Systemic Constellations Coaching Insight Journeys | The Constellateur Podcast | With Tom Wittig

In this episode, we provide a detailed overview of the Constellateur Free Systemic Leadership Quiz.

This 5-minute quiz is your first step to mastering systemic leadership and is designed to help you assess your strengths and identify opportunities for growth in navigating complex business dynamics and relationships.

Systemic Leadership is a comprehensive approach that helps leaders navigate complex organisational dynamics by balancing the Relationship Dimension (focusing on team culture and human connections) and the Rational Dimension (emphasising measurable outcomes and performance metrics).

The quiz helps you understand your "inner game" – how your attitude and awareness of systemic relationships impact your leadership effectiveness. It also assesses your "rational mind mastery" – your ability to navigate complex, non-linear business dynamics.

Taking the quiz is simple, quick, and insightful. You'll receive a personal score and actionable insights and tips tailored to your results. Developed by Tom Wittig, an internationally recognised expert in systemic leadership development, this quiz is a valuable resource provided at no cost by Constellateur.com.

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Systemic Scenarios for Succession Planning

Succession planning in family-owned businesses is often delayed or avoided, leading to suboptimal outcomes for owners and the business. Starting early with succession planning is recommended, using a systemic scenario planning approach that focuses on the relationships and dynamics within the business. The process involves assessing the current situation, developing future scenarios, evaluating implications, engaging stakeholders, and implementing and monitoring the plan. Stakeholders can participate in seminars to gain insights from others facing similar challenges. This step-by-step approach reduces stress and helps the organization retain and grow its resilience.

Takeaways

• Succession planning in family-owned businesses is often neglected, leading to last-minute scrambles and suboptimal outcomes.
• Starting early with succession planning and using a systemic scenario planning approach can lead to better results.
• The process involves assessing the current situation, developing future scenarios, evaluating implications, and engaging key stakeholders.
• Participating in seminars with other stakeholders facing similar challenges can provide valuable insights and mutual learning experiences.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Challenges in Succession Planning

01:02 Systemic Scenario Planning

04:07 Developing Future Scenarios

04:36 Evaluating and Assessing Implications

05:05 Engaging Key Stakeholders

05:33 Individual or Group Approach

06:03 Benefits of a Step-by-Step Approach

06:26 Conclusion and Good Luck

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Navigating Succession Planning: 3 Key Approaches for Overcoming the Vicious Cycle

Succession and transition are transformative journeys that have far-reaching consequences for organizations and communities. The decisions made during these transitions can shape the future trajectory of any organization. This conversation explores the key dynamics of succession, including the cycle of decline and the growth loop. It also discusses systemic approaches for successful succession, such as creating a systemic scenario, engagement and onboarding, and balancing relationships.

Key Takeaways

• Succession and transition have a significant impact on organizations and communities.
• The cycle of decline can be a major challenge during succession.
• Continued investment can lead to a growth loop and attract more successors.
• Systemic approaches, such as creating a systemic scenario and balancing relationships, can support successful succession.

Systemic Approaches for Insight:

1. Systemic Scenarios.
2. Systemic selection, onboarding and mentoring.
3. Earn-in of the successor and earn-out for the owner.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: Succession and Transition

01:29 Key Dynamics of Succession

04:09 The Growth Loop

04:40 Systemic Approaches for Succession

05:10 Creating a Systemic Scenario

06:06 Engagement and Onboarding

06:28 Identifying Earn-In and Earn-Out

07:54 Balancing Relationships

08:24 Conclusion: Succession and Transition

Many candidates focus on logistical aspects of a job during interviews, but fail to gain deeper insights about the company and the role. This can lead to job dissatisfaction in the long run. To avoid this, it is important to ask questions that surface systemic insights. Five dimensions to explore are responsibilities, resources, authorities, relationships, and purpose.

Takeaways

• Job interviews should go beyond logistical aspects and focus on systemic insights.
• Candidates should ask questions about responsibilities, resources, authorities, relationships, and purpose.
• Understanding these dimensions can help determine if a job is a good fit in the long run.
• Gaining deeper insights during interviews can prevent job dissatisfaction.

Chapters

00:00 Missing Opportunities in Job Interviews

01:06 Reasons for Job Dissatisfaction

03:04 Understanding Resources and Budgets

04:30 Authority and Decision Making

05:47 Impact of Relationships

06:51 Contribution to Company's Purpose

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How to come to the point in conversations?

In this episode, we explore the common challenge of losing our counterpart or audience in conversation and strategies to overcome it. Drawing from real-life experiences, we discuss the story of a senior manager struggling with communication feedback and how systemic coaching helped him navigate this issue.

The manager's struggle was not uncommon, reflecting a broader issue in organizational communication across cultures and hierarchies. Through role-playing exercises, he learned to lead with recommendations rather than lengthy explanations, leading to improved connection and understanding with his manager.

Key takeaways include the importance of being mindful of the other person's needs in conversation, developing cultural awareness, and the value of trying the opposite approach if traditional methods are ineffective.

Join us on this journey to enhance your communication skills and strengthen your relationships. Subscribe to the podcast for more insightful episodes.

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In this episode, we explored the essential steps to prepare for your next career transition. From

• clarifying your motivations to
• exploring options,
• reflecting on your capabilities,
• leveraging your network, and
• aligning with your purpose

We uncovered actionable strategies to set yourself up for success. Join us as we embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, equipping you with the tools and insights to navigate life's transitions with confidence and clarity.

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Learn five professional ways and examples to say "No" to a job request which is conflicting with your other commitments, while maintaining a positive relationship. These approaches include communicating prior commitments, offering alternative solutions, seeking clarification and negotiation, assuring completion upon return, and encouraging a colleague's growth.

• Communicate your prior commitments, suggesting alternative timelines or resources.
• Offer alternative solutions that accommodate both parties' goals.
• Seek clarification and negotiation, emphasizing the importance of work-life balance.
• Assure completion as a first priority upon returning from personal commitments.
• Encourage a new colleague to step up, providing guidance and reviewing results upon return.

In this episode, we explored the topic of conflict resolution in family-owned businesses and how systemic coaching techniques can help resolve conflicts, promote collaboration, and foster a harmonious work environment. By acknowledging emotions, seeking understanding, and adopting a collaborative problem-solving approach, family businesses can overcome conflicts and thrive.

In this episode, we are discussing how to overcome resistance to change in family-owned enterprises. We started by exploring the reasons why change can be difficult in family businesses, including emotional attachments to traditions and fear of the unknown. Then we will look into six strategies for overcoming resistance to change, including

• Clear communication.
• Understanding the systemic orders in family-owned business.
• Building coalition and momentum.
• Making small, feasible changes.
• Addressing cultural barriers.
• Emphasising the benefits for the entire organization.

In this episode of Systemic Constellations Coaching Insight Journeys, we discussed the challenges of finding the right leader for your family-owned enterprise. We provided expert tips and advice on how to identify your ideal candidate, involve the family, and develop a plan for the transition. Succession planning can be a daunting task, but with the help of systemic coaching, you can ensure a smooth and successful handover of your family-owned enterprise.

In this meditation, we will reflect on the themes of renewal and rebirth that are central to the Easter holiday. Through guided imagery and visualization exercises, we will explore what it means to let go of the old and make way for the new. We will focus on cultivating a sense of hope, optimism, and resilience as we look ahead to the future. Whether you celebrate a particular holiday like Easter or not, this meditation is a powerful reminder of the potential for growth and transformation that lies within us all.

Listen to this mediation as often as you like. And feel free to share it with others who could benefit from it in their life.

This podcast episode explores salary negotiations through the lens of systemic constellations in organizations. It considers the three systemic orders of rank, contribution, and balance of giving and taking, and how they can impact the organization's health and productivity. 

The episode also offered a series of leading questions to approach the conversation with a manager and emphasized the importance of maintaining a collaborative approach to achieve a favorable outcome while maintaining healthy relationships within the organization.

In diesem Gespräch zwischen Wolfgang Deusser und Tom Wittig geht es um das Thema Zuversicht. Wie kann die Hinbewegung aus der Krise zur Zuversicht und Erneuerung gelingen? Ein wesentliches Thema ist die systemische Co-Regulation in der Gruppe, also in Familie, Unternehmen und Organisationen. Anhand von Beispielen werden systemische Vorgehensweisen, Perspektiven und Lösungswege aufgezeigt.

In diesem Gespräch mit Joël Weser, PrEssenz® Institut, geht es um Präsenz, Haltung und systemische Aspekte in Kommunikation, Führung und Begegnung mit anderen. 

00:00 Interview mit Joël Weser und Tom Wittig.

00:30 Über Joël Weser.

08:49 Buchvorstellung: “Was dem Leben und der Liebe dient”

14:00 Was ist PrEssenz? Wie bekomme ich Zugang zur PrEssenz?

16:10 Joël Weser’s Übungen zur Begegnung.

25:13 Innere Bilder halten uns gefangen.

26:00 Kommunikation und Präsenz in der Führung.

27:00 Kommunikation auf das Wesentliche verdichten.

35:00 Kommunikation und Resonanz.

36:25 Delegation und Vertrauen.

38:00 Vision, Führung, Präsenz.

39:00 Wie gelingt Visions-Entwicklung mit Präsenz?

45:00 Kontakt zu Joël Weser, PrEssenz Institut.

Video zum Podcast auf https://constellateur.com. 

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In this episode we are exploring "Abundance rising from crisis" with a new Insight Journey. 

(00:00) Intro   

(00:22) New Year, New Abundance   

(05:20) Meditation: Abundance rising from crisis   

(14:15) Thank you

In this episode, I am sharing segment form the recent webinar about "Succession Dynamics". Succession planning is a highly dynamic process. The actual hand-over is not only a short period of time. The succession planning process begins much earlier. And in many cases, it lasts much longer than expected. 

• Systemic Insights about succession planning.
• Systemic Practices. 
• Considerations for succession planning. 
• Question and Answers. 

Blog Post: 

Innovation is the result of an inner movement. In this episode you can experience the initiation of this movement. You may want to listen to this episode in situation where it is unclear where to move or when it is difficult make a first step. Also, to create resonance in your field, you can share this with people in your group, network, family and team. 

This episode is related to a free webinar about the topic of "Initiating Your Innovation". You can find the webinar and more innovation on 

O Crescimento Dinâmico é um fenômeno que afeta pessoas, empresas e ecossistemas e nações inteiras. Compreender a dinâmica do crescimento é importante para a sobrevivência e o sucesso. Neste episódio, você pode melhorar sua experiência pessoal e entrar em ressonância com este tópico. 

O episódio está relacionado a um webinar gratuito e a material adicional: 

Free Constellation Canvas Download:

Dynamic Growth is a phenomenon which impacts people, company and entire ecosystems and nations. Understanding the dynamics of growth is important for survival and success. In this episode you can enhance your personal experience and get into resonance with this topic. 

The episode is related to a free webinar and further material: 

Free Constellation Canvas Download: 

In this Insight Journey you are invited to explore a recruitment and hiring situation.

Hiring a new member in the organisation is always a special situation. It can bring something new to the field of the organisation. And it can be strategic decision, because it is often hard to revise. That means that the impact and dynamics of a great-fit and a wrong-hire can have dramatic consequences both for the organisation as well as for the employee. Therefore it is essential that we take our time to evaluate the situation from different perspectives. 

In this meditative insight journey you can explore such hiring situation from a systemic perspective.

In this Insight Journey I am inviting you to review your personal inventory and portfolio of experiences, skills and competencies.

The episode is related to a webinar about Self-Renewal and Growth. 

Powerful conversations using the word "AND" instead of "BUT" in your conversations can make a big difference.

Try it for yourself and let me know what happens in your relationships. 

We encounter Innovation and Renewal in many areas of our life and work. Not only in organisations and business. It is also essential for our couple and family relationships and for our physical and mental health. Without renewal decay will prevail. And what is the movement behind this? How can innovation succeed? 

This is the starting point for this series of topics about renewal and innovation. Tom Wittig | Constellateur