Actually, I didn't want to write about procrastination. I think procrastination is a chewed-up concept. Many experts have explained procrastination very well. However, I came to an insight from the brain&mind approach® that motivated me to write an article about procrastination. We need to deal with procrastination in a different...
Currently, staff retention is a very important focus among companies. There is a shortage of personnel in many sectors, so it is easy for an employee to quit and start with another employer. The usual measures, such as a good salary, sufficient development opportunities, and flexible working hours, are no...
Managers think that self-care is a weakness. When I became aware of this, it was a very confusing observation. Many managers do not practice self-care. (When I write managers, you can also think of professionals like caregivers, consultants, etcetera). They think that working a tooth harder will help them. They...
We have been going from crisis to crisis for some time now. Especially in times of crisis, we need leaders to guide us well through this crisis. I regularly wonder if our leaders have enough skills to manage this crisis. But I'm more worried about something else. Can the leaders...
Easily I can be distracted by insufficient respect in my immediate environment. If I'm not careful, I lose focus. Respect means showing appreciation in the relationship. Every human being deserves respect. Not showing respect can happen very subtly. And so, I can become very subtly distracted. For everyone, it's important...
Working together is not easy because at least two things come together that do not naturally belong together. You have your own needs, your insecurities, and expectations. And you have the needs, insecurities, and expectations of others: sometimes another person, sometimes a group of people. These differences can make working...
At work, your colleague has a problem with her boss. She asks you to be a mediator. What would you do? Perhaps you think, "No way. The problems with her boss are not my problem. I have a hard enough time as it is." Or perhaps you think, "Yes, I'm...
I get the impression that we are becoming less and less resilient as a society. I suspect that the pandemic is also having a great effect on our resilience. This decrease in resilience is quite worrisome because it is precisely during a crisis that we need resilience. If the crisis...
The world is getting more and more complex. The most common management culture is one of managing, controlling, being the boss. Systems and models supposedly control the issues that arise, sometimes by being busy creating new cultures. This present management culture does not work in the increasingly complex world, and...
The pandemic has not gone away yet; the pandemic is slowly becoming part of our new normal. This new normal also includes a new way of working together: 'hybrid working.' There are some dangers to hybrid working, and the main danger is that informal communication channels exist much less. In this...