Trade-offs

How to make trade-offs that you feel comfortable about

 -  Sustainable
Making difficult trade-offs is so frustrating. It takes a lot of time, often there’s that nagging feeling of doubt, sometimes even guilt, and all of that for an undesired end result: choosing ONE of two options whereas you wanted BOTH. The other day we had one of those typical dilemma’s. We had planned to speak … Continued
Speaking up

5 tips for when speaking up during meetings feels uncomfortable

 -  Leadership
It’s a classic: the town hall meetings where nobody asks questions. The board meetings where only some people voice their opinion. The company meetings where only few people take part in the conversation. There could be many reasons for this, including corporate culture. Often, the silence is also linked to personal discomfort – speaking up … Continued
tips to react when with a negative person

5 tips to react when with a negative person

 -  Positive
Having negative people around is not fun. Especially people that are constantly negative. It sucks the energy out of us. Here are 5 tips on how you could react when there is a person in your environment that tends to be negative.

5 Tips To Get That Assignment, Promotion Or Raise

 -  Leadership
It happens often – ‘big, empty talkers’ receiving an assignment, a promotion or a raise, and others feeling frustrated because they consider they were the ones who deserved the ‘prize’. There is good news. You can get that assignment, that promotion, or that raise in the future. By relentlessly showing how good you are. How to do so? Here are 5 tips.
Asking questions for positive mindset

How these power questions can help you create a positive mindset

 -  Positive
The questions people ask have an enormous influence on our mindset and attitude. Lousy questions create a lousy mindset and attitude. Quality questions create a quality mindset and attitude. You want to create a more positive mindset and attitude in your team? In your family? In yourself? Ask these empowering questions.
To live without loving is not really to live

To live without loving is not really to live

 -  Sustainable
Molière died of tuberculosis at the age of 51, while on stage in the middle of a live performance of, precisely, Le Malade Imaginaire. Yes, imaginaire. Imagine Molière could have doubled his longevity, that is, living 100 years. How many more genious-pieces would his intelligence and imagination have created? Mozart would correct me, arguing that “Neither intelligence nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
Teamness Alignment

5 tips for when your team doesn’t get along

 -  Teamness
Is your team a ‘dream team’? Are members working well together, is there a good level of bonding, and is the atmosphere pleasant? Or is good collaboration in your team just a distant dream? Do people disapprove of each other, are vicious little games frequent, is criticism constantly in the air? Here are 5 pragmatic tips to create more bonding in the team you’re leading.

Succeed in getting to an agreement when all parties have a strong opinion

 -  Leadership / Teamness
We’ve probably all experienced it–many times. Different parties trying to convince each other, without success. Endless debates. People not feeling heard. Usually it ends with frustration. The hierarchical leader takes a decision that is not shared by the others. Or there is no decision, and the situation lingers on, leading to even more irritation. Here’s how to get to an agreement with an underlying bonus…