Dr. Kilian Wawoe investigated the consequences of the increasing numbers of home office days for people and companies and the effects of home office.  During lockdown, he found more than 600 articles about working from home, talked with hundreds of people about their experiences with home office, took questionnaires from thousands of workers and worked with dozens of companies on a new form of collaboration that he calls “corporate brain.“

The exciting results and detailed conclusions will be revealed on June 2nd at the Leadership Horizon Conference. 

Want to know more now? Just read our Interview about the effects of home office wirh Dr. Kilian Wawoe.

Effectuation: Shaping beats planning How can we tap into the new, digital age? How can we shape our hybrid future and leverage its potential while struggling with uncertainty, and missing information and experience? Well, expert entrepreneurs can serve as suitable role models “when no one really knows …”. According to research, they develop an expertise in shaping the future in the face of uncertainty. Entrepreneurship research describes their expertise as “Effectuation”.

Effectuation consider uncertainty as a friendly place! It waves predictions and leads quickly into action while avoiding to risk head and neck. Effectuators negotiate the future with those committing early to the process and shape the world, while others are still tinkering with spreadsheets and slides.

This session will be about what leaders can learn from Effectuation for their journey into hybrid leadership and beyond.

Michael Faschingbauer  is an organizational consultant, author, and speaker. The Graz native is considered a German-speaking expert on entrepreneurial expertise. His book “Effectuation: How Successful Entrepreneurs Think, Decide and Act”  was named “Management Book of the Year”. 

developing hybrid talents –  the gold of the digital age

»To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace«
– Doug Conant, ehemaliger CEO von Campbell’s Soup

Hybrid talent is of growing importance for the competitiveness of organizations. The digital star firms of today, e.g. Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, or Netflix – not only offer digital solutions that make their customers’ lives easier. They also rely on a resource that represents the gold of the digital age: (Hybrid) Talent. This talk explores why talent management is of existential importance in the digital age and what successful talent management can look like addressing questions like: How can artificial intelligence support personnel selection? How can algorithms be used in the search for specialists and in recruitment? Can the “Tinder principle” also work for companies? This talk will address how firms today can tap into the hybrid talent pool, attract hybrid talent and how current HR practices will change as a result.

There are many ways how we can learn about mew leadership and become great leaders. An EXTRAordinary and memorable way is to dance your way into leadership.

💃🕺 You do not need to be a dancer to learn from dancing to become a better leader! 💃🕺

But you definitely need to be a good follower to become a great leader.

Why? There is a vast body of research looking at the effects of dancing on health and well-being. A recent extensive report edited by the World Health Organisation in 2019 shows clearly that we can dance our way into improved health and well-being (online here). Dancing protects our brain more than doing crosswords or reading: Risk of suffering dementia decreases by 35% when we read, by 47% when we do crossword puzzles, and by 76% when we dance frequently. Besides, studies also show that we can dance our way into happiness. So why not dancing our way into leadership?

Globalization, networking at a wide variety of levels, the digital transformation of all areas of life, and the increasing desire for self-determination: all this requires companies to rethink.

In order to remain innovative and competitive, the digitization and agilization of operational processes and structures is necessary. Leaders and employees must constantly adapt, develop new roles, tasks, and attitudes, reflect, and learn to adapt to the changes in the process. A vast space of possibilities, with opportunities for change, growth and development.

But how can the necessary change in the areas of organization, collaboration, management and leadership be implemented? What are the appropriate leadership models?

To what extent must leadership development, the leadership concept and the understanding of leadership in the company evolve?

With the Be6! Leadership Circle provides you with a comprehensive framework for all topics in the areas of leadership and management.

• Caroline Weingrill – Head of Workplace Experience – Erste Digital

• Birgit Höttl – Group Head of Employee Experience – Mondi Group

• Karin Bindreiter – Senior Training Expert – TTTech