31.7.2014 Leadership Development: "Hidden Champions" In a study (which can be requested from us) performed at the end of 2013 665 decision-makers of small and medium-sized technology-minded companies were questioned. Their products ...
21.7.2014 Leadership Development: How crazy are our top managers? Top managers have a great deal of responsibility, because they often largely contribute to the success and / or failure of their company. There is no question that top managers ...
11.7.2014 How do we define "healthy relationships"? In our 5th part of unfolding the concept of a Healthy Organisation we focus on healthy relationships. Relationships represent the operative connecting link between the abstract ...
1.7.2014 Change Management: Organisation for Complexity “When Pfläging shakes up the dogmas of management, they crumble in his hands“ - quoting the Financial Times Germany, back when it still existed. If only one they had listened to ...
20.6.2014 Personnel development: focus on strengths or weaknesses? The German saying "Stärken stärken und Schwächen schwächen" (strengthening strengths and weakening weaknesses) is one of the most common bonmots in the personnel development ...
10.6.2014 "Healthy leadership" available as app for tablet PCs Apps play an increasing part in our occupational and personal lives. On the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs an online-portal called “Psychological ...
19.5.2014 Strategic Personnel Development: "Transformative HR" Every year the number of challenges HR-people have to deal with grows: Globalization, flexible work force, various models for working time, cost pressure, evaluation of the ...
8.5.2014 Success factors using 360° feedback instruments From our point of view being able to receive and give feedback is one of the key aspects of successful leadership. But it is a long and hard way to get there. The current issue of ...
28.4.2014 Strategic Personnel Development: The Second Side of the Medal To reach public interest is harder than ever in today’s world: The media is flooded with the latest and hottest news. In order to reach a wide audience and thus to achieve high ...
14.4.2014 Healthy Organisation: What constitutes "healthy structures"? The “healthy organization” is a central concept at Reflect. In the latest two Notes we already refered to two components of that modern organizational concept: The “healthy ...
30.3.2014 What if employeess overestimate themselves? The Dunning-Kruger effect states that poeple often think that they are competent although actually they only have little knowledge regarding a certain topic. A team of the ...
20.3.2014 What "alpha animals" and crayfish have in common The old discussion between genetic makeup and environmental influences, whether someone was born an alpha animal or the environment made him such, can conclusively been considered ...
10.3.2014 Change Management: Culture Change by W. Berner The back of the book describes it the best: Why soft facts are the hard facts of tomorrow. The talk is about Culture Change – Business culture as a competitive advantage written ...
26.2.2014 For people interested in Positive Psychology On the basis of modern neuroscience Positive Psychology offers diverse methods and concepts that can be put to practice in the areas of coaching, consulting, leadership and ...
17.2.2014 Direct communication: “Here’s looking at you, kid!“ In times of globality and full calendars, the temptation of dealing with things via e-mail, text message, phone, “messenger“, “whats app“, Skype or video conference, in order to ...