Monthly Archives: March 2008

March 29, 2008
Creativity and Leadership

The leader as coach – releasing potential or intimidation?

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Maria just blogged about a coaching-experience here and here which inspired me to think yet again about the paradox of managers taking on the role as coaches. Coaching has been called an intimate technology (“intimteknologi”) of management. Intimate in that it is one-to-one, and has the ...
March 28, 2008
StagisLife

Socratic dialogue

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After I posted my last blog about being coached by Nikolaj Stagis, I’ve come to that idea that the experience reminds me of the Socratic dialogue, which is about getting the answers and solutions to anything in the mind of the answerer (in this case: the coached person: me, in the old days: Pl ...
March 26, 2008
StagisLife

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StagisLife

A good day, looking for talent

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We’re looking for talent. We need a production manager, a person who wants to be in charge of the overall production planning and budgetting of our ongoing projects as well as coordinating a number of freelancers, suppliers and production companies that are involved in the execution of our pro ...
March 19, 2008
StagisLife

The coaching experience!

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< The experience was the opposite of what this picture symbolises! As a more or less new employee here at STAGIS, I had a brand new experience personally and professionally the other day at work. I had a coaching-session with Mr. Nikolaj Stagis as part of a normal staff development interview. The se ...
Anthropology and Culture

What is Stagis most valuable skills?

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Last weekend the Stagis team spent a Saturday afternoon at the office dedicated to improve our individual presentation of Stagis. The frame for the afternoon was to practise and discuss different ways of presenting and accentuate Stagis services and characteristics in relation to specific cases. We ...
Communication

Hvorfor efterskole – og hvorfor ikke?

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For tiden arbejder jeg med forskellige efterskoler og højskoler om udviklingen af deres identitet. I den forbindelse har jeg fundet en rapport frem som dokumenterer en kvalitativ undersøgelse Stagis har lavet i 2005 om unges tanker om valg og fravalg af efterskole. Hvis du er interesseret og vil v ...
March 17, 2008
Creativity and Leadership

Novozymes exhibition stand at DTU

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  Having been an employee at STAGIS for about a month and a half now, this will be my first contribution to the STAGIS blog. During my time here at STAGIS, one of my first assignments have been the operation of the Novozymes exhibition stand at the DSE-fair at DTU on March 12-13. After weeks [& ...
March 15, 2008
Communication

Organizational blogging by RUC students

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A group of students from Roskilde University that I’m mentoring this semester is working with organizational blogging – is it a buzzword, buzz-phenomenon or a tool that creates value? Check out their new blog and join the conversation on corporateweblogs.wordpress.com ...
March 11, 2008
Design and Identity

DSE fair at DTU this week

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This great car covered in grass reminds me of the exhibition stand we designed for Novozymes in the fall. Today Nikolaj and Louise is going to DTU in Lyngby where the DSE Fair is being held in the following few days. They are coordinating that the exhibition stand is being build up again, (last time ...
Design and Identity

New identity comming soon…

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Since January this year we have worked on a project for Femmøller Efterskole. We are helping Femmøller developing their new identity. During the process we have been doing a smaller authenticity study, talking to students about the characteristics of the school and developed a concept for their ne ...
March 7, 2008
StagisLife

Vi søger en kollega, som er købmand, kærlig, og en økonomisk kommandør

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Vi har netop slået en ny stilling op. Vi skal bruge en produktionsleder. Eller produktionschef. Eller Office Manager. Vedkommende må faktisk selv vælge titel. Men det skal være én, der har en passion for planlægning, produktionsbudgetter, ressourcefordeling og indkøb. Alt det, som man ikke nà ...
March 5, 2008
Communication

Is your project brandable?

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I was discussing branding with 12 project executives from large Danish corporations this morning. I was discussing a number of very different projects that we’ve made in STAGIS. From employer branding for Novozymes to product innovation for OKI Printing Solutions and traffic awareness communic ...
March 3, 2008
Creativity and Leadership

Vision Meeting in Odense: Playing is living

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I was invited to join a vision summit as a specialist on branding. The Municipality of Odense is suggesting the vision “Playing is living” which a number of politicians and business profiles were discussing last saturday. I had a fun day with good debate. It seemed that the folks in Oden ...