We have all been there. The promotion you have hoped for, but didn´t get. A colleague who made a blunt remark. Or a client choose to place an important order w...

Do you recognize the following situation? You are on holiday in the snow. You are enjoying the skiing, but all of a sudden, you go to fast. You want to stop, you try...

Do you recognize the following situation? It’s Monday morning and you didn’t feel like going to the office, because you know there is so much work waiti...

He sat opposite me. Full of energy, open eyes and with a big smile. He had just found a new job and he was really looking forward to it. He just wanted to ‘lev...

When I was still employed, the objectives from the annual business plan were always evaluated every quarter. The whole MT would come together and have passionate dis...

Aahhh you don’t really believe that, do you?? Yesterday I was at a network event in the heart of Paris. And almost everyone I spoke to wanted to change jobs. T...

A long time ago I was still employed. I worked with a colleague who liked to boss me around. "Do you want to fax this for me?" "Can you copy these documents for me?"...

There are rotten bosses, silly bosses, stupid bosses, blunt bosses. Actually, all bosses are just bastards! Right? Or maybe not? Almost everyone has had a disagreeme...

This summer we will start with a great seminar: "Managing a value based full TOP team." In 2 days we will explain in detail how to turn a group into a team. But that...

I found this quote on Pinterest. And I thought it was absolutely true. When I was about 12 years old, I had to take a test to determine to which school I had to go. ...

I am writing this blog from France, just below Paris. One of the Corona hotspots. Last night, President Macron told us to stay inside for another month. This means t...

There are colleagues with whom you have to work together, but who you would rather not see after office hours. Those colleagues who would like to play the boss over ...

This is a line from the evergreen “Wouldn’t it be good” performed by Nik Kershaw. He was big in the eighties, for all you young puppies out there. ...

It will never work! Can I do this? Who would hire someone like me? I am not smart / beautiful / intelligent enough These are those sentences that have haunted every...

There I was, at the bottom of a rock that I was going to climb. For the first time without ropes, without material. It was all a bit new to me. And you know what hap...

If you will show this drawing (taken from “The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey) to a group, 50 % will say that this is a drawing of a youn...

There she was. She had been planning to contact me for a while now. She was an expat's wife and the mother of a little girl. In her homeland she had studied marketin...

This phrase was once said by the Dalai Lama. And as far as I'm concerned, he's absolutely right. Now that probably most of us are working at home, this situation pr...

Now that the Corona crisis has almost ended, we are all carefully making holiday plans again. What are your plans for this summer? To the beach? Or the mountains? O...

Yeah you read that right. The way you do your job is actually a self-portrait. Suppose you are starting a new job. Everything is new. You still have to get to know ...