Work-life Balance

Work-life Balance is an important topic, both for you personally and to consider when leading others. Not an even balance, but a balance that makes you or your subordinates feel comfortable, while performing with a high and sustainable productivity.

Presentation Skills Program

This training aims to improve your presentation skills, for enhanced communication and increased persuasion power, through knowledge of body language, proper preparations and digital rehearsals. Improving the presentation skills in your organization, obviously also increases the confidence, motivation and the success. Read more about the benefits of this program on the executive education page.

Time Management

As ‘slaves to time’, it is important that we manage time well, understand how to plan, prioritize and schedule it – how we stay efficient and clear of the time challenges and time wasters. This post will deal with these topics as well as the to-do list and a suggestion for you to do a time study with related improvement goals.

Using Power and Authority Positively

Power and Authority

To wield power is a delightful necessity and a very delicate part of leadership. Power is easy to abuse or avoid, but much positive can be contributed when it is used correctly. The first step to positive usage is to understand power and authority, no matter whether your consideration is based on own usage or that of your subordinates – this post will help you with just that.

Personal Goal Setting

Check up on your goal setting. Having no conscious goals is like steering without a map and a course. As a matter of fact, to use the map you need to know both where you currently are and where you want to go. Great personal goals help you develop and manage yourself.

Self-awareness

Self-awareness is the foundation of Self-management – you need to know yourself in order to manage yourself. It helps you become a better manager, through identifying your skill gaps, improving your efficiency, aiding your stress management and your self motivation.

Self-management

To manage oneself is a key part of one’s personal growth. This post will help you learn how to improve your overall performance and impact, by knowing yourself, knowing what motivates you and how you best manage yourself. The post further serves as an introduction to the full series of Self‑management Posts.

Decision Making – Process Explained

What are the steps of a good decision process, which you can benefit from, and what does each step entail? Read this post and improve your decision making.

Decision Making – Adhering Values and Ethics

You are already good at making daily decisions, but do you remember to do an adherence check on values and ethics? This post is simply about the importance of remaining loyal to values and ethics, no matter they are your personal ones or those of your employer, when making decisions.

Satisficing – China Manager Headache #1

If you are a manager in China like I am, you are most likely a regular observer of “Satisficing”, where the decision process is prematurely terminated at first viable solution or idea, even though alternative and potentially better options are not considered. Not that China owns the rights of this challenge – it happens everywhere! This post deals with the possible ramifications of Satisficing, why it happens and how to avoid it.

Decision Making Program

I am happy to introduce the latest training page, which describes the one-day Decision Making Program. Improving the Decision Making in your organization, obviously improves your success and bottom line. This training delves into the process of decision making, how to make efficient decisions and not least how to make good decisions. Read more about the benefits of this program on the executive education page.

Great Decision Making

We all make decisions and while some use a conscious process, others make faster and more intuitive decisions. This post explores the process of decision making, potential challenges to anticipate when making decisions, when to use decision making tools and which one to use, the necessary safeguarding against biases, and last but not least the benefits of following the mentioned decision making process.