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LEADERSHIP
Leadership is about leading yourself (personal leadership) and/or leading others. In today’s world, often described with the acronym VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), leadership is essential to choose a direction and to stay on course.
Leadership is about knowing yourself, having a point of view, creating connection with others, and being able to act, to execute. It is the capacity to sense what you stand for, to articulate that, and to translate it into action.
Personal leadership contributes directly to collective leadership. In organizations, leadership is a key condition for success and a defining factor in business mental health – how mentally healthy an organization is. From an organisational perspective, leadership at the individual level is both a signal of and an influencing factor in the business mental health.
Leadership development is a process that connects the inner world with the outer world. As individuals, we are always part of a wider context. We exist as ourselves and in relation to others, which makes leadership development both an individual and a relational process.
Leadership does not develop in isolation, but through reflection, exchange, and experimentation. In that interaction, space emerges for new perspectives, beliefs, emotions, choices, and behaviors that support stronger, healthier, and more sustainable leadership.
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Target group
Individuals and teams.
- Individuals: professionals, managers and directors. From personal leadership to leading others
- Teams to enhance cooperation, team spirit and focus. From team leadership to leading the organisation
Charging yourself
Themes
Each situation is unique and there are common themes.
- Individual: presence, knowing thyself, confidence, direction, boundaries, conflicts, visibility
- In relation to others: cooperation, trust, connection, conflicts, influence and impact, stakeholder management
- Teams: cooperation, conflicts, common goals and ambition, trust
Accelerating by slowing down
Results and value
Insights, awareness, tools, skills, approaches. Both on an individual level as in patters with others. Insight on what you can and cannot change and the difference between the two.
On an individual and collective level that leads to more focus, calmness, tuning and fun. And that leads to enhanced capacity and the ability to lead and trust upon others. And that will lead to better results and more fulfilment.
Feeling charged to take charge
APPROACH
Clear agreements are pivotal in achieving goals and the quality of cooperation. Agreeing on the contract therefore is an essential first step: what are the objectives and is the framework in which we work together?
A process of cooperation has four phases:
- Understanding the why - background, history and context
- Defining the what - focus of the cooperation: scope, goals, expectations, work agreements, contract
- Helping with the how - execution and monitoring
- Close - review of content and process, also looking ahead to the future
Principles
Matter of People works from four principles
- Curiosity - continuous learning and wanting to understand why, what, how
- Respect - respect for other and self
- Kwaliteit - striving to excellence
- Samenwerking - collaboration if possible
Professional secrecy
As coach I follow guidelines of the Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen and the International Coach Federation.
CLIENTS
Cooperating
I work together on a frequent basis with others. Two examples of partners with whom I cooperate on a regular basis are Circleradius and Ludic.