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.
Self-Managed Organisations - The Results are In
This is not the first time, I share about self-managed organisations ( check here ) and I admit, the concept is fascinating. It is fully aligned with successful leadership principles like shared goals, transparency, autonomy, etc. Hey wait - this is not a concept! Self-managed organisations have been implemented in the real world and the results are in! 50% revenue increase; doubling of profit....
Stronger People - Stronger Business
What are the top three people challenges in Singapore? Fast to quit: 60% Burnt out: 67% Disengaged: 80% This week I attended an event by the Association for SME and the speakers and panel were very insightful. The title: Stronger People - Stronger Business. Which leads directly into Organisational Health.
Pillars of Organisational Health - Structure
Have you encountered that before? Your organisation has clear values around trust and agility. And then you compare this with internal processes like your expense reporting which manifest the opposite: expected fraud and bureaucracy. This year I have developed an additional pillar for organisational health. In order to reduce confusion, increase productivity and address attrition, developing the...
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...
Frustrated that people don't follow your lead? Find out where your leadership style is fragile
Recently, a good number of people share with me that they are frustrated that people at work are not greeting each other, that they only focus on the minimum, are not sharing their opinion, and are simply waiting for the next instructions. Did we hire the wrong people? Or rather, do our leadership styles have blindspots that indirectly encourage such behaviour? I definitely think, your leadership...
We need Quality Growth - Let's start with Frugality
As a change management professional, I have been more than necessary in projects that focus on cost cutting. And I have to say, these projects are mostly frustrating, destroying value, and won't contribute to the long-term success of any company. What is the alternative approach? Focus on maximising value creation with the assets we have ! Which helps organisations to focus back on quality growth.
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[Case Study] Turning Cost Savings into Climate Action: A Sustainability Success Story
Sustainability initiatives often face a hurdle: cost concerns. Many believe decarbonisation is simply too expensive. But what if we re-framed the conversation? This case study showcases how a seemingly daunting cost-cutting target became a springboard for a successful sustainability initiative. Here's how a headquarter's request for a 200 million US dollar savings in energy cost became a catalyst...
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[Case Study] - How to build a strong culture foundation when scaling up fast
There are mentorship programs and mentorship programs... Sometimes you walk into the client's office and you feel a different culture - a strong, positive dedication to deliver great results. How can you maintain and improve this culture while scaling up fast ? VISEO - the Positive Digital Makers - launched a mentorship program exactly with this in mind: selecting and enabling a group of...
"This Endeavour has Proven to be Priceless"
There is for me one key goal when facilitating workshops: I want to inspire people to start with their change . Last week, I facilitated a leadership development program and got these humbling testimonials from the participants. What can be better than that? Maybe, when you do what you love, great results will happen. I feel it is the passion, dedication, creativity and the ability to show full...
Cross-organisational Collaboration - Are you delivering maximal value?
For years now, I have been helping teams and organisations to collaborate better - either within teams or across teams; either within larger organisations or beyond company borders. Enabling these teams to give their best. When did I start with this topic? The first time I dived into this theme was with my master thesis. At that time I was comparing and evaluating various forms of how companies...
Why are People & Culture Topics Important? They are saving you money!
Often I hear that strategic human resources topics are nice-to-have. Traditional managers share with me that they focus on money first and these 'soft' topics are coming later. We at Hive17 agree that delivering value to customers is a key activity within any organisation ("the train"). And every organisation also needs to ensure that that delivery is as effective as possible ("the tracks"). This...
How to unleash potential? Ditch top-down leadership
For years, people have known me as an advocate for flat organisational structures, delegation of control and decision-making, and for removing traditional hierarchies. In a recent conversation I have shared two key reasons why ditching traditional, top-down leadership styles can give you huge benefits. Most of us are aware that being a directive and micro-managing boss creates frustration,...