Into the Unknown

This book provides leaders with a helpful approach and outlines steps to significantly increase the possibilities for successful transformation. We focus on how leadership can effectively support transformation. It becomes clear that leadership itself must also transform in order to open new paths. With thought-provoking insights, exercises, and reflections, we aim to encourage leaders.

Autorentext
Thomas Weegen Sein Schwerpunkt ist die Beratung und Steuerung von großen Organisationsentwicklungsprojekten und Transformationsprozessen. Als langjähriger Geschäftsführer von Coverdale Deutschland ver- antwortet er auch die Entwicklung des Beratungs- und Trainingsunternehmens Coverdale. Konzeption und Durchführung internationaler Führungskräfteent- wicklungs-Programme und Führungskräfte-Coaching gehören zu seinem Arbeitsbereich.

Leseprobe
As consultants at Coverdale, an international consulting firm that focuses on leadership and collaboration, we have been supporting change projects both large and small in a wide variety of organizations for many years. In the course of our consulting activities, we have developed a change toolbox that has proven to be highly effective and works well in a variety of initial situations. Increasingly, we are encountering the need for alterations in enterprises where the desired future vision and the path to be taken to achieve it are unclear and not easy to clarify at the outset. The affected leaders and employees are confronted with an impenetrable wall that obstructs a meaningful realignment. This triggers fear and feelings of powerlessness. In such situations, a new approach is required, which when viewed through the lens of our everyday activities from the perspective of our current work processes can be disturbing and irritating. This means that the leadership team of an enterprise must also take a different approach. It takes courage to confront one's own powerlessness, along with a willingness to allow oneself to be set adrift in order to see things from a completely different perspective and embark on radically new paths. In this book, we describe our experiences with such situations and illustrate what we have learned from them, while also adopting recommendations from numerous experts. We cordially invite you to join us on a journey of transformation and let yourself and your concept of leadership be remade. Be inspired by the illustrations in this book. Three artists have provided us with works to appeal to a further sensory level.