I love helping people fulfill their potential, figuring out what they want and how to do it. For the last couple of years I have been working in longer term development processes with some customers. The majority of them in a process of regular, continuous coaching. Then others in more concentrated bouts of coaching, followed […]

Psychological safety: key to team performance Following my article on psychological safety and leadership, I would like to expand a bit on what psychological safety is beyond the buzzword of the moment, and how it can impact your teams, leadership and organisation. As these things sometimes do, psychological safety has taken sometime to to make […]

Last time we talked about authentic, values-based leadership. And now? What does this mean in concrete terms for me as a manager? Today and in future articles, we will look at different scenarios to see what it can mean. Because just as people are different, authentic, values-based leadership also varies from manager to manager. According […]

When I talk with my trainees about authentic, value-based leadership, invariably there comes the time when this gets questioned in one of the following ways: What about this example of leader XY who did this? What does that mean in terms of my environment where I see people advancing based other criteria (like, for example, […]

Piggy-backing on my last article, today we are going to look at what to keep an eye out for when building company culture, and critically, when building a good company culture. So, what do I mean by good company culture? By good company culture I do not mean the same culture everywhere. Good company culture […]