Meet our newest WOL Coach: Annette Ludwig
Annette is a professional trainer with decades of experience and a passion for learning.
With each call we generate new ideas for how she might use WOL to help people grow and connect—inside her company and beyond.
How to make the world a better place: A course idea for students
The idea of using a social learning format like WOL for students of different ages keeps coming up.
This post is a kind of MVP, a rough outline for an idea for a course (or other program) tentatively called: “How to make the world a better place.”
“Germans are like coconuts”
How meetups in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Hamburg confirmed what I always thought about people in Germany.
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Niko Votsos
Niko brings a wealth of training experience to being a WOL Coach, with a focus on making a positive difference:
“Many learning formats stay too abstract. They create awareness, but rarely lead to lasting behavior change. WOL takes a different approach. It is simple, structured, and close to everyday work.
For me, WOL is not an add-on to learning. It is a way to make learning actually happen.”
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Tim Beckmann
Tim is a natural-born salesman in the best possible way, helping others to see the positive future he envisions and take a step towards realizing that future.
“I believe that WOL can have a magical effect, especially in the public sector.”
WOL Career & Life: A new name for the original WOL Circle method
Now that there are 8 different WOL methods and more on the way, the original method needed a new name.
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Julia Schorlemmer
As a professor of health and occupational psychology, Julia’s passion for ways to make work more “humane” is matched only by her passion for proving those ways are effective.
“I am not only convinced of WOL’s impact; I can also demonstrate and implement it for others based on scientific evidence.“
WOL for Students: Can you help?
The idea of using WOL in education has been around for a decade, with some limited successes. And now it’s come up again for different schools and contexts.
I’m ambivalent. Part of me is excited to work with these educators and invent something useful—for them and for students. Part of me is afraid we’ll just repeat the same pattern from years ago.
Can you help?
Book recommendation: The Social Paradox
Ever since Bowling Alone, the shift to greater autonomy and less connection has been evident—and accelerating.
What if Circles are one way for people to experience a healthier balance?
WOL in the Library
“Working Out Loud, as a method, can help employees and the organization move forward by building and strengthening relationships, fostering trust and self-efficacy, and practicing and acquiring new knowledge and skills.
This fosters a growth mindset among employees and thus lays the foundation for innovative and creative work cultures within organizations.”
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Inês Crisóstomo
Inês is the first WOL Coach in Luxembourg!
She works at the university there, and in our first call I could immediately tell she was a natural connector and mentor, a developer of people.
How to read the air
The combination of self-awareness and situational awareness makes it possible for you to bring your Strengths to life and “read the air.”
What I learned from 50 conversations about becoming a WOL Coach
We now have nine new coaches in three countries.
Different backgrounds. Different goals. One shared set of beliefs about people and a commitment to put those beliefs into action.
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Manda Filipovic
As an HR professional, Manda is a different kind of WOL Coach. She is driving change from within.
Two young people go to work for the German government…
Do people joining your organization quickly learn “the way things work around here” and work like everyone else?
Or do they have a structured, supported method for contributing, building relationships, and discovering their own path?
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Alexander Eckert
Alexander is taking his experience of WOL in a big company to help others experience the benefits too, starting with students and his local community.
An update on WOL Strengths
Two pilots are underway and the feedback is enthusiastic:
“We are in week 4 and I love it.” - Christof
“Two of my colleagues…are already adapting what they have learned and incorporating it into our everyday work at the company - very inspiring and contagious 🎉” - Lisa
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Jan Köster
Beyond Jan’s obvious intelligence and deep, wide-ranging expertise, I greatly admire his working style: generous, gracious, encouraging.
No wonder he is already en excellent coach.
The opposite of scale is human
What do you do when you preach being authentic and your own website feels like you’re hiding being a mask?
Being yourself can, ironically, require practice and support.
Here are some lessons I learned along the way.
Meet our newest WOL Coach: Konstanze Kampfer
Working with Konstanze is seamless, creative, and fun.
As a WOL Coach, I admire her candor, her positive energy, and her ambitious aspirations.
And I can’t wait to see what she does with WOL.