Leadership in the storm of change
Change is an inevitable constant in our lives. Sometimes we can influence it, but most of the time we cannot. What is new is the dynamic and speed with which we are confronted with change. What we need is a plan on how to adapt to change quicker…
Enabling, the new consulting
Consulting, although in the area of soft factors, has been a familiar core service of our company for business development for many years. Even as a boutique consultancy, we ask ourselves the provocative question from time to time in the context…
Conceptathon – a New Work booster
15.06.2022
Ever heard of a conceptathon? Nope? No wonder. It's actually a brand new format of New Work and New Learning that combines teamwork, collaboration and learning with immediately usable work results in the field of conception. And…
Ownership as a foundation for an agile role understanding
31.05.2022
How do we bring agility into an organisation? Certainly not overnight. In order for the agile plant to grow and flourish sustainably in the organisation, it requires constant, organic implementation. Only with consistent application…
Empowerment needs a psychological component
28.02.2022
We are already in the middle of the New Work era. The problem with New Work is that the focus is usually on structural measures. For example, working hours are quickly cut and hierarchical levels removed. Not too seldom, however,…
Creating the future with 3D mapping
26.11.2021
The current time requires constantly to deal with challenges and to deal with change. There are many forms of facing these topics. Most of these formats are very rational. With 3D mapping, a completely different approach is practiced:…
Sustainable change management
30.10.2021
Until the 1960s, upper and middle management were oriented toward the cybernetic control loop as a fundamental management model. Deviations from the norm were regarded as controllable or regulable by means of "correct" methods.…
Deep Listening – the mega competence
25.07.2021
Listening - that's old news. Show me one or two people who haven't heard or learned this. It's a central component of every communication training program. Why that again?
Quite simply - because we don't do it or do…
From co-worker to co-creator
15.04.2021
Today, human "work" is increasingly migrating to the machine and AI is taking over more and more tasks from us. By doing so, it is only driving forward a process that has already begun. Many of the classic "jobs" have been the…
TCJG Future Journey 3.0
27.02.2021
Two years ago, we at The Company Journey Guides set off again into the future. Courageously, committed and with a lot of esprit. A retrospective on the first year, at the end of January 2020, showed a differentiated picture of…
Coaching works
25.01.2021
Coaching works. This finding is now widely and reliably supported by scientific evidence. Although there are also negative effects and different effect strengths in the (positive) effect, it can be said on average that whoever…
Customer connectedness
08.12.2020
As was the case during the first Corona lock-down, "the sales department" is now to invest more heavily in "customer relations". This means contacting customers by phone or conference call and "let's talk ...".
This type of call…
Lunch & Learns, they rock
31.10.2020
One learning format is currently enjoying increasing popularity. It is a short term learning design that can be easily integrated into the daily routine of every person. By leaning on a time slot that is set anyway. The…
The Effectiveness of the Circle
27.08.2020
Whenever transformation is involved, it is stated that a mindset refraim has a key role to play. Many initiatives threaten to fail because people remain in their old "patterns" instead of opening up to the new. Even the…
Leadership to Leader-shift
25.07.2020
Things have got to change. The classic management structures no longer reflect the zeitgeist. For years now, one new management model has been chasing the next, countless "recommendations" are being made as to how an…
Working@Home
22.05.2020 For many, almost 10 weeks of Working@Home are now behind us. Some helpful routines have been formed in the meantime, new tools and efficient working techniques have been learned and the state of emergency has created a strange, new…
Speed up digital competence
17.04.2020
Countless studies show that companies in this country are lagging in digitisation. Above all, the development of digital skills for many people is not progressing as quickly as expected. What is needed now is a speed…
Leadership starts with the self
What does “leadership begins with the self” mean? Leadership is primarily understood as leadership of employees or leadership of an organisation - using different techniques and methods. Sometimes the spot is on management, sometimes the…
Learning Journeys – A journey into the world of new learning
Learning Journeys are a journey into the world of new learning. They comprehensively reform the personnel and organizational development process and combine many innovative and modern learning concepts of tomorrow - today. We have also embarked…
Triple A instead of unconsciousness
What exactly does “Triple A” has to do with fainting? And what about Mindset First?
AAA(+) could become the magic formula for changing individual attitudes in thinking, feeling and motivation. It could be the key to overcoming powerlessness…
Shared LeaderShift – Rethink Leadership
Rethink leadership?
Nowadays one often hears that leadership needs to be rethought. Why should we do that? Hasn't been enough already thought about leadership, experimented enough, modelled enough? In the meantime, there is a multi-faceted…
Leadership – Quo vadis?
Leadership in its present form no longer seems to work. Looking at the level of employee leadership, none of the leadership models of the recent past can currently secure a sustainable place on the podium. Probably also because leadership appears…
Virtual Coaching – via machine from person to person
Virtual coaching claims an increasingly important role in the context of modern qualification concepts. Why is coaching so important in tomorrow's learning? Does coaching over the telephone or the Internet have any effect and if so, how does…
Uploading to Develop the Co-Creator of the Future
The term "Uploading" originally comes from Otto Scharmer and his Theory U. "Uploading" describes the conducive attitude and suitable behaviour of each individual in order to shape their own circumstances and future. With an understanding of "Open Mind", "Open Heart" and "Open Will", people act consciously and autonomously.
TCJG’s Company Future Journey
A Company Future Journey is a very familiar topic for us. Since our foundation, "The Company Journey Guides" have accompanied people and organizations in a variety of ways on their journey of finding an identity, cultural design, reorientation…
Customer Centricity – A Modern Term for Customer Orientation?
“I need to tell you something! You cannot believe how I was treated during my last vacation! I felt like a king” A friend of mine said that to me a few weeks ago and he recalled vividly his experiences from his last summer vacation with his wife on a stunning island in Thailand.
Learning and Learner’s Journey
Times are long gone when established trainer personalities with a main competence in classical methods were amused when hearing the term “e-learning”. To be honest, I belonged to that guild when virtual learning emerged around 15 years ago ...
Blended learning – a useful combination of learning digitally and analogically
Maybe you remember it from your own past - the teacher is holding a detailed monologue in front of the class while the first student doesn’t listen anymore, the second doesn’t understand a word and the third is already one step ahead.
Corporate Communication 2.0 – Why we need to build internal social networks
Internal corporate social network? Today this does not stand for social exchange with our network of colleagues at the coffee machine. “A "social network" is a dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other ...
Coaching – a powerful tool for individual change
While sometimes the solution to a specific work-related problem is obvious for external observers, the directly affected person might stand in his own way. He might not gain access to the right solution.
Diagnostics in HR Development
A company's success depends largely on the competence and commitment of its employees. However, qualified personnel selection and development is challenging. Basis of a systematic personnel development process is the personnel diagnostics.
The medium of film in e-learning
Be it personal or professional environments. Via classic channels such as movies or TV. Or mobile on-the-go, via tablet, cell phone etc: A flood of video content accompanies us on our daily movements.
Adidas Learning Campus is spot on
Todays world grows ever more global and ever more digital. This entails great changes for the organization of work places as well as for society. The way people collaborate, share knowledge, acquire skills and learn continuously changes.
A special TCJG Company Journey
We circumnavigate the water, admiring the magnificent scenery and enjoying a hot, beautiful summer day – on Vespa scooters. On our trip we change the perspective to the other side.
The new Leadership Report 2015
The new Leadership Report 2015 by Zukunftsinstitut is out! It shows the latest and most important trends for successful leadership in today’s and the future’s world of collaboration and innovation.
What we love about Gmund Paper
Surrounded by the alps and adjacent to a serene lake lies the Bavarian town „Gmund“ – and its name sake paper company. It is a family business, a paper manufactory, which has stayed true to its craft for 180 years. And this quite successfully.
Our Cases
Customer-centred qualification
To stand out from the crowd in today's competitive business world, it is essential to act in a customer-centred way. Consistently practising customer centricity is the magic word. In this case study, you will learn exactly how this can be achieved.
A…
Conceptathon – a future format that is fun!
Concepta...what? You've probably never heard of a conceptathon. This brand new future format of New Learning comes directly from the TCJG forge and is full of teamwork, collaboration and visible end results.
This workshop design has its roots…
Community Learning – a future learning format
03.2022
Collaboration, co-creation, lifelong learning, growth mindset - all buzzwords of our time. As different as they may seem, they are all served in community learning - a future learning format. You've probably heard this term before,…
Host for customers
12.01.2021
In today's world, B2C business is confronted with enormously high expectations from its customers. These expectations must be met throughout the entire customer journey, especially in stationary retail. This raises the question…
The power of emotions
Last week, I was able to accompany a presentation event as part of a Leadership Journey. Following C & Co and the current hybrid trend, the group had been on a virtual learning journey for quite some time. Now a "real day" was on the agenda.…
Shared LeaderShift in experimet
26.09.2021
About two years ago, Eva-Maria Danzer and Barbara Wietasch exchanged their experiences on leadership and transformation. This led to the development of the Shared LeaderShift model. The approach to leverage the transformation of…
The virtual celebration – one step further
28.05.2021
Virtual celebrating has taken a big leap in the last year, but, how do you celebrate virtually? How do you achieve all the emotions we know from celebrating in real life and set a milestone? That's where you have to go one step…
Virtual technology – fast forward
30.11.2020
On our Company Journey, which will be shaped by COVID for a considerable time to come, adaptation has become a key factor. Not just a key to survive, but a key to succeed. And although this refers to anything and everything, we…
If human, then humane
06.09.2020
For some time now, the minds have been divided when we look into the future. Who or what will make the race? Machine or human? Or to put it better: if the machine, if digitalization takes its place - where will the human…
Onboarding Remote
08.06.2020
In the spirit of COVID19, Onboarding Remote is currently taking place. In this case two new TCJG guides share their individual, personal experiences with getting to know each other, arriving and taking the first steps…
Web conferencing – it used to be
20.04.2020
Right now, it is sprouting up everywhere - web conferencing. Almost everybody seems to feel called to offer any session. Mostly free of charge and with quite remarkable content. So, the already old format, whose baptism…
Home sweet Home-Office
14.04.2020
Corona surprised us all and sent us all to the home office together. Even companies and bosses who "work remotely" with labels like "unthinkable" or "unproductive" are now forced to send their employees home. And even…
How “learning leadership” succeeds
22.02.2020
Learning leadership - is that possible? Do we need it? Does it still fit in with the times? Does it make sense?
Let's assume so, how could it look like then?
Surely the times of standardized management curricula…
VUCA? We are to busy …
VUCA & Co - was and is already enough to read and hear about it. There are hardly any articles that do not deal with the topics of digitization, disruptive change, transformation, industry and work 4.0 and similar. Innumerable key notes,…
New learning, learning – Trainer first!
New learning primarily challenges those that teach today.
As the OECD Pisa-Study 2018 concludes, students are only as good as their teachers. And in this case, what applies to teaching students can also be transferred to HR Learning &…
Leadership – from Suffering to Meaning
Leadership suffering? A recent coaching case with an experienced executive motivated us to present this case. Suffering is a term that has been coined by this coachee. The more intensively he got into working with himself, the more this topic…
Valuable Presents by our Customers
During our own Company Future Journey, we have received valuable gifts from our customers. They let us know openly and willingly what really matters to them when it comes to an effective cooperation with a service provider. We are very grateful…
Step into your customers’ shoes
At our customers I am currently observing an ardent desire towards more customer-centric service processes. Primarily, this transformation aims to increase external brand loyalty.
From Learning Journey to Learner Journey with the Support of a Guide
As a conceptionist here at TCJG the first project I accompanied had nothing to do with the innovative qualification programmes which I got to know in the past. That's very impressive and it certainly confused me in the first place.
Identification with Brand Values
It’s amazing how the Internet of Things is capturing our daily lives more and more. Have you noticed that over the last several years every generation, from primary schoolchildren to retirees, can be observed with their digital companions?
The right Blend
Individuality, practical relevance, meaning - these values are often associated with the generation Y. These values are important to me - not only because I am part of this generation, but also with regard to learning strategies ...
Communication – A key factor for successful change
That change has to happen in order to ensure global competitiveness and sustainable success of companies is common sense. “Change” and “Change Management” are of every day concern for business practitioners.
Successful business handovers – Guiding a management transfer professionally
In the future, the transfer of management responsibility will be an important issue for many companies. Annually 27.000 enterprises are looking for successors. I have already guided and implemented this process within my own family business.
Talent Development Programme – Diagnostics
Every organization has to rely on competent, motivated, and disciplinary executives. Identifying high potential employees to qualify them specifically and grow their loyalty to the company is a great way to secure future leaders.
Film Production for a Training Workshop
In October 2015 we produced a film to function as part of a client’s training workshop. I was given the opportunity to support the project for TCJG due to my long-term experience in this field.
International Cross-Selling Qualification
This project deals with one of my favorite topics. During my previous employment in the 5* hotel field I was particularly passionate about anticipating guests needs and creating special surprise moments that truly elevated their stay.