LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSIGHTS
Leadership development in Greece
Interview with expert Sotiris Karagiannis Sotiris Karagiannis is a trainer at MDI with more than 20 years training and consulting experience in Greece, wider Balkans, and the Czech Republic. We talked to him, amongst other things, about the current situation of...
Mondi’s Global Leadership Training Program (Customer story)
Mondi’s new global leadership training program will be launched in the fall of 2017. The program will focus on intercultural leadership and the preparation of leaders for international challenges. We talked about the program with Birgit Höttl, head of The Mondi...
What are the benefits of the OKR method?
Leading like Silicon Valley's top leaders. Successful examples such as Google, Facebook & Co. are often considered as desirable and now seem to be within reach with the OKR system. Based on well-defined objectives and key results, this agile framework stands for...
Agile leadership – Orientation and basics
OKR, Kanban, Scrum, Design Thinking, Management 3.0, Lean Management…the list of tools and concepts around agile leadership is long and somehow it seems that everybody is talking about it. Thinking that “We should also deal with that right now” seems self-evident. But...
How to make trainings really effective – An interview with transfer specialist Ina Weinbauer-Heidel
It already exists for more than 100 years: the history of transfer research. Nevertheless, there is an enormous research-practice-gap. With an average implementation rate of 20%, companies spend a lot of money and time on development measures that are not very...
Design Thinking – What is behind the hype and what benefits does the concept have?
Design Thinking was founded in America and now often sounds like a wonderful IT-Start-Up fairy tale: managers are sitting in a play corner and play with building bricks and developers visit their customers directly and design new products together with them. This way...
Train the trainer – Get everyone on board!
They are the last link in an often very long chain of conception, arrangements and measures for the perfect design and organization of a leadership development program: trainers! They interact directly with the participants of a program and are responsible for...
How you actually gain measurable training results – Power package from our daily practice
Day in and out the following question bothers us: How can we ensure that learned training content is really applied in practice, leading to sustainable change of behavior? Today we’d like to show you the three most effective approaches we got to know during past years...
Synchronous vs. asynchronous eLearning – What does fit better with your Blended Learning Solutions? [infographic]
You would like to add-on eLearning components to the face-2-face trainings in your development initiatives? And thus create a Blended Learning Solution? That’s a great idea! We are sure you’re really enthusiastic about your plan, but before you go ahead there are a...
Leadership development in Brazil – Insights from a long-time consultant
Wide beaches, hot rhythms, soccer and the world-wide famous carnival – Brazil is known to be loud, colorful and charmingly chaotic. Silke Körner, L&D consultant, lived there for some years and reveals in this post how she experiences leadership development and...
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