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Music and Leadership (part 6)
On how Music is a vehicle to travel beyond the things we take for granted about leadership and why it is not a good idea to pour salt in your coffee.
When I Say Learning
If we want to get more out of training programs we should redefine them as learning programs. Changing that one word can make the difference between the achievement or the failure of a strategic initiative.
Is the Internet Making us Stupid? (SOS VideoClass N°4)
The internet has dramatically changed the way we interact, discover and learn. Although it is difficult to predict to what extent our society will change because of (or rather: ‘thanks to’) the internet, one thing is clear: we are only at the beginning of it.
Horror, the Ultimate Learning
Buzzard attacks are rare, but when they occur on the scalp of an organizational change practitioner it leaves a scar. Five seconds of horror and two lessons for life: Respect and Experience.
Facebook or Facecrime? (SOS VideoClass N°2)
Spotting Digital Natives like an anthropologist. Catching the first sun after a long winter in Leuven we find students scattered in the park. To me – in my blossoming thirties – a strange sight and a blunt proof of the fact that I have slipped into another generation. Could I be a Digital Immigrant?
Three is the magic number (Part 3)
Good training equals good sex. That’s right, there are no spelling mistakes in the previous sentence and you are still reading a business-related blog. In this article you will find a one-minute interview (don’t worry: no explicit language) with Marc Vermeulen that was recorded during the bi-annual VOV-beurs for training & development.
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 8)
Here is a radical idea that works: looking at children as agents of change. The One Laptop Per Child programme is a living proof of that. And here is a less radical idea that might work – but we don’t know because we never really tried: looking at employees as agents of economic recovery.
Less Training, more Learning! (SOS VideoClass N°1)
Last Friday I was at the VOV beurs – one of the big events on training and development in Belgium. Starting from my experiences in SAP projects I shared my thoughts on bicycles, hunger, interaction and PowerPoint.
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 7)
A few weeks ago a friend told me that the only thing he can do as a parent is to stand behind his kids – both hands open – saying: “I will catch you if you fall”. Here’s another great lesson one can only learn by being home early enough.
