Another GGI highlight is fast approaching: the Leadership Forum in Eisenberg, Austria.
Leadership in GGI member firms presents a particular set of challenges. Those attending the GGI Leadership Forum will discuss several concepts of business leadership as they apply them to independent professional firms. The planned presentations, workshops and discussions will provide a forum for experienced and knowledgeable input from GGI business leaders. Many do not have someone in their business with whom they can discuss matters of leadership, strategy, family issues, the intersection of personal and business cash flow and the toll that the business can take on their personal lives.
The GGI Leadership Forum is also a unique opportunity for partners and managing partners of GGI member firms to explore a critical and persistently frustrating problem: what don’t I know that could be holding my business back from healthy and robust growth?
The aim of this Leadership Forum is to have a vivid exchange of ideas, to allow quality networking amongst partners and managing partners of GGI firms and to discuss concepts and strategies that increase business, enhance marketing activities, assist decision-making and generate new ideas, in a pleasant environment with like-minded fellow members from all over the world.
Do not miss the first GGI “World Café”. The purpose of the two sessions on Friday is to explore aspects of leadership in an interactive and relevant capacity for attendees.
In the morning, participants will discuss: “The leader’s role in realising potential through collaboration – going beyond stakeholder engagement to foster collaboration.”
Many leaders today try to incorporate collaboration and relationships into both their own leadership values and the culture of their business, but many fail. This failure comes from a mix of challenges: lack of clarity on a cultural definition of collaboration, appropriate personal skills (e.g. walking the talk), and finally embedded mechanisms and methods within their businesses to make collaboration really work and stick.
Over the course of this session delegates will explore, first via a short presentation and discussion and then via World Café methodology, some fundamental elements that go into ensuring a collaborative environment and culture, helping participants move towards a clearer definition of a workable collaborative culture for their own business, and across the GGI network going forward.
The Friday afternoon session will help participants build on the outputs from the morning session, identifying some practical challenges and opportunities to potentially take forward to help deliver on the envisioned culture. The theme of this second session will be: Becoming Collaborative – applying the whole system collaboration model. Applying some of the key learnings from the first session and again utilising the World Café methodology, participants will self-select joining a group to focus on how they might practically take on a collaboration challenge and/or seize a collaborative based opportunity.
On Saturday morning Prof Dr Teodoro Cocca and Marko Mihkelson will be delivering speeches. Many of you already know Prof Cocca from previous GGI events. His CV is included in the conference documents on GGI’s website.
Marko is the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the Estonian Parliament and also a member of the European Union Affairs Commission in the Estonian Parliament. He is well known as an expert in the field of Foreign Affairs in Estonia.
Two sightseeing tours on Saturday afternoon round off the programme and offer an excellent networking opportunity. Delegates might either join a tour of a Slovenian Vineyard, or a Walking Tour of Graz. Depending on the weather, a team-building exercise on the River Raab might be offered as well.
Hotel Das Eisenberg is situated in very attractive surroundings and offers all attending the ideal conditions to relax a little in addition to the Conference with top-notch speakers and interactive workshops.
For example, one option is to take a bicycle tour (bikes are available from the hotel) to one of the numerous castles or palaces for which the region is so famous.
The Burgenland, which is not far from the Slovenian and Hungarian borders, has an incredible amount to offer in terms of both landscape and culture.
GGI members who have not yet done so, can register using the online registration tool at http://www.ggi.com (member login > Events). The Conference programme is also available on the website, as well as the speakers’ CVs.
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