At the expert forum of the WSFB and practice field, Prof. Ulrich Weinberg speaks of the Hasso-PLATTNER-Institute on the topic of design thinking. How can we increase the innovativeness of our Organization? How can we mobilize our employees for changes? And how can we prepare our teams for the coping with complex challenges? Executives are facing such questions always more frequently among other things, because in a business environment characterised by change bump or even refuse to more classic management tools at their borders. Against this background the WSFB Advisory Group Wiesbaden and the consulting practice field, Remscheid organise an expert forum on leadership tools for change and innovation, on 13 March 2013 in Cologne”. There, executives, personnel and organization development and management consultants debate about facing challenges, leadership will (in the future) and imbued with permanent change like the leadership in a Environment can be mastered. Professor Ulrich Weinberg is keynote speaker for the event. The head of the school of design thinking at the Hasso-PLATTNER-Institute in Potsdam, speaks on the topic of design thinking pushing the creative power of teams”. The expert for innovative development”examines in his lecture, what ways of thinking and working models in an increasingly interconnected world can meet the innovation and pressure of change in.

The one-day forum starts with an introduction lecture of WSFB – Director Hans-Werner Bormann and the practice field Managing Director Holger Schlichting. After the plenary session opens on. Either, participants can now either participating in a day-long workshop or each visit a two and a half-hour workshop in the morning and afternoon. They are always the choice between two workshop offerings. Sensemaking is the title of the full-day workshops creating innovation”. He is managed by Holger Schlichting and the WSFB Managing Director Johann Scholten.

In him you go Participants who, can increase the power of innovation and capability of an organization as a meaningful communication question. This, the workshop leaders present participants of also the basic concept of Sensemaking by Karl E. Weick, one of the most prestigious organization researchers. “Short workshops in the morning participants between a workshop on the topic can help innovation management with the title, we have to be innovative,” and a workshop on the topic change management with the title again for a change! “choose. “In the afternoon then two workshops on the topics are Burnout private or business problem?’ and team development 3.0 a balancing act of leadership” in the program. In the late afternoon, the keynote address by Prof. Ulrich Weinberg follows before the Central results of the day are again summarized in plenary. The participation at the expert forum management tools for change and innovation”in Cologne costs 299 euros (+ VAT).