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Miniguide: Team Kick-off
You don’t need to be an expert facilitator to run engaging and active meetings. Here are five simple tips that can make a big difference.
Miniguide: Brainstorming Sessions
You don’t need to be an expert facilitator to run engaging and active meetings. Here are five simple tips that can make a big difference.
Miniguide: More Engaging Meetings
You don’t need to be an expert facilitator to run engaging and active meetings. Here are five simple tips that can make a big difference.
Lessons in Creative Leadership from the Beatles
I often draw inspiration from music when thinking about leadership. Music is deeply collaborative — great musicians are usually highly collaborative and great bands don’t just rely on individual talent but on the way members complement and challenge each other.
Creativity as Learning on Steroids
Tired of the post-it note bonanza? Do you find yourself stuck in the cycle of “let’s just organize another brainstorm”? It’s easy to fall into the trap of equating creativity with one-off idea generation sessions, but what if we reframed creativity as an ongoing learning process instead?
Leadership Development: Trust vs. Control
Just like a tip jar thrives on goodwill and contributions because you love your local coffee shop, development should build on intrinsic motivation and a shared desire to grow—not on coercion or compliance.
A Co-Active Model for Leading Innovation
Leadership is about knowing when to step forward and when to support from behind, just as in a band. Innovation leadership is equally fluid and requires several dimensions of leadership working in harmony.
Creativity - Innovation and Change Management’s Neglected Child
In our quest for prediction and control, we end up losing the essence of our change and innovation efforts—those elusive qualities like curiosity, empathy, diversity, perspectives, and a willingness to experiment - creativity.
What Creative Leadership Really Is
From a knight in shining armour to a gardener in wellies. Stories of true creative leadership often go unnoticed, slipping under the radar. As human beings, we crave captivating narratives featuring heroic leaders.
Want to Plan Better Workshops? There’s One Tool to Rule Them All.
A great meeting or workshop, where every detail is thought about, can be the key to promoting a team or organization's journey toward its goals. So, how do you ensure that the meetings you host are productive and perceived as meaningful?
Great Facilitation is Like Magic - Here Are 6 Principles Anyone Can Use
Good facilitation is like magic when it comes to collaborative, interactive learning, relationship-building, and development processes. So, how do we lead meetings and workshops that actually work for people and lead to creative solutions and real change?
Scaling a MultiMillion Dollar Business Without a Single Manager.
What if I told you it's not only possible but reasonable to build and scale a multi-million dollar business without a single manager? This is exactly what Morning Star Tomatoes company did.
Four Beliefs Underpinning Great Facilitation
Process facilitation is a skill that empowers individuals and groups to collaborate, communicate, and solve complex problems effectively. To excel in this role, facilitators must embrace four vital beliefs.
What’s the best way to start a meeting?
The practice of “Check-in” is the best way to start a meeting. And a quick win if you want to establish more psychological safety in your team. In this blog post, I teach you the ins and outs of check-ins.
Why Most Traditional Change Management Models Fall Short.
Do the failed change projects in your organization pile up like cars in a junkyard? Here is why linear, top-down models of change management don’t work.
Lessons of Leadership from Miles Davis and the Kind of Blue Sessions.
The Kind of Blue sessions became a recipe for how Miles would approach music for the rest of his life — in this blog post I extract five lessons of transformational leadership.
What People Are Saying
They offer well-structured methods for designing change and reaching higher levels of creativity. We have discovered very useful tools for stimulating creativity, not only during the inspiring workshops led by them, but also in our daily work
— Pia Wall, Business intelligence analyst E.ON
“I worked with Thomas Reibke for the first time as part of Wonderful Copenhagen’s strategy process in 2016, where we wanted an inclusive and inspiring process, both internally in the organization and with external (existing and potential) partners. From the first meeting with Thomas, we felt in really good, competent, and inspiring hands. Thomas has a sharp and calm focus on getting to the jointly set goal with the process, and he impressively manages to get everyone involved, give meaning to every step along the way, and at the same time, engage and motivate active, purposeful, and playful participation.”
— Signe Jungersted, Director of Development, Wonderful Copenhagen
“Thomas was very adaptable and present in the process design of the very first version of the MAD Academy program. As a facilitator, he ensured the creation of a very cohesive group, which created a great environment for learning and friends for life. ”