Mastering Difficult Conversations: Introducing Alex the Sales Director, Your New Digital Challenge
After five years of driving impactful change with Hive17 Advisory, I am thrilled to unveil an entirely new chapter: Hive17 Tools . Our vision is providing actionable, hands-on resources that empower managers and leaders to elevate their daily operations. Today, we take the first leap into this future with the launch of Alex the Sales Director .
Are you Choosing between ‘Kind' and 'Right'? The Strategic Advantage of People-First Leadership
Let’s be honest, in the C-suite, there’s a persistent, whispered question: Does truly effective leadership force a choice between ‘being kind’ and ‘doing the right thing’? For too long, the default answer has been a resigned nod towards the latter, accepting that success requires a certain ‘hardness’. At Hive17, we think that choosing between ‘kind’ and ‘right’ is asking the wrong question ....
Tired of Decision Paralysis? Embrace the Power of Experimentation
Is your leadership team wrestling with decision fatigue? Do endless debates and risk aversion slow your progress, hindering agility and stifling innovation? In today's rapidly evolving landscape, the inability to make timely and effective decisions can be a significant roadblock to success.
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...
Strong & Uniting Business Families
This year I took the journey to become a certified family business advisor in expanding Hive17's services into a new field. Based on our strength of fostering relationships and enabling leadership teams to give their best, we are now able to help families to define and build a long lasting future for their families and the business they are engaging in. In helping business families, we are...
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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...
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...
EuroCham Sustainability Awards - A Celebration to Pull Forward in Small Steps
Inspirational speeches, heart-warming performances and great conversations on our table and across the room! This was this years EuroCham Sustainability Awards Gala. As with any change, climate action seems to be daunting. Though every small step counts . Let's get inspired; let's inspire others with our stories! Thank you, SwissCham Singapore, for your support and engagement. Looking forward to...
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...
How is your leadership driving innovation? APAC experts shared their insights!
Together with TTIP we have launched the Innovation Forum in APAC. The first session was all about the Role of Leadership in Innovation. After an insightful presentation from Maurits van Tol, the almost 20 participants discussed in groups their experiences and insights; here are the key insights: The foundation to an innovative culture in an organisation is a focus on relationships on all levels ;...
The Role of Leadership in Innovation
The New Year has started; and we are all excited about the things we want to achieve in 2022. There are so many changes we want to realise; so many innovations we want to trigger. How can we be successful with that? As leaders we have a strong impact with our actions and with our behaviour to nurture innovation; and to strangle creativity. What is the leader's role in innovation? Join Maurits van...
Is all the change overwhelming? Agility might bring the structure for success
Many people say that the pandemic brought a lot of change. Though, when looking at 2010s, we talked a lot about digitalisation, working from home, e-commerce, VUCA, new digital currencies, psychological safety, and many more topics. Some people argue that we are not introducing new topics, though the transformations are happening a lot faster due to a new urgency and necessity. Here is where...
Leadership in Change - Guiding Adopters to the Future State
In change management, we want to guide or lead the people that are impacted by the new solution from where they are today to the new future state. We call this the knowledge are 'Leadership'. Learn more what that means in practice!
Charlie the Change Bear arrived in Singapore - Welcome!
Hello Singapore! I am finally out of quarantine and got a great welcome here in Singapore. Oh, yes, my name is Charlie, I am the Change Bear! Originally, I am from Germany and I have been sharing my change management experience in Beijing and Shanghai for the last few years! What brings me to Singapore? I heard that the program for the 'Certified Associate in Change Management' will be launched...
CFOs - Here is the New Finance Team
This week the CFOConneX network has launched the first workshop series and I am delighted to be part of this event! Thank you David Newton and the entire team! The entire workshops series is about how CFOs can take a new spin to business intelligence; reflecting on how we are doing business planning, budgeting and forecasting. The first session was giving an overview of what this topic entails....
How to develop your future-proofing skills? By practicing change management
The SkillsFuture organisation is doing an excellent job, supporting the development of the workforce in Singapore. They have recently launched a set of Critical Core Skills that are vital for all of us to thrive in a business environment that is rapidly changing in terms of technology and human interaction. The sixteen competencies are grouped in the following three areas: Interacting with Others...
Yes, you can improve the odds of your change initiatives!
Did you know that about 26% of the change initiatives are failing? Most probably you did. And this statistic is quite sobering. And you might very well be deep in a transformative initiative and things take too long, and the impacted people are not sharing the same enthusiasm as you. Yes, this is normal. The good news is, there are clear ways how to improve your odds to over 70%! How? With a...
Refuel Your Energy - Quiet Parks
Yesterday we had a day off; and as so often I was heading into the forest. And every time I am amazed on the impact the dense green has on my mind and body. After an hour surrounded by trees, birds and monkeys, my body and my mind feels refreshed and energised. This week, I came across this article - The fight for quiet in a world full of noise pollution - introducing a group of people on a...
OKRs as Driver for Positive Change - and its Perils
While I am partnering with teams to allow them to become stronger, faster and successful in competitive, complex and ever-changing business environments, I often take out the tool of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). When implemented correctly, they allow teams to get aligned into a common direction, to focus on what needs to be done now, and to create transparency on where we are and where we...