
NOVELTY
COMMUNICATING
HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE novelty?
This is one of the most challenging questions in a time where dealing with change has become an inherent part of our lives and where innovation and transformation are the driving forces of business success.
Novelty. The word is on everyone’s lips. But quite often, it’s hard to grasp what kind of novelty you are actually dealing with. Novelty often comes naked, and it is on you to cloth it with words. If you are faced with novelty, you might have pondered upon one of the following questions…
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Whether you are innovating a product, preparing a new business strategy or dealing with organizational transformation - finding your own words for what's going on is the key success factor in making change happen.
I will help you get clear about what is going on and put it into words and pictures so that you can invite others into the conversation.
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A key turning point in bringing novelty to life is when you get your most stakeholders to own and drive change.
I will support you in creating novelty-driven communication strategies and tools that arouse curiosity, invite for playfulness and build up future-oriented communication skills.
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Inviting a wider audience to get interested in and support your cause is a tricky task. When is the right time? What's the right setting? How to involve them so that they can be supportive?
My specialty lies in shaping a tailor-made communication plan to communicate to the right people at the right time in the right way. And you will see: very often, this dreaded job will turn into a surprisingly fulfilling experience.
i am working with leaders who want to transform organizations and create inspiring places to work.
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selection of projects
For over 15 years, I have been working Europe-wide, across various industries and in projects of different scale. With a wide array of tools and methods at hand, I view every client and challenge as if it were my first - humble, curious and ready to create just the right approach for those involved.
culture transformation
culture transformation
LKH Baden-Mödling, Lower Austria
The head of the surgical department of an Austrian state hospital was looking for a sparring partner to shape a new identity for his department, translate it into a future-proof strategy and a flexible organizational design.
The process should be truly co-creative, spark curiosity and invite people to assume responsibility, aiming at building up a culture of cooperation and innovation that would spread across the entire hospital eventually.
Methods, i.a. 20 generative Interviews, ethnographic observations, sparring sessions, co-creation workshops, townhall events
Ongoing project, start April 2024
team development
team development
CPD L’Oréal Österreich
The market director of the Austrian consumer products division of an international beauty and consumer goods company asked me to help him and his team in building up an honest feedback culture. The goal was to overcome organizational hurdles such as hierarchy, seniority; but much more, leverage the power of the extremely good team spirit (“we are all friends, here”), which at the same time posed a threat to telling each other the truth (“fear of losing friends”).
I wanted to first understand the cultural “fabric” and organizational inner workings. So I did ethnographic observations in the client’s office and conducted in-depth interviews with > 10 stakeholders. I then feedbacked my findings to the leadership team and co-created together with them a 1-day workshop for the whole team (35 people).
The goal of the workshop was to create a shared understanding of feedback within the team, bring to surface mental models and unconscious beliefs about feedback and work out a future-oriented feedback philosophy that would serve as a guidepost for prototyping a new way of communicating and working together.
The workshop yielded super-diverse prototyping initiatives, all based on a novel understanding of feedback culture: 1) idea and innovation workshop, 2) feedforward as a tool to involve B2B clients in developing innovations, 3) the “inner child” as a guide in feedback conversations, 4) safe spaces for giving feedback to leaders
Finished project: March - July 2024
Event moderation
Event moderation
Automobilcluster Oberösterreich
A part of my work that I like very much is to be on stage and host events. Many of my client involve me in creating the program and “setting the tone” in the months prior to the event.
As PCM® communications trainer and professionally trained interpreter and speaker, I enjoy shaping intercultural conversations that make the audience change perspective and create a shared understanding.
Industries I work in include automotive, health care, publishing, beauty, and innovation.
The Automotive Cluster Upper Austria is one of my “oldest” clients and I am happy to say that over the last 10 years, we have been pushing the level of innovativeness of the event to whole new level.