Leadership within: Increase Leadership Confidence

June 22, 2022

The 4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership: How Adaptability builds resilient teams

Managers are often promoted into the position, not because they are good managers, but because they are good in their job. Our approach of 4 Pillars […]
June 10, 2022

4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership: How Integrity increases trust

As part of our research into the 4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership, we identified 4 important pillars, which will help leaders to act upon supporting creating […]
May 10, 2022

4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership: How Empathy empowers your team

In the last article, we explained Vulnerability as the first Pillar from the 4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership. Now it is time to look at our […]
April 27, 2022

4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership: How Vulnerability helps to create psychological safety

Vulnerability is one of the main pillars for authentic leadership. Read in this article, why and how you can improve your leadership.
April 18, 2022

The 4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership – How to build a high-performance team through trust

Read in this article, how the 4 Pillars of Authentic Leadership can help you to build trust and high-performance organizations.
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]