Motivational phrases from sport – a semantic analysis

Motivational phrases and mottos are ubiquitous on social media. Many come from the sport and serve as inspiration for endeavors in private and professional life. We asked ourselves whether there are common patterns among all these phrases? For this purpose, we semantically analyzed 215 sayings and identified four main themes: success orientation, commitment, meaningfulness, and prerequisites.

Virtual Communities as a Source of Energy for Organizations – What we can learn from esports

In the context of the home office or hybrid working, the analog office can hardly assume the role of giving the organization its identity. The exchange of ideas over coffee, after work, or an informal chat has always contributed to this. Now, other approaches are needed to strengthen the exchange of information, create a team spirit and promote loyalty to the company. Virtual communities can play an essential role here.

How can you motivate other people? – Our tips for inspired teams!

Do you want to motivate your team? Then you must be motivated first! Only if you are sufficiently convinced of the project and its benefits should you continue reading this article. Your conviction is an absolute prerequisite: you have to be on fire yourself to fire yourself to be able to light the fire in others.

New Teams

Team development is becoming more and more the focal point. Teams are crucial for, among other things, project success, quality of work, employee satisfaction and retention. They are a core element of employees' daily experience at work and hold enormous potential in the area of New Work. As with human resources and organizational development, we help to close the gap between aspiration and reality.

The keys to successful teamwork

In our New Leaders series, we had the honor of talking to Alejandro Egüez. Alejandro works for the Swedish Energy Markets Inspectorate. He has proven his expert knowledge regarding teamwork in many different international collaboration settings in his academic, business, and corporate career. We asked Alejandro for his recommendations on how to make teamwork successful.