Episode 37: 5 Steps For Developing Cities in Rural Areas Through University-Practice Partnerships

The aim of this episode is to provide practical advice on how to make university-practice partnerships work in your next projects.

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Episode 32: Understanding Entrepreneurship Education

In today’s episode, I will introduce you to the field of entrepreneurship learning and education research that is primarily concerned with analyzing and reflecting on the process, conditions, contexts, and results of learning and teaching during entrepreneurial activities.

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Episode 31: Learning from the Future Self

In this episode, I will review and share with you a recent reading of Otto Scharmers' book ‘The Essentials of Theory U’ (2018).

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Episode 28: Digitisation in Social Work and Education Organisations

In today's episode, I will start with a short introduction to digitisation in social work and educational institutions before we move on to the development of digital literacy skills and the exploration of the strategic mindset "digital leadership".

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Episode 27: Social Work Management in the Uncertain

In today's episode, we will explore the social economy and have a deeper look at social enterprises that provide individual social services for the people in need of care. In particular, care workers have to deal constructively with uncertainty and insecurity, ambivalence and ambiguity.

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Episode 26: The Perfect Harmony between Ears – Podcasts in Higher Education

In this episode, we’ll be looking at how this specific medium of communication can be used more effectively by students and teachers alike. Meanwhile, we introduce a new open educational resource  to be published in a few days— the Classic Management Murder Podcast Series which is an interactive format to acquiring new knowledge about the main ideas of the classical management schools.

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Episode 25: Hybridity and Multirationality in Social Work Organisations

In this episode, we will investigate those two concepts and raise the question of what conclusion can be drawn for the management of social work organisations.

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Episode 24: The 5 C’s of Leading Organisational Change in Social Work Organisations

In this episode, we will get a bit deeper into this matter. First of all, I will start with a short description of what organisations are and will then move on to the main topic which is Change Management in Social Work Organisations. Finally, I will introduce you to the new concept: The Five C’s of Leadership in Organisational Change.

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Episode 22: The Practice of Adaptive Leadership – Part II

Today, I will continue with an explanation of the fundamental Adaptive Leadership principles and the adaptive work itself, assess the strengths and weaknesses of this leadership model, and end with few implications for social work organisations.

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