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​​ Disclaimer: Please note that all commentary and opinions provided in this interview are those of the individual and not the organisation/company they are employed by.  What is one lesson you learnt the hard way?  There is no use in trying to do everything like male leaders do. Not every successful (male) manager is a role model for diversity and respect. Often I was the o...

It has been one year since the world as we knew it changed forever, and the way we work right alongside it. Many people have reduced their time in an office environment and shifted much of their daily work to the desk at home. A trend that has already been rising in popularity in recent years received another timely boost, namely that of business utilisation of social media ...

For our fourth online roundtable event, I spoke with six HR leaders working for law firms and management consultancies in Germany. We began the talk by exploring initiatives that have been implemented to stay in close contact with the employees and to maintain a certain degree of team spirit. Some of the HR leaders have had success in implementing check-in/check-out sessions...

Disclaimer: Please note that all commentary and opinions provided in this interview are those of the individual and not the organisation/company they are employed by.  What skills and attributes do female leaders bring to create diverse leadership at management level?  Leadership today means for most of us, to work more and in more international, intercultural and interdisci...

During this past year we have been challenged beyond what could ever have been reasonably conceivable. In such unprecedented times and a period of incredible upheaval and tremendous uncertainty, why then should we also #ChooseToChallenge, on top of the daily challenges that we have no choice about? Because, whilst we have come so far, there is still further to go. There is s...

The classical office is changing, and there are a number of different operating models that are becoming more frequently used – one of which is the ABW model (Activity Based Working). This concept is a way of working, which allows people to choose where they work, when they work, how they work and with whom they work, based on the activity they are doing. Fixed static workin...

Gamification has become distinctly more popular in the corporate world in recent years. This trend consists of using game principles and techniques in a non-game context. Gamification is often used for employee performance and motivation, but more companies have decided to incorporate it into their recruitment process, to catch the attention from top candidates and/or the yo...

The first month of 2021 has already passed and it feels that despite a stricter lockdown in Germany, along with accomodations to be made for homeschooling and childcare, the economy is picking up once more and many companies are looking confidently towards the future. Many companies have come into the year with certain expectations and a distinct hope for an improvement of t...

In the early days of Netflix, Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, asked Patty McCord (Chief Talent Officer) to write out the company’s core values, which led to  - quoting Sheryl Sandburg, COO of Facebook -  “one of the most important documents ever to come out of Silicon Valley”.  In this interview series, we will talk with Human Resources leaders about Netflix's famous inno...

Management styles & remote work   For most companies, the recent shift to a fully remote working environment has led to some challenges, perhaps most notably when it comes to managing teams. Problems such as lack of trust, excessive monitoring or unrealistic expectations can arise, which will damage the relationship between employees and their managers and even among co-work...