New forms of work in the digitalized world were the subject of an exciting conference in Braunschweig from 25 to 27 September. MBS Professor Dr. Ellen Schmid, together with colleagues from the Technical University (TU) of Munich, was represented at a symposium on “Digitization and Leadership Development: Recognizing Challenges, Treading New Paths to Solutions”.
Dr. Ellen Schmid opened the symposium with an insight into her current research project “Executive Education of the Future: Competences for the Digital Workplace” which she is carrying out with her colleague Dr. Markus Böhm from TU Munich. The aim of the project is to understand which competences we need in order to deal with the challenges of the digital working world. After further exciting lectures on the possibilities and challenges of virtual reality in executive development, the promotion of moral sensitivity through digital learning games, and an innovative research project dealing with robots as executives, Ellen Schmid concluded the symposium with a practical example. She reported on a joint project with Dr. Kristin Knipfer (TU Munich), the Center for Digital Leadership Development (TU Munich) and Everskill, in which the digital leadership coach EMMA was developed as a solution for the challenge of training transfer in leadership development.
