Dear readers, we have been inviting you to oe-tag every year since 2008, usually in the weeks between the end of May and the beginning of June. Once - during the coronavirus pandemic in 2021 - we refrained from doing so. In this respect, it is a new experience for us not to announce an oe-day this year. At oe-tag, it was (and is) important to us to open up spaces, bring people [...]

SOCIUS Organisationsberatung gGmbH - which was founded in 1998 and is now a subsidiary of SOCUS eG - has been represented by Christian Baier and Andi Knoth as Managing Directors for the past 15 years; from 2026, Lysan Escher and Andi Knoth will form this tandem. Why have we changed this “running system”? Shared responsibility per role board We [...]

In the run-up to the oe-tag, we were very uncertain and asked ourselves: how will this topic, which occupies us so intensively and at the same time seems so far removed from the context of „organisational development“, be received? How would our long-standing Berlin participants react to us going to Halle? And how are we ourselves able to „speak“ about this topic, as a group of colleagues, in [...]

Dear readers, we have been organising the oe-tag - the forum for (non-profit) organisational development - once a year since 2008. Every year, we focus on one topic of organisational development and examine it in depth - such as leadership, culture, self-organisation or improvisation. The oe-tag has never been an event for mere consumption, but always an invitation and offer to enter into dialogue with one another.

„We all have fireworks inside us. Sometimes it just takes the right moment to set them off.“ - Alice Walker Dear reader, We all look forward to this kind of inner firework when the moment comes and it ignites. The sparkle and glitter is a celebration for us. And the New Year's Eve rockets? How do [...]

„Collaboration“ is one of our six modules that we have developed in the SOCIUS change essentials online course and focuses on collaboration in a creative context. Forms of collaboration can take place between organisations, but also between teams or individuals within an organisation. We have broken down different degrees of collaboration and also identified risks in which collaboration may [...]