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The whip of duty kills the soul's song

10 August, 2022

There is a sequence in The Jungle Book with three vultures where one says ?-What are we going to do??,  and another vulture replies ?-don't know. I love that sequence because I come across it a little everywhere both in everyday life as well as in my professional life. Today I realized myself that I have ended up in it

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Leadership to create personal responsibility

14 October, 2021

Gråtruten's leadership Who are the leaders of the next generation of employees? In my opinion, it is primarily the parents who should take on the responsibility of leadership for the individuals they have decided to bring into the world, alternatively chosen to adopt. We live on the west coast and here there are plenty of gray ruts, a beautiful animal that fascinates me, a lot. This […]

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Uplifting leadership through improved communication

9 May, 2021

Do we people in management and leadership positions have the right to point out how people, or other beings for that matter, should and shouldn't be? I sometimes react to how people in various leadership positions express themselves and I meet a lot of people who feel depressed by feedback they receive or have received from recruiters, managers, leaders, coaches, etc. I am in no way saying that I am perfect in my way of being and expressing myself. What I say, act and send out, and how it is interpreted by the receiver is as vast as mother earth. Personally, I feel that it is a constant training to achieve a high degree of competence in communication (words, body and energy).

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Look about your own house

30 March, 2020

"The difficult thing about being a leader is not putting out fires, but ensuring that all resources in the company train themselves to be strong in their positions. They train themselves to be strong by doing things themselves and learning from their mistakes. Mentorship is not running around and doing things for others, but letting others share in their competence and then doing it themselves, and through that getting their own competence. As a leader, you must be responsible for creating the conditions and then have the courage to let the resources themselves develop through your own doing.”

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Deprived of self-confidence!

6 February, 2020

"The secret path to natural leadership is through your own personal development. As I mentioned before, I had to learn it myself through the stupidity of choosing the hard way, straight through the ?Berlin Wall?. "

Chronicle, Organization & management

The secret is understanding

11 December, 2019

"You don't own the person, you pay the person for 8 hours per day and you need to work with the free will as the person owns and designs his own life."

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Out with the "evil" and in with the good

11 November, 2019

Instead of putting your energy on the employees who create a negative atmosphere, you should focus on ?watering? the employees who create a good atmosphere.

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Good at relationship-oriented leadership?

24 September, 2019

It is fascinating to have the insight and acceptance that everything we do is in the nature of a living, ever-changing organism.

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Are you just a number in Excel or an asset in the company?

17 June, 2019

"I was just a number in Excel," a co-worker once said to me. I prudently asked how it came about that the person was just a number and not an asset in the company as I experience a general lack of responsibility in employees sometimes.

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Find your natural leadership

17 May, 2019

Therese has a very developed natural leadership?? That sounded good, I thought when I read the statement from a boss I once had.

Company & culture, Chronicle

The leader who makes a difference

12 April, 2019

The hottest thing in NLC right now is the importance of culture in companies. We are some of the key players who are changing corporate culture and its importance for sustainability. When the question came, what was most important out of culture, business acumen or organization/leadership, all three of us agreed that it was culture that was most important to preserve sustainability in the long run.

Company & culture, Chronicle

Properties divided by color, scary?

13 March, 2019

Extended DISC is a tool where we complement each other with our differences and practice together to achieve better understanding, interaction and communication in our organizations.

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Put the crap back where it came from

11 February, 2019

When I work with employees, I am fascinated by how some managers express themselves to their employees. This of course applies to how employees express themselves to colleagues, but today I will focus on managers.

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Obedient employees versus motivated employees

31 October, 2018

So what is the trick to creating motivated employees? First and foremost, the employee needs the right conditions.

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Bring the crap to the surface

17 September, 2018

As an organizational developer, you need courage to dare to get shit under your fingernails. For it to succeed, I need to feel that I am safe in the company and organization that I am set to improve and develop.

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Loving leadership

16 August, 2018

I'm tall, blonde and some people think I'm good-looking, and I'm also fun-loving and mischievous. This combination has caused me to receive a lot of criticism for my personality. I can be misunderstood as a girl in younger days and as a woman nowadays.

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Dare to be in the process

7 June, 2018

I was doing a training for a newly established group where there was a lot of confusion and wanting to control, I took a step aside to feel the energies in the room. It was at that moment that the phrase "dare to be in the process" came to me.

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The courage to run an agile leadership

13 November, 2017

Many times we think as leaders that we need to sit on all the answers. I claim that by instead daring to drive true diversity and using the entire organization, both its brains and its hearts, we achieve better results.

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Boss a swear word?

9 October, 2017

When I work with leadership development, I dictate the importance of having a balance between management and leadership and point out that the lack of one or the other is not beneficial for the development of the business.

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Throw off the mask

11 September, 2017

När jag arbetar med ledarskapsutveckling så förespråkar jag kraftfullt vikten av den personliga utvecklingen, detta för att påverka utvecklingen i personens ledarskap.

Organization & management, Podcast

Leadership requires constant training

31 July, 2017

What is leadership? It is management and leadership. Leadership deals with the slightly harder structures, organization and operations. Leadership can be both formal and informal, it's about someone wanting to follow you, as a trustworthy person.

Organization & management, Podcast

To say yes? although it's scary and you should say no

31 July, 2017

In the podcast, Therese van der Kruit talks about her journey from a career in a large company to being self-employed. When she felt that the sensible thing would be to say no, she said yes. But in the end she decided to do something else, become self-employed.

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I fired the boss?

17 May, 2017

The manager I chose to work for unfortunately moved on to new challenges, after a year of developing work together. The incoming manager was not at all to my liking and I immediately felt that he would not make me continue to "fly".

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Time to pull your head out of the sand

10 April, 2017

I sat in a reception room and waited for the doctor to deliver my "sentence". He was silent for a long time, then he turned and said; "It's your choice, but if you don't change your behavior, it could be a stroke that is the reason why we meet next time..."

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Lessons that teach homework

6 March, 2017

I sat in the last job interview to get a very exciting global position. I was tagged and well prepared to show that "I" was the best person for this position.

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Swearing so that the hair blows…

25 November, 2016

If the gender equality issue is going to be interesting to me, I really want us to discuss gender equality and equality in a broader and more egalitarian perspective.

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Dare to change

28 October, 2016

The joy of working with the change process, "Change Management", is total, but to be honest, it is not always party fun.

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Decisive turn…

30 September, 2016

This was the night I got to start the journey back from exhaustion to wellness. It was time for me to realize, understand and accept that what got me here, wasn't going to get me where I wanted to go.

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Decent leadership…

27 May, 2016

I recall when I was traveling and visiting various offices in Europe that the employees were often disturbed when senior managers sailed into the offices without looking left or right.

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Don't let your need for control rule your organization

22 April, 2016

I have had the privilege of being surrounded by very competent people in my professional life who have been good role models, inspired, coached and guided me to become passionate about the subject of organization & leadership.

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Democracy in business tingles…

4 March, 2016

Change can be a challenge and it requires great patience, commitment and competence from leaders, as well as employees to achieve success with the change.

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The art of managing a business

20 November, 2015

When I walk up to my horse and look him in the eye, I don't say: I'm your boss, I bought you for 150,000. That doesn't define me as the leader of my horse.

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Affirm diversity in working life

23 October, 2015

When I was a young junior leader, I had a pace that was indescribably high. At that time I was privileged to try crazy innovative ideas and I thought myself unstoppable.

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Release the dysfunctional

18 September, 2015

Do you dare to release the dysfunctional to make it functional? I've always had a secret passion for making what doesn't work work.