11. Think-Tank: Leader in Action
After Think Tank’s 10th anniversary, we continued into our 11th year, for the first time at a new location. This year’s motto: Mastering Extreme Situations: Three Perspectives, One Topic. Clients, partners and interested parties gathered to explore new ways of...
Think-Tank 2025: Diverse Realities, Diverse Paths
In 2025, our annual Think Tank: Leader in Action celebrated its 10th anniversary. For the tenth time, clients, friends and interested acquaintances followed our invitation to mingle, network and gain fresh impulses from our exciting guest speakers. Under the motto...
Why don’t we get the cow off the ice?
The moment something doesn’t go as planned – a project is running past the deadline, a budget is overdrawn, a program glitch turns up or something as idiotic as the dishwasher in the tea kitchen hasn’t been emptied – lines...
Why does my gluteus maximus need regular inspection?
If you choose to work in this highly charged area, no matter the position, you should certainly make sure your largest muscle – your gluteus maximus – is well-oiled and firmly supporting your backbone to get you through the back-breaking...
Why does consulting have to hurt?
Most of the company or team leaders who engage our services are so caught up in their business bubble, they take a great many factors for granted. And then we step in with our external, critical vantage point and challenge...
Why should we cling to traditional values?
We have a hard time understanding why so little attention is given to the cultural fit of potential new staff members. A cultural fit implies the extent to which employees’ values and approaches to work coincides with their employer’s...
Is personnel development worth it?
The only way to successfully attain your company’s goals is to ensure your workers have the necessary skills and personal competence to meet them. Targeted personnel development clinches your enterprise’s success as it encompasses all educational, advancement and organizational development...
What do so many employers have against a happy staff?
Skilled worker shortage, demographic change – whether you like it or not, no one can afford to ignore the younger generation’s needs and desires. Today’s employers must invest much more time and money if they hope to win the War...
What do generation Y & Z expect from their leaders?
But who exactly belongs to these younger generations? If you’re a leader over fifty, then just about anyone under thirty is a youngster. But painting all younger gene-rations with the same brush can create enormous problems. Each generation brings a...
Why aren’t HQ and plant playing on the same team?
If the main office and plant want to play on the same team – which they certainly should since they work for the same company – an understanding of the other player’s perspective and reality is essential. If we had...
Think Tank 2024: Stand your ground, carry out your ideas
On February 22nd, our annual Think Tank: Leaders in Action went into its 9th round! Once again, we invited clients, friends and interested acquaintances to our offices in Paderborn for inspiring talks from unique speakers. Our 2024 motto was Stand...
Why does my boss enjoy wearing me out?
Hardly anything is more emotionally debilitating than permanent overwhelm at your workplace. This, too, is a leader’s responsibility. You are called on to ensure your employees are given tasks appropriate to their skills and abilities – or see to it...
What’s the best way to collect air pumps?
With today’s lack of skilled workers, businesses are relieved when they can find anyone at all. When reality eventually hits home and it turns out that you’ve hired air pumps who don’t deliver what they promised, no one really dares...
What is Education 4.0?
Knowledge management is an important aspect of this topic. Increasing insight into the economic significance of knowledge has intensified the conscious inclusion of employees’ knowledge and skills in strategic and operative leadership and personnel activities. The ability to learn faster...
Why do people think I’m a snob?
There’s also the inverted snob, coined 1909, describing someone who disparages and distrusts the rich while attributing all noble qualities to the poor. Either way, no one wants to be called a snob. Generally, we use it for people who...
Why aren’t Americans German?
After meeting with their American business partners or colleagues, our German clients are usually enthusiastic, praising the meeting’s general atmosphere and fully satisfied with the excellent results. Shortly thereafter, their euphoria takes a dive when a decision is communicated from...
How do I get my business out there?
When you aim to get your business out there, a detailed social media concept should be a matter of course. This not only includes adapting your website – a precise description of what you company offers – to your profiles...
How can I cope with a crisis?
In general, a crisis is perceived as something negative. Some people, and companies, too, handle crises well, opening themselves to the possibility of transformation a crisis offers and emerging stronger than ever. Others are ruined, losing their very existence. An...
Why does my comeback always come too late?
Nearly everyone can tell of a situation, professional or private, that left us speechless. Who wouldn’t want a witty, lickety-split reaction at the tip of the tongue? Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen and you often curse your eloquence for deserting...
Why isn’t Distribution selling?
Many companies fail to separate Distribution and Sales, unaware that each calls for different capabilities, skill sets and character. . It’s comparable to claiming two colleagues – one from Product Development, the other in Maintenance – could easily trade positions...
What are you afraid of?
You can be afraid of many things – of losing your job, your partner or your home. You can be afraid of burglars, of dark cellars, of spiders (in dark cellars!), of natural disasters or of diseases. A relatively new...
What is the secret to good communication?
Most of us covered the subject Communication in school, so when we come with Friedemann Schulz von Thun’s 4 Ear Model at training sessions or seminars, you can be sure some will roll their eyes and sigh, believing they already...
Why are our meetings so ineffective?
It is highly demotivating to take part in a meeting in which you have nothing you can productively contribute. Especially when work is piling up on your desk and all you can think of is all you could be doing...
8th Think-Tank: Off the beaten path
On February 23, 2023, we opened our doors to our 8th consecutive Think-Tank: Leader in Action. Completely online in 2021, hybrid in 2022, this year’s Think Tank picked up where we left off three years ago – in our Paderborn...
What hinders good works council relations?
The first thing that might pop into mind as you read this question is the seemingly inherent dissonance between company leadership and the works council. After all, both parties pursue very different interests. And we must admit, throughout our over...
Are we really ready for agile leadership?
Trends are not exclusive to the fashion world, there’s plenty of them in the trainer and consulting business. Today, it’s agile leadership that’s hot. Everything either is, is becoming or always was agile. Everyone’s talking about it – with us...
Why is it still so difficult to have both children and a career?
These days, working women who chose to have children are confronted with pressure on all sides. To begin with, she is adapting to her new role as mother which incredibly beautiful and incredibly demanding. She wants to do everything just...
What does conflict really cost me?
Should leaders push the panic button the moment they hear of a conflict in their team or workforce? Of course not. There’s nothing unusual about conflicts amongst human beings. Whether in your private or professional life, all human interaction is...
What’s the point of coaching?
In the States, this form of coaching entered the business world during the 1970s. Germany picked up the trend around the mid-80s. Since then, especially since the turn of the century, you can be coached in practically every aspect of...
What is the crux of negotiations?
Just as it does today, in our professional dealings: We are more willing to say yes to or collaborate with someone who has done us a favor in the past. The law of reciprocity is deeply anchored in most human...
Culture of Error
This culture of errors is especially widespread in Germany. An adeptly accomplished task is taken for granted as no big deal, while mistakes are mountains made of mole hills and discussed, deliberated and analyzed to a pulp...
Participation is motivating
To enhance your employees' willingness to achieve, or to maintain their high-performance level, they should have as comprehensive an idea as possible of what drives you, their leader. At the beginning of this book we described the significance of a...
Breaks for more Productivity
Recent scientific studies prove that mental acuity is just as dependent on physical exercise as it is on mind jogging. Daily office work offers a goodly number of easyto- execute options promoting staffers' well-being within a few minutes. Our A.P.F.E.L...
The Effect of Feedbacks
It is a leader's duty to foster his employees' continued development, which can just as well take place within a given position. Most people find it gratifying and highly motivating when they see their own productivity improve, fulfilling their assigned...
Breaking new ground at 7th Think-Tank: Leader in Action
On February 10, 2022, we once again gathered for our annual Think-Tank. The 7th! While last year we filled our think-tanks at a completely online thought-charging event, this year, for the first time, we created a hybrid platform. Thus, we...
What is often said
Many supervisors may be in the right position, but does that make them the right function? The terms leader and manager are often used interchangeably, although there is a big difference...
Why engaged employees matter
What is the stuff of executive dreams? Business leaders dream of hard-hitting teams, of powerful teams, of dedicated employees. In today's working world, teams are often fragmented. Team members are scattered over the five continents, throughout various countries, embodying various...
Why we often postpone our happiness
Happiness is also attitude-business. It is a matter of accepting the status quo. The British say, "Love it, change it or leave it." If a situation cannot be changed or evaded, then it should be accepted. Mourning the past will...
Why so few leaders have the stuff of champions
A few days ago in Wembley Stadium, Italy confronted England for the European Championship title. A veritable soccer suspense story! At halftime, England led 1:0 and after the second half the two teams were tied 1:1. Ditto after overtime. And...
Think-Tank 2021: Unusual, and as always
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A “P“ is missing … or why real sustainability is so difficult
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Future Visions
Seine unbedingte Hingabe für die von ihm ausgeführte Tätigkeit gibt der Leader an sein Umfeld weiter. Dadurch gelingt es ihm auch, ein Bild der Zukunft zu zeichnen – eine unverzichtbare Eigenschaft, wenn es um Employee Engagement geht. Natürlich haben auch...
When no one’s there to receive Christmas mail
As is our custom each year, at the beginning of January we sent all our clients, suppliers and friends digital New Year’s greetings with a short video reviewing the past year as well as offering a glimpse of our plans...
The Coming Generations
This study probes into employee expectations the younger Generations Y and Z have on their employer and their supervisors. Furthermore, the study compiles the extent to which employees perceive their expectations as fulfilled at their workplace as well as the...
Works council vs. Executive board? Mutual understanding is the only path to take!
Maybe it’s the inherent differences. Maybe it’s just coincidence. In our 20 years of travel, stopping at many companies on the most varied sectors, we have seen far more uncompromising battle lines drawn between works councils and executive boards than...
20 years of Liscia Consulting
It’s been 20 years now since Liscia Consulting opened its doors for the first time. 20 years since the turn of the millennium. In the year 2000, Michael Schuhmacher won the world championship, FC Bayern München became German champion (again)...
Busy bees, blissful beekeepers
As the title implies, it’s about one of the most important pollinators on the planet. Einstein allegedly claimed that without them, humanity would have but four years to live. Frequently cited, the quote has never been verified – neither the...
Betwixt and between – the perfect place to be
Commonly carrying a negative connotation, the adage betwixt and between depicts an inability or hesitation to make a decision, or to be caught between two opposing forces. Neither condition is welcome since they force us out of our comfort zone...
A Day in the Life
Four months ago, at the beginning of January to be precise, we came together for our annual new year’s workshop to plan 2020. We discussed, among other things, upcoming projects and the travel agenda these projects entail. We are a...
Leaders in Action Celebrate Think Tank No 5
It’s February 6, 2020, time to dive into Think Tank No 5! A Liscia Consulting GbR brainchild, the Think Tank came to life in 2015. An annual event in Paderborn, Germany, Liscia’s Think Tank offers three stimulating presentations and the...
Getting a handle on negotiating
What matters most when you’re negotiating an agreement? If you think about it, we spend a good deal of time negotiating our way through each day. How can we pave the way to satisfying negotiations? Does negotiating require talent? And...
Leading employees to good (mental) health
Nowadays, it’s no secret that good health among your employees plays an essential role in the business theater. And you, as their leader, are the star of the show when it comes to your employees’ good health and well-being. This...
The Helpful Hybrid
A prevailing supplement to business consulting since the early 1980s, hybrid coaching has yet to establish itself in consulting and training practices. Although the term hybrid coaching turns up in nearly every description of advisory offers, its interpretation is primarily...
Conflict – Blessing or Curse?
At which point does a discussion become a conflict? Our very existence is characterized by human interaction, both private and professional. And one aspect of human interaction is conflict. When conflicts arise among team members at work, how should you...
The wild mustangs of California – what they teach us
You live, and you learn – There’s not a soul on the planet who hasn’t heard or said this adage at least once. And it’s true, of course. Thus, earlier this summer, our colleague Franziska spent three weeks in Golden...
Is there a recipe for happiness?
What is that – Happiness? How can I get my piece of the pie? Can I increase or influence my personal happiness? Why is it that some people are never really happy? For many of us, happiness is our number one...
A tribute to the working mom – meeting the challenge of children and career
May 12, 2019 – Mother’s Day in Germany. A day we are meant to honor our mothers. A concept that, like so many others, has evolved into a consumerist occasion. The modern Mother’s Day was first celebrated on May 9...
Position poker? Placing your company’s managers and leaders in the optimal position.
Are your company’s management and leadership positions held by those best equipped to do the job? Productively allocating leadership positions is certainly not one of the easiest tasks you face, although the most suitable employee in the right position can...
Leader and employee coach? – Coaching toolbox for leaders
If you have ever looked into topics concerning leadership and coaching, you have most likely encountered titles such as A Leader as Coach in trade journals or in the pages of training providers. But does it really make sense for...
The heart of the matter on Valentine’s Day – design, bees and transitional processes at Liscia Consulting’s 4th Think Tank: Leaders in action
On February 14th, the day of love, over 40 executives travelled from all over Germany to gather for the fourth time at Liscia Consulting GbR in Paderborn. It’s Think Tank Time! In addition to flowers and chocolate – after all, it...
Liscia Consulting launches the G.P.S.-Academy!
Not a moment too soon, the Paderborn consultancy opens the doors of the G.P.S.-Academy – Growing Personality & Skills today. What’s it all about? “Nothing new, really,” Marcello Liscia says. “We have always offered each of our clients an individual...
On the Turnpike of Transition
We are often more willing to accept changes in our private lives than we are when change comes to our professional environment. Businesses looking to alter, improve or evolve their practices are more often confronted with employee resistance than with...
Christmas – Cramps or carols?
What’s your first thought when you think of Christmas? Stress, frenzy and chaos or contemplation, harmony and benevolence? Often, the former has the upper hand. For many, the days preceding Christmas are filled with unyielding stress, racing from one business or...
Successful teams
Leaders often succumb to the erroneous belief that a team’s success lies solely with its members’ skills and competence. Far too often they brush aside personality traits, giving little or no credence to the significance of personal preferences and values...
Strike five, they’re out! Five D.R.E.A.M. of LEADERS workbooks are now available!
Having successfully published their first book D.R.E.A.M. of LEADERS. Leadership is not an Illusion addressing leadership development, authors Gianni, Jan and Marcello Liscia have generated five advanced-learning workbooks. Readers will feel at home with the inimitable Liscia content and style...
What does Coaching really mean?
Coaching is a common term in the working world and can be heard on every corner. But what precisely is coaching? Conceptually, coaching is a structured, one-on-one dialogue intended to awaken the coachee’s inner reflection during a transitional process, opening...
“Let’s Talk Business”, National Association of Mid-Sized Businesses (BVMW)
On Tuesday evening, September 18, 2018, 15 BVMW members came together in Let’s Talk Business to discuss generational change and succession, a unique transitional process. The event was hosted by Liscia Consulting GbR of Paderborn, Germany...
Be palpably present at your presentations!
There you are at a presentation, hiding behind your slides, camouflaged with your content or literally tucked away in a corner of the room. You are passing up the chance to leave your audience with a strong impression, which in...
Communication 4.0
When typing the word communication in the Google search box, the first hits you come up with are ‘What is communication’; ‘How does communication work’; ‘Communication models’, and ‘Do-it-yourself communication’. So obviously, these days, our kids are breast-fed on communication...
Of homeland and house-building: What does leadership mean exactly?
The word leadership is a commonly accepted and intellectually understood term. It does not need any further definition. Or does it? Do we use the word too casually, without understanding is true meaning?...
Spring 2018, and Liscia Consulting recieves two awards straight away
Whoever would have thought? 2018 is but a few months old and Liscia Consulting can already pride themselves on two awards. The Liscia Consulting GbR creating LEADERS product D.R.E.A.M. Score® not only convinced the Huber Verlag für neue Medien/Huber Publishing...
Learning from horses – Leadership training with a horse as coach
Your coach is a horse and you, the leader, are on your way to self-awareness. Horse-assisted coaching is a hands-on learning experience, directly reflecting your leadership competence and leadership style...
3. Think-Tank: Leader in Action 2018
Liscia Consulting hosted their 3rd Think Tank Leaders in Action. Many clients followed the call! “Attention leaders, it’s Think Tank time!” The call went out in 2018, when Liscia Consulting GbR invited People Work people from all over Germany to...
D.R.E.A.M.-Score®
We are convinced that many enterprises are not fully tapping into their, theoretically accessible, productivity potential because their leadership positions are held by the wrong people. For example, a staffer excelling in process optimization and systems maintenance is not automatically...
Liscia Consulting published their first book
“D.R.E.A.M. of LEADERS. Leadership is not an Illusion.” This provocative title addresses leader development. Drawing on their 17 years of experience, authors Gianni, Jan und Marcello Liscia have brought forth vivid, realistic words, describing how passionate people work can transform leaders into D.R.E.A.M...
Liscia Consulting is awarded INDUSTRIEPREIS 2017
It’s 2017, and once more the Huber Verlag für Neue Medien (Huber Publications for New Media) GmbH acknowledges exceptionally progressive industry products that make significant economic, social, technological and environmental contributions. Liscia Consulting GbR creatingLEADERS, with their product, story changing®...
I know it, when i see it!
Discovering the truth via micro expressions. Emotions make our lives worth living. And the quality of emotions determines our life quality. Every relationship that we enter is characterized by emotions. Those can be positive and cause true happy moments by...
Yearly DVCT “Coach & Trainer Award” goes to Liscia Consulting GbR
On November 19, 2016 Liscia Consulting received the annual award given by the Deutscher Verband für Coaching and Training e.V. (DVCT) in Hamburg. Their concept „story changing®“ received the award after a one hour live presentation against two other finalists. Not...
2. Think-Tank – Leader in Action – Quite a Success!
On October 20, 2016 decision makers from Germany and Europe came together for “think tanking” in Paderborn. On Thursday at Liscia Consulting headquarters in Paderborn there was a chummy atmosphere because of the 2. Think-Tank – Leader in Action. The participating...
Leader in action
Liscia Consulting extends an invitation to the 2nd Think-Tank in Paderborn. What challenges daily await managers from industry and business? What hurdles have to be taken? To answer these questions some 75 company directors and decision makers from international companies...
Gianni Liscia at the “Heilbronn Hospitality Symposium”
On October 13, 2016 Gianni Liscia is giving his speech „How Digitalization Is Changing the Working World” at the “Heilbronn Hospitality Symposium”...
Marcello Liscia with the keynote “A.P.F.E.L-Strategie®” at MEiM 2016!
Visit Marcello Liscia on November 30, 2016 at the MeIM 2016 in Paderborn and listen to his keynote speech “BGM: Management’s Responsibility for Health with the A.P.F.E.L-Strategie®”...
A System for the System
Liscia Consulting’s invitation to their “15th Impulstag” in Paderborn. Want can we expect in 2016 and 2017? In order to find the answer, Liscia Consulting is inviting businesses to come to its “15th Impulstag -– A System for the System...
Liscia Consulting congratulates Johnson Controls
Johnson Controls receives the quality seal in the category “Innovationpreis” at the Deutsche Bildungspreis 2016. Congratulations, Johnson Controls! The entire team at Liscia Consulting GbR congratulates their long-time customer for this award! For years now the Deutsche Bildungspreis is awarded to companies...
Tina Vogel newest member at Liscia Consulting GbR
A former Enchlada-Gruppe employee has joined the team at Liscia Consulting GbR- creatingLEADERS. Helping companies to advance and making leaders not just developing them – that is the credo of Liscia Consulting GbR located in Paderborn. Tina Vogel has found...
Liscia Consulting celebrates its 15th anniversary
On July 2nd, 2015 Liscia Consulting GbR-creatingLEADERS celebrated its 15th anniversary with about 80 guests. It was a day that could not have been more perfect for a celebration of this kind - the 15th year of Liscia - today...
Liscia Consulting GbR now also H.A.P.-certified
The managers of Liscia Consulting are now certified H.A.P.-specialists thus expanding their know-how in dealing with complex and turbulent situations in companies. For example - a project or the large-lot production has been delayed, new demands are made or employees...
Team Liscia now trading under Liscia Consulting
The driving forces behind Team Liscia have kept their promise "We will surprise you in 2015" and have changed their name to Liscia Consulting GbR. "We have planned several surprises for this year.", disclosed Gianni Liscia, one of Team Liscia’s...
IAA Commercial Vehicles presents the world’s first! Team Liscia was there!
The leading fair for mobility, transport and logistics, IAA Nutzfahrzeuge, opened its doors on September 25th, 2014 and is showing 322 world firsts. Team Liscia, experts for change processes was present on September 28th with its own world premiere. Gianni...
Wolf trifft Jaeger
Liscia enthused with simple tips and sustainable strategies. "Wolff trifft Jaeger, a Hamburg agency for creative communication consulting, drew attention to its third annual information evening 'Spring in Your Head'. Under the title ‘Home Away from Home, My Work Place’, decision...
The experts for work with 9 levels tool
Consulting firms today are challenged in a number of ways. They must analyze problems, check the status quo, present possible solutions and pull everyone into the same boot when it is time to put everything together. Lucky are those who...
A.P.F.E.L.-Strategie® in “wirtschaft+weiterbildung” april 2012
The magazine "wirtschaft+weiterbildung" allowed 4 pages to present A.P.F.E.L.-Strategie® as a part of their special on burn-out. "wirtschaft+weiterbldung" is one of the leading magazines on leadership, personnel development and E-Learning. Its main readers are trainers and coaches but above all...
