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- April 🌷Highlights from DesignChange
- Selbstsichere Führung im KI-Zeitalter 💪🏻💪🏻mit Karla Schlaepfer (DE)
- 🔄 When Turning Your Back Opens Your Mind 🔄
- Struggling to Keep Up with AI?
- Hidden Traps of Collaboration And How to Overcome Them 🚀
- Design Your Change and Lead with Heart ❤️
- 🏀 Stop Playing Golf, Start Playing Basketball: The Real Rules of Collaboration – Is your team acting like a group of solo players—or a real team?
- How Supercommunicators Can Help Managers Lead Better Conversations
- How to Apply AI in Coaching: A Hands-On Exploration for Coaches & HR Professionals
- Leadership is about human connection🌟
- Start 2025 Strong: Leadership, AI Coaching, and Change That Sticks💪🏻🥳
- The Human Edge: Success in a Digital AI World ✨
- Oh 🤔 – Already Feeling Overwhelmed in 2025? You’re Not Alone 🌞
- 2025: An Auspicious Start for Change 🌟
- Why I Coach Leaders – A Short Video Insight
- Unwrap Your Best Self 🎁 Leadership Lessons for the Holidays🎄
- Futureproof Mindset Coaching Vorteile 🌟 (DE)
- Future Proof Mindset Coaching Benefits ✨
- 🎄Navigating toxic colleagues and challenging bosses: A Christmas Gift to Yourself 🎁
- 🌟 Build Resilient Leaders for a Future-Ready Team 🌟
- Reflection, Resilience, Results: What’s New in DesignChange Coaching
- To meet big goals, think small 🎯🏁
- What Is Self-Reflection and Why Is It Important in Professional Coaching?
- Building Self-Awareness🪞and Setting Boundaries: Tools for Clarity
- Unlocking Self-Awareness Through Journaling ✍️
- Resilience in Leadership: Lessons from a 1,000-Year-Old Tree 🎴
- Report on the RA Expo in Cologne: A Day of Insight and Innovation
- Resilience in Action 💪🏻🥳
- Sonderausgabe der RA Expo am 3. September mit kostenlosen Tickets! (DE)
- August Wellness Guide 🌅
- Recharging Through Resilience
- Unlock Your Potential with Karla Schlaepfer’s Coaching Field Guide 📚✨
- Perfekte Urlaubsübergabe 🌴 🌟 (DE)
- Give Yourself the Break You Deserve – And Your Brain Needs; without Multitasking! 🧠✨
- Unlocking Potential Through Trust and Guidance
- Cultivating Resilience and Unlocking Leadership Potential
- Unleashing Your Inner Leader 🌟
- Elevating Leadership Potential with the Power of Coaching
- Conflict Resolution Made Simple!😉
- 🌷 What does the month of May have to do with mental health? – Prioritize Your Mind 💡: The Key to Happiness at Work and Beyond 🌟
- What is important about the Hogan Personality Profile? – How it works. Voices. One-page Overview 🔍
- Digital and AI in Coaching – Henley Business School Hackathon
- Professional Coaching vs. Executive Sparring: Unlocking Your Potential in Distinct Ways – Understanding the Nuances for Effective Leadership Development
- More than a Feeling ☀️🌷 – Spring into Growth: Coaching for New Beginnings
- Meta Musts für moderne Kanzleien – Interaktiver Ganztags-Workshop: Wir machen Sie methodisch fit für das KI-Zeitalter (DE)
- Human/AI Curated Coaching and Mentoring Workshop Review – Getting Prepared for the Future!
- Embracing Vulnerability and Emotions in a High-Performance Environment💪🏻
- New Perspectives on AI and Professional Coaching
- Revolution der Künstliche Intelligenz – und wo bliebt der Mensch? (DE)
- New AI Cheat Sheet – AI bots, Video, Research, Presentation and more 🌃
- What is Design Thinking – again❓ – Understanding Design Thinking, its Resilience and Importance of a Coaching Approach
- Unlocking Potential – A Journey of Growth 🌿and Transformation
- Welcome to 2024 – A Fresh Start for Growth and Success
- What is imposter syndrome? – Female Leaders and the Challenge of the Imposter Syndrome
- Thrilled to be certified to give the Hogan Personality Assessment. 🚀🔍
- Celebrating Resilience and Self-Care – A DesignChange Holiday Message from Karla Schlaepfer
- Karla Schlaepfer - Ein Coach, der inspiriert und begleitet! (DE)
- Leadership Choices: Digital Resilience Journey 🚀🔍
- Changing with Thanks: Finding ⚖️ Balance in November
- “Me Time”: Enabling Personal Pauses for better Business ⏸️
- Exciting times at Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA program! 🚀🔍
- Insights from an Executive Leadership Workshop in Bratislava 🚀🔍
- Unlocking Professional Growth – A Glimpse into RA Expo Cologne
- Navigating October – Resilience, Leadership, and RA Expo News🎉
- Better Communication
- The Art of Setting Boundaries: Learn from Steve Jobs 🚀
- Bouncing Back: Unleashing the 🌟 Resilient Leader Within
- Introducing the Digital Resilience Journey! – 🌟 New virtual training program with live coaching from Leadership Choices
- Work Smarter, less Stress by doing Less! – Ditch Multitasking for more long-term work success 🎯🌟
- RA EXPO. The New Law Firm Event for Professionals – Fresh Milestone in the German Legal Industry’s Event Calendar
- Boosting Productivity: The Power of Making a “Not To-Do List”
- 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
- Summer Fun for Your Mind and Body 🌞🧠🏖️ – Using brain-friendly tips during your vacation can unlock a world of benefits.
- Neuroscience behind holidays ⛵🏖️ – Give your mind much-needed downtime
- Embracing a New Journey: Joining the Remarkable Team at Leadership Choices 💼🚀 – Making a positive impact on the Future of Leadership (optional)
- Feedforward Exercise for Leaders – Marshall Goldsmith’s alternative to feedback which focuses on the past
- Sweet Scoops in June: infuse your projects with unexpected flavors🍨 – The Power of Sweet and Sauer 🥥🍋🧁
- Cheers to the power of collaboration and team spirit – Let's keep pushing boundaries and shaping a brighter future together. 🙌💼🌟
- NRW educational leaders collaborate to shape the future
- Design Your Change with – not against – AI and ChatGPT – Learn how to future-proof 💡 your career
- Design Thinking human-centered in times of AI – What have we got that AI does not
- Testimonial Sophie Arbab-Zadeh
- What Neuroscience says we need to have a happy 🤩 and healthy brain – Links between Creativity and building resilience
- Future-Proof Your Career Against AI
- Heartwarming Impact – Celebrating a better future together!
- Build Community with Help from a Classic Greek Myth – What was the good 💌 thing that Pandora set free?
- Awaken the Connection between Design Thinking and Hope
- DesignChange – Would I lie to you? – Now would I say something that wasn’t🤥 true?
- Coachingmethoden zur Begleitung 🔥 Agiler Teams – Professional Coaching im Teamkontext
- Ever heard the term Psychological Safety? – What does it mean and why does it matter for collaboration?
- DesignChange with a little love – Valentine’s Day; the chance to show you care
- Looking to the future; Coaching🤩 with Virtual Reality (German Webinar) – International Coaching Federation (ICF) Webinar, Feb. 15th at 19h
- From Art to VR Podcast: Creative Methods in Coaching – International Coaching Federation (ICF) Podcast
- No goals for 2023?🙃 The old ones still good?😂 – New Years’ Resolutions desperately need a rebrand!
- STOP! To remember 🤓 A super easy-to-use decision-making tool – STOP stands for: Sit, Think, Observe and Plan.
- New Year’s resolutions sliding? Do you find it hard to make New Year’s resolutions stick?
- DesignChange with🍃 Virtual Reality – Through the looking glass Welcome to the Christmas🎄edition of DesignChange newsletter.
- IDEAS TO RECHARGE YOUR BATTERY – A simple visualized poster how-to invest in our own well-being every day
- The Upskilling Challenge: Instant Design Thinking⚡ – Using Virtual Reality and Design Thinking for a use case at Telekom and SAP
- Happy to contribute to another new and amazing Liquid Legal Institute WHITE PAPER – On Agile Working Methods for Legal Departments
- Meeting in the Metaverse – Interactive Workshop in Virtual Reality
- Rethink people development. Grooving 💃🏽 the power of professional coaching – Potential of Digital Coaching
- Safety in Disruptive Times – Fundamentals in change processes that will help you succeed
- New Work. A Gamechanger for the Legal Profession – Enhancing our strengths with Virtual Reality
- Active New Work in Virtual Reality – Liquid Legal Institute Taskforce takes a virtual leap 👉🏽🤸🏽👏🏽
- DesignChange with boldness for the Fall – People who thrive do so because they take action!
- Do you sometimes struggle with taking risks? – 6 practical tips to become more courageous and achieve your goals
- Components of Resilience – Why do some people bounce back and persevere and end up accomplishing more than others?
- DesignChange with Fun 💚 – It’s a hot🔥 summer everywhere! Welcome to the summer edition of the DesignChange fresh and cool newsletter
- True or Fake? – Who is the human behind the monitor?
- Make Work More Fun in the 🌞 Summer – 5 Fun 😉 Tips on how this can be done
- Becoming Human Centric – How to Promote Wellbeing in Business Practices
- Is it Time to DesignChange together? Fresh Energy in June with Karla Schlaepfer
- The Real Thing: Straight to the 💚Heart
- Using Virtual Reality to Connect 🌎
- Who is behind the Social Impact 💥week?
- Surprising role of trust 😮 – Study shows the importance for combatting👉🏽COVID
- DesignChange with Joy!
- On the BIG screen hybrid meetings in context. How to manage roles, set expectations and on Karla’s hybrid 🤩experiment.
- The long-awaited e-book to help overcome the „silent epidemic” is finally here 🎉!
- Better training, professional coaching, learning 🪜 with virtual reality?
- Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, once said, “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
- How peer coaching works as a trust enabler and to spark the creative power of the team and the individual!
- Importance of Creating Trust in Digital Coaching
- New Milestone: PCC Coaching Accreditation
- Design Change Newsletter IX/2021 – DesignChange – on the courage to take risks and act ⚡
- Why is DESIGN THINKING the best approach to being AGILE?
- Not nice but true. About 90% of startups fail and partner separate.
- Innovator’s meet-up aka Design Thinkers meet-up September 2021
- Zoom Fatigue
- Lawyer Wellbeing
- Design Change June fresh insights newsletter 🌱
- Hybrid Work 5 tips for success
- Hybrid Work – Erfolg über die Distanz – Was digital Leaders wissen müssen. 5 wichtige Hinweisen zu hybriden Arbeitsroutinen. (DE)
- New Legal Work Webinar mit einer Mural Demonstration (DE)
- What if you could design legal contracts – that would improve the relationship you have with your clients, enhance their experience with your company and ultimately get more of them signed?
- Keeping my fingers crossed 🤞🏼
- Legal New Work Empowering Women to make a change – Strong 💪 women driving the law forward!
- Thanks for subscribing to “Fresh Insights”🌱 newsletter
- ⚡Embracing the power of Design Thinking 💥 – A case between continents with a remote legal tech team
- Make Time for Small Talk in Your Virtual Meetings – 3 Easy Ways
- Legal Tech Und Digital Law Convent – New Legal Working Environment (DE)
- Glimpse of our Miro Workshop board 23.03.21
- Remote Innovation Workshops Offers
- How Agile Design Thinking Helps Lawyers Surf the Digital Waves – Improve your Teams, Culture and Profit from Happier Legal Stakeholders
- Efficiency in Remote Legal Working is an Important Topic!
- February fresh insights on how to accelerate 🚀 your learning curve
- LEAD Incubator Startup Accelerator
- Fresh Insights from Karla Schlaepfer and the awesome DesignChange team
- Do you know what your clients really value? – Start with a persona – A great way to understand your clients’ motivations
- October Design Change Fresh Insights
- Design Thinking User-Research at the Liquid Legal Experience 2020
- Innovation Professionals meet-up* – Meeting the Future @DHL Innovation Center Sept. 2020
- Music to our ears; talking with users
- Remote ain’t going away
- 🎉Remote Collaboration Tips für bessere Meetings und Zusammenarbeit ✅
- ➡ Collaboration is key. – New Legal Teamwork is Growing
- 👉How to Make Incredible Remote Teams 💥
- June fresh Information – Karla Schlaepfer: Making Remote Teamwork better
- ReMeP 2020 – Research Meets Practice
- Design Change Newsletter May
- How to make Remote Teams work better
- Sparking Ideas in Virtual Design Sprint – We’ve designed the „Jam-bo Coding Collective!
- Newsletter April – April free Design Thinking course
- Wird die Remote Teamarbeit auch in Zukunft fortgesetzt werden? (DE)
- March Newsletter
- Is it true that lawyers in particular have a hard time accepting change? – Report @ Flick Gocke und Schaumburg Legal Tech meet-up
- How to build trust in Corona Virus times – Newsletter
- Design Thinking @start up epilot – Check! I love working with startups
- Trying to connect with you on purpose – Newsletter
- Reduce Complexity
- Wege zur agilen Transformation – Mitarbeiter aktiv zur Mitgestaltung einladen (DE)
- Innovation Professional Meet-Up
- December DdU Newsletter 2019 – Disruptive Christmas
- One More Thing – The 10 books that mattered most to you
- Newsletter October – The business world is changing at a breathtaking pace - are you part of it?
- Warum einen Design Sprint verwenden? – Die wesentlichen Unterschiede zwischen Design Thinking und einem Design Sprint (DE)
- Design Thinking Professional Meet-Up – Wir beraten uns gegenseitig (DE)
- RA Dr. Martin Lücke interviewt Design Thinker Karla Schlaepfer M.A. (DE)
- Newsletter September 2019 – Karla asks, does your new tech serve a genuine need? Find out with a Design Sprint!
- Vision vom perfekten Unternehmen – Eine Rezension unseres Buches „Das dynamische Unternehmen“ (DE)
- Design Thinking Workshops and Google Design Sprints aktuell – Von Timeboxing, Collaboration bis Design Thinking Coach (DE)
- Newsletter August – Design Sprints (like Design Thinking) really work. Karla’s tip: feed the cycle of empowerment
- Neu: Agile-Mindsets-Video (DE)
- Querdenken kann man lernen! (DE)
- OpenDigiLab meets Karla Schlaepfer – Wie wir mit Design Thinking unsere Universität von Morgen gestalten wollen. (DE)
- Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – With Design Thinking working towards a shared goal
- Karla Schlaepfer´s Vortrag + Workshop: Wie Design Thinking innovativen Mehrwert generiert – Ein interaktiver Vortrag auf der Product People Konferenz (DE)
- Design Thinkers Professional bei Tarent in Bonn (DE)
- Design Thinking Flash and Keynote Inspired by Lego Serious Play!
- Das dynamische Unternehmen DdU Newsletter – März 2019 (DE)
- Feb. 25, 2019 Design Thinking Professional Meet-up – Venue: Detecon Consulting Köln
- 4 Ways to hack your own creativity
- Press release on the 5th NRW Legal Tech Meet-Up sponsored by Wolters Kluwer
- Das dynamische Unternehmen – Newsletter
- Deutschlandradio Design Sprint 5 Tage und viele neue Perspektive – Mein Chef trägt diese Woche Jeans (DE)
- Design Thinking Sprint Deutschlandradio Userlab
- Eine inspirierende #Design Thinking Party! – Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Buchstabensalat SNDTIEM?* (DE)
- I’m delighted to be part of the team that facillitates a Design Thinking Sprint in Deutschlandfunk!
- It’s party time!
- Innovationen, die nicht nur die Entwickler begeistern (DE)
- Der Pygmalion-Effekt
- „Ambidexterity“ fordert deutsche Unternehmen heraus! (DE)
- Deutsche Unternehmen blockieren sich selbst! (DE)
- This is a basic and fundamental tenet in Design Thinking
- Courage is the accumulation of small steps*
- Was ist Design Thinking? Frag’ mich was! – Neues eBook (bookboon.com) von Karla Schlaepfer ab September 2018 (DE)
- Das Geheimnis erfolgreicher Design Thinking Projekte – Vertrauen als Erfolgsfaktor — Was Teams bei der Umsetzung von Design Thinking beachten müssen! (DE)
- dm Markt (DE)
- Design Thinking? Learning by doing! (DE)
- Design Thinking Meet-Up at the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
- DESIGN THINKING-Workshop am Samstag, dem 23. Juni 2018, in der Rolandstraße 69, Kölner Südstadt (DE)
- free DESIGN THINKING (mini) WORKSHOP VIDEO! (DE)
- Reise in die Zukunft mit der VRS
- Design Thinking-Interessierte aufgepasst (DE)
- Wir sind umgezogen!
- Intrinsify Meet-Up Köln/Bonn (DE)
- Jecke Welt
- Design Thinking als Impuls für die Innovationsentwicklung (DE)
- Kreativität hat viele Gesichter – und Kartonlagen (DE)
- Agiler Sprint bei Deuschlandfunk – Nutzerzentrierte Ergebnisse, die wirklich stimmen! (DE)
- Top Down: Reicht lange nicht aus!
- Der rauschende Anfang
- Interview mit Dr. Lars Groeger – Teil 3
- Wie Wertewandel, Innovation und Digitalisierung zum Erfolg führen (DE)
- Vorsicht vorm „(australischen) Design Washing“ (DE)
- Design Thinking Meet-up
- Spass an der Arbeit? (DE)
- Welcome Catharina
- Unser Besuch der Frankfurter Buchmesse
- Zukunft der Rechtsberatung – Legal Tech starten mit Design Thinking (DE)
- Design Thinking meet-up Cologne
- Festgeparkt und eingerostet? – Wir bringen Ihre Ideen zum Zünden!
- No Risk No Innovation
- Neue Fehlerkultur: 5 Gründe deine Fehler zu lieben (DE)
- Das dynamische Unternehmen – on the move! – Keynote und Workshop „Digitalisierung und Arbeitsgesundheit“
- Das Schmökern in diesem Buch wird nicht zuletzt wegen der liebevoll (hand)gestalteten Abbildungen zum kurzweiligen Vergnügen
- Die Fixierung auf allein quantitative Beurteilungsgrößen und Messverfahren hat ausgedient
- 1. Rezension
- Mir hat daran besonders gefallen, dass im „Vorbeigehen“ jede Menge Wissen vermittelt wird!
- Buchkritik: Warum alle Unternehmen und insbesondere Rechtsanwaltskanzleien dieses Buch lesen sollten
- Anspruchsvolle Kombination: Wertewandel, Innovation und Digitalisierung
- Interview C.S. Beck Verlag, Beckshop blog
- Quick Guide to 3 kinds of Innovation and Drivers of new Business and Art value
- Arranged Marriages and Innovation: Why you need the explosive sparking of creative thinkers to the critical analysts!
- Forget Your Car and Kick Start Your Move to Zurich!
- Digital Storytelling – 5 Things You Need to Know (in 5 Minutes)
- How Does Apple Make Us Love Their iPhones? The Role of Empathy in 5 minutes.
- What Comes Next? Holacracy, Self-management and Self-organisation at Work
- Why You Shouldn’t Underestimate the Radical Creativity of the Gorilla Girls!
- What You Never Knew About Introverts!
- Are You Ready for the Father of Radical Transparency? Who this guy is and how he eliminates the pitfalls of Groupthink
- Der Island-Effekt – 3 Dinge, Die Wir über Teamarbeit Lernen Können
- How the French Artist Fernand Léger Uses “Harassment” to Make Monumental Art
- “For a Better Day” or The Shape of Things to Come
- Why I Learned to Love My Messy Mind
- Partyspaß Digitalisierung
- 5 Reasons to Take Your Brain on a Trip
- Try Change with Simplicity Biscuits
- Wertschätzende Wörter
- Fremdschlafen: Vertrauen ist gut, Airbnb ist besser!
- How to Survive the Heat in Silicon Valley, Be Global and Have Fun
- If Only You Were French, Male and Dead – Joan Mitchell
- Auf der anderen Seite der Welt – und doch zuhause?
- A Peek Under Our Skirts: Behind the IDEO.org Prototyping MOOC
- Fast and Furious – Don’t Fall in Love With Your First Try! Perfect Rapid Prototyping?!
- Essentials of a Growth Mindset
- Designing Sustainability: It Is Not About Bamboo Versus Plastic
- Links oder Rechts—das ist hier die Frage! (DE)
- Busted! Your Car Knows You’ve Been Drinking!
- Just us BarCamp Volunteers posing for a group picture in the summer rain!
- Few Confessions of an UX BarCamp Volunteer
- The Big Secret of Change
- Wow—We’re Thrilled: A Comment from Jacky Who Reads and Likes Our JCP Posts!
- Making the American Dream Come Alive: French Passion in Silicon Valley
- Bases Loaded with Creative Confidence
- Nachhaltigkeit – Wenn Welten aufeinander prallen (DE)
- Zuhause in Kalifornien bei der Bestseller Autorin von „Selbstbild: Wie unser Denken Erfolge oder Niederlagen bewirkt“ Carol Dweck (DE)
- Wandering Through the Gardens of the High and Mighty Google
- A Most Informative and Amusing Talk with Professor Dr. Barry Katz
- 3 Sobering Reasons Not to Write a Book in New Orleans!
- Am Congo Square im Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans (DE)
- Der Join-Creative-People-Ansatz (DE)
- Dynamische Unternehmen (DE)
- San Francisco, Ideo, Stanford Uni – JCP Interviews
- Unser Buch JoinCreativePeople (DE)
- Design Thinking Meet Up Cologne-Sülz
- Tom Kelley, David Kelley: “Creative Confidence” | Talks at Google
- We not me: 5 Important things to remember so your brainstorming works!
- Why it‘s easy to be creative and what you can do about it
- Experimenting – we just did it!
- Ideas that matter – Join Creative People