blog – artiClES
In this section you will find our articles, case studies, book reviews and toolboxes.
Ensuring commitment
Recently, in a presentation and communication training, an exercise was about reaching a long-term agreement between two groups over several periods. The aim was to maximise the profits of both "companies", which could only be achieved in the long term through...
Coverdale – 50 years of experiential learning
Coverdale has been working with so-called "agile methods" for more than 50 years, both in training and in its team. We prefer to work with experiential learning in workshops, with "Plan – Do – Review" Cycles. After each task, people reflect on the process of working...
Holistic self-leadership
Staying in balance in challenging times Addressing employees' health is becoming increasingly important in companies, not least because of the external effect on employer attractiveness. In the context of organisational development, striving for health is an ambitious...
Organisational culture – what else?
The terms "values" and "culture", among others, are inseparable from the catchword "organisational culture". Culture can be observed but not causally controlled or changed. Instead, culture is an effect and therefore shows symptoms and not causes. Culture can be...
Strong foundation and secure compass in stormy times
Core ideology & visionary future according to Collins and Porras - "must-haves" of permanently successful companies. A year ago today, no entrepreneur would have imagined the restrictions and challenges they are currently facing. Companies had to close their...
Lockdown for sales?
Coaching approaches in the digital sales age With the onset of the pandemic, a lot has changed for field workers. One of these is that communication with the customer can be maintained almost exclusively via the telephone or online conference systems in times of home...
Book review – KANBAN in practice
Probably one of the most used tools in the agile context is the Kanban board. But the book "Kanban in practice" by Klaus Leopold is about much more than this tool. Kanban was developed in Japan in the 1970s. In this book, the author explains the full concept. He...
Managing dependencies in organisations successfully
High complexity products or services usually causes high dependencies within and outside the organisation.It's us against the rest of the world We have experienced in recent years that many of our clients stumble upon this phenomenon again and again. We have often...
Top 10 success factors for successful moderation
Do you know this? You come to a meeting, and slowly the individual participants trickle in. The meeting gets going, and after a short time, the discussion gets lost in detail. Half of the participants are not interested and one by one, they start to work on their...
When everyone calls for planning, where it’s not possible
We are currently experiencing a time when governments are accused of acting entirely in the short term rather than planning for the long term. The opposition parties are calling in the media for long-term planning and predictability, and accuse those in the power of...
Agility in the Nutshell III – Agile Mindset
In the first two articles of the series "Agility in the Nutshell", I presented Agile values and principles. This article is about an Agile mindset. By mindset, we mean ways of thinking, attitudes and approaches to problems. Agile mindset means changing the classical...
The prevention paradox – communicating corporate decisions correctly
The term "prevention paradox" was described in the early 1980s by the British epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose using coronary heart disease as an example, explains public health expert Martin Sprenger. It poses a fundamental dilemma for population - and risk group -...
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