Impulse for the Creative Bureaucracy Festival
Month: March 2021
Innovation in administration
Together with Hanno Burmester (Democracy Lab/Progressive Center) and Katja Jäger (better place lab) I had the pleasure to report in a short impulse and dialogue about the pilot project “Democracy as an everyday working experience“. Topic of the session: “Innovations from within – How do public administration employees become innovation promoters?
The focus was on practical experience in strengthening the innovative capacity of administrative staff. In this context, the conceptual approach of the Learning Journey was presented to promote this by strengthening personal implementation and change competence for the design of participatory development processes in politics, civil society and public administration.
Learning Journey "Democracy as an everyday working experience
Month: March 2021
How can participatory community be strengthened in the work context?
Co-creatively promote competencies for successful change directly with the people acting in different democratic systems! Driven by this desire, I developed the idea for this cooperative project with the Democracy Lab of the Progressive Center together with Hanno Burmester.
In the Learning Journey “Democracy as an Everyday Work Experience”, which I designed and accompanied, actors from politics, administration and civil society set out together to strengthen their concrete work for and in democracy. The focus was on developing their personal and social implementation and change competence, to look beyond the boundaries of their organisations and to network in a sustainable way.
Here in the report of the first Learning Journey you will find more information about the contents of this development program. Quotes from the participants* give an insight into which topics and insights of the last round were particularly important. The Learning Journey was part of the Democracy Lab of the Progressive Centre and was supported by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) as part of the federal programme “Living Democracy”.
Impulse lecture at the GLS Bank Money Summit
Month: March 2021
From footprint to handprint
At the invitation of Lukas Beckmann, I had the great pleasure of participating in the 2016 money summit of the GLS Bank Foundation in Witten/Herdecke with an introductory lecture. The focus was on “Homo civilis et oeconomicus” – the handprint of those people and groups for whom real economic value creation has the purpose of satisfying people’s economic, social and cultural needs.
Subject of my presentation was background, motives and experiences in context of the foundation and development of Europe’s largest women’s cooperative and the establishment of the first women’s start-up centre in Berlin. You can find out more here.
Leadership Learning for the Future
Month: March 2021
Together with Claudia Neusüß I have published a contribution in the anthology “Leadership: Learning for the Future” The article reports on our practical experience in implementing internal and open Learning Journey formats in companies and at university: “Discovering the Potential of ‘Learning Journeys: Social Entre- and Intrapreneuership as Key Competencies for Creating Sustainable Innovation-Oriented Organizations”. More information about the book can be found here.