by Sven Sommerlatte
OTIUM is a Latin word that means using leisure time for Reflection and Introspection.
Use this time to learn more about Personal Development, improve your Career Strategy or become a better Leader.
Our mind is constantly drifting into the future to think about projects and duties or it is ruminating the past. But happiness is in the present moment. This video offers some thoughts on how to better connect to the PRESENT
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Leave your meeting rooms! Hold a walking meeting! This is energizing, stimulates creativity, allows to engage in a different way with your colleagues and …. it is very enjoyable.
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Career management is an important responsibility we have. We are all the CEOs of our own little enterprise. We are in charge to set the strategic direction, to ensure that our market value is increasing, to monitor trends and opportunities and to make bold decisions when needed. So you see, it’s a tough job to be a CEO! This video outlines how to best manage that.
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Many of us have experience how difficult it is to manage cultural change. This video outlines the importance of taking the unwritten rules into account to avoid that they become roadblocks in our change journey. The approach developed by Peter Scott-Morgan shows how to make these deeply rooted drivers of employee behavior visible and how to efficiently address them in our change journey (Peter Scott-Morgan: The Unwritten Rules of the Game, 1994)
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Chip Anthony heads up a sizable industrial activity in Chattanooga (Tennessee). We visited his production site together and I was amazed by the fact that Chip reached out to many people calling them by their names, shaking hands, asking how they were and saying “thank you!”
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I get very often the questions how to assess employee’s potential. Managers want to know that in view of their team member’s potential. But I think it is a very good question to ask also ourselves – about our own potential …. and in order to understand more about ourselves.
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Many companies assess employee performance based on the WHAT and the HOW. What has been achieved is based on the annual objectives. the How dimension is usually based on a leadership framework that outlines the expected leadership behavior. The WOW HOW series provides examples of great leadership. It is important to outline these examples because they very often go unnoticed. We see the great What achievements: the product launches, the turnaround projects, the business development initiatives, etc. But great leadership behavior is very often less visible.
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The topic of organizational design is very often focused on organizational structure. This does not make justice to the true scope of this field, which covers in reality 4 equally important areas: structure, processes, governance and culture. I want to outline here how and why we should take a holistic perspective on these topics when we address organizational issues.
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What is the experience base and why is it an important factor of your career management? I would like to use the analogy of the Egyptian pyramids. If you have a broad base, then the pyramid is high. With the career progression it is similar. If we have a broad base, then we can go far in our career. But it is not only a question about how broad it is, it is probably also a question about how robust, how solid this experience base is. In this article we will explore both aspects.
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