Hansen Beck Insights

Leadership, coaching, mentoring, transformational leadership

Transformational Leadership: The Benefits and How to Apply It

 

Unlocking the fullest potential of your employees. It all starts with (transformational) leadership and coaching. Unfortunately, there is no manual you can read that will transform you into a great leader. Leadership is a skill, whi..

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Leadership, principles of leadership, management, transformational leadership

Leadership skills: what makes a great leader

 

If you think of a great leader, who do you think of? We all have our own perception of what a leader should look like, and maybe even what sort of personality traits that person has. It might not come as a surprise that many great l..

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Leadership, principles of leadership, management, leadership programme

Small Business Leadership Programme

5 X Why a small business leadership programme is something for you

 

As a small business owner it can be hard to take-on different roles, like being the sales person, the HR person and the manager of your co..

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Leadership, leadership mentoring, coaching, mentoring

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Coaching: how to motivate and bring out the best of your employees 



Let’s start with a quote of Donald McGannon: leadership is an action, not a position. Our experiences show leadership a..

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Leadership, vision, behaviour, motivation

Where Does Positive Motivation Come From And How Do We Use It?

I work with many companies in Japan on change management and turnaround projects. One question that often comes up is: “When do we start being successful?” The answer is simple: As soon as we recognize that people ar..

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Leadership, empowerment, ego, vision, authentic leadership

What can competitive shooting teach us about authentic leadership?

The Magic of the Pygmalion Effect

The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon.

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Communication, Leadership, praise, employee recognition, recognition

Are you giving your co-workers the recognition they deserve?

Do you feel over appreciated? Do your co-workers feel over appreciated? 

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Future, Preparation, opportunity, Leadership

Help me! I can't see the future!

Why it is essential to think about the future now!

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Leadership, empowerment, trust

The Importance of Empowering Others

In 1994, I started working for Microsoft, as a country manager of Microsoft Slovenia, at that time our smallest subsidiary around the globe.


Our semi-annual budget meeting was coming up. One of the key parameters that we were expected ..

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mindset, taking control, Leadership, innovation

How can we be more innovative?

What is the “language of innovation”?

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