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.