Building Internal Collaboration as a Foundation for External Success

“The success of your external collaboration is directly tied to your ability to collaborate internally.” You’ve likely heard this before, but it’s worth repeating; if you struggle to collaborate effectively […]

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Are You Ghosting Your Stakeholders?

Open and transparent communication, both internally as well as externally with your partners, is one of the key success factors required for alliances & partnerships. It’s a simple concept, isn’t […]

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Your Leadership and Collaboration: Take Ownership!

We live in a constantly changing business world. A world characterised by an increasing variety of collaborations, both inside organisations as well as between organisations. Collaborations can be a commitment […]

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Becoming the Best You Can Be

As there are many new subscribers to my  alliance inspiration email I would like to take the opportunity of using my bi-weekly email to re-introduce myself and my mission! The […]

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Changing Your Leadership Habits

Leadership is often seen as something that is connected to a top-down hierarchy. This is a logical way of looking at leadership; after all, we often use the term leadership […]

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Continuous Learning in Alliances

Continuous learning is when you voluntarily learn new skills and expand your knowledge. This could be gaining new skills and knowledge in new areas, but it might also relate to […]

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Why Don’t You Become a Teacher?

During my most recent Camino trip, I thought a lot about my life with my father (which wasn’t easy), 40 years after his passing. One particular conversation came back to […]

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Why I Have a Personal Yoga Instructor

A couple of years ago, I realised that it is never too late to work on one’s body flexibility. My general flexibility was hard to find and Yoga seemed to […]

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Three Leadership Lessons from a 900km Walk

In 2013, I walked 900km (560ml) through Spain, along the Camino to Santiago de Compostela. It is in this city in Spain where the remains of Saint James the Greater […]

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Collaborative Leadership Development

You are a successful leader. You want to sustain and increase your leadership success, with your team and in collaboration with other organisations in alliances, partnerships and ecosystems. To do […]

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It’s Your Fault! – Getting the Blame in Coaching

“It’s your fault!” said the executive to me with a big smile when he welcomed me to our next coaching meeting.  My coaching engagement with him started with a question, […]

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The benefits of coaching

“What do you know about that?” This is what someone asked me recently. During this dinner conversation, it felt somewhat like I was under inquisition. My conversation partner was a […]

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