INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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Leading without hierarchical power – From the HR developer’s point of view
Lateral leadership is more than a mere concept of how to lead teams and colleagues without hierarchical power. It is a leadership style at eye level, matches the leadership understanding of...
Practical application of the Aim’s Grid – Lateral leadership impulse series Vol. 4
Successful projects always start with a clear and measurable goal. Therewith you can guarantee that everyone goes into the same direction and that desired end results and easy to understand. One of...
Practical tool: Aim’s grid – Lateral leadership impulse series Vol. 3
We all know the situation: Marketing is pointing in one direction, Sales in another. The purchase department follows their own goals and the product development department anyway. So everyone is...
Becoming a leader – Leadership skills training for success that lasts
The skills of a good a leader are one of those miracles: Everyone can name them but to apply them as a leader-self is a totally different story. Becoming a leader many people trust the help of...
Emotional leadership – Dealing with employees in an emotionally intelligent way
Emotional leadership isn’t only a topic that is pretty trendy at the moment. It’s a topic that strikes all of us. Being a leader, again and again we are in situations where we have to deal with...
A paradigm shift in our leadership approach – Lateral leadership impulse series Vol. 2
We all know the pyramid as a symbol for a classical leadership approach working top-down. With the current situation in nowadays organisations this symbol often can’t keep up with any longer....
Why do we need a new leadership approach? – Lateral leadership impulse series Vol. 1
Lateral leadership – which means leading without hierarchical power – is THE leadership model of the future. Parameters like the democratization of society, higher educational standards and much...
International cooperation: Why Chinese people are “scared” of direct communication
In God Father Part II, there was a scene when Michael knew that his wife Kay just had a miscarriage, he asked Tom “Was it a boy?” Tom did not reply to Michael directly. Michael was enraged and he...
More self-confidence in my role as a new leader – A story of success
To accompany new leaders in the first months of their new role is one of the most exciting challenges we face every day. We asked our participants how they feel in our trainings and talked with...
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