Advent impulses: Anticipation
Can you still remember the feelings you had as a child in the run-up to Christmas? The positive, tingly excitement when you thought about the things…
Advent impulses: Serenity
Are you already in the Advent mood? Have you already baked all the cookies? Got all the presents? Put together a conflict-free guest list? Cooked the…
Advent impulses: Breathing Deeply
Indeed, Christmas is almost here again! But isn't this article a little early for Advent? Definitely yes - and on purpose. Because this year, the…
#favouritemodel No. 33 - Build and lead self-organized teams
The more complex the tasks, the more disruptive the industry and the more unpredictable the workday, the more important self-organized teamwork…
#favouritemodel No. 32 - SCARF - Psychological Safety
We all know our physiological needs. We need to eat and drink enough every day, we need a certain indoor or outdoor temperature to avoid freezing or…
Anne-Marie Reinecker moves up to the management board.
This brings Movendo Consulting back to a dual leadership position as of Feb. 14, 2023. In this interview, Anne-Marie talks about her view on this new…
#favouritemodel No. 31 - The ART of delegation
One of the main reasons to delegate tasks is "To set people up for success", i.e. to empower employees. The focus here is on learning. Of course,…
#favouritemodels No. 30 - Leading leaders
When a leader's own employees themselves have leadership responsibility for teams or parts of the organization, the leadership role is expanded by…
#favouritemodels No. 29 - Virtual Collaboration
The fact that trust and the quality of relationships have a decisive influence on teamwork is something that most people have probably known for a…
#favouritemodels No. 28 - WRAP - Four hurdles of good decision-making and how you can overcome them.
Decisions are always made under uncertainty. Especially in today's complexity, no one fully sees through how things are interrelated, and it is hardly…
#favouritemodel No. 27 - The GRIP model
"Manage the fishtank - not the fish" (quoted from William Tate, Institute for Systemic Leadership). To be honest, this quote is a #favouritemodel in…
#favouritemodels No. 26 - A systemic perspective on conflicts
How can my colleague behave so inappropriately? He's upsetting the whole team!
#favouritemodel No. 25 - Designing culture in a deliberate way
Culture emerges from the sum of repetitive behaviors in a particular context. With this understanding, we are not defenseless in the face of our…
#favouritemodel No. 24 - Dealing with complex tasks
When was the last time when you answered a co-worker who came to you with a problem, "Well, I understand your problem 100% and I can tell you: if you…
#favouritemodel No. 23 - Feedback
If you ask employees what they miss most in their day-to-day work, the answer you will hear is: honest feedback.
#favouritemodel No. 22 - Observation of the 2nd order
A key assumption of systemic theories is that each person as an individual observer of his or her environment, from WHAT she or he perceives with the…
#favouritemodel No.21 - House of Change - Farsightedness
Not only because the roof was never used in the image of the House of Change, but based on our experience in supporting many transformation processes,…
#favouritemodels No.20 - House of Change - Renewal
Finally, having gone through the "Room of Confusion", people emotionally reach the "Room of Renewal".
#favouritemodel No.19 - House of Change - Confusion
When people move on in their emotional change process from the "room of denial" to the "room of confusion," this does not mean that they fully accept…
#favouritemodel No.18 - House of Change - Denial
When I find myself in the "room of contentment" and hear about an upcoming change for the first time, it is usually a short way into the next room,…
#favouritemodel No.17 - House of Change - Contentment
The "House of Change" is one of our #favouritemodels that we use to accompany change processes and support leaders in creating a framework for action…
#favouritemodel No.16 - Levels of leadership action
Anyone who examines the nature of leadership will inevitably encounter the thought: When and through which activities do I create value in the team…
#favouritemodels No. 15 - Questioning techniques
Questions basically start a dialogue and open the door to the person we are talking to. If two people talk to each other without asking each other…
#favouritemodels No. 14 - Active Listening
Do you hear me? This is probably one of the most frequently spoken phrases at the beginning of virtual meetings at the moment. The person I'm talking…
#favouritemodel No.13 - Growth Mindset
How do people deal with setbacks? What causes some to continue seemingly unfazed afterwards, while others lose the courage to carry on?
#favouritemodel No.12 - Considering Context
Just between us: Would you cross the street when the traffic light is red.? After an indignant "of course not!" you might say, "It depends..."
#favouritemodel No.11 - Virtual Leadership
Virtual, remote, leading at a distance - no matter what you call it, it is always about leadership, leadership as a function and a shared mental…
#favouritemodel No.10 - Facilitation - Only flying is more fun!
In German "Facilitation" means "making things easier". It also describes a particular form of facilitation of human gatherings in which we invite,…
Why organisations need to strengthen their crisis awareness
Crisis. A frequently used term, not only since the beginning of last year, when the Covid-19 virus confronted us as people and, at the same time,…
#favouritemodel No. 9 - Focus Model
My #favouritemodel deals with the degree of conscious attention we pay to our everyday activities. This personal focus determines what we do and how…
#favouritemodel No.8 - Individual Construction of Reality
At any given moment, each of us receives a total of about 11 million bits of information through our five senses - hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling,…
#favouritemodel No. 7 - Motivation
How can I improve the motivation of my staff? I am asked this question very often in my work with leaders.
#favouritemodel No. 6 - How trust is built
My #favouritemodel is the tree metaphor by Stephen M.R. Covey. This symbolism makes the topic of "trust" tangible and thus facilitates access to this…
“The winner is: The virtual House of Change”
Change is experienced differently by everyone. This is especially true for the experience of change in organisations. What the individual feels and…
#favouritemodel No. 4 - Helicopter Perspective
Symbolically, it is a change of perspective in order to look at one's own behaviour from a far and with the distance gained to reflect on it.
#favouritemodel No. 5 - Design thinking uses iterative, rapid feedback to produce human centric solutions
Design Thinking is considered an agile methodology yet also a mindset which follows a human-centered school of thought.
#favouritemodel No. 3 - Don't assume
"Making assumptions" is one of the major stumbling blocks in communication and therefore also in the leader's relationship with their staff and…
#favouritemodel No 2 - Differentiation between principles and rules
"The conscious differentiation of rules and principles is especially helpful in personal cooperation and supports the building of trust." One of my…
#favouritemodel No. 1 - "Leadership means creating a framework in which others can perform"
This fundamental understanding of leadership not only clarifies my systemic perspective when working with leaders, but also proves to be a very…
Emotions need to be kept under wraps
Feelings have no place in business life: we need to look for solutions in a very rational way. Feelings just get in the way and take up too much time…
Of Machines and Footballers
Both the content and delivery of our leadership training are consciously based on a systemic understanding of leadership and management.
Mindfulness: Esoteric nonsense or leadership approach of the future?
The topic of ‘mindfulness’ is one of the major trending topics that is being discussed among executives. It is accompanied by wide-ranging promises:…
Turning ‘victims’ into co-creators
The House of Change is considered one of the most commonly used models to describe patterns of response and emotions. But is it really the case that…
Moving mountains with credibility and a culture of open feedback
It is important to us to empower leaders in transformation projects so that they themselves become their best ambassador, their most credible role…
Why complexity rules
Complexity rules our world. That is the core of our brand message. Why did we choose this and what does it say about Movendo and our work?
How mixed teams can work together
We want to build bridges in our projects so that everyone can share in the success of a project - bridges between people from different cultures and…
When leaders embark on a journey together
Again and again we receive inquiries about Digital Leadership, Leadership 4.0 and Co. Our answer is our Leadership Odyssey. And that really helps our…
Towards a stronger sense of ‘us’ with clear principles
Consistency and clarity is an important topic in our transformation projects. This client story shows why this is not in conflict with a sense of…
Trust – how far do we really want to go?
Trust has always been an essential foundation of cooperation for us. See for yourself how we have consistently anchored this foundation in our…
Get rid of the bonuses!
How we finally got rid of old learned patterns of remuneration and were once again allowed to notice for ourselves how difficult it is to question…
Everyone is talking about Agility, Industry 4.0 and New Work. What does ‘Movendo’s always worked like that’ mean?
Even if Harry Gatterer rightly points out in his very inspiring work ‘Future Room’ that “one cause of the inflationary use of trend words (…) is the…
The Adventure of Cultural Integration
A traditional German-based company acquires an American competitor. Many business synergies are identified by very smart and experienced consultants…
Welcome to Movendo – our Speed Dating
As the business grows, it needs new characters, more brains and more perspectives. So we are also faced with the question of how we can acquire new…
When the customer says ‘yes’ and still doesn’t place an order
Successful sales development works holistically with the sales organisation.
Leading leaders means actively shaping the leadership culture
Whether it is a question of attracting talent or integrating acquired companies, the question of what culture is experienced in a company has now…
Organisational Development – setting the course for a new era
Companies can sometimes start veering between extremes – because they are growing. They suddenly become an attractive potential portfolio addition…
Feedback – just do it!
Recently a participant in a leadership development programme said this about the feedback culture in his company: “I have no idea whether my boss is…
The perpetrator / victim dilemma
Leaders in middle management often find themselves in a dilemma in change processes as they are themselves affected by the change on the one hand but…
Enabling Change – A multiplier concept for professionalising change leadership
The greater the complexity in change processes, the bigger the challenge for those leaders responsible for accompanying their teams through the…
“When all I could hear was Thai …”
One part of the systemic principles that we apply consistently in all development programmes at Movendo Consulting is working with participants’ real…
Leadership development - networked, international, intercultural
When mergers and acquisitions result in top national companies becoming global players within their industry, successful cooperation at an…