New work: Excitement for the future of work
Audience:
All levels
Takeaway:
Simple changes everyone can make to contribute to an awesome workplace.
Abstract:
In today’s companies, people are less engaged in the workforce than ever before and millenials move jobs more frequently than any generation ever before.
Engagement levels affect everything from productivity, innovation and ultimately profits.
Having seen first-hand how New Work unleashed the best in individuals and teams, Raffaela believes it should be every company’s top priority in 2020.
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- Find out how new work is bringing out high performance in companies.
- Policies don’t create a passionate workplace. People do.
- What new work models worked and what did not work so well for
performance. - Advice from first-hand experience of how new work unleashed
performance in teams. - The simple changes everyone can make to contribute to an awesome
workplace.
In this entertaining and informative speech, Raffaela takes you along the rollercoaster journey of her career working in big companies to founding her own tech start-up.
She discusses how the introduction of a flat hierarchy and transparent salaries actually hurt performance and how new work helped the business bounce back to a passionate, and fun place to work which put performance back on track.
This talk is aimed to be thought provoking to all levels in your company and give you actionable points you can use to get your engagement levels high again.
New work for leaders: unleashing the best in individuals and teams
Audience:
Leaders
Takeaway:
How to engage and get the best out of people – now and in future.
Abstract:
In today’s companies, people are less engaged in the workforce than ever before and millenials move jobs more frequently than any generation ever before. Engagement levels affect everything from productivity, innovation and ultimately profits.
Having seen first-hand how New Work unleashed the best in individuals and teams, Raffaela believes it should be every company’s top priority in 2020.
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- Find out how new work is bringing out high performance in companies
- Policies don’t create a passionate workplace. People do.
- How conversations & the right questions can boost productivity
- The right balance between freedom and framework.
- Advice from first-hand experience of how new work unleashed performance in teams
- What new work models worked and what did not work so well for performance.
- The simple changes leaders can make to excite employees to contribute to an awesome workplace.
In this entertaining and informative speech, Raffaela takes you along the rollercoaster journey of her career working in big companies to founding her own tech start-up.
She discusses how the introduction of a flat hierarchy and transparent salaries actually hurt performance and how new work helped the business bounce back to a passionate, and fun place to work which put performance back on track.
This talk is aimed to be thought provoking to leaders in your company and give you actionable points you can use to get your engagement levels high again.
How companies are transforming by injecting startup spirit
Audience:
Leaders
Takeaway:
How your leaders can foster the raw energy of startup spirit and use it to solve unknown problems and innovate in their field.
Abstract:
Injecting energy and creativity into a business is now essential to prosper in the ever changing face of business. This keynote dives into how can companies foster the raw energy of startup spirit and use it to solve unknown problems and innovate in their fields.
This isn’t traditional business advice. This talk offers unconventional, useful, advice on building teams that can break through any barrier.
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- Creating an environment that fosters startup spirit
- Policies can’t deliver passion. Inspire people through purpose.
- Why Feedback culture unleashes startup spirit
- Why it’s ok to fail and how it leads to more innovation
- New leadership: how the shift from manager to coach fosters fresh
ideas - How to inject startup spirit into everyday projects
- Why freedom does not always mean more innovation
Every organization is faced with transformation both from internal and external forces.
The global economy, changing consumer behaviours and the digitization of every industry has created tremendous pressure on companies.
In this engaging and entertaining talk, Raffaela draws on her experiences working in idea labs within large companies to her own start-up. She demonstrates that startup spirit can be present in large companies and the steps that can be taken to re-inject startup spirit into their company.
Innovation: A skill that can be learned and sustained
Audience:
All levels
Takeaway:
How Innovation can be learned and sustained.
Abstract:
The World Economic Forum says that ‘Creativity’ will be the third most important job skill required by 2020. However, 94% of managers think their company is not innovative enough. Growing companies need more ideas than ever before.
In this talk, Raffaela explores how companies can start addressing their creativity as organisations realise that what works today, may not work tomorrow.
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- Why innovation needs to be on everyone’s agenda
- Creating an environment that can generate innovation (don’t email,
more comes out f2f) - Processes (yes, processes!) that can grow innovation
- The power of thinking time
- Focus groups for projects can be powerful feedback loop
- Why it’s ok to fail and how it leads to more innovation (trust)
- Why freedom does not always mean more innovation (could bring in
the holidays)
In this engaging and entertaining talk, Raffaela draws on her experiences working in idea labs within large companies to her own start-up. She demonstrates that creativity and innovation is not a rare skill that only a few blessed individuals were born with. It is a skill that can be honed and developed so that everyone can be more innovative.
A decade in startups: Learnings from life on a rollercoaster
Audience:
All levels / Entrepreneurs
Takeaway:
There are huge opportunities for entrepreneurs. Build a business, not a job for yourself.
Abstract:
In this engaging and entertaining talk, Raffaela shares her top learnings from a decade of building startups, from working for the billion euro giant Rocket Internet to building her own start-ups.
Many people complain about doing business in Germany, especially the bureaucracy, the language barrier and the social acceptance of entrepreneurs. Raffaela has experienced these actually being an advantage to launching a business in Germany.
As an entrepreneur you start to become used to swimming against the tide. This talk covers a range of topics and tips to help start-ups including:
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- Using platforms to help you launch faster and with less budget
- Building a business and not a job for yourself
- Lessons learnt the hard way about hiring and leadership
- How to design a high performance culture
- Why Fundraising can turn into a full time job
- Administrative tasks can quickly take up all your time and how to win it back
Germany is Europe’s largest economy, which Raffaela believes has a huge amount of opportunity for those willing to start a business.
A trend that will stay: User Experience (UX) Design as an opportunity for innovation and growth
Audience:
Non-UX Designers interested in the topic
Abstract:
Google was not the first search engine. Apple also did not produce the first smartphone. And Uber was not the first taxi company. What made them successful and put them far ahead of their competition was User Experience Design (UX). In this keynote you learn how you can use UX design in your everyday life, even if you are far away from any design function. Because UX is a mindset that needs to be established in every single department.