This leader posture training is for managers and senior staff who want to clarify their role, build legitimacy and embody coherent leadership. Over two days, you work on defining your posture, managing discomfort zones (authority, conflict, exposure) and expressing fair presence. A useful course for new and experienced managers in transition.
A clear posture saves time for the whole team and yourself
For managers in French speaking Switzerland, the shift from expert to leader often demands conscious posture work. The course relies on guided introspection, role plays and integrated coaching. You leave with a clear formulation of your posture, anchor points and concrete action plan.
Kick-off / Launch of the program and contract between participants
What role for me today?
How to put my personality into action?
The drivers of my commitment
My scenarios
My action plan
Becoming a leader is not just about methods or tools. It is about posture: how I stand, how I decide, how I’m perceived. This course offers a structured approach for those who want to upskill on this often neglected dimension. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes many managers in position transition or expert to leader transition.
Many managers oscillate between expert, contributor and leader without clarifying priority. The course works on explicit role formulation: what I bring, what I delegate, what I decide. With writing exercises on your real position, until the formulation is readable by your team.
Leader legitimacy comes from several sources: expertise, hierarchical position, exemplarity, decision capacity, relational quality. The course helps you map your strong and weak sources to balance posture. A reading that often illuminates a diffuse illegitimacy feeling.
Asserting an unpopular decision, managing conflict, speaking before 50 people: these moments test posture. The course offers targeted role plays on your discomfort zones with personalized feedback. Progression is often measurable from the second day.
Leader presence works: posture, voice, gaze, silence management. Congruence means aligning speech and acts. The course offers simple effective exercises on these dimensions, often under-equipped in classic managerial cursus.
The risk of a posture course is staying abstract. The course closes with an anchoring plan: three concrete acts to perform on return, with review rituals. So posture progressively embodies rather than fading in daily life.
New managers, experienced managers in position transition, experts evolving toward leader role, SME founders, team leaders in mutation. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, healthcare and growing SMEs.
You formulate your leader role in a few readable sentences, identify your strong and weak legitimacy sources, work on your discomfort zones in real professional situations, and build an operational anchoring plan. You leave with a logbook to follow your quarterly progression.
All management tools rest on a coherent posture. Without clear posture, feedback rings false, delegation becomes micromanagement, decision dilutes in compromises. This training lays the foundation, and many participants find here the explanation of a lasting block that technical courses had not solved.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs over two days with a senior leadership coach. Format with introspection, role plays, peer feedback, integrated individual coaching. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. This posture then embodies daily, in repeated micro-decisions that build or destroy the leader’s coherence over three to six months.
A new manager finally moving from individual expertise to collective posture. A service lead clarifying her posture after a promotion experienced as illegitimate. A scale-up founder repositioning his posture after the arrival of a board. The course works these three situations from brought cases.
This training combines well with executive leadership (course 23059) for executive functions, transversal leadership (course 14365) for matrix roles, and managerial emotional intelligence (course 14363) for the emotional dimension. Many managers enroll in one of these courses.
Posture work is among the highest leverage interventions for managers because it compounds over time. Every interaction, decision and communication carries the posture forward. A clarified posture in week one shapes hundreds of micro-interactions in the following months, with cumulative impact on team trust and performance.
Posture demands shift across contexts: startup, corporate, public sector, NGO. The course briefly addresses these variations, with concrete adaptations for each. The core principles remain stable, but their expression evolves with the cultural and organizational context.
Each context-specific adaptation is illustrated by a real case taken from the trainer experience or the participants situations.
These cases are debriefed in small groups with a focus on practical takeaways rather than abstract analysis.
The course also reflects on how the same posture principles read differently across these contexts so participants can transpose them with awareness rather than naivety.
For which profiles?
New managers, experienced managers in position transition, experts evolving toward leader role.
Difference with executive leadership training?
This addresses operational to mid managers. Executive leadership targets top management.
Is coaching individual?
A personalized session is integrated. For prolonged follow up, a dedicated path can be proposed.
Are exchanges confidential?
Yes, group confidentiality is announced and held.
Suitable for hybrid management?
Yes, hybrid management specifics (remote presence, video legitimacy, mixed rituals) are integrated.
What if my posture conflicts with my company culture?
The course addresses this tension specifically: how to hold a personal posture aligned with deep values while navigating organizational culture, without confrontation but without dilution.
Does the course help with imposter syndrome?
Yes, imposter syndrome is addressed in a dedicated sequence, with cognitive and behavioral techniques that complement the posture work.
How to maintain posture under high political pressure?
The course addresses politically charged contexts specifically, with frameworks to hold posture without confrontation but without compromise on essentials.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Côtes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
