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The Power of Feedback in Leadership

In the changing marketplace, the difference between success and stagnation of your personal and business growth can lie in one crucial skill: giving and receiving feedback. As a strategic leader, constantly giving and soliciting feedback is essential to getting the best out of yourself, your company and your team/freelancers. Yet many leaders and entrepreneurs do not actively practice this skill because they are not trained in this fundamental

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Executive coaching for leadership and growth on a personal and business level. Strategically grow in impact, revenue and freedom.

How can you get more return from yourself and your business?

Often people immediately think of investing with your assets, your money. I look at investing differently. Investing in my most valuable resources (assets): time, energy and money. My time and energy are limited resources, because both are limited. Like you, I have 24 hours in a day. And health, my mental and physical energy are my most important food source for living. The fitter and more vital I

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Here's how to prepare for (networking) meetings and make the most of them!

If this is true, you could be missing huge opportunities. Online networking has become easier with the advent of social media and many digital opportunities and means "less effort" than external networking meetings. Another big advantage of online networking is that you have no travel time and your investment in time and costs are much lower. Still, I also go to at least one external meeting every month, where

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Leadership and freedom in your life and business 

"Always be seeking, connecting, solving, asserting, believing, seeing and testing. The other way to read this is: always be wrong. Well, not always. Sometimes, you'll be right. But most of the time, you'll be wrong. That's okay." Seth Godin Do you "happen" to have something to learn? Coincidence doesn't exist? Whether there is, I'll leave that in the middle. What I do know and experience is that there are things on my

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The career switch after burnout and starting your own business.

Starting your own coaching business from your medical profession

During my weekly Women & Leadership LinkedIn Live, I struck up a conversation with Sandra Dobbelsteen, founder of "Wakeup to Life." Where Sandra shared her inspiring career switch from nurse to energy coach and health consultant. Her story of her personal transformation, resilience and pursuit of a life of meaning and fulfillment. How she started using her medical profession differently and leveraging her expertise ne potential to create her own

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Setting your own course

The only way to learn the right way is to first understand the wrong way. And then what is the right way? The right way there is no such thing, because the way is different for all of us. We all have our own way of achieving our goals. But can it be smarter, more strategic, faster, more profitable ... ? Absolutely, always. You want to get somewhere, this is your destination,

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Success, win, enjoy

Success is a choice

Success in your life depends greatly on the degree of focus you have in your actions and in your thoughts. Your approach determines success. But what is that best approach? What is a good strategy and what actions should you do at the right time on your success? And whether it's more success in your life, in your sports or in your

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Framework thinking for greater success

Framework Thinking is the superpower of the 21st century

" Strategic Design Thinking: Framework Thinking is the superpower of the 21st century." - Gerdi Hulsink Strategy, systems, structuring ... many pull away white and stop reading now. But you don't, because you know it's going to help you achieve your goals though. I hear it so often. Working from flow, in your zone of genius and it should all come easy and come flying. Yes that

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Focus on asking the right questions, not answers

The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers, but from asking the right questions. Searching for the right answers and not being able to find them. At least not the answers you want to hear, the answers that will help you move forward. But then do you know exactly what you are looking for and what your need is. What are you looking for, what do you really want? Are you asking the

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