Business Operation Trainings
German Centre Taicang Academy offers the following business operation trainings.
| Date: | online on demand |
| Time: | Permanent Access. Participant will receive an access code to join the online training at anytime. |
| Language: | English or Chinese |
| Price: | 800 RMB per person, special rate for larger groups or companies on demand |
| Duration: | several hours according to learning speed |
Course introduction
To reach worldwide climate goals, circular economy is of crucial importance because it offers a holistic approach to sustainability, addressing environmental, economic and social challenges while promoting a more efficient and responsible use of resources. By adopting circular economy principles, societies can move towards a more sustainable and regenerative future.
Many assume that the circular economy is just a trend that doesn’t pay off. That it is mainly about recycling and eliminating plastic. That the circular economy won’t work because it requires a change in consumer behavior and that won’t happen because people won’t change their behavior!
But this is not true! The circular economy is about: reusability, reparability, recycling, sustainability, climate protection, resources, material cycles, product design, innovation and durability.
In the PLAYBOOK – Basic Sustainability and Circular Economy Online Training – Module 1 you will learn all about the basics of the circular economy, how it is defined and what drives it. You will also get to know the most important principles of the circular economy and thus gain a basic knowledge of the topic.
This online training is based on the circular economy PLAYBOOK by our partner Thinking Circular®, a consultancy and think tank, situated in Germany and founded by Eveline Lemke. As former Minister of State o.d., Rhineland-Palatinate, former president of the International University Karlshochschule for Economics and Management, as well as trained and experienced merchant in Wholesale and Foreign Trade for steel, plastics and recycles, her experience as a systems thinker in politics, science and economic practices enables her to support others on their way into the circular economy.
The PLAYBOOK includes the European standards and is adapted to the Chinese Market and legislations.
Target audience
Everyone who is involved in sustainability.
Objective
At the end of this session, participants will:
- Understand principles of circular economy.
- Gain the knowledge to start a green transformation.
- Contribute to the change of their company.
- Achieve consciousness of the importance of changing their own behavior and developing new ideas.
Training content
Lection 1: Introduction
Starting this course you will learn about the definition of circular economy. Common myths about circular economy will be exposed and replaced by facts.
Lection 2: Circular economy principles
What are the main principles of circular economy? In this lection you will get an overview of the nine main principles.
Lection 3: Success factors
What makes an economic circular system successful? You will learn about diversity, drivers and triggers and desing4CE. A best practice example is given to understanding the success factors more deeply.
Lection 4: Knowledge gaps
This section is all about giving you a deep knowledge to understand the need for changing to a circular economy.
Lection 5: Barriers in circular economy
Of course, there will be barriers. You will learn how to identify and overcome these barriers.
Lection 6: Quiz
The quiz consists of a total of eight questions. After passing the quiz, you will receive a certificate. However, the questions also deepen your knowledge and repeat the content you have learned.
Online Learning
The PLAYBOOK – Basic Sustainability and circular economy Online Training Module 1 is an interactive online learning platform that offers you many advantages:
1. Flexibility & accessibility
The PLAYBOOK offers you the opportunity to learn when and where it suits you best. Before, during or after working hours – you can work on the learning content according to your own schedule and integrate it flexibly into your daily routine.
You can access the learning content from anywhere. All you need is internet access.
2. Self-directed learning
With the PLAYBOOK you can learn at your own pace. The learning material can be repeated as often as you like, and you can focus on the areas that are most important to you.
3. Interactive learning methods
The PLAYBOOK uses interactive learning methods to make learning more interesting and effective. Videos, podcasts, interactive exercises and quizzes add variety to the learning process and increase learning success.
4. Certificate
Sinolog will issue you with a certificate of participation in the respective course programme upon successful completion.
About Sinolog
Sinolog was founded 1999 in Munich, Germany. The main purpose is to promote business cooperation between Europe and China, crossing cultural differences and achieving win-win situations. The main industries served are automotive, construction and aerospace. Our partners are Chinese and European companies, research institutes, associations and government agencies.
Our goal and belief is to work together to promote sustainable business development, technology exchange and cooperation between China and Europe.
We offer trainings and workshops both in English and Chinese, organize events and connect companies and experts.
| Date: | Inhouse Training on demand |
| Language: | English |
| Duration: | Three consecutive months including 12 offline classes (one class per week; duration: 2 hours) and daily Online Pronunciation Practice (duration: 5 minutes) |
| Contact: | For registration, details and an individual offer, please contact us at info@gctaicang.com |
Course introduction
Working in an international company often means communicating in English on a daily basis. Thus, speaking English clearly and with confidence matters to every employee or manager. However, communicating in English constitutes a challenge for many employees and the lack of English proficiency can make daily business tasks difficult to accomplish.
To strengthen the English communication skills of your employees, this training aims to improve the English pronunciation ability of the attendees and to promote their oral Business English and presentation skills.
The 12 weeks English Improvement Program includes both daily online exercises and 12 weekly offline classes. It features many useful learning materials and is led by a professional native-speaker coach with deep language expertise and training experiences. This training will help the attendees to learn useful language for everyday work communication and will strengthen their interaction and exchange with international colleagues or superiors.
Traing content
For further details regarding the contents please refer to the attachment.
Target audience
Any employee or business manager who wants to improve his or her English pronunciation skills and English communication proficiency.
Training structure
- Phase 1 – American English Pronunciation
- Phase 2 – Pronunciation Reinforcement – Oral Business English Course
- Phase 3 – English Presentation Practice and Evaluation
- Online Daily Pronunciation Practice
Trainer
Paul – from USA, with language ability in fluent Chinese and German. Paul provides training in promotional, influencing, business English, speech and communication skills for enterprises, professionals. As an entrepreneur and event organizer, Paul has implemented 10-years of experience in improvisation to mobilize, synergize, and lead new projects to completion.
| Date: | Friday, 9 May |
| Time: | 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | 1,500 RMB per person |
Course introduction
Facing the increasingly severe environmental challenges and social responsibility requirements, ESG is not only the key for enterprises to achieve sustainable development but also an important cornerstone for enterprises to win the trust of investors, consumers, and the public. Therefore, how to grasp the concept of ESG and integrate it into corporate strategy and daily operations has become an important topic for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness. This course aims to enhance participants’ ESG knowledge and sustainable business mindset, improve their ability to apply ESG, and thus promote the sustainable development of corporates.
Target audience
Management staff, key personnel in all department, anyone interested in ESG.
Training objective
Through this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the theoretical foundations of global challenges and ESG
- Understand the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and ESG
- Master the ESG management system and value creation models
- Master practical methods and tools for implementing ESG
- Develop new sustainable business thinking and enhance sustainable business leadership
Training content
- Introduction and Background
- The common challenges of humanity: environment, climate, population, resources
- The importance of sustainable development
- The concept and components of ESG
- Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality
- The background of the dual-carbon strategy
- Current status and policies of carbon emissions in China
- Main pathways to achieving carbon neutrality
- Carbon Assets and Carbon Trading
- The formation and development of carbon markets
- Carbon trading policies and practices
- Corporate Development and ESG
- Sustainable business thinking and strategy
About Linke Consulting
Linke Consulting Co.,Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | 7 August 2025 |
| Time: | 9:30 am – 5:00 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Shanghai |
| Language: | English/Chinese |
| Price: | Regular Price: 2,480 RMB Early Bird: 1,880 RMB Group Price (three and above): 1,780 RMB |
Course introduction
In the era of rapid transformation driven by “New Quality Productivity,” businesses face three core challenges:
- Intensified competition: Traditional models disrupted by digitization, declining profitability, and reduced client loyalty.
- Value gap: Clients demand customized, intelligent solutions over standalone products.
- Capability bottlenecks: Sales teams rely on outdated methods, lacking data-driven decision-making and agility.
This course focuses on upgrading solution-based sales processes through digital tools, client value co-creation models, and competitive differentiation, empowering businesses to shift from “selling products” to “enabling client success.”
Target audience
GMs, Marketing VPs, Sales Directors, Regional Managers, Product Managers, and sales-related leaders, etc.
Teaching Method
Lectures, video demo, case study, group discussion, exercise
Training objective
- Capability Upgrade
- Data-driven sales strategies: Enhance complex deal success with client journey analytics and value co-creation.
- Digital toolkits: Standardize sales actions with STP targeting, FAB differentiation, and SPIN demand mining.
- Agile collaboration: Streamline cross-department workflows for faster client response.
- Deliverables
- Toolkits: Client persona templates, decision-chain analysis tools, differentiation matrices (10+ tools).
- Script library: Executive communication tactics, FABE value propositions.
- Strategy roadmap: Client development paths and competitive shielding strategies.
Module 1: Intelligence Warfare – Data-Driven Opportunity Mining
- STP Precision Targeting
- Industry/size, purchasing behavior, demand traits, equity structure, corporate culture, client personas.
- Tool: DeepSeek + STP + SWOT for lead generation.
- 12 Offline Lead-Generation Tactics.
Module 2: Decision-Chain Breakthrough – Executive Engagement
- Decision-Chain 3.0: Mapping power dynamics.
- Tools: DeepSeek-generated client personas, organizational charts.
- Pain Point Analysis: Organizational vs. individual challenges.
- Stakeholder Strategy:
- EB (Economic Buyer): Addressing dominance.
- TB (Technical Buyer): Handling objections.
- UB (User Buyer): Gaining support.
Module 3: Competitive Differentiation – Value Reengineering
- FABE + Value Proposition: Linking features to client pain points.
- Tool: DeepSeek-generated FABE scripts.
- Demand Mining:
- Iceberg Theory (explicit vs. hidden needs).
- SPIN Framework:
- Situation
- Problem
- Implication
- Need-Payoff questions.
- Tool: DeepSeek SPIN script generator.
- Wrap-Up
- ORID Review: Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional.
- Action Plan: Personalized strategies.
- Certification & Closing.
About Linke Consulting
Linke Consulting Co.,Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | 27 June 2025 |
| Time: | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Shanghai |
| Language: | English/Chinese |
| Trainer: | Nadya Liu |
| Price: | Regular Price: 3,650 RMB Early Bird: 3,050 RMB Group Price (three and above): 2,800 RMB per person |
Course introduction
Does your company often run into similar problems? Are you always occupied with firefighting? Do you want to solve problems more efficiently? Lean Six Sigma DMAIC is such an efficient problem-solving methodology. It provides a structured problem-solving path of “Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control” and practical tools in each phase to achieve product quality improvement, process efficiency optimization, and operation cost reduction. Therefore, Lean Six Sigma has been widely applied in most industries and its certification is one of the most popular ones at workplace.
Data analysis is essential to problem-solving, but due to complex data analysis knowledge system, it is difficult to master in 1 day, therefore standard Yellow Belt training often excludes this part. However, this upgraded Yellow Belt training empowered data analysis with AI tools, making it effortless to use, while keeping the training’s original strength: systematic and practical.
The upgraded AI+ Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training includes:
- Introduction to the basics of Lean Six Sigma
- The fundamental logic of Six Sigma DMAIC methodology and the tools in each phase that is required at yellow belt level
- AI empowered data analysis
- A real case problem-solving group exercise throughout the training
After fully participation, all participants will receive a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification issued by ASQ (American Society of Quality) certified Master Black Belt.
Target audience
Professionals in all industries who is interested in effective problem-solving, especially those who work with process optimization and quality improvement.
Teaching Method
Lectures, case studies, breakout sessions, student exercises
Training objective
At the end of this session, participants will gain:
- Mindset change: participants will start to form a systematic, scientific and logical problem-solving mindset
- Skillset upgrade: participants will understand the Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools, including AI empowered data analysis tools
- Problem-solving: participants will be able to apply the methodology and tools to solve real problems in life or at work
- Certification: participants will receive a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification issued by ASQ certified Master Black Belt
Outline
- Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
In this section, you will learn about the background and basics about Lean Six Sigma
- DMAIC – Define phase
In Define phase, you need to answer the question – what is the problem exactly? To answer this question, you will learn about how to create a Project Charter, how to create a SIPOC, and how to generate CTQ through real case group exercises.
- DMAIC – Measure phase
In Measure phase, you need to answer the question – how big is the problem currently? To answer this question, you will learn about output measurable identification, Operational Definition, Measurement System Analysis, Basic Statistics, Process Capability, Performance Visualization through real case group exercises.
- DMAIC – Analyze phase
In Analyze phase, you need to answer the question – what are the root causes of the problem? To answer this question, you will learn about the roadmap of root cause verification, how to identify potential causes with Cause-effect Diagram (Fishbone) and “5 why”, how to verify root causes through process analysis tools such as Spaghetti Diagram and Swim-lane Diagram, as well as through data analysis using AI tools.
- DMAIC – Improve phase
In Improve phase, you need to answer the question – what are the best solutions of the problem? To answer this question, you will learn about how to generate potential solutions with standard Lean tools and multiple Brainstorming tools, how to select solutions and how to implement solutions through real case group exercises.
- DMAIC – Control phase
In Control phase, you need to answer the question – how to keep the improvement sustainable? To answer this question, you will learn about Documentation, Control Charts and Reaction Plan.
About Linke Consulting
Linke Consulting Co.,Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | Friday, 13 June (German Centre Taicang) Wednesday, 30 July (German Centre Shanghai) |
| Time: | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang/Shanghai |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | Regular Price: 3,650 RMB Early Bird: 2,895 RMB Group Price (three and above): 2,700 RMB |
Course introduction
We need to make decisions for business performance at work. However, decisions are often based on experience, intuition, and even panic reactions under pressure. Whether they are correct or not is simply a matter of luck. Digitization makes it easier to obtain data, but we often struggle to draw valid conclusions when faced with massive amounts of data. This course is designed to overcome the above dilemmas. It helps students build a data analysis empowered decision-making mindset. The course is systematic and practical:
- Systematic: organically insert data analysis tools into a clear overall framework of decision-making. Students will master a systematic approach rather than discrete tools.
- Practical: With a Business Performance Improvement simulation case-tudy embedded, students could actively practice the tools. Not only to learn the “what” and “why”, but also master the ” how” and achieve visible results onsite.
- Easy to Master: Traditional data analysis content often requires coding or complex operating, but in the data analysis section of this course, you only need speak“human language” to AI and get accourate data analysis result effortlessly.
Target audience
Professionals in all industries and positions who is in need of business performance improvement and/or data analysis, including but not limited to R&D, production & operation, sales, SCM, HR, admin, marketing, OpEx, etc.
Teaching Method
Lectures, case study, group discussion, group exercise, simulation game
Training objective
Through this course, participants will be able to:
- Change the mindset: get rid of their fixed pattern for problem solving and data analysis, while establishing a systematic decision-making mindset based on data analysis
- Master the method: master the approach to improve business performance through systematic decision-making
- Upgrade the skillset: be proficient in using data analysis tools such as hypothesis testing, correlation analysis, regression analysis, etc., and mastering the logic principles
- Master AI Data Analysis: Learn how to perform data analysis using AI tools.
- Solve a real problem: participants will improve the business performance of simulatied operation case.
Training content
Part One: Establish the Mindset
- Interaction Case 1: Scientific decision-making mindset
- Interaction Case 2: Correct data-driven mindset
- Reflection: How to build a data analysis empowered decision-making mindset
Part Two: Master the Method
- A simulation case study for business performance improvement (initial status)
- Step 1: Understand the problem itself
- Establish problem indicators
- SMART principles
- Clarify the essence of the problem
- From “Voice of the Customer” to “Critical Quality Characteristics”
- Team exercise 1: practice phase 1 tools in the simulation case
- Establish problem indicators
- Step 2: Assess the Current State
- Scientific data collection
- Data collection approach
- Reliability of data collection
- Statistical sampling basics
- Sampling strategy
- Effectively present data collection result
- Key statistics
- Key performance indicators
- Visualization
- Team exercise 2: practice phase 2 tools in the simulation case
- Scientific data collection
- Step 3: Find out the root causes through AI empowered data analysis
- Data analysis foundation
- Hypothesis test
- Correlation
- Regression
- Above-montioned data analysis using AI tools
- Team exercise 3: data analysis practice with the simulation case data (using AI tools)
- Step 4: Make scientific decision
- Generate potential solutions: structured brainstorming
- Select the optimal solutions: prioritization tools
- Team exercise 4: decision making practice based on the simulation case
- Summary and recap
About Linke Consulting
Linke Consulting Co.,Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | 24 June (Taicang) 1 July (Shanghai) |
| Time: | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang & German Centre Shanghai |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | Regular Price: 1,500 RMB per person Early Bird: 1,200 RMB per person (until 1 Week prior to training) Group Price (two or more participants): 980 RMB per person |
Training Background
In today’s fast-moving work environment, it often feels like there’s never enough time to get everything done. With endless emails, meetings, and shifting priorities, staying in control of daily tasks can be a constant struggle. Important tasks get buried, forgotten, or delayed, leading to last-minute stress and bigger problems down the line. Managing it all – while trying to stay productive and focused – can feel overwhelming, making it difficult to work efficiently and keep up with expectations. This training was developed directly from these challenges, offering a solution that has proven effective in real work situations and can be implemented easily by everyone.
Training Background
The training is designed to help individuals and professionals take charge of their daily workload by leveraging Microsoft Outlook as a powerful tool for self-management. By implementing a structured approach to task management, participants will learn practical strategies to improve efficiency, enhance reliability, and reduce stress in the workplace.
Target objective
- Manage your tasks in Outlook with high efficiency
- Be able to control your tasks regardless of their quantity
- Track all ongoing tasks (your tasks, and those coordinated to others)
- Become more reliable by making all deadlines visible to you
- Decide with ease what to focus on
- Reduce your stress at work
- Get more motivation out of your job
Training content
- Structural setup of Outlook
- Systematic approach for task management
- Toolset for own tasks
- Next steps, follow up
- Deadlines
- Priorities
- Everything in one place
- Toolset for pending follow-ups
- Tracking
- Status and next steps
- Reminders
- Further tools
- Practice & Implementation
Target audience
- Manager & employees at all levels seeking better organization and productivity
- Professionals handling high workloads
- Individuals looking for smart and effective work methods
About the Trainer
Robin is an engineer with extensive international experience, having worked for many years in China. Fluent in English, German, and Chinese, he brings a wealth of knowledge and a unique perspective to the training.
As the founder of Shanghai Cofex Consulting Co., Ltd, Robin is passionate about empowering individuals to optimize their work practices. With over seven years of experience in coordinating and managing projects, he has developed a deep understanding of the challenges faced by today’s workforce and the tools needed to overcome them.
Robin’s expertise in self-management approaches ensures that this training will equip you with the skills to succeed in today’s fast-paced professional world.
| Date: | Friday, 11 July |
| Time: | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | 2,000 RMB (the participation fee includes lunch and coffee break) |
Course introduction
In global business settings, fluent English sets you apart, enabling better connections with colleagues, clients, and partners while boosting efficiency. Many face challenges like unclear expression and inefficiency but fear the massive effort and time needed to learn a language. Unlike traditional courses, this course focuses on real-world communication skills, and leveraging AI tools like DeepSeek to reduce learning effort and maximize results. Achieve confident speaking, polished writing, and effective workplace communication with minimal time investment.
Target audience
Professionals who need to use English at work or want to improve their English skills.
Teaching Method
Lectures, case study, group discussion, student exercise
Training objective
Through this course, participants will be able to:
- Master Oral expression techniques in English
- Master Email writing techniques in English
- Master communication techniques in common workplace scenarios
- Smartly use DeepSeek to ease workplace English communication
- Achieve visible on-the-spot improvement
Training content
- Expression Principles of Business English
- Use simple and precise words
- Be concise and to the point
- Be clear and easy to understand
- Be tactful and polite
- Use DeepSeek to refine your expression
- Exercise: Use DeepSeek to refine your expression in practice
- Email Writing Techniques
- Common frameworks of English email
- 6C principles of English email
- Tips for English email writing
- Use DeepSeek to generate email in English based on above principles and tips
- Exercise: Use DeepSeek to generate email in English
- Oral Expression Techniques
- Boost self-confidence
- Convey clear information
- Avoid translation thinking
- Make use of non-verbal information
- Exercise: speaking practice on specific topics
- Communication Techniques in Common Workplace Scenarios
- Informal scenario: small talk, rapid connecting with coworkers
- Topic recommendation
- Practical tips
- Use DeepSeek to generate topics for small talk
- Exercise: Use DeepSeek generated topics to practice small talk
- Formal scenario: work reporting, make yourself seen
- Two different roadmaps
- Practical tips
- Use DeepSeek and Kimi to generate work reporting PPT slides
- Exercise: Use DeepSeek and Kimi to generate work reporting PPT slides in practice
- Informal scenario: small talk, rapid connecting with coworkers
- Summary & Q&A
- Learning Plan Development
- Exercise: Use DeepSeek to generate your personal English improvement plan
About Linke Consulting
Linke Consulting Co.,Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | Friday, 17 October 2025 |
| Time: | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | 2,800 RMB per person (the participation fee includes lunch and coffee break) |
Course introduction
In competitive markets, corporates often face the dilemma between excessive concessions and profits maintenance. Many corporates often make excessive concessions and end up unable to maintain profits. Win-win negotiation focus on the negotiation key factors and reasonably position the value of products and services, helping corporates maintain profits without excessive concessions, and ultimately achieve a win-win situation. This course is designed based on real negotiation scenarios, aims to help participants master win-win negotiation skills and strategies, help participants negotiate more efficiently and confidently.
Target audience
Front-line sales personnel and sales management personnel.
Training objective
Through this course, participants will be able to:
- Master essentials of negotiation
- Master 3 different negotiation styles and skills
- Master win-win negotiation strategies
- Negotiate more efficiently and confidently
Training Content
- Essentials of negotiation
- Warm-up interaction: what do you think is the core of negotiation?
- The core of negotiation
- Two motivations of negotiators
- Interaction: how do you understand “winning”?
- BATAN: set goals
- Understand customer’s buying strategies
- Compromise strategy
- Common negotiation models
- Group exercise 1: using compromise strategy
- Competitive Negotiation
- Features of competitive negotiation
- Six core principles of negotiation
- Two actions beneficial to yourself
- Negotiation techniques and coping strategies
- Group exercise 2: competitive negotiation skills exercise
- Cooperative Negotiation
- Features of cooperative negotiation
- Conversion of sales to negotiation
- Five key behaviors
- Usage of three negotiation conditions
- Group exercise 3: cooperative negotiation skills exercise
- Summary: Application and Practice Forms (replicable, implementable, executable negotiation behavior, repeated practice and use in the course)
- Supporting forms
- Negotiation forms
- Ten key behaviors to cope with negotiation stress
About Linke Consulting
Founded in Shanghai in 2020 by ASQ Certified Master Black Belt Nadya Liu, Linke Consulting Co., Ltd. is a boutique consulting firm that provides theoretical training and practical coaching on Operational Excellence methodologies and tools, aiming at helping corporate clients to achieve their strategic goals and accelerating career development for individual students through scientific enablement. As a young company, Linke Consulting has quickly made its name among numerous corporate clients, individual students and business partners with its solid expert team, flexible consulting approach, international service standard and high-level delivery.
| Date: | Nov. 14, 2025 Dec. 12, 2025 Jan. 31, 2026 (series of 3 days) |
| Time: | 9:00 am – 5:30 pm |
| Venue: | German Centre Taicang |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Price: | Regular Price: 8,080 RMB Early Bird: 7,680 RMB (until 1 Week prior to training) Group Price (three and above): 7,280 RMB |
Course Introduction
Developing young leaders and middle managers is one of the most crucial investments for long-term business success for global players, especially smaller and mid-sized companies which mainly rely on talent raised from within.
Individuals who stood out for having made significant contributions and showing leadership in projects or initiatives are promoted to team leadership to become multiplicators, facilitate team work and foster performance. However, leadership skills need practice, reflection and state-of-the-art thinking to develop the leader’s potential in an optimal way.
The “Leadership Basics Program” creates a 3-months learning community and provides structured input, practice opportunities and space for reflection to grow over the course of the program and apply the new knowledge as the journey develops.
Target audience
Individuals who have recently (typically within the last 1-2 years) started a leadership role or have been leading for some time but never attended a structured leadership training – particularly those who work in Chinese/German business environments.
Teaching method
Lectures, case studies, group discussion, group exercises, experiential activities
Reading assignment and small group project in between sessions
Training objective
Through this course, participants will be able to:
- Reflect on and better move into their personal role as a leader, leveraging strengths and building up a conscious mindset for authentic leadership
- Establish a team and understand crucial team dynamics in the course of team development
- Take thought leadership responsibility for their own area and navigate the process of problem-solving and solution-generation
- Develop and coach individual team members for effective performance
Training content
Module 1 (one day): Role and mindset of a leader
- What is a leader?
- Authentic leadership (self-awareness, value-based leadership, relational transparency, balanced processing, psychological safety)
- Executive presence
Module 2 (half day): Forming a team
- Phases of team development
- The art of motivating people
- Effective delegation
- Recruiting basics
Module 3 (half day): Strategic thought leadership
- Structured analysis and decision-making
- Strategic thinking techniques
- Stakeholder management
Module 4 (one day): Team development & performance management
- Situational leadership
- The art of feedback
- The leader as a coach
- Intentional people development approaches
In between sessions: Reading assignment + group project
About
CD Consulting (Taicang) Co. Ltd. was founded in 2022 by a team of learning- and management-professionals with a dedicated focus to serve the Chinese-German business community in Taicang. In close cooperation with our customers, we provide high-quality training, coaching and consulting services focusing on leadership development, intercultural management, optimization of HR processes, company culture and quality management.
Instructor profile
Sonja Hilbig is a founding partner at CD Consulting and has 20 years of experience in people development, consulting and industrial management.
As a former Director of Product Management & Smart Factory Solutions at TRUMPF (China) Co. Ltd. and Senior Associate at McKinsey&Company (Hamburg), she has an in-depth understanding of the needs of young leaders in a Chinese-German business environment and now focuses on supporting individuals and leadership teams to reach their full potential.
Sonja holds an MBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), as well as a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Chemnitz University of Technology and is fluent in German, English and Mandarin
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Dongting Building, 15. Floor
Middle Zhenghe Road 319
215400 Taicang, PR China
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