In the December issue of Trainingaktuell Gunther Fürstberger talks about leadership as a social lever and about the roots and distinctive features of MDI.
He describes MDI´s attitude concerning leadership as follows:
“We are convinced that responsible and conscious leadership can be an important social lever as leaders are multipliers.”
Click here to read the entire interview.
We are proud to announce the European launch of a unique workshop based upon New York Times best-selling author Daniel H. Pink’s book Drive.
What’s so special about this workshop
This Drive Workshop,
Based on the pillars of intrinsic motivation, Autonomy-Mastery-Purpose, the workshop helps all those interested in driving their people to heightened levels of engagement through a blend of tools and techniques that are the outcome of years of research, development and experimentation.
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:
In more and more MDI trainings a Reflection Guide is present in order to make the most out of the training time available. As part of the upcoming “Lateral Leadership” training in Vienna Anita Berger will join our trainer Ilse Adametz-Houston in order to support the participants in the role of the reflection guide. In our photo story she explains what the participants may expect and how the group will benefit.
Photo Story – Reflection Guide
Anita, what do you understand by the concept of the Reflection Guide?
As a Reflection Guide I support the participants in reflecting situations or issues, which particularly bother them, in a personal conversation. Together we develop possible solutions and I encourage them to develop and use their own skills, resources and problem-solution strategies.
In an inspiring keynote speech Ernst Balla (Corporate HR voestalpine) gave an insight into innovative forms of learning for executive leaders. “This target group has seen and tried basically everything. We need to activate them.”
With the aid of crosslearning strategies, which are relevant and successful in world A, are transferred and implemented in another context – in world B, the business world. Following examples how strategies successfully work in wildlife, vegetation and technology he introduced three successful projects:
In three expert workshops the international MDI trainer and consulting team together with experts, partners and customers like Mondi, RHI, voestalpine and Telekom A1 worked on the following questions:
Topic 1: Strategic leadership development 3.0 – where are we heading?
Topic 2: Evaluation of leadership development programs – how?
Topic 3: Self-directed learning, virtual and social media – leadership development in 10 years?
In a refreshing manner Gunther Fürstberger – main owner and managing director of MDI – gave an overview of the last 50 years. Supported by short glances into the musical and political events of the past, he presented the main cornerstones of MDI´s development – from the foundation in 1964 by Dr. Karl Leitner to the first outdoor trainings in Austria in the 1980s, MDI congresses with keynote speakers and guests like Bill Clinton or Naomi Campbell, the first MDI subsidiary in Malaysia until today.
As a surprise guest he welcomed the former MDI managing director Dr. Rudolf Attems who shared his very personal and inspiring input regarding leadership within the past 35 years. In the 1980s he felt that the managers had a lot of freedom regarding how they led an organization. Because of the stable environment a lot of managers were willing to experiment and try out new things. As a pioneer MDI worked with trainers like Fanita English (California), Bernd Schmid (College of Education, Heidelberg), Friedrich Cramer (Max-Planck-Institute, Göttingen), and Peter Sloterdijk on topics such as the systemic transaction analysis or chaos theory.
Dear ladies and gentlemen!
In our today’s newsletter you can find out more about…
Self Leadership – Interview with Gunther Fürstberger
Self Leadership is not only a prerequisite for leading people but is also a basis for a successful life. Find more about this in the video.
