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Review of the SYNNECTA round table »Resilience and healthy company culture«
Who is responsible for employee health? What are the health effects of flexible working environments? How do companies develop a culture of health awareness? HR representatives from a range of organisations and fields, businesspeople and health representatives came...
»The World in Upheaval« – Book launch at the Mercator Foundation Berlin
The book »Anders wirtschaften – Integrale Impulse für eine plurale Ökomomie« (Economising Differently – Integral Impulses for a Plural Ecomomy) provides an approach to achieve a systemic understanding of corporate organisation and leadership. On Tuesday,...
Industry 4.0
It is currently the main economic issue, and there is hardly any topic whereby the impact on industry and society is discussed so controversially. When it comes to the question of how digitalisation changes the working world, different opinions determine the public...
Pathfinder 2016 – Leading the Future – Berlin, May 1, 2016
SYNNECTA and the Pathfinders almost have a tradition by now! We met once again this year in Berlin on May 1st with CEOs of leading companies, inspiring speakers and about 800 talents from Allianz, Daimler, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte and Techniker Krankenkasse....
Sophia 2015 – agile takte/agile beats
Opening Night - many people, cultural sites and temples of dining, good food, various contacts, lively conversations, an entertaining evening - content. Day One - arrival at Praterinsel, surprisingly different location, irritation, demolition style, no doors, graffiti...
»If music be the food of love«
»If music be the food of love, play on!« (William Shakespeare) The Sophia workshop is important to us. It is a symbol of creativity, sociability and enjoyment, of shared education. Education, the essence of enlightenment. This year, Sophia took place in spaces that...
Pathfinder 2015 – Leading the Future – Berlin, May 1, 2015
CEOs chose a forward-looking topic, nominated speakers and about a hundred talents each from their own organization to meet in an aeroplane hangar at the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin on Labour Day. It was a successful idea, and there was a passionate host: Gabor...
Workshop on facilitation skills for employees of the SchLAu Team
SYNNECTA GmbH is a sponsor and cooperating partner of the youth centre anyway e.V. in Cologne. In January 2015, SYNNECTA counsellors Fetiye Sisko and Hanna Göhler visited the youth centre to conduct a workshop on facilitation skills for employees of the SchLAu Team....
Impressions: A LeadershipJourney
Two days on leadership, VUCA, personal development, work-life balance Donning a blue cape to walk along a fictional catwalk and saying who you are is not quite the behaviour one would expect of managers. This scene took place among the participants of a special...
Life, Work and Play in a VUCA world: SOPHIA 2014
SOPHIA 2014 brought together SYNNECTA consultants and trainers with participants from the worlds of business, academia and culture in the loft style, autumnally warm atmosphere of the Cologne Kunstsalon with a view across the colourful rooftops of the south of the...
The inauguration of our new offices in June 2014
Good conversations ensued, very lively and inspiring ones. They addressed such topics as the cultural understanding of the Asian continent, diverse in itself as it is, for once as seen from the viewpoint of our Asian colleagues. Or the subject of sexual...
Friendship
A retrospection on a gathering of organizations in Amsterdam Is there such thing as friendship between organizations? Or isn't the interaction in business context more about cooperation, networking – or even competition and rivalry? These are not the only factors....
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...