Leadership & Inspiration

1.) Presence and relationship: Continuous care You can only influence people with whom you are in contact and maintain a relationship. This is why it is so difficult to tell an unknown person who is not behaving appropriately in a public space to stop their disruptive behaviour. 2.) Support and network: Constructive and fear-free Sometimes

1.) Conduct conversations differently: Bosses ask at team meetings: ‘What surprised you?’ or ‘Which project excites you?’ Questions like these invite employees to open their minds and pay attention to the unexpected. It is also about creating more points of contact in conversations. When asked ‘What do you do?’, you don’t just answer with your

How can you create a creative working atmosphere to generate as many different ideas as possible? Reduce hierarchies during the brainstorming process, as Eveline Geiser explains in the NZZ article. To put it more casually: send the boss on a coffee break. Any form of evaluation is detrimental to creativity. Don’t let the team express

Great leaders inspire action by communicating why they do something and not just what they do. In doing so, they connect to beliefs and emotions. Simon Sinek presents this extremely powerful communication model in his legendary TED Talk. He illustrates his “Golden Circle” thinking model with examples from Martin Luther King and the Wright brothers,

 Why are we at our best in sport when we think nothing? How do we stay calm in crucial moments? Interview with sports psychologist Jörg Wetzel in the Neue Züricher Zeitung (NZZ). NZZ: But the ideal state of an athlete is when they think nothing? “Yes. We speak of flow: when everything runs automatically –