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What do you lead? Part VII: Leading Organisations – What matters
Intro The first thing I do in my leadership coachings and workshops is to listen carefully and try to understand the clients’ reality about leadership. My question is: What do you lead? In my own reality, our obligation to lead is directed towards three main areas: – organisations – people – ourselves Here some inputs […]
(weiterlesen)What do you lead? Part III: Life Leadership – What to achieve
When I start a leadership coaching or workshop, I listen carefully and try to understand the clients’ reality about leadership. My question is: What do you lead? In my own reality, our obligation to lead is directed towards three main areas: – organizations – people – ourselves (life leadership) For each of those areas, there […]
(weiterlesen)What do you lead? Part II: Life Leadership – Questions to ask
When I start a leadership coaching or workshop, I listen carefully and try to understand the clients’ reality about leadership. My question is: What do you lead? In my own reality, our obligation to lead is directed towards three main areas: – organizations – people – ourselves (life leadership) For each of those areas, there […]
(weiterlesen)Dealing with uncertainty – thoughts of a nameless employee coping with times of mergers and aquisitions
Three months ago we merged with another company. In three weeks from now, my department will be restructured. My colleagues and I do not yet know how the new structure will look like – though there is a lot of speculation going on. We only know that we will have to follow new processes – […]
(weiterlesen)The Challenges and Limits of Change Management
Most of the management and leadership textbooks create the impression that – if you just follow their prescriptions – you can make change happen. Well, sometimes that is true. It really depends on the complexity of the subject. It depends also on the person’s worldview. If that view is “My life sucks” (tribal stage 2) […]
(weiterlesen)Leadership Buch-Referenzen / Recommended Leadership Readings and Videos
English References Deutsche Referenzen finden Sie weiter unten. How to use: move the cursor over the book title for an Amazon-link. 0) Philosophy / Finding Purpose in Your Life Viktor Frankl: Man‘s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living 1) Management: Peter Drucker: The Essential Drucker 2) Career Management Bradt, Check, Pedraza: New Leaders’ 100 […]
(weiterlesen)What do you lead? Part I: Life Leadership – What matters
When I start a leadership coaching or workshop, I listen carefully and try to understand the clients’ reality about leadership. My question is: What do you lead? In my own reality, our obligation to lead is directed towards three main areas: – organizations – people – ourselves For each of those areas, there are again […]
(weiterlesen)The House of Leadership
Introduction In this blog, we will introduce you to an integrated leadership concept that evolved over many years of practice, study and research. We call it the House of Leadership®. The concept offers you a clear structure and lots of helpful guidance in your work as a leader. It also offers a solid, underlying, value-based […]
(weiterlesen)SMARTER: the next generation of SMART objectives
The good, old SMART SMART is one possible approach to help setting clear objectives. It is often used at the beginning of the management cycle: Setting Objectives Planning Organizing Directing Controlling When we teach the basics of good management practice, we usually check if people know the SMART tool. Some do, some don’t. For those […]
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