I’ve often been asked in training and mentoring how to figure out what you like to do and what you could do in life. Of course there are excellent methods and guides for this (e.g. Gallup Strenghts, birth chart, personality tests, human design, IKIGAI, etc.), but over time I’ve developed what I call test questions: […]
What are your strengths? Read More »
Leaders are called into their roles with the aim of bringing about development through change and leaving behind a legacy of what I call leadership legacy: a trail in the development of people, the organisation and themselves. The role of the leader is to prepare the organisation for the next stage of development and to
The success of a manager is measured by the speed of redundancy of his own post. Read More »
You know those moments when you feel things are flowing exactly the way they’re supposed to and you’re surrounded in that right flow by exactly the people who are helping you get better and who you’re helping to get better? You don’t understand exactly what it is, but you feel that nothing is bothering you
Driver5 – we are the average of the five people in our inner circle Read More »
25 August was a special day. I did a training which was not a management training, but a communication training. Me, who was afraid to communicate with people until a while ago, is now doing communication training! Training can be something you have done or experienced yourself. From the feedback I got, I could see
On communication and communication problems Read More »
In the Empowerment workshop, I will show you how to measure your team’s commitment index, or performance, and quickly identify what needs to change and what obstacles need to be removed immediately. See more here
According to a 2016 McKinsey survey, 86% of managers consider themselves to be inspiring and exemplary leaders. According to the same survey, 82% of employees do not consider themselves committed to the organisation. 90% of desired organisational changes fail because the culture of the organisation is not sufficiently taken into account. (McKinsey, 2014) In the
My experience of building dedicated teams Read More »
The role of a leader is something of which meetings are an essential part – organising them, chairing them, being in them. At a certain point, it becomes a manager’s identity and a competitive advantage – whoever has the most meetings and missed lunches at the end of the week wins. For Midsummer, the winner
The leader with the most meetings at the end of the week wins. Read More »
The eighth episode of the Talent Lab talks about growing up as a leader and the charms and challenges that come with it. The programme is hosted by Juta Palmeri from Fontes, and Ivar Raav from I.R. Consultations and Katriin Jüriska from Biotheka help to make sense of the topic. “I like the phrase ‘never
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Watch the Facebook live recording from the Brand Name You page, where we talked to Olesija and Evelin about personal branding as a manager and trainer.
Personal branding as a leader and trainer Read More »
Conversation with Veiko Valkiainen in the Pocket Voice “Management quality is a competitive advantage”. Consult here for my conversation with Veikko as well as other insightful and interesting discussions on leadership: The idea of the metaphor of the management footprint came to me from the concept of the ecological footprint and the whole climate theory,
As a leader, what kind of footprint are YOU leaving on your team? Read More »
