leadership

There is this German saying that I use sometimes, ok many times, when working with leaders: If you can’t lead yourself, then you can’t lead others. And as I prefer things phrased [...]

Vor kurzer Zeit las ich einen Kommentar der ungefähr auf folgendes hinauslief: Der Autor beklagte die folgende Situation, in der, wie er sie betitelte “armen Führungskräfte“, und der [...]

It’s that time again. I am in a leadership training with and the question pops up: “What tool would you recommend for situation x y ?” Or a participant puts their hand up and [...]

I stumbled across this interesting impulse on empathy and caring, both topics that have been on my mind a lot recently. Since last year I have focussed on care and what it means to me, balancing [...]

This month’s, and maybe beyond, topic is empathy: What is it? How does it contribute to psychological safety? How do you develop it? etc.. Today I would like to talk more about how to build [...]

Building on my last article on empathy, today’s is an impulse piece on empathy and building a psychologically safe environment. Psychological safety means: ‘a believe that there will [...]

The last few weeks and months have left me, next to feeling slightly lost for words, with an even deeper conviction that empathy is a key skill for humans: in life, in leadership, and in [...]

The underdog, according to Collins English Dictionary is the party ” in a competition or situation is the person who seems least likely to succeed or win.” We all love a good underdog story don’t [...]

Humans are born with an intuitive knowledge of what balances a system and when red lines are crossed. For example: if the give and take in a system is unbalanced, people recognize this, actively [...]

Or not! I am sure you have read umpteen articles about motivation, some of which maybe on this website. Most time of my time spent with leaders focusses on what they would like or think they [...]