blog – artiClES
In this section you will find our articles, case studies, book reviews and toolboxes.
International co-operation – visitors – prisoners – learners?
When people attend a training course, we observe three patterns of behavior repeatedly: Some are visitors, some come but behave like prisoners, and some come to learn. Last weekend, an international Train the Trainer took place near Erding, in the Landhotel Hallnberg,...
Master the art of change: communication as the key to success.
Change is inevitable in everyday working life. From the initial announcement to implementation by the project team, the path is often full of challenges and twists and turns. But why do some organizations manage to change successfully while others fail? In our daily...
A successful check-in as an energizer for team meetings
Have you experienced workshops or team meetings in which people immediately go straight to the agenda and start working through the agenda items? This can be a natural energy killer and often makes the start of a meeting rather tedious. A well-chosen check-in before...
Conflict issues? Work topics!
In one of my last conflict management training sessions, I found the feedback from a participant exciting: "This is no longer a conflict discussion at all, but simply a project meeting." Participants often come to conflict management training with the expectation of...
Use training tools and games effectively in workshops
For me, 2023 was a year of diverse workshops and training sessions, in which I deliberately focussed on experience-oriented learning and work. Training tools and interactive games are valuable in workshops and training sessions to promote learning and increase...
How do you resolve emotional situations in remote teams?
This was one of the most common questions I was asked by training participants or coaching clients last year, and I would like to discuss it in my year-end article for the Coverdale Review. What are emotionalised situations? By emotionalised situations, we mean a...
Review 2023
Another year has come to an end, and it's time to take a look back at the past twelve months. As a consultant and coach, I could accompany numerous people and organisations on their journey, support them and celebrate successes together. In this review, I would like...
Experiential learning – the Coverdale learning method
When I first came into contact with Coverdale as a consultancy company more than 20 years ago, the managing director explained to me that Coverdale had an extraordinary form of experiential learning as the core method behind all its training programmes at the time. I...
Principles in communication
Yes, we do leadership training with horses, and no, employees are not workhorses. Yes, we have had a Cocker Spaniel since May. Jarl Ragnar will be two years old in February 2024. And no, dogs are not man's best friend. When working with animals, as with people, a few...
Hybrid leadership – a challenge and, at the same time, the “new” life of many managers
Modern management work very often means that employees spend more or less time working from home in addition to their place of work in the company. Managers face the challenge of ensuring communication within the team, even if the individual members are not always...
Work Hack – On a scale of 0 – 10 …
The scaling question is a helpful instrument in coaching situations. When a person comes to coaching, there is often this diffuse feeling: Something should become better, different, more pleasant or more friendly, or a problem is pressing heavily on the soul. The...
Book review “Coaching: Achieving Goals Together”
by Maren Fischer-Epe is a book that offers valuable insights and practical tools for managers. The author, an experienced expert in learning and change processes in human resource and organisational development, shares her extensive knowledge in this book, which is...
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