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Creating High-Performing Teams
Creating a visibly diverse group is relatively easy, but turning it into a high-performing team is challenging. But what is a high-performing team and how do you get to creating one?
I also talk about the 4-step process that I go through with my clients who are keen to become part of a high-performing team…
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Ways to Motivate Disengaged Employees for Better Collaboration, Growth and Satisfaction
What do you do if you’re a leader with a disengaged employee? Or if you’re a team member who feels demotivated? How does one feel or get motivated? Motivated to grow, to learn, to perform. Through my own learnings via the Global DISC programme, I share how intrinsic motivation is something we should harness instead.
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Planning For a New Year: Are We Doing It Right?
What works best when planning for the New Year? How can you find the right time for you and your team to plan your goals?
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New Year’s Resolutions: How to Make Them Work for You + The Greater Good
Making New Year’s Resolutions for the coming year? About 43% of people give up on resolutions as soon as February rolls around. Read what can you do to be part of the other 57%.
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Always Overcommitting? How Coaching Can Help You De-Escalate Commitments
Escalation of commitment is not as foreign as you think it is. It’s actually something a lot of us go through – in both personal and corporate situations. It extends from the decision to keep waiting for a bus even though one would have reached the destination by foot in the meantime all the way…
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Corporate Culture vs National Cultures: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
How do we incorporate cultural differences into a company’s corporate culture? How do we give everyone an equal opportunity to speak? I talk about a few tools on how companies can create a more inclusive #corporateculture.
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Different Cultures & Experiences – Traumatised, but Not Judgemental
My father’s experience with a different culture serves as a good moment to reflect and learn from. Especially if we are exposed to different cultures as we are working with diverse teams.
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Speaking A Language You’re Not A Native Speaker In? Here’s How To Get Feedback If You’re Doing it Right
Speaking a language you are not a native to requires much more than grammar and vocabulary. I share my reflections about my daughter’s experience teaching sailing classes in France.
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Remote work and employee engagement in times of pandemic
Remote work changes how employees engage with their companies. What do teams need to stay connected with the culture and vision of their company?
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What does it take to build a great team culture?
The three ingredients to build a great team culture. What are you looking for in your people? How do you get started? What do you need to provide? How you can make sure you continue the journey.
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My new take on motivation
What if motivation was not an uncontrollable power that appears and disappears almost to its own liking? What if motivation was a reliable partner?
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How to achieve your goals in 2020
This is about how you can make sure you reach your goals in the New Year. How you can stay committed to your new year’s resolutions past the month of March.
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Why greeting makes you feel at home
I move a lot. About every 3 to 4 years I move. I move cities, I move countries and sometimes even continents. And every time I build a home for my family. Something to hold us, to give us the feeling of safety and belonging. We always move with our furniture and I sometimes joke…
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Coach and Intercultural Trainer
One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you — Edward T. Hall Hi, I am Heike, a coach and intercultural trainer, an internationally experienced business woman, a world traveller and…
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Always giving your best versus taking part is everything
Recently I watched a children’s dance presentation at a local carnival event in Southern Germany. About 400 people had gathered in the town hall dressed in their favourite carnival costumes. First the kindergarten kids performed a song in a circular movement matching lines of their song with certain moves of hands and body. Later the…
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