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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Building virtual teams
Composing virtual teams is difficult – learn how to select the right people and get them up to speed.
Dates
- Jan. 27 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Jan. 28 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Jan. 29 17:00-18:30 CET
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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.
Dates
- 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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Virtual selling & sales management
Explore the three key trends which are transforming selling and sales management at an unprecedented pace.
Dates
- Feb. 22 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 23 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Feb. 25 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.
Dates
- Mar. 10 and 18:00-19:30 CET
- Mar. 11 and 18:00-19:30 CET
- Mar. 12 18:00-19:30 CET
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Leading virtual transformation
We work hands-on to establish the first step and get you started on scaling up the behaviours, practices and structures to support virtual transformation.
Dates
- Mar. 22 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Mar. 23 and 17:00-18:30 CET
- Mar. 25 17:00-18:30 CET
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Virtual platform ecosystems
You learn how to design and orchestrate virtual platforms using a "live case".
You will apply strategies and tactics for scaling that will help your platform succeed.Dates
- April 27 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- April 28 and 17:00-18:30 CEST
- April 29 17:00-18:30 CEST
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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.Dates
- This module takes place by appointment. Just enter the waiting list for this module using in the registration button and we know you're interested.
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

