The social Web has changed mightily the business and work environment. No doubt about it: The labour market has changed in many industries by a provider to a buyer’s market. That means: the power is to the side of workers changed – at least, as far as it goes to the qualified talents under the (young) professionals. The Chief announcer and supervisor? For them a discontinued model. You stand for autonomy and discretion, for collaboration and self-organization, for equality and sharing.

In addition to a core staff with traditional employment relationships, there is growing a collaborative cooperation without a classic working contract: in projects, freelancers, temporary employment agencies and interim managers, outsourced areas, as well as by specialists working with, suppliers, business partners and customers. Also have shifted the work content: the new professions have much with thinking, design, innovate, manage and negotiate. They demand therefore empathy, intuition and people reverse riser knowledge by the employees and of course by the Executive. So, the old self understanding of leadership is in recent times to the disposition. The catalyst: the new role of the leadership of classically has an Executive the following functions: you leads staff manages processes, is a specialist in their field, staff upwards, representative to the outside, model inside and last but not least it is also man.

Another feature will now be faced with the challenges of our new world of work to integrate: it is the role of catalyst, facilitator, Coordinator and possible maker who must now primarily speak a modern Executive. A catalyst is a figure of inspiration that inflaming others an idea, gives impulses, brings a process in motion and then running the thing. Responsibility and monitoring will remain in the team. A catalyst leads by pretending appropriate framework conditions, presented the work done and makes suggestions. He does not, however, strict instructions and harsh Controls.