Especially in times of crisis, many existential questions arise about health, security, the meaning of life, career prospects and the compatibility of work and family. Nevertheless, everyday life often consumes us and we live our days without getting to the bottom of these existential questions.
Our aim is to strengthen the famous gut feeling by providing it with an analytical partner - strategic thinking. Strategize Your Life aims to apply the principles of strategic thinking used in the boardrooms of the world to your life in seven interactive sessions:
1. Great Life: What are the cornerstones of a great life?
2 Life Purpose: How do I find my purpose?
3 Life Vision: What should my life look like in 5 to 10 years?
4 Life Portfolio: How can the strategic Life Portfolio help me prioritize?
5 Life Benchmarks: 22 ideas for a great life.
6 Life Choice: What small and big decisions should I make?
7 Life Change: How do I ensure successful implementation?
At the end of the course, you will have defined a first version of your life strategy - on one page.
You study hundreds of hours for exams, you spend thousands of hours online, but we have probably never invested 10 hours in our own life strategy. We should do it before the 30,000 days are up.
Who is the workshop for?
- Students of all disciplines.
- Maximum 50 participants, minimum 20 participants
- The workshop is held in German.
Terms and conditions:
- Each participant agrees to write a 3-5 page reflection of the workshop with thoughts on their own life.
- All information shared by participants in the workshop will be treated confidentially. This confidentiality - also among each other - is expected and assumed by all participants. The results of the questionnaire will only be evaluated and processed anonymously, as will the written reflection on the workshop.
- After submission and examination of the elaborated reflection of the workshop by Prof. Strack, it is also possible to receive one ECTS point for participation in this workshop. Please contact Mr. Joos van den Dool joos.vandendool@uni-wh.de from WittenLab.Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale after the examination.
When does the workshop take place?
31 March 2025: 6.45 pm - 2.00 pm as a virtual meeting, steps 1 and 2 of Strategize Your Life
1 April 2025: 6.45 pm - 2.00 pm as a virtual meeting, steps 2, 3 and 4 of Strategize Your Life
3 April 2025: 6.45 pm - 2.00 pm as a virtual meeting, steps 5, 6 and 7 of Strategize Your Life
The registration deadline is 26.03.2025
You can register via the Career Service.
Workshop coach Prof. Dr. Rainer Strack:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Strack, Senior Partner Emeritus and Senior Advisor Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Honorary Professor for Strategic Human Resource Management at Witten/Herdecke University and trained executive coach. Rainer Strack worked full-time at BCG for more than 27 years. BCG has been a pioneer of strategic thinking since the 1960s. For more than 10 years, Rainer Strack led the People Strategy practice globally, the People & Organization practice in Europe and Africa and for more than 9 years the Social Impact practice in Germany. In 2014, he gave a TED Talk on the topic of "Global Workforce Crisis" with more than 2 million views. Rainer Strack led the "Future of Work" project for the World Economic Forum. In 2021, he was inducted into the "HR Hall of Fame" of Personalmagazin.
Rainer Strack is also a physicist, ski instructor, avid soccer fan, amateur painter, Christian, husband and father of three boys.