by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 20, 2015 | Leadership Tips |
Short-tempered, a little bit choleric, says frankly what he thinks, is annoyed with odds and ends and seems not to give a lot about other people’s advice or opinion: Since many years Homer Simpson enthuses people of any age. But if you meet a Homer-liker communication partner in your working life, enthusiasm decreases immediately. We say: Also with a Homer Simpson effective communication is possible. Give it a try in the following week.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 13, 2015 | Leadership Tips, Training Insights |
Don’t fall down the stairs. Don’t get hurt. Don’t hit your head. Don’t drop that!
Are you already feeling queasy? No wonder. Our brain isn’t able to handle No’s and Dont’s and is just visualizing all these unpleasant situations. We also happen to use dont’s pretty often in our working life – though there is a far more effective way. In the following week, avoid negations and say exactly what you want instead of what you do not want.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Mar 30, 2015 | Lateral Leadership, Leadership Tips |
Everybody gets lost sometimes: While walking through a foreign city, for instance, or after taking the wrong side road with the car. In business it is similar: Sometimes you are on the wrong track. Our recommendation for this week: Ask for feedback.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Mar 16, 2015 | Lateral Leadership, Leadership Tips |
Most certainly each of you has a certain image in mind of how to be and how to be perceived as an employee or a leader. Confident multi-tasker, popular colleague, appreciated expert, highly approved boss. Furthermore the one to stay calm in any stressful situation and the one who always knows a trick or tip to execute things a little bit better.
Each Monday, in our rubric “#MondayLead – Your weekly development” we present a little task or inspiration to you aiming at enriching your working life and making your following week as a leader easier. Any task is explained succinctly to be immediately applicable in practice.
If you internalise the key messages of the tasks and implement them in your working life you’ll be able to watch “Your weekly development”.
Have fun with your personal growth!
First week’s task is as easy as effective – Meet your employees with a smile!
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by | Mar 6, 2015 | Lateral Leadership, Leadership Tips, Training Insights |
In a rapidly changing corporate environment it is absolutely essential to continually adapt the organization´s strategy. However, studies have shown that 90% of corporate initiatives do not fail as a consequence of strategic change but due to negligent or deficient execution. Execution implies implementing the “right” things for the organization´s success.
In the following photo story leadership expert Gunter Fürstberger explains the four key steps in making execution of the “right” things easier.
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by | Jan 18, 2015 | Leadership Tips |
Have you made lots of plans for 2015, have you set yourself new goals? For many of us this is part of the New Year´s tradition just like pouring lead, giving away marzipan piglets or listening to the New Year´s Concert. Nevertheless, from experience we know that the implementation often fails. According to a study* 7 out of 10 New Year´s resolutions are not kept.
In keeping with the motto “Self-Leadership – It starts with you!” we would like to provide you with an impulse for the successful achievement of your goals. “The implementation of our plans is feasible if we address the right issues. Self-Leadership starts with oneself”, says Gunther Fürstberger, Managing Director of MDI, in his current book “Self-Leadership”.
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by | Oct 8, 2014 | Lateral Leadership, Leadership Tips |
Dear ladies and gentlemen!
Gunther Fürstberger, author and managing director of MDI, talks about the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall with regards to leadership and leaders.
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked more freedom and a better form of cooperation and co-existence for millions of people. In terms of leadership this could be a symbol for widening horizons and being open for new influences.
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by | Oct 1, 2014 | Leadership Tips, Learning Transfer, Training Insights |
Meet MDI at the HRM Expo in Cologne – Europe’s largest HR fair – between October 14 and 16, 2014 and visit our break-out sessions.
In this session you will experience our new and unique Learning Transfer Platform Promote in just 60 minutes.
You will learn more about:
- The situation & challenges of common trainings
- How to create results from training with the learning transfer platform
- Promote – the Learning Transfer Platform
- Where to use it: examples and best-practice’s in different programs
- Mistakes, tips & tricks
- Tools for you to use
- Experience exchange
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