Events on MAULCO.

Using AI for Self-Improvement and Leadership Development

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Mathias Maul and Inga Skowranek give a presentation on how to use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI “chatbots”) for personal and leadership development. They present principles and concrete examples how AI chatbots can help transform the way of optimizing social skills and regulate one’s emotional balance. They also provide numerous examples how this can help leaders become better at their job. Participation is open to everyone.

Location: DZGO ドイツ語教室, 2F, Sign Company Building, 1-14-4 Awaza, Nishi-ku, Osaka

AI-Augmented Leadership Development

Sat, 31 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This workshop explores how current AI technologies can help transform the way leaders are trained, empowered, and supported. Participants will discover practical applications of generative artificial intelligence in leadership training, including AI-powered simulations and AI-assisted coaching.

The session will address the opportunities and challenges of integrating AI into leadership development, with a focus on maintaining human-centric values such as empathy and intercultural sensitivity. Interactive exercises and critical discussion help attendees gain insights for leveraging AI to foster more effective, humane and future-ready leaders in a global context, especially within intercultural contexts.

Too many meetings, too much information – How leaders make more time for work that matters

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“This meeting could have been an email!” is among the most common complaints. Many of our modern communication methods were designed to improve understanding and raise efficiency. However, in many cases they seem to actually impede the flow of work. Too much information on too many channels all too often overpowers our senses, strains our ability to focus, induces stress and leaves little to no room for innovation and growth.

Build resilient leadership teams: 12 proven principles from 21 years of coaching

Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Successful leadership teams are built of people whose skills and personalities complement each other. What really makes or breaks a team, however, are interpersonal and human skills. Teams lacking communication skills cannot lead their people to innovate and adapt to market shifts; unresolved conflicts and a lack of empathy create conflict and make your people run for the competition; untrustworthy leadership styles increase employee turnover and decrease client satisfaction. With over 20 years of experience in leadership coaching and psychotherapy, I share some proven principles and actionable steps to elevate communication, increase resiliency and resolve conflicts.

First Aid: Some Principles and Actions for Resolving Team Conflicts

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Resolving emotional issues with individual team members and within the team as a whole is the most sustainable way to effect positive change. Based on 20+ years of experience in communications coaching, I present some general principles and concrete actions steps to help you level up team communication with your own teams and your customers’. Participants learn principles and hands-on action steps to improve team communication and, in consequence, productivity. We’ll talk though at least one of the participants’ issues during the workshops and take steps to resolve it.

Appreciation: Do it yourself!

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We need recognition to be productive and creative, to remain loyal to our coworkers, customers and stakeholders, and to feel secure – as freelancers, employees and managers.

But what happens when appreciation is rarely given – or not at all –, or when you find it difficult to express or accept appreciation? Or if a company’s recognition culture is limited to one of those dystopian tools that automatically dole out thumbs up messages?

Mental Tools for Empathy and Efficiency

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Professionally and privately, we are repeatedly exposed to situations that challenge or even exceed our mental and emotional limits: Customers with high standards and colleagues who do not seem to keep promises, as well as time pressure and our “inner voices” that loudly criticise our own work.

The selection of basic mental tools presented in this workshop allow you to change what seems hopeless, from mental overload to dysfunctional communication in teams. With these tools, you’ll be able to work more efficiently and communicate more empathetically with others — and yourself.

Utterly Content Global

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Utterly Content Global brings together content professionals from around the world in an interactive online conference and festival. Created and organized by Tracy Playle and her team, this conference is among of the most vibrant in the content strategy community.

I co-host several live keynote sessions and provide a coaching session on day 2.

Self-Optimization: Taking the In out of Insanity

Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Higher, faster, further, flawless-er, better team player, more authentic, fork always on the left and back straight while eating! — Delivering high-quality work is rather easy if you follow standards and guidelines; becoming a high-quality person however is much more complicated: After all, there is no QA department for thoughts or emotions, although they make up the foundation of our quality of life, and, consequentially, the quality of our work.

Demographic Change and Digital Revolution: Are Japanese and German Businesses Ready for a Shift in Workforce?

Fri, 05 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I’m honored to present the closing keynote at this year’s symposium of the Japanese-German Business Association (DJW, 日独産業協会).

Read the presentation transcript here.

HYPERFOCUS: How to become and stay focused with your company, team, and inside your own brain.

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes, business gets overly complex, or complicated, or both. Markets change, customer demands shift, and of changing minds affect your bottom line. As a result, what once worked in your business won’t quite achieve the results you want or need now. This presentation is based on our own methodology which helps to:

Reorient your business and yourself, refocus your efforts and regain stability in a world that is moving faster and faster.
Focus pitches to hone in on that perfect customer segment you’ve been thinking about for months or years.
Get a grip on runaway projects, teams, businesses or even yourself with proven methodologies.
Tap into our team’s combined knowledge and experience in business development, marketing, coaching, copywriting and tidying up heaps of stuff and turning them into beautiful artifacts.
Manage complexity and become more resilient to outside influences.

Please note, however, that this is not a sales presentation. I will go into as much depth as is possible within one hour, so please view this as an opportunity for you to change your perspective on nagging business and, possibly, personal issues – and to pick my brain.

Trust Value Chains

Wed, 19 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Companies must build trusting relationships with their clients to be successful. To achieve this, they need to create content that conveys trust along the whole customer journey. In this session, Mathias will provide examples and rules to build a trusting company culture “bottom-up” and dissolve silos … with love. In consequence, content for marketing, sales and other departments can be created much more easily and with a lot more impact. About the presenter: After studying linguistics and computer science, Mathias Maul had a psychotherapy practice for ten years. One of the primary therapist skills is building trust in a matter of minutes, or even seconds. This knowledge is part of his work at The Content Shrinks, an agency that assists companies to improve content workflows by improving collaboration and helping people get better at what they do and who they are.

Reader-First Content That Does Its Job: Principles and Examples for Continuous Collaboration

Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Eventually, creating content comes down to fingers hitting letters, one at a time. But the interplay of thoughts, corporate politics, decisions, emotions, hunger and the need of going to the loo right when muse strikes that makes fingers hit keys is baffling and unpredictable.

Creating measurably effective content requires consistently effective content creators. In this session, Matt will delve deep into debugging the wetware (i. e., brains) of people and teams and unearth principles that help create consistent results.

Reader-First Content with Author-First Workflows

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Being a proxy for direct human interaction, content needs to be authentic to reach its desired goals. But good luck trying to inject authenticity into today’s highly volatile teams and workflows that govern the daily grind of sales, marketing and pr departments.

Methods to make the recipient believe that content is authentic are like a crutch. Do not focus on creating authentic content. Instead, help your content creators become more authentic in what they do and who they are, and much of the rest will come naturally.

Humane Content Workflows

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Chock-full with personas, life cycle diagrams and style guides, content strategies often lack one essential feature: the means and methods to make a particular strategy work within a particular company, its teams and (often quite particular indeed) employees and agencies. In this half-hour presentation, you will learn how to …

create and govern reader-first content with self-optimizing author-first content workflows,
tailor content strategies to the particularities of your company, teams and employees,
enhance intra-team and inter-team communication – even across silo boundaries,
optimize communication with external agencies,
decide when you should insource or outsource content work, and
identify and defuse issues before it’s too late and overcome impasses using your own resources.

AI vs. Humans: The Future of Content Strategy

Mon, 15 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In this Content Strategy Mini-Conference, Mathias Maul (Hamburg, Germany) and Tyler Harder (Tokyo) will give talks about two of the hottest topics in content strategy and content marketing.

Click here for a write-up of Matt’s presentation

1830: Doors open
1900: Welcome
1915 ~ 1930: A (Very) Quick Introduction to Content Strategy [Mathias Maul]
1930 ~ 2000: Can A.I. commit a white collar crime? — An exploration into the role of Artificial Intelligence in digital marketing. (Tyler Harder)
2000 ~ 2030: Humane Content Workflows: Making Content Strategies Work in the Enterprise. — Learn to create reader-first content with author-first workflows and tailor content strategies to your company, teams and employees. Enhance communication in teams and with agencies. Solve problems using your own resources. (Mathias Maul)
2030 ~ 2100: Q&A
2100~: Networking
2200: 居酒屋 ^__^

OMG Decisions!

Mon, 24 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When creating and executing content strategies, clear thoughts tend to turn into heaps of spaghetti pretty soon: Abstract processes need to be boiled down to concrete tasks which in turn are delegated to people that collect content from other people … each of which already has a big enough serving of mental spaghetti in their heads.

If you want to create relevant content for your client, then first of all you and your team need to be in a good mental shape yourself. One way to achieve this is to learn making the right decisions at the right time, think relevant thoughts and thus arrive at content that just works.