Leadership - SOCIUS Organisationsberatung gGmbH

Leadership

A journey between effectiveness and resistance

Taking the lead

We accompany you on your individual leadership journey - whether you are embarking on a journey, exploring new roles or wanting to develop further by reflecting on your many years of leadership work. We create spaces in which you can gain clarity, strengthen your attitude and shape your leadership practice in line with your values.

What does leadership mean?
Our understanding

“It lies in the ability to be fully present. Present for a task, for a conversation, for the moment, for an opportunity. Present for your greater purpose in the world.”
Sally Helgesen

Leadership is a multi-layered process that affects everyone who works together in organisations. It begins with self-leadership, the examination of biographical imprints and values, and spans from working relationships to the design of organisational structures and practices. For us, leadership is not just a role, but a dynamic interplay of inner attitude, interpersonal responsibility and organisational framework conditions.

Leadership is characterised by the balance between effectiveness and resistance - sometimes as a calm river, sometimes as a turbulent white-water ride. But it is always about finding viable answers to key questions: What gives us direction? How do we shape relationships? And how do we contribute to a world that reflects our values?

Leadership is a journey that never ends. It requires courage to deal with power and responsibility, as well as the willingness to unlearn obstacles and create something new. Good leadership is characterised by trust - in oneself and in others. It creates spaces in which people can grow and realise their potential, and reacts flexibly to the dynamics of a constantly changing world.

Values-based leadership practice combines personal clarity and organisational responsibility. Leadership is both individual and collective: it is reflected in the attitude that each individual adopts, in the relationships between people and in the way organisations shape themselves and their environment.

Our offer

We support you in reflecting on your leadership work and developing it further - individually, in a team or in your organisation:

Annual training programme „Leadership with attitude“:
An intensive accompaniment in presence that helps you to discover and deepen your own leadership practice.
Individual leadership coaching:
Tailor-made support for individuals or organisations that want to strengthen their managers in a targeted manner.

SOCIUS Laboratories:
Creative learning spaces that deepen specific aspects of leadership in self-organisation, such as the „7 muscles of self-organisation“ or „Leadership in self-organisation (LiSO)“.
Online courses:
With the SOCIUS Change Essentials online course, you can flexibly acquire knowledge and tools for leadership.

Examples of our work

Supporting management and team leaders in the introduction of competency-orientated and role-based management models
Team workshop to develop a shared leadership practice with selected muscles of self-organisation at a nationwide advocacy organisation
Conflict counselling for the management of a nationwide network

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Lysan Escher

Nicola Kriesel

Hannah Kalhorn

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Leadership principles: A questionnaire for developing the building blocks of a leadership model

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Blog posts on the topic: Leadership

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Nicola Kriesel

Culture of cooperation, self-organisation, leadership

Cultivating trust

In January, I was alone on the Atlantic coast in Portugal. No programme and no agenda. And at some point, a song by AnnenMayKantereit came to mind: „Three days by the sea and I know who I am again.“ I knew at that moment: that's exactly it. The sea brings me back to myself. And somehow [...]

Andi Knoth

Culture of cooperation, self-organisation, leadership

The Pan-Heroic Organisation

The path from hierarchical to shared leadership runs through rugged terrain. Where founders and long-standing leaders relinquish the central control of „their“ organisation (voluntarily or involuntarily), the desire for a post-heroic culture is often expressed at the sight of the abandoned executive chair. No one is supposed to follow in the footsteps of the old central figure, no one is supposed to take over the leadership [...].

Julia Hoffmann

Culture of cooperation, resilience, leadership

Leadership needs rituals

Have you ever wondered why rituals play such a powerful role in our lives? In a world that is spinning ever faster, they offer you the opportunity to pause, let go of the old and welcome the new. Rituals are a vessel that helps you to consciously shape transitions and reconnect with your essence.