by Elisabeth Oppenauer | Mar 10, 2021 | Agile Leadership, Best Practice, Leadership Tips |
Last year, the well-being and health of employees and their individual work design gained even more importance in organizations. Particularly, remote collaboration and the dynamic environment to which many companies had to respond brought the link between employee well-being and the sustainable future of the company even closer.
Surveying employee satisfaction and their current mood represent an essential component for managing the company’s development.
At MDI, we have been successfully using the agile tool “TeamEcho” as a mood barometer since 2017. While we didn’t have an elaborate survey tool before, we knew that we were moving in dynamic times that required an intelligent survey system to respond quickly to needs.
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by Elisabeth Oppenauer | Nov 28, 2019 | International leadership development |
Today Elisabeth Oppenauer took some time for our curious questions about her everyday life as an MDI Consultant in a detailed interview. She addresses the challenges that digitization poses for the L&D sector and points out exciting developments that await you in this area in the future!
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by Elisabeth Oppenauer | Nov 13, 2019 | Leadership Impact |
12 hour days? Rising burnout rates? Perfectionism without end? MDI consultant, team and HR leader Elisabeth Oppenauer lives the topic of mindfulness at MDI and explains in her new personal blog post her thoughts on how you as a manager can simultaneously respect and strengthen yourself in order to perform with motivation and joy.
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by Elisabeth Oppenauer, Marlene König | Apr 11, 2019 | Training Insights |
In December we followed a very exciting invitation from Google Ireland – the invitation to the Women@CE Event. The focus of this event was “Lateral Leadership” and inspired us to take a deeper look at the topic of women in the digital age.
Why is Apple’s iPhone the most valuabe product in the world? It’s not because it’s the technologically most advanced smartphone on the market. It’s because this product is designed to be intuitive and do the things as they are expected by the users and to react to how they feel. Attributes that are more considered to be female than male. Why are the high-tech and digital technology sector still dominated by men? Let’s dive deeper in this topic an have a look on surprising survey results.
Disclaimer:
This discurs about gender questions are meant to establish awareness about stereotypes and is not meant to be based on general simplifications. Instead, we believe in information and inspiration, in order to support development, diversity and equality to promote competences in the end. In this spirit: Enjoy reading!
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by Elisabeth Oppenauer, Marlene König | Mar 12, 2019 | Best Practice, Digital Transformation, Training Insights |
Good news first: No, you don’t need to learn coding! While the concept of Hackathons really has its origins in the IT world, it has evolved and become a pretty cool solution finding process, far beyond a classic workshop. Guided by an experienced Hackathon professional, we did a Hackathon ourselves to gather first-hand experience. As a result, here’s an idea of what Hackathons can do for you as a leader and HR professional. (more…)
