The SVF Leadership Certificate is a federally certified further training course for managers, which enables you to enter the world of leadership and take on a supervisory role as a team leader or department head. SVF is an abbreviation for the Swiss Association for Leadership Training. The SVF Leadership certificate is the most important basic certificate for leadership training in Switzerland.

The SVF Leadership Certificate is the basic course and a prerequisite for all further training levels in the area of leadership. The SVF Leadership Certificate certifies proven leadership skills. Organizations need trained managers who understand their craft and are able to react in a differentiated and appropriate manner in various leadership situations. And this is precisely what the certificate ensures. In particular, it is also the natural precursor to further training as a management specialist with a federal certificate (professional diploma).

The following learning content is taught in a leadership training course with certificate:

• Self-knowledge
• Self-management
• Team leadership / Group leadership
• Communication
• Presentation
• Conflict management

The knowledge imparted includes the aspects of interpersonal relationships in the context of leadership. The Leadership SVF course is a module of the continuing education, further training and Federal Professional Examination. For the Federal Professional Examination, leadership competence is combined with management competence - i.e. business management.

In the SVF leadership training course, you learn the following:

• Consultation: Needs assessment and admission
  • Consultation
  • Competence check
  • Course selection
  • Registration
  • Preparation
• Ego skills
  • Introduction and learning technique
  • Self-knowledge
  • Self-management
• Communication and leadership
  • Communication and presentation
  • Written communication
  • Conflict management
  • Team leadership
• Preparation for SVF certificate exam

A Leadership Certificate SVF is the first step on the way to becoming a management specialist with a federal certificate. It allows leadership skills to be developed and perfected. This is worthwhile for the graduates, the company and the employees. After all, better leadership usually leads to greater success.

Holders of the Leadership SVF certificate occupy interesting and qualified positions with potential in their professional environment, for example:

• Internal or external consultants on management issues
• Assistance to the division or company management
• Quality Manager
• Organization and/or lecturer in management training
• Team management / department management
• Information & Communication Manager
• Process support for cultural change
• Internal contact person for mediation / conflict management / social matters
• Takeover of branch management
• In-house training Self-knowledge and self-management
• Lead or collaboration on management concepts

The Leadership training course with SVF certificate is aimed at people who wish to take on a management role. It does not matter whether the person is already in a management position or would like to take on one. There are no specific prerequisites for attending the course.

The SVF Leadership Specialist means that this person has successfully completed the SVF Leadership and SVF Management modules. With the two certificates, he/she is then admitted to the Federal Professional Examination - provided at least one year of management experience has been gained. The Swiss Association for Leadership Training (SVF) organizes the SVF certificates. These are very popular - over 7,800 module examinations are taken every year. Even with the SVF Certificate in Leadership or SVF Certificate in Management, successful graduates already have a good qualification in their pocket.

With the SVF Certificate in Leadership, you can already take on a management role. It makes sense to complete the SVF Certificate in Management afterwards, where you will learn more about general management, personnel management and change management. With both certificates and six years of professional experience as well as one year of management experience, you can take the professional examination to become a management specialist with a federal certificate.

Switzerland offers a wide range of seminars, training courses and courses in the field of leadership and management, so it is not always easy to find the right continuing education, further training for your own goals and requirements. All continuing education, further training courses differ in terms of structure and content, and many also differ in terms of target group, degree and duration, requirements and methods. For example, some courses are designed for people with a university degree (CAS, DAS, MAS), while others award a federally recognized qualification after appropriate examinations (FPE, AFPE, CHE). Some continuing education, further training courses last one or two days, others extend over a period of several years. There are currently well over 400 providers listed in this area, all of whom have different ideas and often offer fundamentally different courses. So take a little time when looking for your new continuing education, further training course to find the leadership course that is just right for you.

The objectives of the SVF Leadership Examination training are:

• develop into a competent contact person for all management topics
• have the basic skills required for a management position
• receive targeted and optimal preparation for the module completions of the SVF leadership certificate examination

Certificate courses in leadership and management are training or further education courses at schools and Universities. On the one hand, a distinction is made between courses that are aimed at people without previous in-depth experience in this field and courses that serve as a specialization and have been developed for interested parties with specialist expertise. In addition to the target group, the prerequisites are also different, but generally do not require such strict compliance as is the case with federal continuing education, further training (FPE, AFPE,...). If you are interested in a certificate course but do not meet all of the prescribed requirements, it is always worth asking for more details and requesting an aptitude interview. Certificate courses can have very different orientations, depending on the provider, as they are not uniformly regulated. You should therefore always request the relevant documents from all schools that interest you and for each course that appeals to you, which you can easily receive by email and which will enable you to make a quick comparison. In this way, you can quickly and easily find the right training or further education course in leadership and management.

There are several federally recognized training courses in the field of leadership and also some certificate courses recognized by the Swiss Association for Leadership Education (SVE) in the areas of leadership and management, which also serve as the basis for Federal Professional Examination. However, both certificates can also be completed separately. Following these certificates, the following federally recognized leadership training courses are also available:

• Management Specialist with Federal Diploma of Higher Education (Federal Professional Examination)
• Management expert with federal diploma (Advanced Federal Professional Examination (AFPE))
• Leadership and Management postgraduate studies CHE (College of Higher Education)

The range of university degrees and, above all, certificate courses and master's degree courses at postgraduate level is also considerable, all of which constitute federally recognized education or continuing, further training.

The following leadership training is suitable for developing into a manager:

• Employee management training
• Communication and rhetoric seminar
• Personality development training
• Leadership SVF certificate as part of the professional examination for management specialists
• Management specialist with a federal certificate as in-depth training, the professional examination that significantly increases employability

There is a wide range and large number of training courses in the field of leadership. Among other things, there are providers who offer training courses with a school certificate or those that lead to a federally recognized certificate.

You can find an overview of which providers now offer training courses on Future Leadership here at Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. You can contact the providers free of charge and without obligation and ask any questions you may have.

The education platform Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch asked people interested in education about this and this is the result:

• 47% specifically requested schools with good online ratings
• 27% already knew the school at which they were interested in the SVEB certificate further training course
• 26% asked schools for a recommendation for the course instructor (new: trainer) course

 

Free-text responses to the education survey provide additional reasons for contacting schools:

• Location: "The school is close to me", "the location", "proximity to my home", "geographical proximity", "course location", "proximity to nature", "is in the region"
• Information and comparison: "I would like to find out all about the further education options and compare the offers.", "I had already registered at another school. Unfortunately, the course was not held and I don't want to wait until next summer to do the training.", "For comparison", "I have enquired about all the schools listed", "Purely informative", "Would like to understand the focus of the various schools and whether there are differences in the qualification/topics"
• Online research: "Online search result", "Coincidence", "By searching for a suitable school", "Search engine", "Found the school on the Internet", "Training and further education website", "Description / profile says yes", "To compare", "Google", "Offer check"
• Proof of qualification: "competent in the healthcare sector", "SVEB certified"
• Teaching formats: "online class", "ideal online format", "possibility of online teaching"
• Course times: "The earliest course is", "Duration and start of the course is right", "Evening school, Saturday school", "I find your course dates suitable", "Suitable start date, feasible in terms of time as the courses take place over 6 months and only one day a week".
• Interest: "I am interested in the training"
• Requirement in job advertisements: "Due to a job advertisement as a German teacher that interests me."
• Other: "coincidence", "school already known from previous training", "just like that", "others are fully booked", "availability", "good reputation"