Social fitness for sustainable organizations - we combine people and strengths cooperation, leadership and team performance.

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If leadership runs into nothing, teams do not perform well and change the change - we ensure connection, clarity and effect. With individual systemic organizational advice, transformation accompaniment and change management for medium -sized companies that strengthens and moves people.

We are Connecting Humans .
Our mission: a clear ego for a strong we. We accompany companies to make bridges out of brakes - with social fitness, real connection and organizational development that works.

What we offer

Social fitness is the basis for effective cooperation in the modern world of work. Both require targeted measures at different levels. At Connecting Humans in addition to offers for personal development also rely on team and organizational development in order to achieve sustainable and continuous change.

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Personal development

We support you with measures to promote, qualify and further develop employees, managers and junior managers.

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Team development

We support you in team design and development by ensuring that the individual strengths of each team member are optimally utilized and effective collaboration is promoted.

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Organizational
development

We support you in implementing changes and active cultural development in your company in order to increase efficiency, adaptability and innovation.

Together we will find the right solution for you and your company.

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Social fitness as a prerequisite for effective collaboration and therefore the basis of every productive company.

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At its core, social fitness and effective collaboration are about the 4Cs:

Real connections ( CONNECT ) between people, to ensure clear and direct communication ( COMMUNICATE ) on and across all levels, cross-functional, interdisciplinary and multi-perspective, to care ( CARE ) in self- and people-management and to shape the future together ( COCREATE ).

Connecting Humans On Air!

Katha & Jens guest at Gabriel Rath and in his podcast New Work Chat.
Listen now: Spotify | Apple Podcast

There is no shame in not knowing anything, but there is shame in not wanting to learn anything.

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Learning programs that we offer around social fitness and effective collaboration

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Working Out Loud®

The Working Out Loud ® (WOL) programs are social learning & social fitness methods to acquire new skills, network and work on your own attitude. They are self-organized and are primarily aimed at companies that WANT to provide employees and entire teams with self-determined further training.

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Corporate Influencer+

This program is specifically designed for companies that have already reached a certain level of maturity in the area of ​​corporate influencing. The goal is to empower you beyond the basics and promote real personal responsibility. Together we will support you in building a successful and sustainable community.

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#FrauenStärken - Networking Compact

This #FrauenStärken program is a virtual online compact course with a focus on strategic networking. It shows the 1x1 of networking in short units: How good relationships are created, how strategic networking works online and offline, how we increase our own visibility and become more self-EFFECTIVE through networks.

Excellent! Our work is also publicly recognized!

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  • HR Top Influencer 2023 Silver Personio

    Top 10 HR Influencers 2023 Factorial

    Top 10 HR Influencers 2022

    Haufe personnel magazine

    Katharina Krentz is the face of Working Out Loud (WOL) in Germany and has received several awards for her activities. She built up the WOL topic at Bosch, grew the German WOL community and recently founded Connecting Humans with two friends. She repeatedly shows her role as a WOL coach in her social media presence. Whether #FrauenStärken or #WOLforTeams – for her it’s always about mutual support. The goal: recognize personal strengths and expand your own skills and mindset.​

    Haufe personal magazine 5/2022

  • If you scroll through the Twitter timeline these days, you'll see lots of happy female faces. They're the participants of #WOL, Working Out Loud, #FrauenStärken (empowering women). Katharina Krentz came up with the idea for this gigantic initiative, in which over 3000 women (and a few men) work together in more than 600 circles over 12 weeks. This woman is a powerhouse. At Bosch, she is part of the Corporate Human Resources Transformation Team & Collaboration Crew, but she also founded her own consultancy "Connecting Humans" and, coming full circle, became a certified "Working Out Loud" coach. [...]​

    femaleonezero, 3/2021​

  • Katharina Krentz wins the Digital Female Leader Award 2019 in the New Work category. But that's not all: With Bosch's "Working Out Loud" initiative, she and her team also won first prize in the "Teams" category at the New Work Award 2019. [...]​

    Global Digital Women, 12/2019​

  • With Bosch’s “Working Out Loud” initiative, Katharina Krentz and her team won first prize in the “Teams” category at Xing’s New Work Award 2019 at the New Work Experience.

  • HR Excellence Award 2017 - Category 16 (Group) Employee Engagement & Collaboration

    The HR Excellence Awards honor innovative lighthouse projects in human resources management. We are looking for your creative ideas that bring a breath of fresh air into human resources work.

    AUDI, BMW, Bosch, Continental, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Telekom, Siemens win the HR Excellence Award 2017 as a network for their self-organized, cross-company “Working Out Loud” Community of Practice

Let’s connect! We’re excited to get to know you.

Use the contact form, book an appointment with us directly or write us an email to info@connecting-humans.de