Empathy – key for leaders building psychological safety
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 [...]
Personal coaching supporting business success
So what does coaching contribute to business success? Quite a bit, according to Moritz Mann, founder and managing director of Protofy. Together with his colleagues, the company’s management [...]
Why am I a business coach & how did I get here?
What did you want to be when you were a teenager? When I was 14 I decided I wanted to build airplanes. Originally I wanted to fly airplanes, the big Jumbo jets, that is; but I had been informed [...]
To belong or not to belong… a question for organisations
Unwritten systemic laws, that is what we started talking about in my last two blog posts, initially in German, followed by English. In those I focused on the balance of give and take and how [...]
Give and take – systemic laws in organisations, leadership and teamwork
Unwritten systemic laws – does that sound strange to you? Yet we are intuitively aware of them, and they become clear immediately when boundaries are crossed. For example: if there is no balance [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Learning by playing – a fun way to get into delegation
Debating whether to increase the level of self-organisation in your team? Maybe your team have been keen to take on more responsibility and you haven’t been sure how to transfer it? Or you want [...]
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 [...]
Keep your team mates close? Riemann-Thomann: looking at constancy, closeness, distance and change.
The Riemann-Thomann model on the four main behavioral preferences of humans is a tool that I like using with individuals as well as teams in order to help them figure out and understand [...]