Articles on Consulting, Coaching, Diagnostics, Internal Communication
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Related to what is around us
Is our brain trapped inside our skull? We have long since outsourced cognitive functions. We have transferred memory to analogue and, above all, digital storage devices, delegated arithmetic operations to machines, and increasingly handed over our own thinking to AI....
Coaching 2025 – Movement, Change and New Perspectives
1. The Coaching Landscape in Transition The coaching scene is in flux. New methods and certifications are constantly emerging. In addition to established psychotherapeutic approaches and business-oriented career coaching, the industry is increasingly integrating...
A beginning – We have a lot to say
A trend or a return to the old hierarchical world? There are already the first posts on social media positioning themselves against »wokeness«. Sometimes with an attack on the »soft« fashions in the people departments and and the so-called soft consultancies.
We need new value processes
Almost all companies have, now quite some time ago, dealt with their values, often writing them down and distributing them throughout the company. A significant source was often the memory of the founders’ »philosophy« and their words, often late words.
TheQuestBySynnecta – What are we for?
People in organizations expect a credible answer to this question in order to be able to establish a context for their work that delivers a sense of both purpose and meaning. Reacting to such challenges, companies position themselves with a company purpose. Until now,...
Respect for the stranger
These are reflexive processes that enable us to expand both our understanding of ourselves and our understanding of the world. Diversity, with the right of diverse people to speak and be heard, is an accelerator of reflexive self-assurance and world assurance, and thus the basis of innovative strength and competitiveness.
Paranesis? Come again?
For us as coaches, what is referred to in ancient philosophy and later in Christian teachings as parenesis comes into play here: encouraging, admonishing and comforting words of reassurance. And that is our task at present – to help people find their own serenity, to give them the stability they need for a time to find their own again.
Something is missing – Experiences with non-analogue workshops
Time brings us the chance to have increased experiences with non-analogue workshops using different digital tools. We see the value in this form of collaborative working whenever we have to exchange facts and figures, whenever we have to inform and to get feedback
Education/Training
There is now a lot of talk about education, political education, education in general and leadership development in particular. However, if you look at the educational landscape of companies, there is little education to be found. What is to be found is rather …
Sprint Workshops: an agile alternative to traditional team workshops
As organizations are growing increasingly sensitive to agility, we gain new ground for experiments. This blog text will introduce a sprint workshop format, which has evolved from such an experiment and has yielded good results in several projects. I developed the...