[Original published February 2020; Updated December 2022] How to effectively work from home and lead virtual teams and meetings better. Do it yourself through this post for free; or book a session here. Working from Home & Managing Remotely – all HBR expertise put together. Sounds great, and it is! Just make sure you know …
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I was sitting in the meeting with a few senior managers. I could not take away my mind from the high pressure to deliver on our customer expectations, as we were lacking behind on them. At the same time, as a manager, I needed to bring up the delicate subject of people’s health. I had …
27-06-2017, all systems fail. 56 countries, 1500+ operational facilities, 60,000 employees, ….
How an organisation survived the NonPetya computer virus. How leadership makes the difference, but only thanks to the great attitude and loyalty of employees and customers. Learn what matters in developing people in your organisation to allow them to be instrumental when it really counts. When you need to survive crisis.
Undertaking the fundamental shift from a traditional organization designed for the industrial economy to an agile model designed for today’s digital economy. A new form of organization that enables innovation, collaboration, and value creation at incredible speed, scale, and impact. Agile organizations can develop products five times faster, make decisions three times faster, and reallocate …
You can find feedback in any word or behaviour. However, providing intentional feedback requires using all your senses and understanding to ensure it is not considered criticism. Avoid these pitfalls and apply these “must-do’s”.
Displaying warmth with strength is key to making us more influential. Most men have perceived strength, women warmth. But we need both for successful relationship in both business and in life. You can’t fake it. It must come from ‘inside-out’. We need to build our own self-belief that we have the skills and strategies to …
Today we launched our newly developed leadership development programme, “making agile work”. Agile organisations struggle a lot, we have spoken to more than 20 large organisations in the Netherlands and can only conclude: we are not even half way there. We have a new leadership approach to focus on completing the transformation successfully. People feel …
Change leadership is about understanding culture, so it’s really about understanding people and how they work together. Focusing on the change only is ignoring what people come to work for every day, what makes them stay in the organisation and what makes them true team players. #leadership #change #xlgrowth
Trust, what can we do without? Nothing to my humble opinion. Many research has been done and even more books are written about trust. Let’s have a look into trust and how this relates to our day-to-day way of working, wellbeing and personal development. First of all, we all understand trust, as this is the …
Implementing change has something to learn from working Agile. I see 4 distinct differentiators: leadership, team performance, disciplined change execution and measuring from A-Z. Get this right and change (aas well as the personal transition) will be smoother. Here is why: 1. Leadership is better when done together. This is because of true ownership and …