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...
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...
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...
The Leadership Triangle for CxO Team: Trust, Communication, and Decision-Making
In my previous post, we explored the critical importance of healthy and effective CxO teams for overall organizational success. We identified common challenges such as lack of trust, misaligned goals, and ineffective communication. Now, let's delve deeper into three interconnected elements that form the bedrock of highly effective leadership teams: trust, communication, and decision-making.
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...
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...
How does Great Leadership Feels Like? Let's Imagine This
What are the key topics for High Performance Leadership? This week I was attending a masterclass organised by IMD presenting their signature program: High Performance Leadership. And you will be surprised what their key topics are... Collaboration, relationships, emotions, purpose, self-discovery, psychological safety, etc. At Hive17, we believe that transformational business success is based on...
Healthy & Effective CxO Teams? It is crucial for the entire company!
"It is lonely on the top..." We hear this often about senior leadership teams; they are rather a group of successful individuals and are competing with each other. Though, effectiveness for the top teams is essential for two reasons: The leadership team is not able to give their best They set an example of low effectiveness across the wider organisation Let's have a deeper look at this.
Are your people burning out? Let's change that!
How many people do you observe around you that are at ease in their job, feel that they are under control and are confident to deliver great results without pressure. I would guess, not many... Gallup reports a global rise in workplace unhappiness . Everyone is pushed harder and harder. Targets are spiralling up and resources are scrapped left and right. How can this be healthy?
Achieving Fast Results with Delegation
In today's world, we are rushing for more and more deliverables. And in this environment we keep pushing our people. As a result, they (and we ourselves) are feeling exhausted, drained of energy and are getting close to burning out. What is a better, alternative approach? Delegate decision-making, give more autonomy and let go of control. This means, establishing a Self-Managed Organisation ....
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...
Let's Stop Being Toxic - And Thrive with Compassion
What is the easiest way to deflate engagement and motivation? Behave in a toxic way! This is a topic that has gotten increasingly more attention recently. The business world is experiencing more tension and more leaders understand that a positive work atmosphere is leading to better results. Recently, I have read Michael Jenkin's new book Toxic Humans . Very insightful and I want to share my...
How to create bonding top leadership teams? An unexpected role model
A New Year has started and fresh inspirations are coming in. At Hive17 we focus on facilitating effective teams, and that is particularly important on the top (also check our recent CxO Team post ). Just yesterday, the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore shared a post about the Swiss Federal Presidency and the Swiss Federal Council . An example I like to share as it is a high-level model for a...
Team Retreats - A Solid Base for the Second Quadrant
We just finished a team retreat and during the closing, the client shared "this was amazing, we never got the people to share so much. The sessions were fun, insightful and engaging . Thank you so much!". How did we get there? One of the thing we can observe with many companies, friends, clients, and teams we are working with: we are overwhelmed, we are stuck in a rat race . Looking at the...
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...
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?...
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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...
CFOs Leading towards the New Finance Team - How to Facilitate this Change
Last week we conducted the fifth session of the workshop series 'CFOs Leading Business Intelligence' organised by CFO Connex . This last session was all about change management, in particular: how can we define that dream state of the new finance team and how we can take the first steps in that direction. We also had a great panel that provided insights on how to bring change to the finance team...
Impact in Change - Creating a Collective Imagination of the Future State
The imagination of the future state is guiding the adopters during the change journey. When we formulate this impact as a collective activity, we can create a better understanding among a wider group of people. And as a result, achieve a stronger impact in people's daily work.