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Team Alignment: What if Your Team is Stuck?
Do you recognize this situation? A team is confronted with an important problem, and it has to tackle it. All team members are actively discussing and debating the problem, trying to come up with a proper solution. Everybody shares a…
Read MoreExecutive Team Alignment: The Power of Team Coaching
‘We should have had this discussion a long time ago. It would have saved us a lot of time and a lot of useless frustration.’ This was the feedback I received from executives during an executive team alignment session I…
Read MoreLeadershipwatch Anniversary
This month is the 2nd anniversary of Leadershipwatch! The past two years have been exciting and rewarding. Leadershipwatch has become a source for 21st century leaders to find new insights, advice and tips on how to deal with today’s leadership…
Read MoreLeading Multinational Companies: The Difference between Execution versus Action
Some time ago this executive team contacted me. They were dealing with important market changes that affected their business. There was an urgent need for change in the organization and they had defined a set of strategic objectives that would…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 3)
This series is about people alignment as a crucial competence for today’s leaders. Especially in a globalized world, where cross-cultural and multinational challenges are becoming more and more a normal part of the leader’s job. Successful leaders create people alignment…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this series I wrote about the importance of people alignment as a crucial competence for today’s leaders. Especially in a globalized world, where cross-cultural and multinational challenges are becoming more and more a normal part of…
Read MoreCross-Cultural Leadership: How to Create People Alignment (Part 1)
Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders are more and more facing cross-cultural challenges caused by globalization, emerging economies and new markets. How to notice differences in cultures? How to understand their impact on people behavior and performance? How to avoid cross-cultural friction…
Read MoreLeading Multinational Companies: Three Significant Changes in the Role of Senior Leaders
In working with multinational companies we see three specific changes that affect the role of senior leaders. Three changes that require special attention and sometimes even a fundamental mind shift. Read more …
Read MoreLeading Innovation: Why Executives Should Stimulate People to Make (Better) Mistakes
A while ago I was working with a senior executive team. The team was leading a global division and was facing a complex change that involved four continents. They organized a session together to align as a team on the…
Read MoreLeading Change in the 21st Century: 4 Myths About Cultural Change
These days cultural change is a topic that is high on the agenda of many corporate executives. It looks like almost each change initiative within companies is linked to changing its culture. Many leaders proclaim that the ability to change/adjust…
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