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Why leadership is decisive

Employees rarely leave
companies.
They leave their managers.

Many medium-sized businesses are currently under pressure:

At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear: The decisive lever for motivation, retention, and corporate success is the quality of leadership.

The good news: Leadership competence can be learned.

higher profitability
0 %
is achieved on average by companies with high employee retention.
higher productivity
0 %
compared to companies with low employee retention.
Source: Gallup meta-analysis with over 3.3 million employees in 183,806 teams.
Excellent leadership creates emotional commitment.

Employee retention occurs where people experience good leadership. Managers shape motivation, trust, and collaboration – and thus significantly how strongly employees identify with their company, how committed they work, and whether they stay long-term.

If this emotional commitment is missing, it has concrete consequences: Willingness to change and turnover increase, engagement and performance decrease, and valuable know-how is lost.

92% would stay if their manager showed more empathy.
85% cite a lack of appreciation as a reason for resigning.
Leadership competence can be learned.
High emotional commitment reduces turnover and absenteeism.
92% would stay if their manager showed more empathy.
85% cite a lack of appreciation as a reason for resigning.
Leadership competence can be learned.
High emotional commitment reduces turnover and absenteeism.
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Those who feel seen, valued, and individually led develop a stronger bond with the company. Good leadership reduces the willingness to change and helps to secure experience, talent, and valuable know-how in the long term.
02
Good leadership creates trust, provides orientation, and promotes personal responsibility. This creates an environment in which employees do not just fulfill tasks, but show initiative, take responsibility, and are willing to go the "extra mile."
03
A lack of emotional commitment often leads to withdrawal and declining performance. Good leadership counteracts this, strengthens motivation and collaboration, and contributes to a positive, performance-enhancing working atmosphere.
04
Emotionally committed employees work together more engagedly and constructively. This strengthens productivity and innovative power, improves employer attractiveness, and ultimately also has a positive effect on customers and corporate success.

Retaining
employees

Those who feel seen, valued, and individually led develop a stronger bond with the company. Good leadership reduces the willingness to change and helps to secure experience, talent, and valuable know-how in the long term.

Unleashing
engagement

Good leadership creates trust, provides orientation, and promotes personal responsibility. This creates an environment in which employees do not just fulfill tasks, but show initiative, take responsibility, and are willing to go the "extra mile."

Avoiding quiet
quitting

A lack of emotional commitment often leads to withdrawal and declining performance. Good leadership counteracts this, strengthens motivation and collaboration, and contributes to a positive, performance-enhancing working atmosphere.

Strengthening
business success

Emotionally committed employees work together more engagedly and constructively. This strengthens productivity and innovative power, improves employer attractiveness, and ultimately also has a positive effect on customers and corporate success.

Leadership competence can be learned.

The INSIGHTS MDI® Academies develop leaders who understand people, promote potential, provide orientation, and retain employees in their company in the long term.

Why INSIGHTS MDI® Academies?

Professional expertise is joined by leadership competence

Good leadership begins with understanding one’s own personality. Therefore, every development starts with an individual assessment. On this basis, we combine scientific diagnostics, international methods, and 12 practical modules into a learning concept that can be directly transferred into everyday leadership. Personally accompanied, regionally anchored, and with measurable results.
Nationwide network – personal in your region.
Benefit from a strong network with competent, free advice directly on-site.
Recognize potential. Make development measurable.
Personal assessment and objective success monitoring based on scientifically validated diagnostics.
Over 30 years of experience for sustainable leadership competence.
The leadership modules are based on the long-standing expertise of SCHEELEN® AG in personality, competence, and leadership development.
Progress visible and traceable.
Performance analyses at the beginning and end of the training document individual development and make learning success transparent.
Structured. Practical. Immediately applicable.
Twelve empirically developed learning modules convey all central competencies for effective and modern leadership.
Apply knowledge. Change behavior. Achieve impact.
Through the consistent combination of practice-oriented learning impulses and direct implementation in everyday professional life, a sustainable transfer into leadership practice is ensured.
Your Business Benefit

Leadership competence becomes a competitive advantage.

Effective leadership pays off – in motivated employees, high-performing teams, and measurable business results.
The Learning Concept

The Development Process

Practical. Modular. Sustainable. Measurable.
In-depth Content

The 12 Leadership Modules

Our 12 leadership modules convey the central competencies that modern leadership needs today – from communication and employee development to emotional leadership and healthy leadership through to innovative power and conflict management. Practical, scientifically sound, and consistently focused on everyday leadership, a sustainable learning process is created that translates knowledge directly into action.

Prioritize clearly. Act effectively.

Good leadership begins with one’s own organization. This module shows how managers set priorities consciously, reduce time-wasters, and structure their way of working so that more space is created for the truly important leadership tasks.

In focus:

  • Efficiency & effectiveness
  • Prioritization according to Covey
  • Time-wasters
  • Self-management
  • type-appropriate planning and organizational strengths

Communicate clearly. Understand better.

Leadership takes place in dialogue. Those who listen attentively, ask the right questions, and also address difficult topics confidently create trust and clarity. This module strengthens personal communication skills – practical and type-appropriate.

In focus:

  • I-messages
  • Active listening
  • Questioning techniques
  • Performance reviews
  • type-appropriate communication

Turning people into a strong team.

Successful teams do not emerge on their own. Managers learn to better understand team dynamics, bring different personalities together, and create an environment in which collaboration really works.

In focus:

  • successful team structures
  • team development
  • team dynamics
  • effective meetings
  • conflicts in the team

Decide clearly. Act safely.

Leadership means making decisions – even under time pressure and in complex conditions. This module sharpens one’s own decision-making behavior and conveys methods to make decisions more consciously, structuredly, and safely.

In focus:

  • personal decision-making behavior
  • 10 decision-making competencies
  • decision-making processes
  • decision-making techniques
  • type-appropriate decision-making strengths

Recognize potential. Make development possible.

People not only want to be led, but also promoted. Managers learn to specifically recognize individual potential and development areas and to derive concrete, effective development measures from them.

In focus:

  • development measures
  • type-appropriate employee development
  • development control loop
  • job analysis
  • maturity model
  • feedback culture

Reach people. Create connection.

People follow people – not positions. Emotional intelligence helps managers to better understand themselves and others, to act consciously even under pressure, and to shape sustainable relationships.

In focus:

  • Emotional intelligence as a leadership strength
  • the five EQ areas
  • EQ & stress
  • personal EQ competencies
  • individual development and coaching approaches

Understand culture. Shape the future.

Corporate culture shows itself every day – in how people communicate, lead, deal with conflicts, and enable new things. This module makes culture tangible and shows how managers can actively help shape it.

In focus:

  • foundations of corporate culture
  • values & basic assumptions
  • visible and measurable culture
  • communication, conflict, leadership & innovation culture
  • recognizing toxic cultures

Lead efficiently. Stay healthy.

Long-term performance needs a healthy approach to strain. Managers learn to better understand stress mechanisms and personal stress patterns, to perceive warning signals early on, and to specifically strengthen resilience.

In focus:

  • stress & stress processes
  • personal stress behavior
  • 5-phase model
  • individual stress reactions
  • resilience factors
  • personal stress index

Show presence. Win people over.

Good ideas need people who can inspire others for them. This module strengthens personal impact and shows how managers use their presence consciously, reach different personality types, and appear convincingly.

In focus:

  • self-presentation
  • presence
  • personal impact
  • convincing type-appropriately
  • persuasion strategies
  • own appearance

Provide orientation. Move people. Achieve goals.

What makes good leadership today? This basic module combines appreciative, people-oriented leadership with clear goal orientation. Managers reflect on their role and learn to provide orientation, promote motivation, and formulate goals effectively for action.

In focus:

  • role of the manager
  • from colleague to manager
  • visionary power
  • effective goals
  • motivation & demotivation

Unleash ideas. Make new things possible.

Innovation begins with the willingness to question the familiar. Managers learn to specifically promote creativity, break down mental blocks, and develop concrete approaches for practice from ideas.

In focus:

  • innovative power
  • creativity techniques
  • beliefs & blocks
  • innovation culture

Negotiate confidently. Solve conflicts constructively.

Where people work together, different interests arise – and thus conflicts and negotiation situations. This module shows how managers recognize tensions early on, process them constructively, and also conduct demanding negotiations confidently.

In focus:

  • types & causes of conflict
  • escalation levels
  • conflict resolution strategies
  • negotiation techniques
  • Harvard concept
  • unfair tactics
  • type-appropriate conflict behavior
Scientific Methodology

Scientifically sound diagnostics as the basis for successful leadership

Sustainable leadership does not begin with assumptions, but with sound insights. Therefore, scientifically validated analysis procedures form the basis of our academies. They create transparency about personality, competencies, and strains – and enable individual development with measurable results.

Personality & Motivation Analysis

INSIGHTS MDI®

Recognize talent. Develop potential specifically.
INSIGHTS MDI® provides a holistic personality profile and makes natural behavioral preferences, intrinsic motivators, and the level of emotional intelligence visible.
Unterlagen ansehenFactsheetProspektAnwendungsgebiete
Competence Analysis

ASSESS by SCHEELEN®

Develop leadership competencies specifically.
ASSESS analyzes individual leadership competencies based on scientifically sound personality dimensions and shows concrete development areas for effective leadership.
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Stress & Strain Analysis

RELIEF by SCHEELEN®

Recognize stress. Strengthen resilience sustainably.
RELIEF identifies current stress levels and their causes and provides concrete impulses for building resilience and the sustainable reduction of psychological strain.
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Regional Proximity

Find the academy near you.

IMDI Academy Network – Personal. Regional. Connected.

Successful personnel and leadership development thrives on personal proximity – and at the same time on the strength of a high-performance network. With the INSIGHTS MDI® Academy Network, you benefit from an experienced expert network that is there for you regionally and at the same time draws on the know-how of all partners.
In this way, we combine individual support with uniform quality standards and bundled competence.

Close to people. Strong in the network. Competent at your side.

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Academy Network & Partnership

Grow successfully in your region with a strong brand.

Benefit from a proven academy concept, an established brand, and over 30 years of experience in leadership development. As a license partner, you build your own regional academy – with scientifically sound methods, personal support, and the entrepreneurial freedom of an independent company.

License Partnership

Contact Academy Network

Are you interested in a license partnership in the INSIGHTS MDI® Academy Network and would like to build your own regional academy? Then you’ve come to the right place.

Your contact person is the head of the Academy Network. We look forward to your message.

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