iSAQB SOFTSoft Skills for Architects Training
- 30 credit points toward CPSA-A
- Guaranteed dates
- Online or on site
- German and English
Fact sheet
- Duration
- 3 days
- Format
- Live online or On site
- Language
- German and English
- Credit points
- 30 communicative
Price per seat
from€1,980plus VAT
Next date
24–26 Nov 2026Live online6 dates
What this course is.
You lead a group that disagrees to an architecture decision.
- Current curriculum
- 2025.1
- iSAQB · Advanced Level · SOFT
After the course you can:
- Plan communication with stakeholders
- Prepare, hold and follow up discussions
- Choose a visualisation for room and medium
- Place a conflict on Glasl's nine stages
Dates for this course.
6 dates.
Group discount from 2 seats in one booking, applied automatically at checkout. The highest eligible discount applies.
November 2026
1 date, Live online, German
- Tue–Thu–CET
Online
Guaranteed to run- Format
- Live, instructor-led
- Language
- German
- Trainer
- Nico Lausterer
- Seats
- 3 seats left
€2,290/ seat
plus VAT
March 2027
1 date, Frankfurt am Main, German
Tue–ThuTo be announcedGermany
From 2 seats in one booking- City
- Frankfurt am Main
- Language
- German
- Trainer
- Roger Rhoades
- Seats
- Available
Early birdCurrent price €2,205/ seat
Regular price
€2,450Save €245plus VAT
April 2027
1 date, Live online, German
Tue–ThuTo be announcedOnline
From 2 seats in one booking- Format
- Live, instructor-led
- Language
- German
- Trainer
- Nico Lausterer
- Seats
- Available
Early birdCurrent price €1,980/ seat
Regular price
€2,200Save €220plus VAT
July 2027
1 date, Live online, English
Tue–ThuTo be announcedOnline
From 2 seats in one booking- Format
- Live, instructor-led
- Language
- English
- Trainer
- Roger Rhoades
- Seats
- Available
Early birdCurrent price €1,980/ seat
Regular price
€2,200Save €220plus VAT
October 2027
1 date, Live online, German
Tue–ThuTo be announcedOnline
From 2 seats in one booking- Format
- Live, instructor-led
- Language
- German
- Trainer
- Nico Lausterer
- Seats
- Available
Early birdCurrent price €1,980/ seat
Regular price
€2,200Save €220plus VAT
November 2027
1 date, Munich, English
Tue–ThuTo be announcedGermany
From 2 seats in one booking- City
- Munich
- Language
- English
- Trainer
- Roger Rhoades
- Seats
- Available
Early birdCurrent price €2,205/ seat
Regular price
€2,450Save €245plus VAT
Prices are per seat and exclude VAT (value-added tax). Hours are in Central European Time (CET or CEST) unless a date says otherwise.
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Is this the right course for you?
Who it's for
If one of these four describes your work, you are in the right room.
- You have to get a decision out of a room that disagrees.
- You justify design decisions to management and to operations.
- You prepare conversations with stakeholders and follow them up.
- You work in a team where a conflict is slowing decisions down.
Prerequisites
Recommended- Prior knowledge:
The communication challenges of architecture work, known in theory or from practice
- Certification:
The curriculum asks for none; a passed CPSA-F exam belongs to the requirements for CPSA-A certification, not to this module
What the course covers.
The topics follow the iSAQB SOFT curriculum 2025.1. Your trainer works through them live with the group.
- Basics of communication
- Individual and group counselling
- Visualization techniques
- Moderation techniques
- Basics of conflict management
After the course you can
- Analyse the architecture's stakeholders and plan the communication
- Request feedback and give and receive it by the feedback rules
- Prepare, hold and follow up an individual or group discussion
- Separate the factual level of a conversation from the process level
- Select a visualisation technique that fits the room and the medium
- Moderate a group to an architecture decision with a suitable tool
- Tell the facilitator role apart from the decision-maker role
- Place a conflict on Glasl's nine stages and choose a response
How the training works.
- Before the date
Before the course
Before the Albion SOFT course you receive the materials and either the joining details or the address of the venue.
- Day 1Day 2Day 3
The course days
The course days follow the same programme online and on site; the times are on the date you booked.
- After the courseCredit points and certificate
After the course
From 80 percent attendance you get the Albion certificate of participation; the credit points count toward CPSA-A admission.
Credit points, and the certificate you take home.
Certificate of participation
Albion- To receive it
- At least 80% of the course time attended
Credit points
iSAQB30 credit points toward CPSA-A
This course has no exam.
- Technical
- 0 credit points
- Methodical
- 0 credit points
- Communicative
- 30 credit points
What you still need for CPSA-A
This course contributes 30 of the 70 credit points required. Your total across modules must include at least 10 points in each area.
You also need the CPSA-F (Foundation) certificate; the official rules cover the remaining eligibility and assessment requirements.
Why book with Albion.
Every promise here is one the Terms can be held to, on every course.
Verified digital certificate
Public verification pageEvery certificate Albion issues has a public verification page, and the certificate showroom shows a sample of each one.
See the certificate showroomAccredited trainers who work as architects
iSAQB accreditationYour trainers are accredited iSAQB trainers who work as architects, so the exercises come from systems they have built.
Who teaches this course.
Accredited for this course.
Related modules.
Soft Skills for Architects adds 30 communicative points toward CPSA-A. Technical and methodical are still open.
- Technical
- 0Open: minimum is 10
- Methodical
- 0Open: minimum is 10
- Communicative
- 30Minimum of 10 met
This course only. Your previous modules are not included. CPSA-A requires 70 points, at least 10 in each area, plus the Foundation certificate.
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This list has 8 modules.
Questions before you book.
Credit points and certificate
The Albion SOFT course has no exam and earns CPSA-A credit points. Certification involves an assignment and an oral exam assessed by experts appointed by the iSAQB, after all admission requirements have been met.
The Albion SOFT course carries 30 credit points under the iSAQB SOFT curriculum 2025.1, all of them in the communicative area of competence: none in the technical and none in the methodical area.
For the Albion SOFT course you receive the Albion certificate of participation from 80% attendance. It records that you attended and depends on no exam.
The Albion SOFT course covers skills the CPSA-A exam does not test, as the iSAQB SOFT curriculum 2025.1 states. Candidates are still expected to use them to present and discuss their solution to the examination task.
The course
You need no CPSA-F certification for the Albion SOFT course. Curriculum 2025.1 recommends only knowing the communication challenges of architecture work; a passed Foundation exam is required for CPSA-A certification.
The Albion SOFT course works with the models the iSAQB SOFT curriculum 2025.1 names, among them Schulz von Thun's four-sides model, 4MAT, Maslow's hierarchy of needs and Glasl's nine stages of conflict escalation.
The Albion SOFT course follows the same programme online and on site.
Booking and price
A group discount applies to several seats booked together for the Albion SOFT course. The date row and checkout show whether it applies and the minimum number of seats.
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6 dates, next on 24–26 Nov 2026, from €1,980 plus VAT.