Mitarbeiter Workshhops mit Astrid Steingrüber

Team-Workshops for Employee Development

My workshops are designed for organizations, HR teams and employees who want to actively shape collaboration, communication and professional effectiveness in their day-to-day work.

I place a particular focus on women in positions of responsibility – not as an isolated target group, but in interaction with organizational structures, role expectations and company culture.

Many topics that appear to be “individual challenges” are, in reality, systemic in nature.
This is exactly where my workshops begin.

Organizations today operate under constant pressure to perform and meet expectations.
Roles are changing, responsibility is increasing – while orientation and clarity often struggle to keep pace.

The effects are often not immediate, but gradual:

  • Collaboration becomes more strained
  • Leadership feels increasingly demanding
  • A sense of self-efficacy begins to decline

These dynamics are not individual shortcomings, but expressions of everyday organizational reality.

Astrid Steingrüber gibt Workshops in Unternehmen

My Perspective

Before I began working with individuals and organizations, I spent over 30 years in the IT industry – more than 13 of them in leadership roles in sales.

I understand performance pressure, conflicting goals, and responsibility not from theory or models, but from hands-on, operational experience.

This background allows me to work with teams and leaders on equal footing – even in demanding and complex environments.

Workshop Programmes for Team Development & Employee Empowerment

Impostor Syndrome at Work: Understanding, Reframing and Taking Action

Self-doubt and the feeling of not truly belonging are widespread in many organizations – particularly among women in roles with high levels of responsibility.

In this workshop, we explore the so-called impostor syndrome as the result of an interplay between personal experience, organizational expectations, and unspoken norms.

The aim is to strengthen inner confidence, clarity in communication, and the ability to act effectively in everyday work – both individually and within teams.

Suitable for:

  • Women’s development and talent programs
  • Women in specialist and leadership roles
  • Emerging leaders

More on this topic in the blog:

Imposter-Syndrome: Why doubt yourself?Impostor-Syndrom: Warum Frauen so oft an sich zweifeln

Storytelling at Work: Creating Clarity, Impact and Shared Understanding

Storytelling is not a presentation technique, but a core element of shared understanding.

In this workshop, we explore how content, decisions, and individual contributions can be communicated in ways that are both clear and effective – beyond pure data logic or self-promotion.

The central question is:
How does impact emerge through language, structure, and context?

Together, we reflect on:

  • how stories provide orientation – in change processes, projects, and leadership
  • why women, in particular, often make their expertise less visible, even when their professional contribution is strong

The goal is to gain clarity in one’s own communication and to develop narratives that build trust, make responsibility visible, and support collaboration.

Suitable for:

  • Organizations undergoing change where orientation is critical
  • Leaders and experts with high levels of professional responsibility
  • Women in roles of responsibility who want to strengthen their impact
  • Teams that need to communicate complex topics more clearly and effectively

Leading Through Change: Creating Orientation in Times of Uncertainty

Change is ever-present in everyday working life – and yet it is often treated as an individual adaptation issue.

This workshop creates space to place change into context, understand it, and make it manageable – for individuals, teams, and organisations.

The focus is not on “managing change”, but on the question:
What happens in organisations when roles, expectations, and conditions shift – and how can people be brought along?

We work, among other things, on:

  • typical dynamics in change processes (uncertainty, resistance, withdrawal, actionism)
  • the role of leadership and communication in times of change
  • the tension between individual responsibility and organisational frameworks
  • how change can be accompanied linguistically and culturally

The workshop combines reflection with concrete points of action for everyday work – without simple recipes, but with clarity about what is meaningful right now.

The goal is to strengthen the ability to act in times of change, make expectations explicit, and shape collaboration effectively even under uncertainty.

Suitable for:

  • Leadership and collaboration development programmes
  • Leaders and teams in change processes
  • HR departments that want to accompany change in a reflective way
  • Organisations undergoing reorganisation, growth, or cultural transformation

Personal Brand at Work: Professional Visibility Without Self-Promotion

Personal branding is not about self-promotion, but about clarity around your role, contribution, and impact within an organisation.

In this workshop, we reflect on how professional visibility is created – and why it is often experienced ambivalently by women.

We work on language, presence, and positioning within the organisational context – always with an eye on company culture, expectations, and room for manoeuvre.

Suitable for:

  • Organisations that want to make visibility fairer and more transparent
  • Women in positions of responsibility
  • High potentials and talents

Further reading on the blog:

Personal Branding: How to Stand Out in Large Companies

Clarify Needs (30–45 Min.)

In the initial conversation, we’ll clarify the workshop’s goals, who will participate, how much time we have and which format is the best fit.

Concept & Planning

I design the workshop flow, tailor the content to your needs, and take care of all the organizational details.

Execution

The workshop takes place online or on-site — interactive and hands-on.

Reflection & Transfer

We reflect on the outcomes and discuss how to sustainably integrate what’s been learned into everyday work life.

The goal of my work is not to change people or optimise behaviour.

The aim is to create the psychological conditions for sustainable leadership and effective collaboration.

The workshops help to ensure that:

  • Leaders experience responsibility more clearly and with less pressure
  • Teams develop a shared language for tension and uncertainty
  • Self-efficacy and the ability to act are strengthened
  • HR has a more sustainable impact – beyond one-off initiatives or isolated measures