From Power Play to High-Performing Ecosystems: Cooperation as the New Competitive Edge
When I look around me today, it often feels like the loudest voices belong to the power-hungry. Narcissistic leaders, both in nations and corporations, seem to dominate the conversation, setting the rules and employing the bully's playbook. It’s easy to conclude that Darwin’s "survival of the fittest" is the only law that truly matters - the inevitable 'law of the jungle'. However, this...
Defining Your Leadership Team's Raison D'être: Addressing the Silent Inhibitor of Success
Have you ever stopped to ask your management team the simplest, yet most profound question: "Why do we exist as a team?" As a facilitator, I recently had the privilege of guiding the Sika Vietnam leadership team through this exact inquiry. The air in the room, initially thick with the daily pressures of EBITDA targets, sales forecasts, and operational firefighting, soon began to shift. We weren't...
Unleashing Potential: Cultivating a Connected Leadership Team at Sika Vietnam
The journey towards sustainable, high-impact growth for any organisation is intrinsically linked to the strength and unity of its leadership. We at Hive17 were privileged to partner with the Sika Vietnam’s Management Team for an intensive two-day Leadership Development Workshop, a program designed to reinforce team cohesion and build future-proof leadership capabilities necessary for their...
Cultivating Collaboration: A Journey of Growth with EOA and VISEO
At Hive17, we believe in the transformative power of strong leadership and deeply connected teams. That's why we were thrilled to partner with VISEO Asia and E-Outsource Asia (EOA) on a series of workshops designed to nurture a collaborative culture and pave the way for ambitious market expansion. This initiative wasn't just about achieving business goals; it was about laying the foundation for...
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.
Human Connection - The Based to Highly Effective Teams
Change is not only needed when major external factors are transforming. Some teams are doing good and are well established. Yet, there is an itch: can we do better? Is our team enabled to give their best? Could it be that we are becoming complacent? Last week we facilitated a workshop with a regional leadership team that was a great bunch of people. And they went exactly through these kinds of...
How to successfully execute a strategy? It's teamwork!
How do you bring a global strategy into the APAC region? You might have guessed, not with a push approach. Rather, based on a dialogue among equals. That's what we did last week with Jungheinrich Singapore, bringing together the Racking business team to discuss how they can explore and accelerate in this market.
Reignite Your Leadership Team with Cohesion & Clarity
Feeling like your leadership team is pulling in different directions? Unsure if everyone truly knows each other, let alone shares a common vision? A Leadership Team Retreat can be the spark you need to reignite collaboration and drive. This week, we witnessed this firsthand while supporting the regional leadership team of an industrial solutions provider. Facing a newly formed organization, a...
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...
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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...
"This Endeavour has Proven to be Priceless"
There is for me one key goal when facilitating workshops: I want to inspire people to start with their change . Last week, I facilitated a leadership development program and got these humbling testimonials from the participants. What can be better than that? Maybe, when you do what you love, great results will happen. I feel it is the passion, dedication, creativity and the ability to show full...
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...
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...
Congratulations to Your Completed Certification Program!
In the last five weeks, a team of 10 people of AMKFSC Community Services went through the certification program to become Certified Associates in Change Management. In five highly interactive sessions, the participants discussed and applied the concepts of the CPC Change Management methodology . "I learned a lot because we spend a lot of time in our groups applying the concepts and tools on our...
Inspire your team! Give them space to talk
Last week, we engaged with a client in an inspiration workshop. The company is starting a digitalisation and automation transformation in a highly conservative environment. Before we start with the design of the concrete steps we wanted to inspire the team for the journey ahead. The objective was to create excitement for a better future and get them involved from the very start . The end result...
Positivity Goes the Long Way
Friends often come to me and say, 'Hey Tim, you are so positive all the time - how are you doing that?'. One could say, oh, that is simply my character. It might be, though for me it is a deep conviction that positivity is the better approach to life . What led me to this conviction? There are a few elements which I would like to elaborate on here. First is simply neuroscience: when people are...
Master Change Management - In Small Steps
Change Management is undoubtedly one of the key skills for leaders on all levels in the organisation. Change is THE constant in our business life and without looking at the people side of doing business, we will fail to achieve the results we are expecting . How are you structuring your change engagements? Where do you start your journey to become a change master? CPC Consulting and Hive17...
Climate Change - Where Change is Happening
At the end of last year, I have decided to follow my interest and take a deeper look at Climate Tech. I started this out of three simple beliefs: climate change is an essential global topic; creating business opportunities will accelerate the solutions; change management practitioners can enable to achieve impact. Today, I am proud that the announcement went out that we have launched a SwissCham...
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[Case Study] Stronger Collaboration leads to Faster Time to Market
Introducing new products is vital for any company to stay ahead of the curve and strengthen the future business. This was also the case for this regional organisation in the chemicals industry; and they struggled with delays in the development of these new products . The accountability was with the marketing, commercial and R&D directors and they identified that the collaboration within these...