Participants always look at me in astonishment: 'You, shy ?!' Yes. As a child I discovered that you could capture attention while stage playing, and I liked that. But I mostly acted like I was not shy. Add that to many years of speaking in front of groups of 3 to 3,000 people and you will understand [...]
We believe in real and lasting change, built on people's actual strengths and values. The basis of which is laid at school. That is why we provide programs like Scholing Together, Inspired and Inspiring Teacher and How to Really Change the World. In order to invigorate this, we sign the Charter for Compassionate Schools. This initiative, launched by British author [...]
What do you remember most from your school days? The material that was presented to you, that inspiring teacher or the friendships you had? Chances are that your answer is the second or third. However, the emphasis in education is usually put on the content. While the very human side makes so much difference. In school [...]
"What it is exactly that you do Gustaaf...?" I was about to deliver my elevator pitch on consulting, training and coaching of top managers, experts and top talents. But she beat me immediately by pre-emptively posing the follow-up question: "And you do that so as to achieve what?" Sometimes hard questions have surpisingly simple answers: [...]
I was in a line up and I felt irritated. 31 executive MBA students had lined up to visualize our respective progress on self set personal development goals from a year ago. The level of harshness on our own performance was typical. Without exception others rated progress higher than the ones that self [...]
When I suggest happiness and not money is the real goal for any company and person, I mostly get worried, or even plainly annoyed looks. Happiness is subjective. Money is objective, right? Advanced financial valuation methods for example use 'discount factors' to transfer the future value of money to the infamous net present value. So what [...]
So, you read my blog "The goal... is not making money". But what is the goal, if not making money? The good news is that the answer is simple: happiness. The bad news: happiness is hard to measure, for its highly subjective, if measurable at all. But wait, no, companies have started using [...]
