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...
ACMP Singapore - Why Change Management
"Change Management is Pain Management" This is how Dr Michael Loh has captivated the participants during the inaugural workshop of the ACMP Singapore Chapter (forming). Dr Loh shared with the audience that in essence, change management is all about the people. It is easy to install change and forget about the human aspects. With Mushroom Management the managers come in and create chaos and...
Preparing the Soil for Flourishing Growth
One of my past time activities is tending to a garden and growing plants. This requires preparing the soil, nurturing to the seedlings, watering regularly (not too much, not too little), checking on pest and allowing the right amount of sunshine. In short, creating an environment where the plants can flourish! This is how we look at change management at Hive17 Consulting. We aspire to create an...
Magic Pill #2 - Bridging Silos
One observation I made over the past years is that there seems to be a growing gravitation towards focus on individual work. This not only establishes silo mentality and makes collaborating across departments, geographies and hierarchical levels more difficult. This also stimulates individualism within teams; a blame culture is nurtured and the spirit of working together fades away. Elements that...
How to collaborate successfully? Establish Synergies
After a very long time, in-person workshops are back! Last week I had the opportunity to hold a guest lecture at SMU as part of the my alma mater's HSG Asia Term program here in Singapore. It was a highly interactive session with forty students from both universities. Great to feel the energy and engagement. The students are engaged in consulting projects with local businesses and the session was...
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 ;...
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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...
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...
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...
Magic Pill #1 - Reflect
When I recently talk to people, two things are striking: first, there is a year-end madness with huge workload; second, a big uncertainty looking forward. As a result, motivation is at an all-time low, talents are fleeing their safe jobs, and people dive even more into daily work because there seem to be no other solution. On my side, I am a big advocate for long-term success . When we want to...
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...
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...
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...
CFOs Leading Business Intelligence - How to start your journey to a new finance team?
CFOs Leading Business Intelligence – Digital Workshop Series in 5 Parts | Q3-Q4 2021 In today’s business world, the markets are changing in an accelerated fashion; customers shift their preferences, supply chains are facing major challenges, and the workforce requirements are evolving. In this context, business intelligence covers a broad range of important topics. Whilst the topics individually...
The foundation to agility is connecting people
So far in this trail about agility, we talked about two major things: giving people direction based on our purpose and the value we can create to customers; and starting to experiment and continue to learn. Both are focusing on what we deliver and what we produce. All of this is only possible when one magic ingredient is present: the foundation of agility. Besides the delivery, our way of working...
How to think out of the box? Break old patterns
Your company sets aside a certain percentage of your work to be innovative. You and your peers are supposed to come up with the new big thing. And creativity simply doesn't strike. Improvements seem to be incremental. Your customers for a long time didn't experience that 'wow effect'. Something is wrong. And, you are not alone. Many companies come to Hive17 Consulting to seek for inspiration and...
How to keep being creative? Keep an open eye, open heart and open mind
Every day we are confronted with challenges that require solutions - they might be small, they might be big. Following the same patterns and focus on past achievements is at best futile - what we need is creativity. And why not ask the creatives for their tips? Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game design since over 35 years and can celebrate decent success in his industry; and, he wrote a book...
How to execute ideas effectively? With Trial & Learning
Based on pillars 1 & 2 - our dream & the value for customers - we can now generate tons of ideas to address needs and solve problems. Full innovation is also executing these ideas and this happens most effectively with experimentation. Try different ideas and capture how you can improve your solutions. The core of agility is this trial & learning. This experimentation happens in a perpetual...
Boost Your Career with Change Management
Change Management is the most wanted future skill for employers: adapt quickly to changing business environments to thrive changes actively and run projects successfully Learn about Change Management and enrich your professional skills in our online sharing session. The session will be held by the experts Tim Wieringa and Anne Babilon-Teubenbacher. Date: Wed, 10 Nov 5–6pm (SGT)