Healthy leadership
Managers are the strongest health factor in a company — or the strongest risk factor. Healthy leadership can be learned.
What is this field of action about?
Managers have a strong influence on employee health. Appreciation, clear communication and autonomy are measurable protective factors.
Why does this field of action pay off?
Leadership behaviour influences strain, well-being and sick leave in the team. Health-insurer funding under § 20b SGB V (German law) can include leadership training as part of workplace health promotion.
Measures for Healthy leadership
Healthy leadership can be trained and institutionalised:
0 € · freeWelcome-Back Conversation After Illness: The Signal That Comes Before BEM
The welcome-back conversation after illness is a low-threshold WHP component in the area of healthy leadership – and an important early warning tool before BEM.

Leadership Training: The Lever That Strengthens Every Other Measure
An effective investment in WHP: training on healthy leadership strengthens the impact of the other action areas – and can be documented as a measure in the psy…

Conflict Management: The Training Nobody Wants and Everybody Needs
Unresolved conflicts drive sick days and turnover — conflict management as a leadership competency within WHP steps in before escalation begins.
Where do you stand on Healthy leadership?
The self-check (about 7 minutes) places you across all 10 fields of action.