Stop Meeting, Start Leading: Regular Leadership Team Retreats to Boost the Bottom Line
For medium-to-large-scale businesses in Southeast Asia, it’s not just a buzzword; it's a strategic imperative. In a fast-paced market defined by rapid change and intense competition, your leadership team is your most valuable asset . How do you ensure they remain a cohesive, innovative, and highly effective unit? The answer lies in regular, purposeful leadership retreats.
How to Drive Strong & Fast Results? Lead without Authority
Would you agree - it is so easy to lead and influence with authority. Your hierarchical position allows you to tell people what to do. And things are getting done. Easy, right? In my experience, this leads to complacency and "dump followership". It hinders your productivity, agility and innovation. You want your teams to add their expertise, make fast decisions, and think out of the box. Let's...
The Synergy between Change Maker & Change Facilitator
One way I like to explain what change management practitioners are doing, is by making a distinction between Change Makers and Change Facilitators. The former being responsible that the change is happening; the latter being responsible that the change is happening as effective as possible. We can find great synergy between these two roles, supporting each other in creating lasting success for...
Change Leadership in Riyadh - Lessons Learnt
This week I am in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, facilitating a series of 2-day workshops. The topic? Change Management for the senior leadership teams of a large-scale organisation - in total about 100 people. Why did the organisation choose change management as a topic? Despite the current legacy of the country, the organisation can only be successful in the long run, when they focus on the future! And...
Self-Managed Organisations - The Results are In
This is not the first time, I share about self-managed organisations ( check here ) and I admit, the concept is fascinating. It is fully aligned with successful leadership principles like shared goals, transparency, autonomy, etc. Hey wait - this is not a concept! Self-managed organisations have been implemented in the real world and the results are in! 50% revenue increase; doubling of profit....
How Smart & Healthy is Your Organisation?
As a leader, do you sometimes feel stuck and despite the best efforts, you don't see progress? You might focus too much on being smart. Successful organisation focus on being smart and healthy . I like to illustrate this as a train representing the delivery to the customers (smartness). And the tracks (healthiness) are supporting the train to run smoothly. According to Patrick Lencioni it is easy...
We need Quality Growth - Let's start with Frugality
As a change management professional, I have been more than necessary in projects that focus on cost cutting. And I have to say, these projects are mostly frustrating, destroying value, and won't contribute to the long-term success of any company. What is the alternative approach? Focus on maximising value creation with the assets we have ! Which helps organisations to focus back on quality growth.
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[Case Study] Turning Cost Savings into Climate Action: A Sustainability Success Story
Sustainability initiatives often face a hurdle: cost concerns. Many believe decarbonisation is simply too expensive. But what if we re-framed the conversation? This case study showcases how a seemingly daunting cost-cutting target became a springboard for a successful sustainability initiative. Here's how a headquarter's request for a 200 million US dollar savings in energy cost became a catalyst...
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[Case Study] - How to build a strong culture foundation when scaling up fast
There are mentorship programs and mentorship programs... Sometimes you walk into the client's office and you feel a different culture - a strong, positive dedication to deliver great results. How can you maintain and improve this culture while scaling up fast ? VISEO - the Positive Digital Makers - launched a mentorship program exactly with this in mind: selecting and enabling a group of...
How to make target setting impactful?
“Only 41% of CEOs believe employees’ behaviours are mostly aligned with company’s values and direction.” This statement from PwC's annual CEO survey means that about 60% of the employees are not fully aligning their productivity with the company's priorities . As a result, efforts are wasted in the wrong direction. Further, according to Hive17's surveys, about a third of the managers...
Foundation to Deliver Excellent Customer Value - The Human Operating System
The purpose of any organisation is to successfully deliver value to their customers . The range of customers might be wide and the definition of value and success might greatly vary. Though, in essence that is it. And rightfully, companies are focusing their efforts on selling, producing and delivering their products and solutions. Recently, there have been new questions and barriers appearing in...
How do You Enable the Translation from Vision to Action?
Our current times are full of change and a solid strategy is necessary to give the organisation direction and alignment to create lasting success. Furthermore, a meaningful and clear vision is driving motivation and is a strong ingredient for making decisions. Yet, many companies struggle to bring their vision to the ground. Employees are saturated with changing strategies and often don't see how...
How to enable teams to give their best? Having Fun
Many of you know that I am a self-declared 'positivist' - a person with a strong belief that when we look at things from the bright side, we will deliver better results, be more creative, and have more energy - enabling teams to give their best! And while following another passion of mine - sailing - I found another proof that I am on the right path "Does it ever go too far, where you said, we...
Your Sustainability Journey has Started - Are You Also Creating Impact?
Yes, in the last months we have achieved a lot. The majority of companies have defined sustainability targets and they are concerned about creating their ESG report. Though, we also need to be honest with ourselves: this is only talk and we need action - a lot of action - to reach global success in turning around climate change! “57% of CEOs identify unclear ROI and economic benefits as a leading...
Happy International Women's Day!
Today, we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women in Singapore and around the world. We continue to strive for gender equality in this region and professional change management skills can support women's confidence at their workplace. The CPC Change Management methodology can equip women with the tools they need to lead to successful change initiatives and demonstrate their value as...
Sustainability x Change Management - Hive17 Launches New Service
This has been in the works for months! And we are excited to launch our new service packages - Sustainability x Change Management. Reducing our climate impact might be the biggest, global endeavour of this century. We as a company decided that we want to contribute our expertise: change management. We are excited to drive the people side of doing business. And this means we can accelerate your...
The Sustainability Journey is Daunting - Let's Speed & Scale in Small Steps
The Sustainability Week Asia is over and it has been filled with great presentations, discussions, conversations and questions! And one underlying thread was very apparent: we need to act we need to achieve the impossible by 2050 we must start now the targets are huge we don't have enough people on board how can we possible get anywhere? This all is so daunting. And this is dangerous. We humans...
Let's go beyond compliance - Sustainability is a huge business opportunity!
During the Sustainability Week Asia in Singapore, on stage and in the hallways, there was one strong agreement among speakers and participants. Most companies are still in the game because of compliance - in order to keep their 'license to operate'. They are pushed by regulators, clients and the markets to provide their sustainability reports and commit to token targets. If we want to turn the...
How do I become a successful leader? Knowledge or Practise?
As a change management practitioner, I believe a core to success are the leadership qualities of people - the people side of doing business. When talking about these leadership qualities, I often experience that the leaders know the concepts and tools to become a great leader. Though, they often admit that they are not able to apply these on a consistent, daily basis. Why is this an issue?...
What's your new year's resolution? Take your small steps towards sustainability
A new year often comes with new goals and new dreams - yes, we do have that habit of creating new year's resolutions; who is following a healthy January? From a change management perspective, the problem with these resolutions is that they are often forgotten by February. Why is that? They aim at a change that is too big and doesn't fit into our daily routines. Let's look at creating new habits...