By Nicole Brauckmann In a time of major turbulence and uncertainty, emotional outbursts – displays of misbehaviour considered outside the norms of conventional social and professional interactions – seem to have become more frequent. How can leaders tune into what is really going on and respond in a way that is constructive and helpful? What…
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UNICEF’s answer to current and future crises By Armin Forstner, Managing Partner, Serrano 99 Management Consulting Positive Leadership, a strength-based approach to leading teams and organisations, is not only an essential skill for senior executives but also helps young people cope long-term with the challenges of the modern world, according to UNICEF. “Traditional” Leadership Development…
In this series, we introduce the next generation of positive and mindful leaders who are taking positive action to foster flourishing work environments. We spoke with Mohannad Hajaj, Innovation Labs Coordinator at UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency, Lebanon. Mohannad, tell us more about your background. I’m Mohannad Hajaj. I’m a 37-year-old Palestine…
We met with Frederick Chavalit Tsao, Chairman of IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group and founder of Octave and co-author of the book Quantum Leadership, to talk about his mindful-based approach to leadership and how he runs multi-billion-dollar corporation. Interview by Declan Noone & Armin Forstner Mr. Tsao, holistic wellbeing is one of the key foundations of…
By Christian Greiser, Jan-Philipp Martini, Liane Stephan, and Chris Tamdjidi Does mindfulness foster an organisation’s collective intelligence? A recent study conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Awaris found a significant connection: 31 teams (totalling 196 people) that participated in a ten-week mindfulness programme showed an average increase of 13% in collective intelligence, as measured…
Are current leadership development programmes setting organisational leaders up to fail? The case for a new type of leader. By Declan Noone INTRODUCTION Leadership training is a $366 billion global industry with $166 billion spent in the US alone on leadership development.[1] As you would expect, leadership expectations shape the content and delivery of leadership development programmes…
By Declan Noone In 2010, the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research published a report which stated that ‘College kids today are about 40% lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago’.[1] These findings are based on a review of 72 studies of 14,000 American college students conducted between 1979 and 2009.[2] It is…
An insight into how dramatically technology changes our behaviours and the ambiguity of the outcomes. By Armin Forstner This year, our fourth annual positive & mindful leader summit focused on Human Change and Technology, and how to use the principles and tools of positive leadership, behavioural science and mindfulness to deal with the increasing prevalence and…
We spoke with Rafael Herrera Garland, Leadership and Talent Analyst, Heineken (Spain). In this series, we introduce the next generation of positive and mindful leaders who are taking positive action to foster flourishing work environments. Rafael, tell us more about your background. I was born in Lima, Perú and there I majored in clinical psychology.…
LOST – The Lebanese Organization for Studies and Training – report on their experience of deploying positive leadership tools to youth in Lebanon. Report by Majdoline Jaafar Change has always been a bitter pill to swallow. If you go back in time, to whatever revolution was made, to whatever discovery was revealed, to whatever norm…
