5 Tips How to Be Friends with Someone Who Works for You

In the last year I met several people that had a subordinate as a close friend. Having a friend or partner who is a subordinate requires high degrees of trust, explixit communication, bounderies and judgment on both parts. It’s not possible with every work relationship. 5 Tips:

Compassion in 2018

4 tips for coworkers' feedback dialoque

1.Ask your coworkers’ to push back. “How do you feel that went, and what could I have done differently?”

When stressed, alow yourself to unfocus

The brain operates optimally when it toggles between focus and unfocus., allowing you to develop resilience, enhance creativity, and make better decisions too. Most of us are juggling the demands of many teams  and many projects at once. Getting pulled across several different projects can be stressful

Citizenship crafting; a dialoque to discuss overachieving

20 % of your time rescuing the teams problems? Manage peer accountability!

How to Handle Underperformers on a Team You Inherit

Work only a paycheque? But what makes us happy?

In this article I recognized the "what do i really value?" question . Many of us today expand the role of work beyond just earning a living and expect our careers to provide opportunities for personal growth and fulfillment. But when you ask people directly,  you don’t always get a clear picture of what they really value.

Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies; 3 tips

When I read this article I realized again, as a babyboomer, that we have to communicate with our youngest working generation to fill in the possible generation gap!

7 Qualities of Design-thinking leaders

In leadership coaching I meet a lot of " New School"  leaders that are looking for new ways of leadership. They miss creativity in their jobs. 

Fear for speaking in public; step outside your comfortzone

You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. Situations like these — ones that are important professionally, but personally terrifying — are, unfortunately, ubiquitous. An easy response to these situations is avoidance. Who wants to feel anxious when you don’t have to?

Addiction to smartphone; try digital detoxing

You don’t have to be a work addict to be a slave to your smartphone — what Friedman calls “a reactive robot twitching every time you’re called upon.” When “you’re physically present but psychologically absent, you’re saying to the people who are with you that they are less important.” When it comes to digital detoxing, “there is no one solution that works for everyone.” So you should experiment. Here are some suggestions:

Are You An Ambivert?

We’ve all heard of introverts and extroverts, but what if you feel like you’re a little of both? You might be a third personality type—an ambivert—and it can give you an edge in business.

Happiness; Do more of what you’re good at and less of what you’re not so good at.

Happiness comes mainly from 3 things: 
-choosing to be happy with whatever you do
-strengthening your closest relationships
-exercising more to maintain your health

What It Really Means to Be Authentic

Authenticity is about enjoying a new sense of freedom to be who we really are—ourselves, natural and without a mask in our relationships, our work and our life. It takes courage, commitment and depth to:

4 tips to let go; “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” ―Elvis Presley

Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak or wrong in any way.  Sometimes it simply means you’re strong enough and smart enough to let go and move forward with your life.

Nothing will work unless you do : Maya Angelou

Empower yourself! GIve what you want to change a name and it will start living!

Ego is a collection of ideas

Ego is a collection of ideas
The higher we are edged the more our ego takes over.