January 12, 2022
Ikigai - Find your ikigai to improve your productivity
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 12, 2022

My personal “Personal Agility” story

A recent in-house workshop I facilitated on Career Goals (and the productivity towards them) reminded me of my personal “Personal Agility” story and how I found […]
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June 16, 2021
too much to do
Published by Chris Kruppa on June 16, 2021

Too much to do, not enough time

We all have usually not enough time to what we want to achieve. This article explains, why this might be not necessary, if you find out what really matters to you.
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October 5, 2020
Published by Chris Kruppa on October 5, 2020

The role of Leaders in Agile environments

Agile organizations are the future, if we believe McKinsey. For this to happen, the role of Management needs to change. Read here, what you can do to achieve that.
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August 18, 2020
Goals are important to empower your team
Published by Chris Kruppa on August 18, 2020

Setting Goals that empower

Organizations struggle with setting and achieving meaningful goals. Read here from our experiences, why that might happen.
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August 11, 2020
Team Competency Matrix makes competency gaps visible
Published by Chris Kruppa on August 11, 2020

Identify Competencies Gaps in your team with Team Competency Matrix

The Team Competency Matrix is an easy tool, which is immediately applicable to understand the needed competencies in your team and identify the gaps of what you need.
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August 5, 2020
Solving conflicts is difficult.
Published by Chris Kruppa on August 5, 2020

Solving conflicts with addressing Motivators

A while ago we were writing about the Moving Motivators and how they can help team leaders and managers to be more empathetic and to be […]
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July 8, 2019
Organizational Development is like Architecture
Published by Chris Kruppa on July 8, 2019

Organizational Development in 21st century – Meddler’s Game

Organizational Development in the 21st century has been a challenge for many companies. When I talk to C-level or directors, most people are always looking for […]
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May 20, 2019
Moving Motivator can help you to build higher empathy
Published by Chris Kruppa on May 20, 2019

Leadership Trait “Empathy” – Start with Moving Motivators

If you have followed some of our blogs, you already know, that for us empathy is a leadership skill. Employees see, that their leaders genuinely care, […]
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March 21, 2019
Innocation & Digitization - Many organisations underestimate their impact
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 21, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 3: Swamped by Digitization & Innovation

As discussed, we at semdi believe, that today’s Managers are overwhelmed because of 3 different swamps. We talked about different complexity areas, different motivations, but also […]
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March 13, 2019
External Self-Concept is important in business teams
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 13, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2.1: Motivation – the external self-concept

As we discussed in the prior article, Motivation can have many faces. In order to motivate our people it is not enough to tell people to […]
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March 4, 2019
Extrinsic Motivation might be less effective as intrinsic
Published by Chris Kruppa on March 4, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 2: Swamped by different motivations

Within my engagements on supporting teams and management, people often ask me the same questions: How can I motivate my team? How can I engage them […]
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February 15, 2019
Cooperation in modern world is more compllex
Published by Chris Kruppa on February 15, 2019

Overwhelmed Managers – part 1: Making sense of today’s world

In the last article I described how managers are overwhelmed with the situation in today’s complex environment and described three different swamps and how this image […]
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January 20, 2019
Overwhelmed Managers feel like being in a swamp
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 20, 2019

Being Swamped – Challenges of Organizations in 21st century

In the last year I organized a course on Management in 21st century. I started the course with showing a similar picture as the one above. […]
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January 10, 2019
Teamwork
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 10, 2019

Better management with less managers

We are all familiar with managing teams, which did not live up to their potential. We believed, that they are not motivated and they did not […]
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January 3, 2019
External support helps to achieve more
Published by Chris Kruppa on January 3, 2019

Why external support can help

I do still remember, when I attended my first Certified Scrum Master Class. My then boss demanded to get external support. At that time I was […]
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December 19, 2017
Focus on Outcome
Published by Chris Kruppa on December 19, 2017

Prioritisation – where to start

How can I give a good prioritisation to get everything done? I wish, the day would have more than 24 hours. This is my third all-nighter […]
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October 13, 2017
Adaptive organisations are flexible within their environments
Published by Chris Kruppa on October 13, 2017

Start with the vision – where to start with an adaptive organisation

I came across an article published on Linkedin by Oleg Vishnepolsky, the Global CTO at DailyMail Online and Metro.Co.Uk, claiming, that agile does not work and it […]
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November 16, 2016
Published by Chris Kruppa on November 16, 2016

Self-organisation – Does the fish rot from the head?

The Agile Manifesto is one of our key foundations to build an adaptive management system into organisations. It focuses on learning, self-organisation, communication and collaboration. Even if Software developers […]
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