How often do you open your inbox and find over a hundred unread emails? And how frequently do you “clean your inbox” just to find it overflowing with emails again the day after? One of the reasons why I get stressed around emails is that I spend a whole day in a workshop and I cannot check my emails because it would distract my mind too much. Then I check my emails after the workshop when I am already exhausted and know that I have a lot of tasks and queries to handle. When I worked in the corporate world, I would often have a day full of meetings and calls and come back to my desk at 5 or […]

I used to tell my colleagues once that I sometimes feel that I am like an orchid. I would only blossom in the right environment and when I get a lot of love from the people working with me. As a creative person, I also need to feel safe and accepted and this is the hardest part because we often make connections between items that others will not connect. Also, connect people with each other who would not necessarily see why they should be connected.  On the weekend I attended a short workshop in a monastery of a Dominican sisterhood in Ilanz. There in the loving eyes of those sisters, I immediately understood why I would like my clients to […]

Have you returned from your Christmas holiday full of new spirit and New Year’s resolutions and do you already feel a shift in energy as days are getting a bit longer and there is more sunlight. My plants outside thought it was spring already and I did not dare to tell them yet that winter is coming back. I remember the slight optimism of last January when I was hoping for a “back to normal” and only six weeks later the world was in turmoil again.  This year I made a change and started the New Year in South India at 30 degrees Celsius and with an amazing vacation that feels like a trip to paradise. And while it’s cold […]

Steven Howard is the award-winning author of 22 leadership, business, and professional development books. His latest is Humony Leadership: Mindsets, Skills, and Behaviors for Being a Successful People-Centric Leader. The Nonfiction Authors Association awarded the book a Gold Medal and called It “a  significant work with an important mission.”   Humony is a word created by Steven comprising Human, Humanity,  and Harmony to emphasize the leading of people and the need for leaders to create workplaces of wellbeing and harmony.   Steven was named one of the 2023 Top 200 Global Biggest Voices in Leadership for his thought-provoking, cutting-edge thinking on leadership. He was also named to the 2023 CREA List of Top Influential Leaders for his thought leadership and writing. He is […]

I want to brief you all about the Global Competency Model and how it determines the growth of skills in international professionals. As I also describe in The Global Mobility Workbook (2019): “Global Competency is the ability to work effectively in a global, complex environment with a high level of stress, while achieving goals sustainably and in accordance with your own resources”. It combines knowledge, attitude, skills, reflected experiences, and body learning. What are these skills? A diverse set of abilities can help your global competency, from developing your language skills (learning a foreign language is excellent!) to effectively using digital media (Social Media platforms & video conferencing).  Skills like analytical thinking, problem-solving, and communication also help cement your Global […]