My favorite sentence from the editorial for the new issue "Managerseminare" by Nicole Bußmann. Now is an interim period, she continues, in which the world and its buildings of thought between "old" and "new normal" can be adjusted.

At the beginning of this time belongs for me: #Analysis and #Reflection, what we want to have back from the old normal.

How much flexibility do we need in our working world? How important are encounters to us and how do we shape them? How do we manage contact and communication in the best possible way?

How does good #leadership go at a distance? Or: Is #continuing education in the old regular mode really the non plus ultra?

We should not simply fall back into old patterns out of convenience. #Change starts in the head. Contact me if you need to talk about this.

Communication can be the coach: "Communication Business Partner" is the name of the concept. In the May 2021 issue of pressesprecher magazine, Prof. Dr. Annika Schach and Thomas Lüdeke describe the role as follows: "In addition, they are advisors who enable departments to make better business decisions, for example, by explaining opportunities and risks derived from monitoring public opinion. They analyze and interpret the expectations of internal and external stakeholders and incorporate overall social trends into their considerations." Click here, when you want to go to the article.

I would be very grateful if the attitude behind the concept becomes more and more common in practice. My practical recommendation: communicators should contribute their view to every decision. Because it's not the decision that makes the impact, it only comes about through an exchange process with the recipient of the message.

#commmunication #empower #makessense

Frank Roselieb and his team from Krisennavigator published a survey of 63 crisis professionals from D-A-CH last Friday. One result: Only every fifth crisis manager has more budget and staff during the pandemic. Technical accidents top the list of crisis cases. Two out of three organizations have now appointed crisis managers.

II think this one is not good: compared to 2019, the use of external consultants in crisis teams has almost halved. Only 33 percent - but that's still one in three crisis teams - call on the content expertise of people like me.

If the organizations are now able to do the work themselves - because they are well prepared and have trained - then that is understandable. On the other hand, it is my experience that, especially in a crisis, an external view beyond one's own involvement is always a helpful mirror and thus catalyst for decisions. We don't even want to talk about the additional workload that comes along ad hoc.

How do you see it?

#crisis prevention #doing it yourself #making sense