A lot has been written about the challenges millennials have to integrate into our organizations. But they are now moving themselves into management or project leadership roles. I have therefore observed the behavior of millennial leaders and want to share feedback in this article.… Read more “Millennial leaders – How do they operate and what we can learn from them?”
YOUR FIRST 100 DAYS IN A NEW JOB
As HR leader, I get very often the question how to best manage the first 100 days in a new job. This article outlines what to consider when you will shape YOUR first 100 days in order to make that start in the new role as efficient as possible.… Read more “YOUR FIRST 100 DAYS IN A NEW JOB”
3 step approach to define your career strategy
This article outlines the 3 steps to define my career strategy – Many of us spend a lot of time on the business strategy but rarely much time on defining our personal career strategy. Here are some tips how to improve this.… Read more “3 step approach to define your career strategy”
The power of true Conversations
We speak about a conversation when we want to engage in a deeper exchange with another person. This article outlines some thoughts on how to prepare for the conversation and how to make it as rich and constructive as possible. It speaks about the importance of emotions and body language, about stumbling stones we may encounter and how to manage them during the conversation.… Read more “The power of true Conversations”
Career Strategy: Connecting to your DEEP DESIRE
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Our deep desire should guide us on the definition of our career strategy. But we are often disconnected from it. This video shows why and offers some simple approaches how to connect back to our deep desire.
I would like to outline here in greater detail what I mean by deep desire.… Read more “Career Strategy: Connecting to your DEEP DESIRE”
Happiness is in the PRESENT moment
Our mind is constantly drifting into the future to think about projects and duties or it is ruminating the past. But happiness is in the present moment. This video offers some thoughts on how to better connect to the PRESENT
Connecting to the present
I was running through the beautiful park of “Les Buttes Chaumont” in Paris, when this idea on happiness came to my mind.… Read more “Happiness is in the PRESENT moment”
Career management – You are the CEO!
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Career management is an important responsibility we have. We are all the CEOs of our own little enterprise. We are in charge to set the strategic direction, to ensure that our market value is increasing, to monitor trends and opportunities and to make bold decisions when needed.… Read more “Career management – You are the CEO!”
How to manage cultural change
Many of us have experience how difficult it is to manage cultural change. This video outlines the importance of taking the unwritten rules into account to avoid that they become roadblocks in our change journey. The approach developed by Peter Scott-Morgan shows how to make these deeply rooted drivers of employee behavior visible and how to efficiently address them in our change journey (Peter Scott-Morgan: The Unwritten Rules of the Game, 1994)
Many cultural change initiatives fail – why?… Read more “How to manage cultural change”
The power of saying Thank you!
Chip Anthony heads up a sizable industrial activity in Chattanooga (Tennessee). We visited his production site together and I was amazed by the fact that Chip reached out to many people calling them by their names, shaking hands, asking how they were and saying “thank you!”… Read more “The power of saying Thank you!”
Wow How : Great leadership behavior
Wow how = Examples of great leadership
Many companies assess employee performance based on the WHAT and the HOW. What has been achieved is based on the annual objectives. the How dimension is usually based on a leadership framework that outlines the expected leadership behavior.… Read more “Wow How : Great leadership behavior”