SYNNECTA Blog

SYNNECTA Blog

Sexual orientation – a taboo in the workplace?

Sexual orientation – a taboo in the workplace?

If you could answer one question for yourself: »Are you experiencing the contact between people in your company as free form discrimination – especially when it comes to different sexual orientations?« In surveys, usually 85-90 % of people consider themselves in...

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SYNNECTA TrendLab

SYNNECTA TrendLab

Society and economy are shaped by changes. The cycles of supposed stability get shorter and shorter. Accordingly, human resources and organizational development have to question themselves permanently and pose the question whether traditional instruments and theories...

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Mission Statements in Times of hybrid Societies

Mission Statements in Times of hybrid Societies

Since the turn of the millennium, a mission statement should be part of every corporate identity. If you don't have one, you shouldn't wait any longer and get one! Why? Because they provide an orientation in times of globalization and of fall in value, where...

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Sophia 2013 – Control

Sophia 2013 – Control

In February 2013, the 9th Sophia Workshop took place at Klosterhotel Marienhöh, Germany. The workshop was focussed on »control« and gave our participants not only the opportunity to understand control, the loss of control and alternative ways to control in...

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Chinese blessings: SYNNECTA opens second Asian office

Chinese blessings: SYNNECTA opens second Asian office

2012 has been very successful and eventful for SYNNECTA. We started out founding our new Bangkok branch, and can now happily announce the opening of a sister branch in Shanghai last September. China is known for having an extremely versatile and dynamic market, a...

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»Tick it off, and I’ll tell you who you are!«

»Tick it off, and I’ll tell you who you are!«

Personalities in the professional sphere and SYNNECTA tools to identify them Human beings have always shown an interest for self-investigation, and have wondered how they were perceived by their peers. The oldest existing typologies go back as far as 2500 years, when...

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»Same same, but different«

»Same same, but different«

European thoughts on Thai culture »Same same, but different« - what does the salesman across the street mean with this strange sentence? You can hear it coming from every corner of the city when on a stroll in Bangkok. What is the sense behind it? it seems to be due...

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»Stay healthy, you are important to me!«

»Stay healthy, you are important to me!«

Thoughts and ways to an improved organisational safety culture How can one create and, most importantly, durably establish a successful HSE Culture (health, safety, environment), based on mutual care? The majority of established HSE Systems use external motivational...

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Bridging the Generational Gap

Bridging the Generational Gap

Dealing with generations in the organisational context X, Y, Z, I ... seeing generational gaps and the differences they bring by as a simple trend would be a clear understatement of the phenomenon. Who, among you, hasn't heard at least once of the stereotypes and...

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SYNNECTA Thailand invited to prestigious Business School event

SYNNECTA Thailand invited to prestigious Business School event

It was our privilege to be invited by the prestigious NIDA Business School Alumni Association committee to be part of their 6th Alumni reunion programme as guest speaker. The event, »Evolution of Organizational Change - for Success« took place at NIDA - National...

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