Free & direct: Online management seminar (2h)

Note: This online management seminar is only available in German.

At a time when working environments are becoming more agile, decentralized and complex, it takes more than gut instinct to lead teams successfully. This is exactly where the online leadership seminar (free of charge) comes in, which you can find on this website here: Your practical introduction to modern, scientifically based leadership development seminars.

Whether you are just starting out as a manager or want to deepen your existing role: This online leadership training course not only provides you with the knowledge you need, but also actionable tools to lead employees, create targeted and measurable team development and take your leadership skills to a new level.

What does the free online management seminar offer you?

This online training is a comprehensive, free online course on leadership with direct practical relevance. You will learn step by step how to:

  • Improve employee management in one-on-one discussions and in the group

  • build up psychological security in the team

  • Conduct team-building workshops for real change

  • design effective communication methods and team meetings

  • achieve sustainable team development with valid tools

  • reflect on and improve your own leadership behavior

This learning journey is aimed at managers at any stage of development – whether you are just starting out as a manager or already have experience.

What makes this online leadership course so special?

The lecturer, Christian Heidemeyer, psychologist and manager, has designed his training course to be entertaining and amusing.

In addition, the free online management seminar combines the best of theory and practice: study-based content meets real case studies from the business world – and the IT world in particular. This makes this leadership development seminar ideal for modern work contexts.

The aim is not only to impart knowledge, but also to actively develop your leadership skills, team leadership and leadership style.

Topic overview: What you will learn

This online management training course includes the following content:

  • How to strengthen real collaboration through team building

  • How to promote motivation and performance through a sense of achievement

  • What modern leadership competence looks like in practice

  • How to bring clarity to your team with structure, meetings and workshops

  • How to develop your team sustainably using proven methods

The seminar comprises more than 10 lessons in two hours in the form of an online course – and is free of charge. So as not to keep you in suspense, you can get started right away below. But first, I recommend watching the teaser video by the instructor Christian to get an overview:

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Who is online management training suitable for?

Whether you are an experienced team leader, coach or new to leadership, this free leadership training course is the ideal training if you want to…

  • strategically build your role as a leader and want to focus on “employee development and participation”

  • want to understand and lead your teams in depth

  • want to organize professional workshops and training courses with your employees

  • want to work systematically with tools and methods

  • would like to systematically develop your skills in the areas of leadership, further training and team development

Your path to professional leadership – start now!

The free online leadership seminar provides you with compact, targeted and in-depth online leadership training. You will learn how to implement leadership in a planned, human and performance-oriented way – with methods that work.

🎓 Whether as training, a course, further training or advanced training: This training is your introduction to a modern and measurable form of leadership. Let’s get started!

Online management seminar (free of charge): Part 1

Part 1: What makes good, agile teamwork? The tower experiment

In part one of our online training, we don’t have to wait long and get straight to it: Lecturer & psychologist Christian uses an exciting study, the tower experiment, to explain to you what makes a good team.

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Leadership development seminar (free of charge): Part 2

Part 2: Getting to know Sebastian the manager - what you can expect in this course

In part two of the online seminar, we get to know Sebastian: He serves as an (AI-generated) example of a manager whose practical problems we want to solve in this training course.

In this respect, this module is increasingly about concretizing the expectations of the training. There is also an introduction to the dolphin method. Have fun 🙂

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Leadership online course (free of charge): Part 3

Part 3: How to create a sense of achievement and self-efficacy in teams

In part three of the training, you will learn how to create a sense of achievement in teams and thus strengthen self-efficacy: a positive upward spiral.

This part of the training is expected to be published here by 11.07.2025. If you don’t want to miss a video, sign up for our newsletter: Subscribe to the newsletter (see below).

Online leadership training (free of charge): Part 4

Part 4: A modern leadership model and one-to-one meetings

Now it’s slowly getting down to business: Here you will get to know a modern leadership theory whose success even surprised the researchers. It’s about the so-called “Leader-Member Exchange” theory. 

In practice, you will learn how to lead your employees to greater success. 

You will also learn the basics of one-to-one meetings, which you can use to manage your employees effectively.

This part of the training is expected to be published here by 18.07.2025. If you don’t want to miss a video, sign up for our newsletter: Subscribe to the newsletter (see below).

New manager training: Part 5

Part 5: Boost your team’s performance by 25% with this meeting

The training continues in an exciting way: here you will learn about a meeting format that, according to studies, can increase team performance by 25%. It’s called the agile retrospective.

This part of the training is expected to be published here by 25.07.2025. If you don’t want to miss a video, sign up for our newsletter: Subscribe to the newsletter (see below).

Online training & further education in leadership: Part 6

Part 6: Guest lecturer Jean gives tips for agile retrospectives

In today’s lesson, we are joined by guest lecturer Jean Michel Diaz: he explains how the agile retrospective should be conducted as a central team meeting in order to achieve the greatest possible success. He also gives us some practical tips.

This part of the training is expected to be published here by 01.08.2025. If you don’t want to miss a video, sign up for our newsletter: Subscribe to the newsletter (see below).

Leadership skills for team leadership: Part 7

Part 7: A few steps towards greater psychological safety in the team

This time it will be exciting again, because Christian gives practical tips on how you can increase psychological safety in the team - and thus increase your chances of success as a team.

This part of the training is expected to be published here by 08.08.2025. If you don’t want to miss a video, sign up for our newsletter: Subscribe to the newsletter (see below).

Online management seminar (free of charge)

Conclusion: Leading teams successfully

Thank you for taking the time to find out more about our online leadership seminar (free of charge) and modern approaches to leadership development. We hope that the insight into our leadership training and the leadership online course has given you valuable impetus for your personal and professional development.

If you have any questions or would like to share feedback, we would be very happy to hear from you - please use the contact form on our website. Your input helps us to better tailor our content and tools to your needs as a manager, coach or team lead.

One final note:
With our Echometer tool, we support companies and teams in sustainably implementing the content taught in the seminar. Whether it’s regular team retrospectives, measuring psychological safety or one-to-one meetings, – Echometer helps you to make leadership effective and measurable.

Take a closer look at our tool here on our website – and start the next stage of your leadership journey.

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FAQs about 1:1 meeting tool

Top answers for anyone exploring our 1:1 meeting tool.

What is the difference between the Retrospective tool and the 1:1 software?

In Echometer there are two separate software solutions that are available within each workspace in Echometer:

  • 1:1 tool: Software for planning and conducting 1:1 meetings and tracking employee development
  • Retrospective tool: Software for planning and moderating retrospectives and tracking team development through team health checks

Both are independent software solutions, so they can be used separately from each other.

However, they work according to the same principles and aim to achieve the same added value: The continuous improvement of agile teams. In this respect, the simultaneous use of both software solutions is recommended.

Can I appoint several admins in Echometer?

Yes, you can assign administration rights to any number of users at both team level and workspace level. Please note the following:

  • Only workspace admins can take out and manage a Echometer subscription for a Echometer workspace.
  • Only workspace admins can create additional teams and name or remove additional workspace admins.
  • Team admins can appoint and remove additional team admins and team members for their team
How can I buy Echometer's 1:1 software?

First, simply register for free in Echometer. Then navigate to the workspace for which you would like to purchase the 1:1 software. If you haven’t already done so, you can do so here: Create account in Echometer 1:1 tool

You can then manage your subscription (for both the retro tool and the 1:1 software) within the workspace settings.

You can choose from various payment methods when upgrading.

If you do not have access to your company’s credit card yourself, you can simply add a buyer as a workspace admin in your Echometer workspace so that this admin can carry out the upgrade for you.

What is the best one-on-one meeting tool for managers?

The best one-on-one meeting tool for managers (especially in agile remote teams) is probably Echometer. Why?

  • Typical HR management software providers (such as Lattice, Leapsome and 15Five) also offer 1:1 tools, but primarily market their complex HR suite and the functions for 1:1 meetings are less mature. In addition, HR software providers focus primarily on the needs of HR departments, not on the needs of employees and managers.
  • While generic tools for meeting transcriptions and summaries (such as Granola, Fellow or Spinach) also provide good summaries just like Echometer, Echometer also offers integrated AI coaching for managers and versatile templates, suggestions for employee development and building blocks for designing effective one-to-one meetings.

Hence the tip: If you are looking for the best one-on-one meeting software, check out Echometer’s 1:1 tool first. Because Echometer’s 1:1 tool is even free for unlimited 1:1 meetings with up to 2 employees: Try out the 1:1 tool Echometer

Does the Echometer One-on-One software tool provide AI feedback on facilitation?

Yes, the Echometer one-to-one meeting software is the only 1:1 tool we know of that gives the manager feedback as an AI coach on how the next one-to-one meeting can be facilitated even better.

Typical tips from the AI coach are, for example:

  • Advice to ask more open and less suggestive questions
  • Use clarifying questions to ensure the same understanding of what is being said
  • Indication of a possibly uneven distribution of speeches or too little structure in the meeting.
How does Echometer's One-on-One Software Tool support employee development?

The Echometer one-to-one meeting software helps managers to accelerate the development of their employees through the following everyday functions:

  • Hashtags: Making recurring topics recognizable and tracking long-term employee goals
  • Check-ins: Quantitative assessment of any factors relating to the employee’s performance or development (including self-assessment)
  • AI coach: Based on the transcript of the one-on-one meetings, managers receive tips and advice on how they can coach their employees even better and involve them in the conversation.