Yesterday I watched the figure skating contest at the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Stay here, and let me finish. Takes only three minutes of your time.
If I remember well, figure skating was broadcasted between speed skating and ice hockey. Speed skating for the Dutch part of me and ice hockey for the Czech part.… Read the rest
How often have you heard one of your leaders say the words “speak up”?
Or perhaps, how many times have you said them yourself?
I know that I’ve been in a few situations myself when I felt compelled to express those words. And I’ve also heard them being spoken to me a few times.… Read the rest
Allow me to share a few quotes to kick off the conversation this week.
To set the tone here’s the first quote by Simon Sinek:
“100% of employees are people. 100% of customers are people. 100% of investors are people. If you don’t understand people, you don’t understand business.”
Simon Sinek
Makes sense, right?… Read the rest
Yesterday I read a message online from an old friend about the first few coaching conversations she had this year.
She painted a picture of people looking for direction, being frustrated, overwhelmed, stuck, simply not in a good place.
Obviously, this is not a representative picture, but I also believe we have a problem on our hands.… Read the rest
What do the leaders you want to follow do well?
Notice the word, want.
There are many leaders in our lives we ‘follow’. After all, we would make our lives hard if we didn’t. But that does not mean we like the way they lead.
Of course, we can choose to leave the companies we work for or the countries we live in (it’s election time), but that’s simply not always an option. … Read the rest
