The essentials of leading and succeeding digitally
Virtual leadership and work practices play a vital role in overcoming the inherent challenges of exogenous disruptions whilst opening and securing new opportunities.
A new program to prepare you for the ongoing and forthcoming changes.
Key benefits. What’s in for me?
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Improve Team Motivation
Manage the internal dynamics of your virtual team by ensuring a fit between people, tasks and processes.
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Increase Collaboration Productivity
Ensure the performance and productivity of your virtual team through focusing on relevant criteria, appraisals and rewards.
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Enhance Digital Work Capabilities
Enrich the day-to-day interactions towards your employees and eliminate inefficiencies arising from mechanistic workflows, emails, and text messages which create a feeling of disconnection.
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Build Up Digital Resilience
Build your resilience in the digital workplace through thought awareness and learning by doing.
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Expand Your Virtual Leadership Skills
Understand the importance of emotional intelligence when leading your teams virtually and discover ways to overcome motivational challenges of your virtual teams.
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Explore New Opportunities
Learn how to unlock opportunities of remote digital work. Effectively prepare and manage virtual teams. Turn disengaged employees into empowered ones that will shape innovative solutions.
Virtual X consolidates multiple independent online modules
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Advancing virtual collaboration
Expand your remote leadership skills to successfully prepare for, structure and conduct virtual collaborations – become an empathic virtual leader.
Read moreDates
- Feb. 08 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 09 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 10 17:00-18:30 CET
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Building virtual teams
Composing virtual teams is difficult – learn how to select the right people and get them up to speed.
Read moreInfo Session
Nov. 10 17:00-18:00 CET
Dates
- Dec. 01 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Dec. 02 and 8:30-10:00 CET
- Dec. 04 8:30-10:00 CET
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Competitive advantage through GDPR
Learn about the pragmatic trade-offs between harnessing the potentials of digital innovation whilst being compliant with the GDPR in order to achieve competitive advantage.
Read moreDates
- Nov. 10 17:00-18:30 CET
- Nov. 11 17:00-18:30 CET
- Nov. 12 17:00-18:30 CET
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Leading virtual transformation
We work hands-on with you to develop the behaviors, structures, and examples for virtual transformation to be a success.
Read moreInfo Session
Oct. 14 17:00-18:00 CEST
Dates
- Oct. 27 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Oct. 28 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Oct. 29 17:00-18:30 CET
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Sustaining virtual teams
Become an emotional intelligent leader and help your team building resilience in times of remote work and high uncertainty.
Read moreInfo Session
Nov. 11 18:00-19:00 CET
Dates
- Nov. 25 and 18:00-19:30 CET
- Nov. 26 and 18:00-19:30 CET
- Nov. 27 18:00-19:30 CET
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XXL - Virtual negotiations
Newly obtain negotiation skills in a challenging world where leadership adaptability and success include the agile use of online facilitation techniques.
This workshop goes beyond understanding virtual negotiations; it is about mastering virtual negotiations.Read moreInfo Session
Oct. 06 17:00-18:00 CEST
Dates
- Oct. 19 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- Oct. 20 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- Oct. 21 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- Oct. 22 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- Oct. 23 17:00-18:30 CEST
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Virtual platform ecosystems
Understand the fundamentals of platforms, the advantages they offer and how to apply key elements to your business.
Read moreDates
- Nov. 18 08:30-12:00 CET
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Virtual selling & sales management
Explore the three key trends which are transforming selling and sales management at an unprecedented pace.
Read moreDates
- Feb. 22 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 23 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 25 17:00-18:30 CET
Format & Features
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Virtual Learning Spaces
All of our modules are delivered in a carefully designed, unique virtual learning setting with a manageable number of participants to ensure maximum engagement.
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Multiple 90-Minute Sessions
Every module consists of three to five 90-minute blocks which are distributed over subsequent days in order to better cope with the demanding needs for work-life-balance.
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Seamless Interactivity
Experience a high-quality, seamless learning experience and directly apply your newly acquired knowledge with peers from other companies during the modules.
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Top-Notch Speakers
Learn from our renowned academic and industry experts who will share their knowledge, tools and insights to empower your capabilities.
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Peer-to-Peer Exchanges
Become part of the exclusive Alumni group and grow your network by connecting with other mid-level or senior executives from leading corporations.
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Digital Academy Certificate
The participating managers will be awarded with a certificate of participation.
Partner companies of The Digital Academy@MBS
Who we are
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Jürgen Rösger
Managing Director at img.ag
Managing Director & Industry Director of The Digital Academy@MBS
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Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl
Professor at University of Mannheim
Academic Director of The Digital Academy@MBS
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Prof. Dr. Jens Wüstemann
President of Mannheim Business School
Managing Director of The Digital Academy@MBS
