Articles on Leadership Programs, Education, Training, Seminars
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Leadership meets art – beyond tools and tricks
We meet in the entrance hall of the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai. We are a group of Chinese executives and consultants from SYNNECTA China. Our topic: Make my organization dance.
The Rich Conversations Model – A short guide to establishing and deepening online interaction
As seven strangers attempt to scrutinize each other’s faces over a limited internet bandwidth, it becomes clear once again how unskilled we are at compensating for the challenges of online communication.
The empathetic manager – digital?
Empathy is not a separate perception ability; rather, it is the ability to interpret analogue communication expressions and thus also understand the emotional message in the midst of busy factual information. This requires interaction. The open spaces for interaction, as realised in the new office concepts …
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
A new role in radically self-organized leadership development
In the current issue of managerSeminare, Petra Martin describes the format of an agile leadership development programme at Bosch Automotive Electronics, which radically focuses on the self-organisation skills of the participating managers, in a vividly illustrated...
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...
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...