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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.
Knowledge = a Social Fabric
Strange things happen on my way to work and they lead to awkward insights. For example: last week on the train to Brussels my computer bag got stolen and now I am convinced that knowledge is a social fabric.
The “Why” guy
Anthony Robbins – the legendary coach – in action at the TED conference. We see how he condenses his life’s work into 20 minutes in very compelling way.
Organizational Change Practioners on LinkedIn
A few weeks ago LinkedIn allowed us to create subgroups within this group. Subgroups are like a break-out session at a conference. They enable you to create more focused areas than in the main group. This is what we did with Organizational Change Practitioners.
Web 2.0 includes Invisible Hand
Over the past week I experienced that the good old brainstorming techniques that are derived from de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats don’t need a nudge in the Web 2.0 age.
The skill-will matrix
One of the tools that I often use is the so-called Skill-Will matrix. I use this tool to predict and to plan how often my support is needed.
Parenting as a Management Skill … Huh? (part 3)
Building further on the insights of child development, there is another fundamental leadership characteristic that one will never learn at Harvard, but only in the day-to-day family-life: it is the importance of setting boundaries.
