by Julia Bröderbauer | Jun 15, 2015 | Training Insights |
“I believe in you!” This is for sure on of the most beautiful, meaningful and satisfying sentences on can hear from others. It’s often linked to “I trust you.” and “I stand by you.” Both are crucial commitments when it comes to successful cooperation and employees’ willingness to follow a manager or leader. And for the leaders themselves a certain responsibility comes along with it. As an impulse for the upcoming week we gathered the four main pillars of credible leaderhip.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 27, 2015 | Training Insights |
We’ll do that and then that! And we’ll do it just like this! Go!
Although you feel reluctant facing this kind of rude phraseology and you lack in understanding the motives you force yourself to an “Okay” and leave the conversation with a lot of tasks for which you are absolutely not motivated. The question is: Why? Why don’t you ask for the why more often?
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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 | Apr 6, 2015 | Training Insights |
At the beginning of a new project, there normally is commitment about the direction to go. Equipped with a backpack full of their own experiences, expectations and skills all team members hit the same road. However, in the end everybody arrives somewhere else or gets lost alongside the road. How you as a leader can prevent your team from this phenomenon? Continuously lead the way by giving helpful feedback.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Apr 2, 2015 | Training Insights |
Lateral leadership is about exerting influence without hierarchical authority. You wonder if you are a lateral leader at all? Get an answer by checking our overview of lateral leadership roles.
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by Julia Bröderbauer | Mar 23, 2015 | Training Insights |
Each Week, in our rubric #MondayLead – Your weekly development we present a little task or inspiration to you aiming at making your working life as a manager or team leader easier. Each task is explained succinctly to be immediately applicable in practice.
This week: Make a little present to your colleagues.
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by Dominik Etzl | 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 Dominik Etzl | Dec 16, 2014 | Training Insights |
The holiday season is approaching and we are looking back on another successful and exciting year for MDI.
Thank you very much for the pleasant and fruitful partnership in 2014.
We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year!
Once again we decided to support the UNICEF initiative “Let us learn” instead of providing our customers with gifts.
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