The online mentoring program Start-to-Lead® from TalentMakers was a new form of training for me. I think the ‘mobile learning‘ format is a great plus point and I’m a fan of it!  It meets my need for flexibility: I could follow the training where, when and as often as I wanted.

Leadership is a fascinating and often challenging topic. Throughout the process, you grow into it. This mentoring program is the ideal basis for your first steps in management.

I found the video lessons very useful: you can review them again and again as often as you like, they can be clearly applied, and I have learned a lot of things and gained new insights.

When doing the exercises, you can record yourself. This seems confrontational, but it allows you to determine how effectively you come across to third parties and then you know what changes to make.

Working with people remains a challenging fact that could be better supported within roles. Thanks to this program, I’m going in the right direction in terms of methodology, and I’ve got extra tools and insights that now help me feel more self-assured.

In addition to a few practical and immediately applicable tips and tricks, I found the additional material with the video lessons ideal for my personal growth.

In contrast to other leadership courses, meta-communication and the relational aspect of leadership are strongly addressed. As a manager starting out, you can struggle with that, as well as with communication techniques. After each ‘lesson’, I could get started immediately.

Moreover, I think the ‘mobile learning‘ teaching format (being able to learn independent of place and time) is a great asset – I’m a fan!

I took the “Start-to-Lead” management course and personally learned a lot from the video lessons and exercises. All of the modules are very instructive and I found the following ones in particular to be excellent: “Connect with your team”, “Build Trust”, “Communicate
Effectively”, “Productive Meetings”.
I hadn’t come across the online mobile learning format but it’s very practical and it made it easier to follow the course and fit it into my work schedule and daily life – you can follow it any time, anywhere and do as much as you want. This is a big advantage compared to classroom training that takes place on a fixed date and at a fixed location somewhere in the country, where you can lose a lot of valuable time sitting in traffic jams.

The online community, i.e. the network of participants from other sectors, complements this learning trajectory and is really valuable. You end up discovering that other people have more or less the same questions as you and that they can help you. You just have to have the guts to ask. I would advise everybody to actively make use of a network like this.