Let’s talk about…… motivation!
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 [...]
Inner team in leadership situations
A short while ago I introduced the inner team and how it can support introspection and self-leadership in difficult and ambiguous situations. Today I would like to go through an example with you [...]
What drives me? My purpose as a business coach and trainer.
Why do I do what I do? At at least one point in everyone’s life, many times in more, we make decisions on where our career will go, we set the course by determining what we would like to do and [...]
Delegation made simple for leaders and teams
As promised in my post on delegation poker, here comes an article on delegation and what steps you can do to make sure that you delegate successfully. If the image here represents how you feel [...]
The inner team – an excellent tool for self-reflection
The inner team by F. Schulz von Thun is an enormously helpful tool in business coaching, introspection and analysis, intrapersonal and sometimes even interpersonal work. I have come to appreciate [...]
Team development – supporting your team where & when they need your leadership.
Teams are usually in some form of development or other. Even when you could be tempted to think that the current situation is stabilizing, or particularly then, things are always changing around [...]
Feeling like a fish out of water? Self-leadership in a pandemic.
A short while ago, last week, in fact, I had one of those ‘ I am beginning to feel a bit tired of all of this’ days. How are you doing? In the midst of the umpteenth online video chat that week [...]
Leadership values – do you need them?
The holidays are fast approaching. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, or Hanukkah, or simply looking forward to the end of the year and the beginning of a new one, for many this [...]
I or we, that’s the question here! (Series: global teamwork)
“We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King Jr. Do you prefer to work in a team, from the top of the hill, in the middle of the ‘melee’ or in the [...]
Germany vs. the UK & tolerance of ambiguity (Series: global teamwork)
If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten. Abraham Lincoln Only a gambler in despair stakes everything on a single throw. Johann von Schiller When the winds of [...]