“Success – the accomplishment of an aim or purpose” “Strategy – a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.” These are the definitions according to Oxford dictionary, but what’s the connection between company’s strategy and its success? There are many answers, but in an ocean of uncertainty there are few conclusions […]

“Negotiations in hostage situations, negotiations between multibillion dollar companies or negotiating the Brexit… I’m sorry to say, but we don’t have such expertise. What we do know is how to improve people’s professional performance by making training effective. What we do know is how to create an environment that will allow you to identify your […]

Context și trenduri Ultimul an a însemnat un carusel de schimbări pentru toate componentele lanțului comercial: consumator, cumpărător, retailer, branduri. Mai putem vorbi astăzi despre o călătorie de cumpărare clară? Sau e totul ambiguu? Cât de mult înseamnă schimbarea din perspectiva de shopper și consumator? Suficient de mare, cât să necesite ajustarea și revizitarea fiecărui […]

I’m a trainer and I love my job. I also have a bit of experience… though I’m not sure if I want to disclose you how far my memories go back in time. Let’s just say that I am familiar with training programs of  2-4 days length, 9 hours/day, in classroom training. This is not […]

Happenstance or not it strikes me how often I got into this subject lately. Prompted to me by others in multiple circumstances, I wanted to grasp more – why the need? why the curiosity? why the relevance? why now? why…? – this new understanding of what is a hero (anymore) or better yet what makes […]

How can you make people become aware of what they feel, think and act? How can you make people realize what’s their perspective of the surrounding world? And how can you make people transform themselves, changing perspectives, acting differently and strengthening their will? These are some of the questions that we seek answer to, in […]

8 months from now on we will have enough vaccinated people so we can open the training rooms. People want to experience again the classroom training, for their needs of human connection, but virtual training is cheaper. What will be the best solution for training and development in 2021?             One of the most bizarre […]

Resilience is a hot topic these days and it’s going to be so for a while. Before getting to theory and practice, I’d like to share a story that shed some light for me on the subject: A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so […]

Today I have a discussion with Costin, one of my partners in my current consulting project. Knowing that I have to write an article about resilience, I am interrupting the scenarios definition we are working on and I am asking what the “resilience concept” means to him. The first thing he tells me is that […]

This is the third perspective of how a High Performance Learning Journey looks like. While the first articles took a closer look at training effectiveness from business relevance, manager and the process itself, this reflects the trainee perspective. Maybe it is the most relevant one for the reader and it reflects the level where it […]

This article has a unique perspective: how does a High Performance Learning Journey look like from a trainer’s perspective? Therefore, in order to be relevant to you, you must have had a positive and memorable room experience with the in-classroom training or simply to love being a trainer. This article is about change and how […]

It’s that time of the year, again. But with a twist. We have never had a year like this and so, the new year resolution has a different meaning and different preconditions. Every time I do this, I start with a view of what happened through the ending year. Accomplishments, failures, emotions, health, contribution (to […]

Suntem în decembrie și începem să ne pregătim de Crăciun, nu-i așa? … și dacă dăm gandurile pe repede înainte, ajungem în perioada în care pe e-mail, whatsapp, messenger și orice platformă de social media, începi să primești mesaje de Crăciun. Sunt zeci. Sute. Și la un moment dat selectezi unul dintre ele și il […]

Mișcarea ca lege fundamentală a ființei umane „πάντα ρεί” (gr. „Panta Rhei”, rom. „Totul curge”) ne-a lăsat scris Heraclit din Ephes acum aproximativ 2500 de ani. Atunci când ne naștem venim într-o lume care are anumite legi de funcționalitate. Sunt legi fizice precum legea gravitației sau legi fiziologice precum legea îmbătrânirii. În fapt, ne naștem […]

– Ho, ho, hooo…?, lungi întrebător ultima vocală, căutând în ochii mei nu neapărat aprobare, ci probabil o așezare mai potrivită a emoției, cu care nu mă împăcam. Mormăiam ori de câte ori venea vorba de Crăciunul ăsta, nu chiar ca un Grinch, dar nici departe. Victor tăcu și își coborî privirea în podea, pe […]

The coffee smells fresh and it is hot. It has just a spoon of milk and the flavour is sensational. It is just the way you like it but… you cannot drink it because of the e-mail you have just received from your manager. Out of the blue, he’s asked you for a 121 meeting […]

I’m a fan of universal history so please, give me credit, and for the next 30 seconds picture this image in your mind. It’s the meeting between Christopher Columbus, after discovering the new route to Indies (actually America, but this is another story) and the king of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon, the one who financed […]

– So, how were the first pandemic months for you? What did you do differently from the perspective of people development, in this context? –  The shift to a virtual environment was disruptive for us too, so… we adapted as fast as we could. We had to take a lot of harsh measures like “letting […]

I’ve always been a bookworm, or a nerd, or whatever term we have for it. You know the type – homework ready in no time (and a little extra), reading was my absolute favorite pass time and a debate on the subjects I loved would awaken me in an instant. Long story short, school was […]

After leaving the classical 9:00-to-17:00 (and extra) multinational work environment, my “living-room-as-a-work-place” played a very important role for the last 12 years of my life. Challenge by challenge, work-from-home has become of intrinsic nature to me, being more and more successfully combined with local or abroad work meetings in the client’s office or other suitable […]

Actors and witnesses of a new reality, born under our own eyes, felt with all our senses. That’s who we are. As part of the old X Generation – one thought to be the revolutionary one (little did we know J), I’ve had the privilege to witness and play my minor role into several moments […]