Blickpunkt Wirtschaft 060
Empowerment as a functional principle of sustainable organisations
Tuesday, 30 September 2025 |
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| 07:00 PM | |
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FHV, Building W, Room W211/12 |
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What can you expect?
Empowerment and agility – two terms that have been used in many ways in numerous organisations for almost 15 years. At the same time, many organisations have been trying for a long time to bring these terms to life and change their own culture accordingly.
There is a good reason for the trend towards empowerment, especially in the context of team leadership. The need for new leadership concepts and a changed organisational culture is evident in growing complexity, crises and constant change.
If an organisation wants to (continue to) be fast and customer-centric, it can afford fewer and fewer hierarchies and must at the same time facilitate decision-making and freedom of action for all employees. However, to ensure that the organisation does not end up in (business) chaos but rather in a high-performing zone, leadership is all the more important, not the opposite. Leadership must change, however, becoming more empathetic, psychological, coaching and at the same time demanding.
Daniel Zacher uses various examples from his everyday management experience over the last decade in industry and in the municipal sector to illustrate how all this can work at the same time. One focus is on his current role as managing director for approximately 250 employees of the city of Landau, where he has been shaping the transformation and cultural change towards an empowered, high-performing organisation for over a year.
Speaker
Daniel Zacher has extensive management experience, having served as managing director of several limited liability companies since 2000 and as global head of organisation transformation at Infineon. His focus is on agile transformation, new work, empowering leadership and digital transformation. He was also an authorised signatory at an international consulting firm and an officer in the German Armed Forces. Daniel Zacher studied economics and organisational sciences (Dipl.-Kfm.) as well as HR & organisational development (M.A.). He is a trained systemic business coach, team coach and INSIGHTS MDI coach. As an author, he published the book ‘Empowerment for Teams’ in 2022. He is also a regular speaker, including at the Handelsblatt Change Congress.
Agenda
| 19:00 Uhr | Welcome Prof. (FH) Mag. Dr. Willy Christian Kriz |
| 19:10 Uhr |
Lecture |
| 19:55 Uhr | Q & A |
| 20:15 Uhr | Get-together |
Event language
German
Audience
All interested parties are cordially invited to attend.
Travel and participation
Participation in the event is free of charge. Registration is required. Please click here to register.
The FHV is easily accessible by public transport. We recommend using public transport to get there.
- It is approximately a 20-minute walk from Dornbirn railway station.
- By train: Dornbirn Hauptbahnhof station
- By bus: Sägerbrücke/Campus V stop
Details about the event series
Our event series Blickpunkt Wirtschaft (Focus on Business) is aimed at members of the public with an interest in economics. Our goal is to raise awareness of the FHV's activities in the field of economics, its cooperation with companies in the region and its business studies programmes. We offer free lectures on current economic and socially relevant topics approximately four times a year. After the lectures, there is an opportunity for discussion and exchange.
The FHV is committed to sustainable event culture. This event is organised in accordance with the criteria of ‘ghörig feschta’ and takes appropriate measures and practices into account.
