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Awesome that you’re interested in my writing! I’ve been blogging on people-centered change topics since 2015. Here is a list of my 301 articles. Enjoy!

Leadership Lab: Why German leaders are rejecting most AI tools
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🎯 Mid-level executives: Are you watching AI transform your industry while your team fears being replaced?
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Finding Your Edge in the AI EraJune 3 AI Confidence Workshop
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🌿 More Human, Not Less: Leading with AIJune 3 AI Confidence Workshop empowers you to reflect, experiment, and be more human
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AI Leadership: When Nature Inspires Digital ClarityMay/June AI Confidence workshops filling fast
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Offline Moments, Online ClarityHow Nature 🌿 Helped Me Reframe AI in Coaching
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Abschalten & 🌿Innovativ seinWo KI und Natur im Coaching auf Tuchfühlung gehen
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Use AI or Fall BehindSmart leaders are already on it!
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April 🌷Highlights from DesignChangeSpring into More (AI) Confidence ✨
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Selbstsichere Führung im KI-Zeitalter 💪🏻💪🏻mit Karla Schlaepfer🚀 🚀 Limitiertes Coaching Frühjahrsangebot endet bald!
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🔄 When Turning Your Back Opens Your Mind 🔄👉 Struggling to get honest feedback? Try listening without the urge to respond.
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Struggling to Keep Up with AI?🚀AI Confidence in 3 Sessions Special Spring Offer
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Hidden Traps of Collaboration And How to Overcome Them 🚀Supercommunicators! Why Listening Isn’t Enough 💡
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Design Your Change and Lead with Heart ❤️
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🏀 Stop Playing Golf, Start Playing Basketball: The Real Rules of CollaborationIs your team acting like a group of solo players—or a real team?
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How Supercommunicators Can Help Managers Lead Better ConversationsCharles Duhigg reveals: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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How to Apply AI in Coaching: A Hands-On Exploration for Coaches & HR ProfessionalsFREE Webinar: April 17th at 8:00 CET
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Leadership is about human connection🌟Art helps cultivate self-awareness🎨
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Start 2025 Strong: Leadership, AI Coaching, and Change That Sticks💪🏻🥳From Art to AI: Coaching Insights for an Extraordinary 2025
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The Human Edge: Success in a Digital AI World ✨Here’s a New Way to Tap into our Human Magic with Art-Inspired Coaching
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Oh 🤔 – Already Feeling Overwhelmed in 2025? You’re Not Alone 🌞Regain Control: 4 Steps to Reduce Stress Effectively
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2025: An Auspicious Start for Change 🌟Aligning Vision and Action for a Promising Year Ahead
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Why I Coach Leaders – A Short Video InsightTwo ultra short introductory videos 🙈🥰
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Unwrap Your Best Self 🎁 Leadership Lessons for the Holidays🎄Future-Ready Leadership with Professional Coaching ✨
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Futureproof Mindset Coaching Vorteile 🌟Schulung und Coaching zum Manager-Coach
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Future Proof Mindset Coaching Benefits ✨Training and Coaching to Become a Manager Coach
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🎄Navigating toxic colleagues and challenging bosses: A Christmas Gift to Yourself 🎁Best 6 strategies to protect your peace, set boundaries, and feel resilient 🌟
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🌟 Build Resilient Leaders for a Future-Ready Team 🌟🔥 Burn Out or Bore Out?💡 Manage both effectively!
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Reflection, Resilience, Results: What’s New in DesignChange CoachingFrom Burnout to Breakthrough: Practical Strategies for Leaders
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To meet big goals, think small 🎯🏁How to enjoy running a marathon based on a text by Talya Minsberg 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♀️
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What Is Self-Reflection and Why Is It Important in Professional Coaching?Noticing with curiosity and without judgment 💫
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Building Self-Awareness🪞and Setting Boundaries: Tools for ClarityDiscover the Power of Reflect and Protect💪🏻
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Unlocking Self-Awareness Through Journaling ✍️How Simple Journal Writing Prompts Can Lead to Personal Growth 🌱
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Resilience in Leadership: Lessons from a 1,000-Year-Old Tree 🎴
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Report on the RA Expo in Cologne: A Day of Insight and InnovationHow Resilience Leads to Success 💪🏻💫
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Resilience in Action 💪🏻🥳How Coaching Helped a Lawyer Balance Business, Family, and Personal Growth
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Sonderausgabe der RA Expo am 3. September mit kostenlosen Tickets!Besuchen Sie uns an Stand 12 😊
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August Wellness Guide 🌅Strategies for a Healthier, Happier You ☺️
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Recharging Through ResilienceTime Management Tips for Summer⌚☀️
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Unlock Your Potential with Karla Schlaepfer’s Coaching Field Guide 📚✨Your Step-by-Step Resource for Personal and Professional Growth
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Perfekte Urlaubsübergabe 🌴 🌟So gelingt die stressfreie Abwesenheit.
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Give Yourself the Break You DeserveAnd Your Brain Needs; without Multitasking! 🧠✨
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Unlocking Potential Through Trust and GuidanceA Journey of Growth and Discovery in Just Two Months 👏🏻
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Cultivating Resilience and Unlocking Leadership PotentialHow resilient leaders navigate conflicts and build habits
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Unleashing Your Inner Leader 🌟Ditch the Outdated Models 🚫
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Elevating Leadership Potential with the Power of CoachingThank you Patrick for sharing what was important to you 👏🏻
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Conflict Resolution Made Simple!😉Try these 3 Steps for a More Resilient Team 💪🏻
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🌷 What does the month of May have to do with mental health?Prioritize Your Mind 💡: The Key to Happiness at Work and Beyond 🌟
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What is important about the Hogan Personality Profile?How it works. Voices. One-page Overview 🔍
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Digital and AI in CoachingHenley Business School Hackathon
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Professional Coaching vs. Executive Sparring: Unlocking Your Potential in Distinct WaysUnderstanding the Nuances for Effective Leadership Development
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More than a Feeling ☀️🌷Spring into Growth: Coaching for New Beginnings
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Meta Musts für moderne KanzleienInteraktiver Ganztags-Workshop: Wir machen Sie methodisch fit für das KI-Zeitalter
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Human/AI Curated Coaching and Mentoring Workshop ReviewGetting Prepared for the Future!
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Embracing Vulnerability and Emotions in a High-Performance Environment💪🏻
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New Perspectives on AI and Professional CoachingBalancing Tech and Human Values
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Revolution der Künstliche Intelligenz – und wo bliebt der Mensch?
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New AI Cheat SheetAI bots, Video, Research, Presentation and more 🌃
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What is Design Thinking – again❓Understanding Design Thinking, its Resilience and Importance of a Coaching Approach
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Unlocking PotentialA Journey of Growth 🌿and Transformation
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Welcome to 2024A Fresh Start for Growth and Success
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What is imposter syndrome?Female Leaders and the Challenge of the Imposter Syndrome
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Thrilled to be certified to give the Hogan Personality Assessment. 🚀🔍Since 1987 the leading science-backed prediction of professional success in the workplace
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Celebrating Resilience and Self-CareA DesignChange Holiday Message from Karla Schlaepfer
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Karla Schlaepfer - Ein Coach, der inspiriert und begleitet!Ich möchte mich bei meinem Klienten für die Anerkennung unserer gemeinsamen Arbeit bedanken.
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Leadership Choices: Digital Resilience Journey 🚀🔍A New Product to Empower Leaders with Science-Backed Resources, Training and Collaborative Learning.
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Changing with Thanks: Finding ⚖️ Balance in NovemberProfessional Coaching makes Change easier
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“Me Time”: Enabling Personal Pauses for better Business ⏸️Performance Benefits of Self Care 💪🏻 and Well-Being
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Exciting times at Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA program! 🚀🔍Walking you through some the dynamic elements that made this Leadership Simulation day exceptional. 💼✨
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Insights from an Executive Leadership Workshop in Bratislava 🚀🔍Balancing Innovation and Realities – Tough Choices for Business Software Leaders in 2024
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Unlocking Professional GrowthA Glimpse into RA Expo Cologne
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Navigating OctoberResilience, Leadership, and RA Expo News🎉
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Better Communication
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The Art of Setting Boundaries: Learn from Steve Jobs 🚀How often do you say “yes” to new ideas, requests, or opportunities, even when your plate is already full? 🤔⌛️
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Bouncing Back: Unleashing the 🌟 Resilient Leader WithinHow Resilience helps you navigate the ups and downs of leadership and stay healthy🌱
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Introducing the Digital Resilience Journey!🌟 New virtual training program with live coaching from Leadership Choices
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Work Smarter, less Stress by doing Less!Ditch Multitasking for more long-term work success 🎯🌟
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RA EXPO. The New Law Firm Event for ProfessionalsFresh Milestone in the German Legal Industry’s Event Calendar
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Boosting Productivity: The Power of Making a “Not To-Do List”Find it hard not to multitask? This will help!
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The Story of You: Using Timelines in Coaching for Resilience and Personal Growth! 🌱📚Map out highs and lows to gain perspective and highlight pivotal moments
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Summer Fun for Your Mind and Body 🌞🧠🏖️Using brain-friendly tips during your vacation can unlock a world of benefits.
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Neuroscience behind holidays ⛵🏖️Give your mind much-needed downtime
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Embracing a New Journey: Joining the Remarkable Team at Leadership Choices 💼🚀Making a positive impact on the Future of Leadership (optional)
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Feedforward Exercise for LeadersMarshall Goldsmith’s alternative to feedback which focuses on the past
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Sweet Scoops in June: infuse your projects with unexpected flavors🍨The Power of Sweet and Sauer 🥥🍋🧁
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Cheers to the power of collaboration and team spiritLet's keep pushing boundaries and shaping a brighter future together. 🙌💼🌟
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NRW educational leaders collaborate to shape the futureEscape room challenge, with an agile mindset in the historic Essener hotel Margartenhof.
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Design Your Change with – not against – AI and ChatGPTLearn how to future-proof 💡 your career
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Design Thinking human-centered in times of AIWhat have we got that AI does not. Qualities that make us unique
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Testimonial Sophie Arbab-Zadeh
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What Neuroscience says we need to have a happy 🤩 and healthy brainLinks between Creativity and building resilience
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Future-Proof Your Career Against AIWhat you can do and learn to future-proof your career
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Heartwarming ImpactCelebrating a better future together!
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Build Community with Help from a Classic Greek MythWhat was the good 💌 thing that Pandora set free?
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Awaken the Connection between Design Thinking and Hope
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DesignChange – Would I lie to you?Now would I say something that wasn’t🤥 true?
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Coachingmethoden zur Begleitung 🔥 Agiler TeamsProfessional Coaching im Teamkontext
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Ever heard the term Psychological Safety?What does it mean and why does it matter for collaboration?
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DesignChange with a little loveValentine’s Day; the chance to show you care
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Looking to the future; Coaching🤩 with Virtual Reality (German Webinar)International Coaching Federation (ICF) Webinar, Feb. 15th at 19h
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From Art to VR Podcast: Creative Methods in CoachingInternational Coaching Federation (ICF) Podcast
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No goals for 2023?🙃 The old ones still good?😂New Years’ Resolutions desperately need a rebrand!
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STOP! To remember 🤓 A super easy-to-use decision-making toolSTOP stands for: Sit, Think, Observe and Plan.
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New Year’s resolutions sliding? Do you find it hard to make New Year’s resolutions stick?
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DesignChange with🍃 Virtual RealityThrough the looking glass Welcome to the Christmas🎄edition of DesignChange newsletter.
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IDEAS TO RECHARGE YOUR BATTERYA simple visualized poster how-to invest in our own well-being every day
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The Upskilling Challenge: Instant Design Thinking⚡Using Virtual Reality and Design Thinking for a use case at Telekom and SAP
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Happy to contribute to another new and amazing Liquid Legal Institute WHITE PAPEROn Agile Working Methods for Legal Departments
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Meeting in the MetaverseInteractive Workshop in Virtual Reality
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Rethink people development. Grooving 💃🏽 the power of professional coachingPotential of Digital Coaching
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Safety in Disruptive TimesFundamentals in change processes that will help you succeed
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New Work. A Gamechanger for the Legal ProfessionEnhancing our strengths with Virtual Reality
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Active New Work in Virtual RealityLiquid Legal Institute Taskforce takes a virtual leap 👉🏽🤸🏽👏🏽
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DesignChange with boldness for the FallPeople who thrive do so because they take action!
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Do you sometimes struggle with taking risks?6 practical tips to become more courageous and achieve your goals
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Components of ResilienceWhy do some people bounce back and persevere and end up accomplishing more than others?
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DesignChange with Fun 💚It’s a hot🔥 summer everywhere! Welcome to the summer edition of the DesignChange fresh and cool newsletter
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True or Fake?Who is the human behind the monitor?
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Make Work More Fun in the 🌞 Summer5 Fun 😉 Tips on how this can be done
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Becoming Human CentricHow to Promote Wellbeing in Business Practices
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Is it Time to DesignChange together? Fresh Energy in June with Karla SchlaepferTa da 🥳 New website Coaching, Training and VR Skills
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The Real Thing: Straight to the 💚HeartOnce upon a time, it was no big deal to be in a room with lots of people. Now it is. Going back to my Design Thinking roots as a coach. Joyful presence. What a creative⛵ blast!
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Using Virtual Reality to Connect 🌎Join us at the Metaverse Legal Summit. It gives me great pleasure 👏🏽 to announce a pioneering initiative for the legal sector. Metaverse Legal Summit June 29th in Zurich and via virtual reality (Oculus headset).
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Who is behind the Social Impact 💥week?Karla’s interactive talk at the Social Impact Week June 6-10. Inspired by S.Lyubomirsky (The How of Happiness); leveraging joy for social impact.
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Surprising role of trust 😮Study shows the importance for combatting👉🏽COVID
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DesignChange with Joy!Fresh change practices, a fresh accreditation + perky tips on how to quit
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On the BIG screen hybrid meetings in context. How to manage roles, set expectations and on Karla’s hybrid 🤩experiment.No matter what your organization chooses to do, your hybrid 📱work model must be more than a quick fix.
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The long-awaited e-book to help overcome the „silent epidemic” is finally here 🎉!All good things take time 😉 Patience helps! And now the reward 🦋.
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Better training, professional coaching, learning 🪜 with virtual reality?At IW Köln (Institute der deutschen Wirtschaft) our hypothesis provoked some raised eyebrows!
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Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said, “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.” While the topic might make you uncomfortable, it’s important to know how to answer this and how to deal with challenges like Henry Ford does.🎩
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How peer coaching works as a trust enabler and to spark the creative power of the team and the individual!Peer group coaching is a hot topic these days.️ And for many good reasons. Some elements that are essential for impactful and successful peer coaching, you’ll read about in this coaching blog post.
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Importance of Creating Trust in Digital CoachingIt’s a fact. We humans are wired to crave real connection🍃 Now we connect digitally not only for work but for virtual coffees, meet-ups, and even VR concerts. Here’s how to create digital trust.
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New Milestone: PCC Coaching AccreditationICF Coaching Credential holders are a self-regulating group of elite coaches who provide accountability and quality to clients. Read about what this means to me and what is involved.
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Design Change Newsletter IX/2021DesignChange – on the courage to take risks and act ⚡
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Why is DESIGN THINKING the best approach to being AGILE?
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Not nice but true. About 90% of startups fail and partner separate.
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Innovator’s meet-up aka Design Thinkers meet-up September 2021
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Zoom Fatigue
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Lawyer Wellbeing
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Design Change June fresh insights newsletter 🌱
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Hybrid Work 5 tips for success
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Hybrid Work – Erfolg über die DistanzWas digital Leaders wissen müssen. 5 wichtige Hinweisen zu hybriden Arbeitsroutinen.
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New Legal Work Webinar mit einer Mural Demonstration
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What if you could design legal contractsthat would improve the relationship you have with your clients, enhance their experience with your company and ultimately get more of them signed?
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Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏼
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Legal New Work Empowering Women to make a changeStrong 💪 women driving the law forward!
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Thanks for subscribing to “Fresh Insights”🌱 newsletter
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⚡Embracing the power of Design Thinking 💥A case between continents with a remote legal tech team
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Make Time for Small Talk in Your Virtual Meetings – 3 Easy Ways
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Legal Tech Und Digital Law ConventNew Legal Working Environment
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Glimpse of our Miro Workshop board 23.03.21
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Remote Innovation Workshops Offers
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How Agile Design Thinking Helps Lawyers Surf the Digital WavesImprove your Teams, Culture and Profit from Happier Legal Stakeholders
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Efficiency in Remote Legal Working is an Important Topic!
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February fresh insights on how to accelerate 🚀 your learning curve
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LEAD Incubator Startup Accelerator
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Fresh Insights from Karla Schlaepfer and the awesome DesignChange team
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Do you know what your clients really value?Start with a persona – A great way to understand your clients’ motivations
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October Design Change Fresh Insights
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Design Thinking User-Research at the Liquid Legal Experience 2020
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Innovation Professionals meet-up*Meeting the Future @DHL Innovation Center Sept. 2020
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Music to our ears; talking with users
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Remote ain’t going away
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🎉Remote Collaboration Tips für bessere Meetings und Zusammenarbeit ✅
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➡ Collaboration is key.New Legal Teamwork is Growing
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👉How to Make Incredible Remote Teams 💥
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June fresh InformationKarla Schlaepfer: Making Remote Teamwork better
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ReMeP 2020 – Research Meets Practice
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Design Change Newsletter May
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How to make Remote Teams work better
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Sparking Ideas in Virtual Design SprintWe’ve designed the „Jam-bo Coding Collective!
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Newsletter AprilApril free Design Thinking course
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Wird die Remote Teamarbeit auch in Zukunft fortgesetzt werden?
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March Newsletter
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Is it true that lawyers in particular have a hard time accepting change?Report @ Flick Gocke und Schaumburg Legal Tech meet-up
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How to build trust in Corona Virus timesNewsletter
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Design Thinking @start up epilotCheck! I love working with startups
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Trying to connect with you on purposeNewsletter
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Reduce Complexity
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Wege zur agilen TransformationMitarbeiter aktiv zur Mitgestaltung einladen
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Innovation Professional Meet-Up
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December DdU Newsletter 2019Disruptive Christmas
Read moreOne More ThingThe 10 books that mattered most to you
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Newsletter OctoberThe business world is changing at a breathtaking pace - are you part of it?
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Warum einen Design Sprint verwenden?Die wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen Design Thinking und einem Design Sprint
Read moreDesign Thinking Professional Meet-UpWir beraten uns gegenseitig
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RA Dr. Martin Lücke interviewt Design Thinker Karla Schlaepfer M.A.
Read moreNewsletter September 2019Karla asks, does your new tech serve a genuine need? Find out with a Design Sprint!
Read moreVision vom perfekten UnternehmenEine Rezension unseres Buches „Das dynamische Unternehmen“
Read moreDesign Thinking Workshops and Google Design Sprints aktuellVon Timeboxing, Collaboration bis Design Thinking Coach
Read moreNewsletter AugustDesign Sprints (like Design Thinking) really work. Karla’s tip: feed the cycle of empowerment
Read moreNeu: Agile-Mindsets-Video
Read moreQuerdenken kann man lernen!
Read moreOpenDigiLab meets Karla SchlaepferWie wir mit Design Thinking unsere Universität von Morgen gestalten wollen.
Read moreSecrets of Highly Successful GroupsWith Design Thinking working towards a shared goal
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Karla Schlaepfer´s Vortrag + Workshop: Wie Design Thinking innovativen Mehrwert generiertEin interaktiver Vortrag auf der Product People Konferenz
Read moreDesign Thinkers Professional bei Tarent in Bonn
Read moreDesign Thinking Flash and Keynote Inspired by Lego Serious Play!
Read moreDas dynamische Unternehmen DdU NewsletterMärz 2019
Read moreFeb. 25, 2019 Design Thinking Professional Meet-upVenue: Detecon Consulting Köln
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4 Ways to hack your own creativity
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Press release on the 5th NRW Legal Tech Meet-Up sponsored by Wolters Kluwer
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Das dynamische UnternehmenNewsletter
Read moreDeutschlandradio Design Sprint 5 Tage und viele neue PerspektiveMein Chef trägt diese Woche Jeans
Read moreDesign Thinking Sprint Deutschlandradio Userlab
Read moreEine inspirierende #Design Thinking Party!Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Buchstabensalat SNDTIEM?*
Read moreI’m delighted to be part of the team that facillitates a Design Thinking Sprint in Deutschlandfunk!
Read moreIt’s party time!
Read moreInnovationen, die nicht nur die Entwickler begeistern
Read moreDer Pygmalion-Effekt
Read more„Ambidexterity“ fordert deutsche Unternehmen heraus!
Read moreDeutsche Unternehmen blockieren sich selbst!
Read moreThis is a basic and fundamental tenet in Design Thinking
Read moreCourage is the accumulation of small steps*
Read moreWas ist Design Thinking? Frag’ mich was!Neues eBook (bookboon.com) von Karla Schlaepfer ab September 2018
Read moreDas Geheimnis erfolgreicher Design Thinking ProjekteVertrauen als Erfolgsfaktor — Was Teams bei der Umsetzung von Design Thinking beachten müssen!
Read moredm Markt
Read moreDesign Thinking? Learning by doing!
Read moreDesign Thinking Meet-Up at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
Read moreDESIGN THINKING-Workshop am Samstag, dem 23. Juni 2018, in der Rolandstraße 69, Kölner Südstadt
Read morefree DESIGN THINKING (mini) WORKSHOP VIDEO!
Read moreReise in die Zukunft mit der VRS
Read moreDesign Thinking-Interessierte aufgepasst
Read moreWir sind umgezogen!
Read moreIntrinsify Meet-Up Köln/Bonn
Read moreJecke Welt
Read moreDesign Thinking als Impuls für die Innovationsentwicklung
Read moreKreativität hat viele Gesichter – und Kartonlagen
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Agiler Sprint bei DeuschlandfunkNutzerzentrierte Ergebnisse, die wirklich stimmen!
Read moreTop Down: Reicht lange nicht aus!
Read moreDer rauschende Anfang
Read moreInterview mit Dr. Lars Groeger – Teil 3
Read moreWie Wertewandel, Innovation und Digitalisierung zum Erfolg führen
Read moreVorsicht vorm „(australischen) Design Washing“
Read moreDesign Thinking Meet-up
Read moreSpass an der Arbeit?
Read moreWelcome Catharina
Read moreUnser Besuch der Frankfurter Buchmesse
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