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I share my thoughts, ideas and topics for discussion with you.
Always happy to hear back from you and exchange ideas.

  • February 19, 2026
  • from Annett Fibian

Leadership Sidekick - your secret advantage as a leader

  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Performance

Leadership can be lonely - but it doesn't have to be. A Leadership Sidekick gives you honest sparring, asks the right questions and helps you to make the best of your situation. Not a classic coach, not a typical consultant, not a pure moderator - but your game changer. Curious?

  • November 13, 2025
  • from Annett Fibian

Why bossplaining is a problem and how to leave it behind

  • Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Performance
  • Team

Managers are conditioned to solve problems ... and often rush ahead too eagerly and too quickly with advice. May I introduce your inner advice monster to you? If you don't control it, you'll sabotage your leadership communication. Ready for a little monster hunt?

  • September 03, 2025
  • from Annett Fibian

From empathetic to clearly demanding: the dimensions of effective leadership communication

  • Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Team

If only half of what you say gets through, it's rarely the team's fault. Blind spots in leadership communication are normal ... and solvable. The 4-step cycle shows you how to lead clearly and empathetically at the same time.

  • June 02, 2025
  • from Annett Fibian

"Taking people with you" demystified: How to lead sustainable change

  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Team

Everyone talks about it, but no one says how to do it: "take the people with you". High time for plain language. This model shows what people really need in change processes - and how you can get them there step by step.

  • October 07, 2024
  • from Annett Fibian

How to make your offsite workshop a complete success - 6 principles for sustainable results

  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Team

Offsite workshops are "hackathons for innovation". If they are carefully planned and implemented, they can take your team to a new level of collaboration and creativity.

  • April 03, 2024
  • from Annett Fibian

Leadership without silos: How the "Team One" approach boosts teams and organizations

  • Leadership
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Team

Without a highly functional leadership team, a company can never be consistently great. Here is valuable inspiration for leadership teams - for fewer silos, better cross-functional alignment and a dynamic, cooperative and efficient way of working.

  • January 26, 2024
  • from Annett Fibian

How to lead your team to a trusting, high-performance team

  • Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Learning
  • Performance
  • Team

Every team has dysfunctionalities and every dysfunction hinders the productivity of the team. The good news? As a leader, you can overcome these dysfunctions and lead your team to greater action, performance and sustainability.

  • March 09, 2023
  • from Annett Fibian

How the home office is turning corporate culture, communication and leadership upside down

  • Collaboration
  • Learning
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Strategy

In the current debate about presence vs. home office, the impact of new working models on corporate culture, leadership, communication, collaboration and training is often underestimated. It's high time to take action!

  • June 14, 2022
  • from Annett Fibian

How future-proof corporate learning works: 5 theses on learning culture, architecture and formats

  • Learning
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Strategy

Learning and working are growing together and companies need to establish a learning culture and bring it to life with relevant formats. Fancy a few theses and food for thought?

  • February 12, 2022
  • from Annett Fibian

Meeting bingo: location analysis and cheat sheet for the meeting culture

  • Collaboration
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Team
When was the last time you took a critical look at your meeting culture? This meeting bingo helps to illuminate blind spots and keep an eye on all the must-haves.
  • May 19, 2021
  • from Annett Fibian

Good question ...! Systemic questions as a secret weapon in your communication

  • Collaboration
  • Learning
  • Performance
  • Team

My personal storm-tested favorites of systemic questions to trigger new perspectives and ideas, to solve deadlocked patterns, to break down resistance and to open the door to new ways of thinking and behaving.

  • March 13, 2021
  • from Annett Fibian

How digital whiteboards can boost the effectiveness of your collaboration

  • Collaboration
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Team

In addition to the downsides, remote work has also produced enriching results. First and foremost, the digital whiteboard, the shooting star among tools for effective collaboration. What MURAL and co. can do and how to use them.

  • January 06, 2021
  • from Annett Fibian

"Back to work" meets "new now"

  • Collaboration
  • Learning
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Strategy
  • Team

Home office regulations everywhere. But surprisingly often the complex effects on work organization and corporate culture remain in the blind spot.

  • October 06, 2020
  • from Annett Fibian

Ready for "Next Level Team Work"?

  • Collaboration
  • Performance
  • Team

In times of change, teams need a pit stop to take a close look at their operating system, create clarity, define goals and strategies and close gaps. The modular kick-start program makes teams fit for the future.

  • August 05, 2020
  • from Annett Fibian

The five secrets of successful teams

  • Collaboration
  • Performance
  • Team

What is the secret to the success of really good teams? Spoiler: These are completely different criteria than the ones you would come up with using the usual systematization approaches. These are the five top drivers that make teams successful.

  • May 05, 2020
  • from Annett Fibian

Turning mission statements into reality

  • Collaboration
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Strategy

Having a mission statement does not necessarily mean that it will be put into practice in the organization. Here are tips for a sustainable mission statement process to ensure that mission statements make the leap from workshops and presentations to lived reality.

  • April 05, 2020
  • from Annett Fibian

Let's play for sustainable impact: Lego® Serious Play®

  • Collaboration
  • Organization
  • Performance
  • Team

What is it about the "serious" game with the colored bricks? For what purposes does it make sense to use them? And what are the benefits? I am sharingmy personal experience with Lego serious playand whyplayful hands-on workshops create sustainable success.

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