Free self-learning course · The Human Map™

Free Self-Learning Course: The Human Map Starter Session.

Decoded: The System Code.
The 9 lenses that decide whether your organization truly carries people – or quietly burns them out.

Immediately applicable · Concrete action steps · Built for leaders and teams across industries, structures and sizes.

Use this course as my “Hello” for our professional connection: a practical way to see whether The Human Map™ is relevant for your world.

No cost. No obligation. A clear, quiet introduction to The Human Map™ – and how it can help you lead under real pressure.

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The Human Map™ · 9-part Starter Course

What you get in this free course

Clarity

Know your current leverage point.

Stop scattering your energy across dozens of initiatives. The course shows you exactly where to focus in your current situation so that your system becomes clearer and more stable – not just busier.

Structure

See the invisible architecture.

You learn to read how roles, routines and decisions shape behavior under pressure – and where small structural shifts can unlock more trust, alignment and performance.

Action

9-point checklist for immediate change.

A compact checklist distils the essence of years of practice: you can start today to make your team’s work more human and more effective – without waiting for the next big transformation programme.

Three main reasons organizations lose clarity

Reason 1: Buzzword instead of steering lever.

“Culture”, “trust”, “empowerment”, “collaboration” – the words are everywhere. But when you ask how they actually work in a specific team or project, conversations become vague.

What leaders cannot describe precisely, they cannot steer or improve. The Human Map™ turns soft concepts into clear fields with questions and diagrams you can work with in real time.

Reason 2: Wrong focus for the current load level.

Relevance and stability emerge when you know what to do when. Teams at different pressure and growth phases need different interventions.

Many organizations do reasonable things – but at the wrong moment. The result: exhaustion, frustration and the feeling that “we try so much, but nothing really shifts”. The course helps you align your focus with your current reality.

Reason 3: Trying to “fix” people instead of systems.

When things get difficult, the instinct is to look for the “weak link” or the “difficult person”. In most cases, the core problem lies in unclear roles, competing logics and broken work rhythms.

The Human Map™ shifts your view from individual deficits to system design – so you can build a structure in which capable people have a fair chance to succeed.

The Human Map Starter: 3 parts · 9 videos

The Human Map Starter · Part 1/3

In Part 1, you learn to locate yourself and your organization on The Human Map™: Which load are you carrying – and what does that mean for your next decision?

Video 1: Load Levels & Focus Point

Why teams under different levels of pressure need different interventions – and how to identify your current load level. After this video, you know your main focus point instead of trying to solve everything at once.

Video 2: System vs. Individual

How to distinguish between individual behaviour and systemic patterns. You learn a simple lens to see when a “performance problem” is actually an architecture problem.

Video 3: The 5 Human Map Fields

Orientation, communication, structure, rhythm and trust – the five fields The Human Map™ uses to read organizations. You get a compact overview and questions to scan your own team.

The Human Map Starter · Part 2/3

In Part 2, you work on how you communicate, position and connect your work – so that people can actually understand and follow what you are trying to do.

Video 4: The Tone of Leadership

How your tone – in meetings, emails, presentations – shapes the emotional climate of your system. You learn a practical way to clarify your “tone of voice” as a leader and as an organization.

Video 5: Contact & Lead Management

Many organizations do not have a “people problem” – they have a contact and follow-up problem. This video shows how to think about stakeholders, clients and internal partners as a living system that needs rhythm, not sporadic attention.

Video 6: Your Mechanism of Impact

Every serious organization has a way in which it creates value – a “how it really works”. You get an exercise (for yourself or your team) to map that impact mechanism and connect it to everyday decisions and structures.

The Human Map Starter · Part 3/3

In Part 3, you connect insights to decisions: how to speak, decide and act so that relevance, trust and results increase at the same time.

Video 7: Emotional & Rational Alignment

How to address both the emotional and the rational side of your team and stakeholders. You learn concrete patterns for conversations and decisions that reduce resistance and increase commitment.

Video 8: “Now” – the Only Real Moment

Many important moves are postponed into a vague future. This video shows a simple argumentation logic to bring necessary changes into the present – without pushing people over a cliff.

Video 9: Beyond the “Expert” Label

Chasing the perfect expert status can quietly undermine your relevance. You explore what truly creates value for your people and your clients – and how to communicate that without inflationary promises.

What leaders say about working with The Human Map™

We finally had a clear picture of what was actually happening in our teams – not just stories from different sides. The Human Map gave us structure without turning everything into bureaucracy.
Executive Team Member · Industrial Company
Calm, precise, no drama. Michael helped us talk about tensions without shaming anyone. That alone changed our leadership meetings.
Director · International Organization
The Human Map gave us a language our people actually use. We stopped hunting for heroes and started building a system that normal humans can survive.
Founder & CEO · Tech Company

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  • Built for busy leaders, not for people with empty calendars
  • Immediately applicable in your current system – no waiting for “better times”

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Frequently asked questions

What exactly is the Human Map Starter Course?
It is a focused, 9-part self-learning course that introduces you to The Human Map™: a way of reading and shaping human systems under pressure. You get short videos, worksheets and concrete questions that you can use with your own team.
Is there a catch – is it really free?
Yes, it is completely free. The intention is to give you a serious first experience of how The Human Map™ works. If it is helpful, we can talk later about seminars or deeper work. If not, you still keep the tools.
Is this just a superficial checklist?
No. There is a compact 9-point checklist, but each point is anchored in years of work with real organizations. The course is built so that you can work at different depths: quick scan, deeper reflection, or structured team conversation.
How long do I have access?
You receive access for an extended period (not just a few days), so you can revisit the material when your context changes or when you want to use it with a different team or project.
Why do you offer this for free – what is your strategy?
The most honest way to see whether we fit is to work on real topics, not to schedule “virtual coffees”. This course is my way of giving you something concrete first. If you feel it adds value, we can talk about seminars, keynotes or deeper collaboration – in a substantial, respectful way, without pressure scripts.

A simple guarantee.

The course is completely free and without obligation. It is designed to give you a clear, practical benefit – the kind of value a good professional contact should offer.

If, after working through the material, you feel that The Human Map™ is not relevant for your world, that is entirely fine. If you sense that it gives you language and structure you were missing, we can explore next steps.