Leadership is the Driving Force for Success - Here are the 7 Trends for 2024
How are you making sure your organisation is dedicated to the same direction, stays strongly engaged to move forward and your teams are striving to give their best ? Great leadership is without doubt the (not so) secret recipe to lasting success. It creates the resilience to go through uncertain times and enables the necessary transformations. What do you need to lookout for in 20204? Swiss...
Collect the drive from your teams - Organisational Energy
This year might become a tough year and there might not be much we can do about it - especially about the external and geopolitical aspects. What we can focus on as a leader is to equip the organisation and enable our teams to give their best . And one special aspect is Energy! Organisational Energy is what I want to talk about today. How often do we feel that work is draining our energy? That...
The Perils of ESG Reporting - Lessons Learnt from Operational Excellence
When we look back at 2023 it was the year of ESG Reporting. The great thing about it is that companies started to take the topic of sustainability seriously and allocated resources to do something about it. And for any sustainability journey, understanding the baseline is important. Though, as Robin Hicks recently pointed out, companies are confused with the selection of standards, information...
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...
What attitude delivers lasting success? Win-win!
The end of the year is coming and I got asked, if you would give one piece of advise, what would it be? In my experience dealing with leaderships, one foundational attitude I discovered is Win-Win. In our work life we come across various situations: developing a product, negotiate with a client, hire an employee, resolve conflict, onboard a supplier, provide feedback, conduct meetings, and simply...
How to make target setting impactful?
“Only 41% of CEOs believe employees’ behaviours are mostly aligned with company’s values and direction.” This statement from PwC's annual CEO survey means that about 60% of the employees are not fully aligning their productivity with the company's priorities . As a result, efforts are wasted in the wrong direction. Further, according to Hive17's surveys, about a third of the managers...
Enabling Teams to Give Their Best - It starts at the Top
Enabling teams to give their best - When I approach CEOs with this topic, they almost always think this is important for the teams reporting to them. Yes, the operations team needs to work more effectively. That business unit needs a boost in productivity. In the organisation, the different functions need to work closer together across the silos. While these are important areas for improvement,...
What do we need for the Sustainability Revolution? Our Communities
"Hope is not enough: turning vision into climate action!" This was one of the themes of the second Green Tech Festival held in Singapore. And for concrete and lasting action, I believe we need two essential ingredients: innovation & culture. This was a theme that weaved throughout the presentations and panels at the conference. One example that stood out for me was the Hot Heart - a project with...
Corporate Democracy? Innovation plus People plus Results!
Most companies are stuck in their corporate patterns: large overhead costs and bureaucratic burdens; a focus on short-term results; an inert workforce following a handful of leaders; exposure to bias and unfairness. We sort of know it is wrong, but we don't have the means to change to the better. Except for one company! Very few people heard of the company Gore (mainly famous for its Gore-Tex...
The Future is Coming Closer - With Airships
One year ago, I shared an amazing book on my reading list about how we need to embrace and shape our future in light of Climate Change ( read here ) . One theme I picked up were airships. Flying around with jet engines (powered by fossil fuel or otherwise) might not be enough to clean our Earth's atmosphere. We might need to change away from them. And here we go - the exciting news this month was...
Effective Continuous Improvement leads to 15% Efficiency Gains
Are you looking for ways to boost your productivity and control your costs? The Hive17 Human Operating System is designed to enable teams to give their best and one of the key elements is innovation. At Hive17 we often observe that medium-sized organisations have limited resources and may be stuck in traditional ways of thinking. Hive17 can help you to overcome these barriers and build a culture...
How Fragile are Your Leadership Skills?
What are the two most important and sought after leadership skills in Asia ? Based on the research of GloCoach, they identified the two following skills: Team Leadership - how are you enabling your teams to give their best Communicate with credibility - how are you building trust and win-win within your ecosystem From our practice at Hive17 we can only underline the value of these two leadership...
Key for Project Success? Effective Team Collaboration
Every year, my Alma Mater brings about 70 students from St.Gallen to Singapore for an exchange semester - undoubtedly an unforgettable and important experience. As part of their program, they conduct a consulting project with their peers at SMU. Over the years, we observed one key ingredient for successful projects: effective collaboration within the teams. This year I had the honour again to...
Let's Make Work More Human - With AI
This might be one of my rare posts about AI. Yesterday, I was invited by our partner GloCoach to an event to talk about "AI and Organisational Success". Here were some of the proposed questions: Will AI replace our workforce? Or rather, when will AI replace our workforce? And the questions then continued: how will AI replace people? With whom will they be collaborating? The discussion elaborated...
Foundation to Deliver Excellent Customer Value - The Human Operating System
The purpose of any organisation is to successfully deliver value to their customers . The range of customers might be wide and the definition of value and success might greatly vary. Though, in essence that is it. And rightfully, companies are focusing their efforts on selling, producing and delivering their products and solutions. Recently, there have been new questions and barriers appearing in...
Key Words for Sustainability - Honesty, Frugality, Courage, Synergy
This week we had another great Sustainability event in Singapore - organised by Lufthansa Group. While the airline industry overall is struggling to curb carbon emissions, it is great to see that one important player is striving forward on their sustainability journey. Maybe the most prominent technology is AeroShark - a nature-inspired film that is reducing the friction and drag of a plane's...
Aiming for Sustainability is not Good Enough - We Need Courage
When talking about sustainability, there are a few important terms that come to my mind: honesty, courage, frugality , etc. Today, I want to talk about courage. The former Unilever CEO Paul Polman shared a number of insights in this interview and I want to highlight two quotes which are well linked together: "How can a company profit from solving the world’s problems, not from creating them?" “If...
How do You Enable the Translation from Vision to Action?
Our current times are full of change and a solid strategy is necessary to give the organisation direction and alignment to create lasting success. Furthermore, a meaningful and clear vision is driving motivation and is a strong ingredient for making decisions. Yet, many companies struggle to bring their vision to the ground. Employees are saturated with changing strategies and often don't see how...
"If I had a Magic Wand, I Wish People would Value Our Planet"
This week the EuroCham has organised a great event about "How to Transform Manufacturing to Meet Net Zero?" with a very vivid and insightful panel. One highlight I want to share is the answer to the question: what would you wish if you had a magic wand? "If I had a magic wand, I would bring people back to value our planet! Create that feeling of appreciation for what we are receiving from Earth....
Overcoming Employee Inertia? With Accountability & Ownership
Hands up who struggles with people that just do the minimum work? Yes, you are not alone. And it is frustrating to see the potential in people not being used to bring success for the company, for the team and for the individual. Your organisation might have great team bonding and a lot of fun. How well does this translate that everyone is giving their best? In my experience, being a nice and kind...