and transactional analysis. I had the invaluable opportunity to directly learn from most advanced scholars like Edgar H. Schein, David Kantor, Larry Hirschhorn, Wolfgang Looss, Hans Jellouschek, Claus Otto Scharmer, Matthias Varga von Kibed, Richard Timel and more. In 1999 I co-founded deloop management consulting in Stuttgart and in 2015 deloop management consulting Asia. I was fortunate enough to coach many leaders and leadership teams of different cultures globally in companies like DAIMLER, HEIDELBERGER Druck, ATLAS, Lufthansa, HERAEUS, BMW, VW, Evonic, PORSCHE, ASAM, DÜRR, HERAEUS, DEUTSCHE BAHN, Raiffeisen Bank, Rolls Royce and more. My Executive Programs include: Hernstein General Management Program (HGMP) in Vienna, Corporate Entrepreneurship in China (CEIC) with innova in Shanghai, and projects in APAC with OSB international
Participant voices
'Thanks Gerald, I really liked the training, as the content was provided in a very professional manner. Essential tools for leaders and their meaning comprised and easy to digest. In combination with self-learning, peer coaching and your support a very valuable approach I can clearly recommend to leaders and future leaders!', Frederic Buehler, Germany
'The format, the group sessions, the time blocks for learning are really good, no overload in a short amount of time. I was skeptical at the start, and then got the most out of a short period of time. There are easy to understand videos and cloud content - books wouldn’t have worked. The course offers good balance between preparation, workshops, slides, less words, all well considered. When I knew you were going to hold the training it was an easy decision knowing your Australia background and understanding of our culture’ Mark Crotty and team, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Australia
‘The program for me was the perfect start for a) understanding how I could be a more effective, empathic leader, and b) starting my own future journey of being a coach / trainer to others. Gerald is an incredibly inspiring human being who combines patience, experience, professionalism, honesty and humility that I have rarely seen in people with his credentials. I recommend the course to anyone looking for self-development opportunities towards being a better leader, or simply, being a better human being.’, Nitin Dani, India, working in Shanghai'
I’ve had the chance to attend Gerald's course last year. And the experience has been extremely formative and interesting. Gerald combines years of experience in leadership coaching, vision of the future (what futures leaders will need to succeed) and deep knowledge of the character behavior. This allows him to grasp every nuance of the attendants, shaping the better suggestions for everyone. Moreover, the diversity of topics, the way the course is structured, the participation of colleagues with different experiences, makes it very attractive. Last but not least, Gerald is a very nice person, with many sides that are a pleasure to discover little by little. Highly recommended.' - Vittorio Blasi, Italy, working in Germany
Coach Credentials Gerald
"...Since 2017 WAGNER Group is nurturing an inspiring cooperation for global management development with Deloop Asia. Dr. Gerald Renger supports international WAGNER leaders and talents in multiple tailored webinars. I especially appreciate Gerald’s intercultural experiences that help us to deepen leadership topics with multiple perspectives. Facilitating contents in German and English Gerald can offer highest quality from a single source."
Mirna Loy, Director People Development & Culture, J. Wagner GmbH
"... is a combination of sharp to the point feedback style with a matured sensitivity to people's feeling and level of acceptance. A good consultant who carries the charming competence to keep coachees open in their minds which is the basis particularly with cross cultural differences." - Joy Zhou Yue, GM & Board Member VW Financial Services Beijing, China
“ ... a highly individual training style that is tailored specifically to the needs of the different managers which is brilliant support.” - Kerstin Gessler, GM at Rolls Royce Ltd, Germany
"…a unique professional, who understands and appreciates both Western and Asian cultures, connects people from different backgrounds smoothly and helps them work together to achieve the company’s targets" - Weiming Zhang, Head of R&D and Sales, Heraeus US/China
"... a humoristic easygoing coach with an accurate and deep understanding of each trainees personal needs" - Simon Noome, Head of Customer Service, Liebherr Component Technologies AG, Straßbourg, France
“… one of the most influential and inspiring people I’ve met. His leadership coaching style is unique and precious. A powerful coach and trainer for executives in strategy and change.” - Marc Tran, GM Asia Sales at Woodward, China
"I’m happy to know Gerald as co-designer and co-facilitator of the General Manager-Program 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in China', a great coaching and learning journey I joined in 2019/20. Laurenz and Gerald, the coaches, give you great ideas and guidance how to improve yourself and your organization. You also get real business life insights from other leaders facing similar challenges. Since it is spread over one year the program provides ample opportunities for practical application of tools and approaches and progress review with coaches and peers. I can only highly recommend this program. It has helped me and my company a lot when it came to successfully navigating through the COVID-19 crisis." - Andreas Hornfischer, General Manager, E.G.O. Components, Taicang, China
"... is a unique Executive Coach with extremely extensive experience as a coach and trainer in Germany, the USA and Asia. I have worked with him very successfully and often and can highly recommend his program." - Georg Remmers, Global Head of People & Organizational Development, Heraeus
“... triggers un-dogmatic thinking which is especially helpful with senior management.‘ - Andreas Liebheit, President and Head of global BU Chemicals, Precious Metal Pastes, Frankfurt, Germany
"I’ve always enjoyed working with Gerald because of his rich experience in Change Management both theoretical & practical, his openness for learning & adapting to customer needs, and his kind personality to connect with participants. A great and stable performance in years of cooperation." – Alex Ying Xie Volkswagen Group China HR, Academy Beijing, China
“Great to see you continue the excellent coaching and team development we have come to experience with you!” - Pete Horan, Senior VP Global Operations at Heraeus and at Bucknell University Singapore