Change Management is the Umbrella for all your Innovation, Excellence and Leadership Campaigns
We heard this many times: Change is Everywhere! We are continuously advancing, improving, tinkering and even disrupting our own products, operations and organisational models. Recent conversations, studies and experiences confirmed this again: to be successful with these initiatives, we need to bring people together and enable an effective collaboration. "We build people; and these people build...
Leading Towards Success with Positivity
Yes, I am a positive person. I smile a lot and people around me tend to like the energy I am spreading. I hear that a lot and I am very glad about this. And for sure, this is a personality trait of mine. Though, I am also convinced that positivity is the right approach to facilitate change . Neuroscientific studies share that when we bring people into a positive emotional state, they will be more...
Where do we stand with our leadership qualities? Share your experience!
What are the right leadership qualities? I would argue that most leaders and managers either consciously or intuitively know what leads to better results in their teams. Are we following these concepts and applying the relevant skills often enough? Most probably not. These qualities are not yet our second nature . How do I fare in cultivating an environment that allows my team to drive change and...
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[Case Study] Change Ambassadors Follow Dual Objectives to Reach Lasting Success
A few years back, we have been engaged in a regional project to drive manufacturing excellence in 15 factories with a special focus on energy and how to create a better place for future generation . While this was a technical project with clear value targets, we also understood that this initiative will only be successful when we engage with the people, make them excited about the vision, and...
Hybrid Workplace - Test your Leadership Qualities
The New Year has started - we refueled our energy and are excited what 2022 will bring for us? Let's get into it! Here in Singapore, one immediate topic: how to get the people back to the office! Government regulations allow to raise office space occupancy to 50%; let's fill up our physical workplace again! Are these the right questions and intentions? Owl Labs shares in their annual report...
How to innovate your business beyond the current box?!
The Hive17 Thoughts is a place of sharing insights and experiences we have from our practice. And sometimes people ask me, what is Hive17 Consulting actually doing? Here we go: Essentially, we are a change management boutique. We facilitate change and enable companies to address their biggest challenges and opportunities. We believe that a) successful change comes from the people and b) lasting...
The World is not Linear - What can we learn from the exponential gap?
Yes, I am an avid reader of Wired UK; I like to read their magazines because often they introduce novel topics which help to broaden my view of the world. In one of the last editions, an article was talking about the exponential gap - and I was hooked. We all heard about exponential growth; and most of us have difficulties to grasp the reality of it. Take the story of Lord Krishna who took a...
Leadership Defines the Culture Fertile for Change
Since years, I am advocating that the traditional change management, enabling people to switch to a future state, needs rethinking. Our world has become complex and changes are happening faster and faster. This means the 'future state' is soon obsolete and we need to change to the next one. We are in a state of continuous change. This means we need to cultivate an environment that allows people...