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...
Leveraging Your Entire Workforce to Accelerate Your Sustainability Journey
In my role as co-chairs of the SwissCham Climate Tech subcommittee, I had the honour to host a CSO Roundtable. We brought together industry leaders in Singapore to share their experience about how we can accelerate our sustainability journeys based on mindset shifts and organisational structures. With a new format that brought the panel very close to a small audience, all people in the room...
How to enable teams to give their best? Having Fun
Many of you know that I am a self-declared 'positivist' - a person with a strong belief that when we look at things from the bright side, we will deliver better results, be more creative, and have more energy - enabling teams to give their best! And while following another passion of mine - sailing - I found another proof that I am on the right path "Does it ever go too far, where you said, we...
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...
Boost Your Sustainability Journey - Grow Your Business with it
Sustainability is on everyone's agenda and there is a clear focus on ESG reporting, regulatory compliance and buying carbon credits to offset. These all consume resources, create a green premium and drive cost up. Sustainability journeys are a lot more than that! They open up new markets, they bring efficiency into your operations, they are driving productivity in your workforce. All it takes is...
Why are you afraid to share news that is not exciting? Honesty wins the hearts of the people
A long long time ago, I heard this term in the business world - "on a need to know basis". Yes, still today people think that is a sensible approach to working together and doing business. On my side, from the start of my career, I felt it was wrong. As a recipient of this statement you simply feel stupid and marginalised. In a way, a very disrespectful expression. In today's world, leaders are...
How are you developing the people around you?
How am I becoming a better leader? This is a question that I encounter a lot during my engagements. And the question is not: what is good leadership? Most people know. The question is, how am I practising good leadership on a daily basis? This is so hard! One of the key focuses as a good leader is developing your people; creating a learning organisation. In whatever we do, we want to learn. We...
Happy International Women's Day!
Today, we celebrate the achievements and contributions of women in Singapore and around the world. We continue to strive for gender equality in this region and professional change management skills can support women's confidence at their workplace. The CPC Change Management methodology can equip women with the tools they need to lead to successful change initiatives and demonstrate their value as...
Engaging with Talents - what are the quantitative benefits?
There are many reasons why companies are embarking on their sustainability journey. Some of you might know that I advocate focusing on the business opportunity of climate change actions - instead of the compliance perspective. Let's look at one part of that story: Attracting & Retaining Talents . Recently I have encountered a set of companies that are primarily motivated to engage in...
Artefacts are Part of Change - Meet My Climate Change Mascot
It is Friday and here is a less serious post. The other day I bumped into this little accessory which I immediately adopted. Now, it has a fixed place at my bag and for me it represents Climate Tech. Climate - because it is assembled totally from recycled (up-cycled?) material. Tech - simply because it looks like a robot. What do you want to name it?
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...
The Sustainability Journey is Daunting - Let's Speed & Scale in Small Steps
The Sustainability Week Asia is over and it has been filled with great presentations, discussions, conversations and questions! And one underlying thread was very apparent: we need to act we need to achieve the impossible by 2050 we must start now the targets are huge we don't have enough people on board how can we possible get anywhere? This all is so daunting. And this is dangerous. We humans...
Let's go beyond compliance - Sustainability is a huge business opportunity!
During the Sustainability Week Asia in Singapore, on stage and in the hallways, there was one strong agreement among speakers and participants. Most companies are still in the game because of compliance - in order to keep their 'license to operate'. They are pushed by regulators, clients and the markets to provide their sustainability reports and commit to token targets. If we want to turn the...
Create an Internal Sustainability Movement
Today was Day one of the Sustainability Week Asia here in Singapore. The first session, Tony Fernandes. And he mentioned something which is close to my heart: "In sustainability, companies need to push first their internal marketing!" This, in my experience, means that we need to make the new vision tangible for employees, so that they can relate. And it also means that we need to translate...
Are your employees only following their daily routine? Let's get them out of inertia!
I hear that with many of my clients: I feel like they are only ticking the box and they are waiting to be told what to do. It feels like we have a blame culture which is slowing things down. How can we change them and stop this complacency? How can I enable my people to be more proactive ? And why bother, I can simply do the job myself and delegate the important stuff to 'my guy'. The answer is...
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?...
What's your new year's resolution? Take your small steps towards sustainability
A new year often comes with new goals and new dreams - yes, we do have that habit of creating new year's resolutions; who is following a healthy January? From a change management perspective, the problem with these resolutions is that they are often forgotten by February. Why is that? They aim at a change that is too big and doesn't fit into our daily routines. Let's look at creating new habits...
We wish you a Fabulous New Year - And it will be Green, Clean and Climate-focused
The New Year is coming! The year of 2023. And when we are reading the news, we hear about a number of dark clouds: armed conflicts, recessions, political unrest, food scarcity. And one of the biggest clouds - environmental destruction; and this is also one of the biggest star! I have been saying this to a number of friends: sustainability and climate technology might bring an economic upturn in...
2022 - What a Year!
The end of the year is a time for reflection and in many ways, 2022 was an extraordinary year. In the first quarter we started to see in Singapore and in many other regions a rapid easing of pandemic restrictions and a new dynamic accelerated across many elements of life. In the summer period, travel has resumed for almost everyone. Then, in the second half of the year the business activities...
Electronic Waste? Resist the Urge to Buy New Gadgets!
Not so long ago, I was called by my friends "Mr Gadget". And still today, I am looking at the latest laptops and mobile phones - I really would love to buy them. They seem to be so much better than what I am using today! Really? Here some interesting figures from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Forum: In 2022 we might have produced 24.5 million tons of electronic waste Out of...