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Leadership
A guide for executives
Alpha Intelligence
New leadership, new intelligence
From: “Bildung aktuell”, July 2025 by B. Liebermeister
Rapid changes, new technologies, multi-layered decision-making situations, uncertainties – today, traditional leadership skills are no longer sufficient. What matters today is Alpha Intelligence – a model that describes five intelligent capabilities that make leadership effective and future-proof.
Alpha Personality: Self-leadership with clarity and inner stability – those who know themselves can lead others better.
Alpha Relations: Building trust, strengthening relationships, and connecting teams – even across uncertainties.
Alpha Digitality: Understanding and shaping the digital world – technologically competent, but always people-centered.
Alpha Resilience: Providing calm and orientation in crises, recognizing opportunities, and instilling confidence.
Alpha Synergy: Meaningfully connecting different perspectives, people, and technologies to enable innovation.
Alpha Intelligence is more than a leadership style – it is an attitude that empowers leaders to not only handle complexity but actively shape it.
Expand contacts for personal relationships
From: “Technischer Handel”, May 2025 by B. Liebermeister
In everyday digital life, the personal connection in communication is often lost – yet appreciation, empathy, and situational sensitivity are crucial for building sustainable relationships. Those who want to create trust must consciously combine digital and personal communication and remain credible – online as well as offline. Truly effective communication requires closeness, presence, and a real sense of the moment.
Leadership starts with strengths.
From: “Training”, April 2025 by B. Liebermeister
Many leaders focus on weaknesses in employee discussions instead of deliberately promoting strengths – which keeps teams stuck in mediocrity in the long run. If you want performance, you must recognize potential, appreciate it, and use it in a way that allows employees to fully develop their abilities. Because: The quality of leadership is ultimately always reflected in the performance of the team.
Become a learnfluencer?
From: "wissensmanagement", February 2025 with quotes from B. Liebermeister
Currently, a new term is becoming established in the continuing education debate: learnfluencer. It is a reaction to the fact that, in the course of the digital transformation of companies, their learning culture and culture of collaboration are also changing.
Become a learnfluencer as a leader?
From: "GIESSEREI", November 2024 with quotes from B. Liebermeister
Currently, a new term is establishing itself in the continuing education debate: Learnfluencer. It is a reaction to the fact that, in the course of the digital transformation of companies, their learning culture and culture of collaboration are also changing.
Those who are in a good mood are well received.
From: "Die Mediation", July 2023; Interview with B. Liebermeister
Anyone who can put themselves and others in a good mood is more successful professionally and privately than someone who acts objectively or is even in a negative mood. This is the belief of management consultant and speaker Barbara Liebermeister from Frankfurt am Main – and she provides some tips on how you can massively influence your impact in conversations with simple means.
Companies are complex relationship systems
From: “Ingenieurbau”, June 2023; Article with quotes from B. Liebermeister
“We need to support our employees more individually so that they can achieve the desired performance in the long term.” Many organizations have realized this – and it is now partially reflected in their compensation systems.
Showing feelings has an effect
From: "bindereport", April 2023; Interview with B. Liebermeister
Barbara Liebermeister on the importance of feelings and the appropriate handling of emotions in the workplace.
