"How do we get more women into leadership positions?" is a question that concerns nearly every organization. In many companies, women and men are represented equally at entry level, yet the higher you go up the hierarchy, the more that balance shifts. In Germany, women still hold fewer than 30% of top leadership [...]
"What topic would you like to tackle today?" I ask my coachees at the beginning of each coaching session. The sessions are used to reflect on what the coachee wanted to work on since the last session or to prepare for upcoming challenges. Jan, a manager in an industrial company, answered this question [...]
"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 [...]
"How do I want to be with myself and others?" is a question I regularly encourage my coachees to ask themselves. At the top of the list of answers is: calm. This is hardly surprising, given that my clients' nerves are frayed by their superiors, customers, delivery bottlenecks and, for the last almost [...]
"What did you learn from corona?" is a question currently being asked by many HR experts on LinkedIn & Co. Always take away something positive, seems to be the motto for those working from home. I can easily keep up with that, although unlike for many coaches, for me the whole thing has [...]
"Ms. Keromosemito, what do you think makes people successful?" When I am asked this question, I often have the impression that the person asking is looking for the magic formula for success. I don't have it, but I read a lot and hoped to find the answer in Simon Sinek’s huge bestseller "Start with [...]
“Ms. Keromosemito, how can I best prepare for an Assessment Center?” – this is a question I have repeatedly been asked and generally do not answer. On the one hand, because I am convinced that there is no point in preparing for them. On the other hand, because some companies do the weirdest [...]
