Personal Quarterly 3/2021

27 03 / 21 PERSONALquarterly PROF. DR. MARTIN J. EPPLER Ordentlicher Professor für Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement Universität St. Gallen E-Mail: martin.eppler@unisg.ch www.mcm.unisg.ch PROF. DR. SEBASTIAN KERNBACH Assistenzprofessor MCM – Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationsmanagement E-Mail: sebastian.kernbach@unisg.ch www.mcm.unisg.ch LITERATURVERZEICHNIS Bresciani, S./Kernbach, S. (2020): A Design Thinking Approach for Designing Careers: Finding Authenticity and Increasing Self-Efficacy. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 2020. Bresciani, S./Kernbach, S. (2019): Visual Interventions for Career and Life-design: An Exploratory Experimental Study. In 2019 23rd International Conference Informati- on Visualisation (IV), IEEE, 318-322. Butler, H. (2018): Design Your Life empirical evidence report presentation at Stan- ford University program on designing your life in June 2018. California: Stanford. Eppler, M.J./Kernbach, S./Pfister, R. (2016): Dynagrams: Denken in Stereo. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Reinmann, G./Mandl, H. (2000): Individuelles Wissensmanagement. Berlin: Hogrefe. Reinmann, G./Eppler, M.J. (2008): Wissenswege. Bern: Huber. Kernbach, S./Eppler, M.J. (2020): Life Design: Mit Design Thinking, Positiver Psychologie und Life Loops mehr von sich in das eigene Leben bringen. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Kernbach, S. (2019): Visual Thinking in Life Design: A Conceptual Framework of Visual Tools and Templates. In 2019 23rd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), IEEE, 329-334. Kernbach, S./Nabergoj, A. S. (2018): Visual Design Thinking: Understanding the role of knowledge visualization in the design thinking process. In 2018 22nd International Conference Information Visualisation (IV), IEEE, 362-367. Luthans, F./Avolio, B. J./Avey, J. B.,/Norman, S. M. (2007): Positive psycho- logical capital: Measurement and relationship with performance and satisfaction. Personnel psychology, 60(3), 541-572. Pfeffer, J./Sutton, B. (1999): The Knowing-Doing Gap. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Rehnert, D./Kernbach, S. (2020a): The Pathway of a Change-Maker: Creativity and Affect Regulation to bridge the Intention-Action-Gap. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 2020. Rehnert, D./Kernbach, S. (2020b): Enabling individuals for change: How emoti- onal self-regulation and life design support creative processes in times of change. Academy of Management Career Division Community Conference on “Careers in Context: Theorizing in and about turbulent times”, Vienna, 14-15 February 2020. Wright, K. (2005): Personal knowledge management: supporting individual knowledge worker performance. Knowledge Management Research and Practice 3:3, 156-165. SUMMARY Research question: In how far can design thinking approaches in the realm of life design fruitfully support knowledge workers in times of a pandemic and beyond? Methodology: This article employs a visual approach to ma- naging one’s own knowledge work strategically and evaluates the impact of such methods through longitudinal cohort studies among participants of life design interventions. Practical implications: Knowledge workers can better assess and plan their knowledge work if they make use of simple, iterative and visual mapping techniques that help them achieve a visual awareness of their intellectual resources. HR departments can act as coaches in providing and facilitating such tools.