The principle
Experience the Journey of Leadership
The Magellan Principle is a self-contained training concept for managers and junior executives. It distinguishes precisely between the tasks of a leader and the tool-categories required to perform the task. The Magellan Principle precisely illustrates the whole leadership process. Easy to learn and to perform. Practical experience, successful leadership-performance, brain-compatible learning strategies and four decades of training experience form the basis of the Magellan Principle.
Philosophy
Consequent and of Practical Relevance
There are two essential tasks in our life that no one prepares us for: Educating our children and leading people. Both tasks are extremely complex. On the one hand it has a major impact on the development of people and therefore society, and on the other hand, it impacts companies and their long-term success. Throughout our studies, we are “loaded” with facts, knowledge and methods. A skilled worker does not necessarily turn into a skilled leader. The Magellan Principle ends the “trial and error” process and builds on fast learning success and consistent and lasting behavioural changes.
The Magellan Principle…
■ represents the leadership process completely and coherently
■ makes successful leadership reproducible at all times
■ ist prinzipiell, zukunftssicher, methodenoffen
■ is easy to learn and highly effective
“If there is a goal, there is a way”
Rainer Bielinski
Executive director of IWP-Team GmbH & Co. KG, author and originator of the management concept: “The Magellan Principle”
Modules
Theory & Practice
The training units have a modular structure. This means that the training days will be interrupted by days to practice the theoretical knowledge. This practical implementation is strongly supported by training material specifically made for this program.
This Trainings’ Content
Leadership
Fundamentals of Leadership
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ identifying the fundamentals of leadership
■ applying the task of a leader
■ implementing the corporate requirements for the leader
■ pointing out the effects of the difference between leadership and management
Creating Vision
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ knowing and applying the basics of a vision
■ utilization the visions as an orientation and source of strength for all involved parties
■ knowing the importance of recognizing the viability of a vision
■ using visions as the beginning of every life cycle of products or companies
Setting Goals
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ applying the fundamentals of goals
■ setting clear goals
■ using goals as entrepreneurial direction givers
■ recognizing goals as milestones on the way to achieve a vision
■ using targets as a measure of the degree to which the vision has been achieved
Mapping out Strategies
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ knowing the basics of strategy creation
■ registering the efficiency of a strategy
■ realizing the correlation to leadership tasks
■ using strategies as the highest type of action
■ applying strategies as a guideline for measurements
Deciding/Realizing
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ knowing the fundamentals of decision-making
■ knowing the causality between making decisions and implementing
■ seeing the connection between successful process flows and decisions
■ defining clear responsibilities for a successful implementation
Controlling
Goals of this Learning Unit
■ Knowing the fundamentals of controlling.
■ Using controlling as a motivation boost.
■ Making use of the right controlling methods.
■ Seeing the correlation between controlling and achieving the vision and goals.
■ Knowing the opportunities and risks of controlling and taking them into account.
This Training’s Content
Management
Values
Values play a central role in leadership. The connection between personal and cooperate values will be examined.
■ The fundamental impact of values on the companie’s success.
■ Authenticity through embodying of the values.
■ Purpose through values.
■ The impact of values on the motivation of all involved parties.
Planning
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ Planning instruments and methods,
■ SWOT-Analyis,
■ Cost-utility analysis, portfolio analysis,
■ Core-indicators-systems…
… to be implemented in the planning process.
Governance
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ Organizational structure,
■ Core competences, procedural organization,
■ “Bottleneck-analysis”, quality standards,
■ Corporate Identity (CI)…
…to be implemented in the governance process.
Communication
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ Fundamentals of human behaviour and motives,
■ Brain structure and communication models,
■ Communication tools,
■ Conflict analysis, conflict management and the phases of team building,
■ Real life simulations of conversational situations …
… to be understood and used correctly.
Staff Organization
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ Fundamentals of leadership styles,
■ Employee-potential-analysis,
■ Employee-indicators and employee-requirement analysis,
■ Judging and reward systems,
■ Further training for employees in the department of human resources…
… to be understood and used correctly.
Self-Organization
Goals of this Learning Unit:
■ One’s own time management,
■ Differentiation between “urgent” and “important”,
■ The various subjects of time management,
■ Time management methods,
… to be understood and used correctly.
Training Units
During the training, the participants will learn the practical implementation of all the contents. These are systematically deepened through lectures, presentations, group work and exercises. Practical simulations and the intensive exchange of experience with accomplished trainers provide knowledge and decision-making competences on the highest level.
The participants will be put in positions, which show how competent they already are and which areas show potential for individual improvement and work independently on the results for the following tasks: Vision, goals, strategies, decision-making/realizing and governance.
Methods that give pleasure
The Magellan Principle relies on fast learning success and consistent and sustainable behavioural changes. The brain and behavioural research has already proven that people have a sustainable learning process if we create imagery and a high degree of identification. At the same time, people need a reason/purpose to change their behaviour.
Magellan’s approach includes everything a successful leader needs. The time of round about 500 years helps to identify the essential, fundamental factors of success of the procedure. In addition to these principles, the Magellan principle means first and foremost differentiating between “leading” and “managing”. Leading means giving a vision, setting goals, building strategies, making decisions and implementing them as well as staying in control. Managing, on the other hand, has an operative character and includes planning, governance communicating as well as organizing the staff and oneself.
Benefits for Companies
Leadership, re-defined
The Magellan Principle prepares leaders for their tasks. You will learn reliable structures and improve their leadership performance. We are always considering a leader as the ultimate factor of success.
Space for New Methods and Strategies
The Magellan principle offers your leaders enough room to test and train other behaviours. It offers the opportunity to learn new methods and strategies, to profit from a lively exchange and to critically question one’s own goals and attitudes. The aim of the training is to impart practical and practicable knowledge and to train the different contents of successful leadership behaviour in an open and experimental environment.
The Magellan Principle promotes…
■ Clarified structures and responsibilities within the departments
■ Improved communication
■ Improved engagement and higher motivation from every single employee
■ Room for new ideas, products and developments
■ Higher sales potential with existing customers through new products
■ Effective time management
Unleashing Employee Potential
Employees find their position in the company through assigned tasks, their own areas of responsibility and supervisors. The integration into this structure gives them security.
Successful Teamwork
One of the most important requirements for your success is a well-functioning, harmonious and reliable team. This requires team-minded employees and efficient leadership.
Developing Key Competences
In order to develop key competencies, the Magellan Principle offers complementing, practice-oriented training content. Multiple fields of competence are covered by various measures:
■Social competence (leadership, conflict management, team spirit,…)
■ Communicative competence (conversation, rhetoric, behavioural models,…)
■ Analytical skills (analytical and structured thinking, strategy development,…)
■ Methodological competence (analysis models, governance models, strategic alignment…)
■ Self-management (time management, self-organization,…)
Book Recommendation
The Magellan Principle: The Journey of Leadership
Paul, in his late 30s, suddenly and unexpectedly has to face the realities of his daily tasks as a leader in an international corporation and the associated questions on the subject of leadership. He answers these questions with the parallels of Ferdinand Magellan’s 500-year leadership history, analyzes them in detail and discovers the central significance of the values that form the connection between the two levels of tasks and tools. Paul clearly reveals the existing and decisive difference between leading and managing. The Magellan principle shows what leadership really has to accomplish. Learn more about the adventure of leadership and read for yourself! (German Version only)