We can answer this question with the results of a survey conducted by the education platform Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. According to this survey, the interest in continuing education for management courses/modular management training (cert.) is based on these facts:

• 88 % in favor of a needs match between the course and the objectives
• 8 % following a recommendation from another manager
• 4 % due to mentions in job advertisements
• Other reasons given as free text answers are: "Training in leadership is required", "Honestly, I would have liked to learn something about it, but I really had zero idea about management...", "It is important to me to be able to lead people properly" and "Promoting employees"

A modular management training course teaches the following topics, among others, in order to train participants to become good managers:

• From specialist to manager
• The situational and authentic leadership style
• Various leadership techniques and team leadership
• Guidelines and help with management problems
• Group dynamics and group norms: Building and developing a team
• Creative handling of conflicts (conflict symptoms, conflict skills, problem solving and avoidance, discussion tools for solution-oriented disputes, mediator conflict management)
• Levels of communication (the positive effect of feedback, barriers to conversation, making yourself heard, formulating wishes clearly)
• Team and staff meetings (discussion techniques, negotiations)
• Motivating employees (solving obstructive group dynamics, interface problems, making meetings productive, promoting mutual tolerance)
• Self-management and resilience (own thought and behavior patterns, own boundaries)
• Various management aspects
• Leadership qualities
• Organizational and legal aspects