"What was the weather like on vacation?" customers often ask when we meet up again after the vacation period. A vacation seems to be especially good when the sun is shining and it's warm, but not scorching hot. Since I've been surfing, I always have to think a little about what the weather [...]
"What have you learned about people?" asked Matt Griggs at my Nature of Success development measure in the Maldives this year. It is one of the questions we are asked to contemplate after the daily workshops. What a question for me, with my degree in psychology, 30 years of experience as a consultant, 25 years as a [...]
"What have you learned? How do you grow?" is what Matt Griggs likes to ask in his workshops and coaching sessions. This time was no exception, as I found myself on the Nature of Success "Next Level" tour "Let's Go Deeper" in the Maldives with nine other hand-picked participants and Taylor Knox. The condition for [...]
"What topic do you think I should tackle next?" my coachee Alex asked the other day at the beginning of our session. Alex has held a leadership position in a medium-sized company for four years. During this time, she has excellently mastered several professional challenges. She reorganized her team, successfully implemented concepts, and [...]
"What is your life philosophy?" Matt Griggs asked me for the first time in 2019 as part of my development measure. After my Kelee meditation, I contemplated on it and suddenly had an image in my mind: that of a breakfast buffet. It had struck me that people fill their breakfast plates very [...]
"Do you think I should become a coach?" is a question I get asked pretty regularly. Becoming a coach, or at least training to be a coach, is an unstoppable trend. In the past, a life crisis would prompt people to get a new hairstyle, a Harley, or have an affair. Today, they [...]
"Does anyone want to do a round of introductions?" – This is a question that is never asked at the beginning of a workshop or seminar. Instead, the round of introductions seems to be an essential requirement at events. Everything starts with the round of introductions. There are no two ways about it. In [...]
"What would you have done in my position?" many coachees ask me when they tell me about challenging situations from their day-to-day work. Recently, Mr. V., managing director of a subsidiary in a group of companies, asked this question. He had been involved in a conflict with Mr. T., the managing director of another subsidiary [...]
"Why doesn't our management listen to us, although we are the experts and know how it works?" a participant in my expert program asked me a while back. In cooperation with the customer, I developed a program for an international luxury goods manufacturer in 2016 that strengthens the ability of experts to convey [...]
"Can you please also address the issue of resilience?" a customer recently asked me. My task was to reflect on the results of a 360° feedback process with managers of a large corporation. The CEO attached particular importance to the issue of resilience. One of these topics that descended upon us shortly after 'work-life [...]
