Leadership Development Tag

10 Sep Decision Premises in Organizations: Why Your Decisions Keep Falling Flat

Posted at 12:47h in Business Transformation, Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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Maybe this sounds familiar. You make a clear call, communicate it well, everyone nods along, and three months later, everything's still running the same as before, just dressed up in new vocabulary. That's rarely down to bad communication or not...

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03 Sep How Psychological Safety Determines Whether AI Transformation Succeeds or Fails

Posted at 17:32h in Business Transformation, Company Culture, Digital Transformation, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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Sound familiar? An AI project keeps running in plain sight, even though the team has known for a while that it isn't working. Nobody says anything, because nobody wants to be the one left holding the bag. Whether a team...

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28 Aug Why a Conflict-Free Organization Is a Warning Sign

Posted at 14:51h in Company Culture, Conflict Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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A CEO told me recently, beaming, that his team hadn't had a single open argument in over a year. He said it like a win, with genuine relief in his voice. Two months later, three people from that same team...

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21 Aug Happiness Theater: Why a “People-First Culture” Doesn’t Make Companies Better

Posted at 17:26h in Business Transformation, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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You don't have a culture problem. You're trying to fix a structural problem with culture. That's the difference. A mid-sized company with 200 employees has been fighting rising turnover for two years. Leadership decides the company needs a people-first culture....

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17 Aug Why Effective Collaboration Still Isn’t Real Work

Posted at 15:16h in Change Management, Collaboration, Company Culture, Leadership, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Value-Creating Work

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Another meeting, an OKR cycle, maybe a design sprint, or a workshop that gets everyone around the same table. Every voice gets heard, everyone gets a say. What comes out the other end is a compromise nobody's really happy with,...

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10 Aug Why Effective Leadership Doesn’t Need a Better Mindset

Posted at 12:53h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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You feel it the moment you step into a new leadership role. The pressure to act visibly. To set something in motion. To signal that you've earned the position. That pressure regularly turns into action bias, leadership decisions driven by...

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31 Jul I’m Now an INQA Coach, Which Unlocks 80% Funded Support for Your SME

Posted at 15:08h in Change Management, Company Culture, Innovation, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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I'm now officially an INQA Coach. What does that mean? It means I get to work with small and medium-sized businesses through INQA-Coaching, a well-funded program most companies in Germany have never even heard of. INQA-Coaching covers 80 percent of...

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24 Jul Method or Tool? The Distinction Most People Miss in Organizations

Posted at 14:23h in Change Management, Framework, Leadership Development, Methods, Organizational Development, Tools

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Most of us know the feeling. You sit through a workshop on agility, or pick up a new method that supposedly worked wonders somewhere else, and you walk out fired up. Then reality hits. Whatever looked so simple in the...

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17 Jul Why Jonathan Courtney Hated His Own Company AJ&Smart — and What That Reveals About Structure (Not Culture)

Posted at 13:28h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Organizational Teardown

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I listen to what founders say in public and unpack it through my own professional lens, as a coach and consultant who works on leadership, organizational, and innovation development, looking at both the structural side of a business and the...

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10 Jul Why Lasting Organizational Change Doesn’t Require Big Programs

Posted at 11:30h in Change Management, Company Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development

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When a crisis looms, management pulls the plan out of the drawer. The plan is usually already finished. A cost-cutting program, a reorganization, a change initiative with a catchy name and a target year far enough out to sound confident....

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