Leadership
Blogs with inspiring tips on leadership and managing different situations. Situational leadership, performance reviews, how to best delegate and give effective feedback to your people.
My co-workers never give me feedback (& here’s why!)
5 common objections to giving feedback to your supervisor, including helpful ways to overcome those objections.
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Pffft, emotions of employees. How do I deal with that?
Are you able to hold your own as a manager, in conversations at work, when strong emotions come into play. You may feel uncomfortable because you don’t really know what to say in this kind of situation. So what conversation techniques are useful?
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Giving unsolicited advice never helps, but these 7 laws do
Sometimes it’s hard not to jump into all kinds of solutions when a work colleague or co-worker comes to you with a problem. Before you know it, you have given well-meant and unsolicited advice that doesn’t really help this person think for himself and come up with a solution on his own.
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Problems with your boss at work? How do you handle that?
Do you also have a boss who is more on sending mode than receiving mode. Never has time for you except when you have done something wrong in his eyes? Do you get the wind in your face even though it is not your fault and do you never get a compliment when you have done something right?
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Want passionate employees who work with drive? 3 ideas
Ever rented a car and washed it before returning it?
You probably weren’t that inspired to do so.
In this blog, 3 helpful ideas to get more inspired employees.
How to better manage introverted employees; 5 ideas
As a manager, how do you make everyone come into their own when, let’s say, half of your people are extroverted personalities and the other half are introverted personalities?
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Changing behavior in your team? You can do it with these 6 practical ideas.
I don’t believe in talking about changing behavior. Nothing at all happens with talk. Changing behavior is about doing. I have 6 practical ideas for you “to just do” in the workplace.
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5 influencing tactics you’ve never heard of
More than ever, as a professional, manager or project leader, you depend on your ability to influence others. Find out in this blog what the tactics to influence are.
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25 helpful strategic questions to make a good decision
As a professional, you regularly find yourself in a position where you are deciding on serious investments of time, resources and people. And you’re never sure…. So what strategic questions can you ask to make a good decision?
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The 7 characteristics of effective meetings
Hey you, meeting tiger, do you already know the recipe for a disastrously bad meeting? It comes at the expense of cooperation. But don’t panic. These are the 7 characteristics of effective meetings.
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Oh dear, they want me to chair a meeting, now what?
Meetings, pfffft a waste of time. One thing is certain: they will never go away. In this blog, I’ll make you understand why exactly you can (should) become a good chair of the meeting.
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Why goal setting doesn’t (always) work and isn’t necessary
Many gurus see goal setting as some kind of holy grail. In my opinion, Tracy, and many gurus with him, overlook three misconceptions about goal setting. Time for a critical analysis and a dissent.
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