Quotes for you

Always address a person in her resources first. — Insoo Kim Berg

Influence Transformation…An alternative approach for leaders

An alternative approach for creative leaders is to identify what is working. Where can we see clues that the preferred future is happening already, examples of good practice? The purpose is to encourage people to sense that much is going well and they can build on it. [...]

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Solution focused leadership or the leader as host?

With the leader as host or host leadership, Mark McKergow offers us a very interesting new leadership perspective with an ancient yet new metaphor. [...]

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The 10 secrets of successful leadership: Secret Number 9 – Focus on similarities instead of differences

We are used to focus on differences and argue about those. This behavior is leading to many conflicts amongst people and even wars amongst countries, but never to progress and success. If you really want to succeed it makes much more sense to focus on similarities instead of differences, because usually much more is similar than different.

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Reflect your leadership skills and experiences

Reflect your leadership experiences and skills or your performance with these two online webinars in August – Improve your performance-Workshop and Solution Focused Leadership-Workshop. [...]

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What works? – A simple question with great effect!

A great story that illustrates the power of the simple question “what works?”. Most of the time it is much easier to do more of what is working than to try to fix what is broken and doesn’t work.
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What if we valued …

Watch this viedo – what if we valued our employees, our clients, our family only half as much as he does? [...]

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The ten secrets of successful leadership: Secret Number 8

In a non-linear, globalized, non-predictable world, like we encounter today, we can’t control as much as we want to, and it’s hard to maintain the status quo. Therefore more leadership is needed that leads to more self-responsible and better employees that can deal with change and are constantly looking for better solutions and progress.
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A story to think about as a leader II

You decide how you want to see the world – through problem-focused or resourceful and appreciative glasses – but consideer, however you decide, it makes a difference!
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Solution Focused Leadership: important learning experiences

Last saturday the first skype workshop on solution focused leadership took place with great learning experiences for me and the participants – thank you once again! [...]

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The 10 secrets of successful leadership: Secret Number 7

There are various theories and great evidence that show that people learn their behavior from role models. Although most of the leaders I have met so far are aware of this fact, they behave completely different in everyday life. [...]

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