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approach to learning: the growth spiral...

Growing in skills starts when you are aware of the need - sense of urgency -, when you want and when you dare. For individuals as well as organizations. OOOOOOO is based on scientific background and experience for each intervention, summarized in the GROWTH SPIRAL. Curious about the approach?

personal guidance: you as a basis...

Focused individual attention creates greater safety where growth and processing takes place at a completely different level. Often psychological and existential, from who you are as a professional and as a private person, which gives self-knowledge, self-image, presence and performance a significant, integrated boost. Curious about the approach and results?

GOD - Goal Oriented Doing: the methodology

To manage your work volume and time, you need a way of organizing that - firstly - does not require too much energy and works easily & that - secondly - especially suits the unique person you are! But what should you pay attention to and where can you find it?

GOD - Goal Oriented Doing: The Book

More than 30 years of knowledge and practical experience, hundreds of trained companies and teams & thousands of individual time and self-management guidance bundled in a structured, detailed and scientifically based practical workbook?

busy like a headless chicken: how to set goals & take steps?

Bart Maes -once my managing director-, told me once; Werner, you're busy all day... -my nose shone quite a bit at the time! -... but are you also doing something? The glare was suddenly a little less bright.
What is the practical and essential difference between being busy and doing?

get lost in everything on your plate: do the post-it exercise for an overview!

Sometimes you feel like a wet mop at the end of the day and when your partner or dog or cat at home asks “what have you been up to today” and you don't know the answer or maybe it even makes you an ambetant? Save alert! You disconnected from your job and - worse - from yourself! Do you want to prevent this? Then work purposefully and try this out in this short exercise.

say no to your boss in a customer-focused way: how to set goals together?

A guided projectile - a drone launched by your boss, colleague or customer - carries a potentially droppable package of LABOR to the target: it stands up for you in bulk. Can you avoid them? If so, how?

Dismantle time bombs right away: divide your work, estimate time and plan immediately!

Sometimes a task comes at you that you don't immediately know what to do with, even makes you uncomfortable. You often postpone this until later but it lies dormant in your system. If you keep delaying this, it can unconsciously hunt you down and even wake you up at night. Silent killers!

do you also want an empty inbox: grab = decide!

Imagine... starting today, you will go to your mailbox in a completely different way; you open every letter, hold the advertisement, tear open packages, browse magazines, yawn at invoices sent and... put everything back in. Funny? That's what you do with your mailbox!

grab = decide: ask the question SHOULD I DO NOW?

Something comes into your inbox digitally, or on paper, your desk, or a thought in your head and you think: 'oh no hey, not now, I don't have the time or desire for this, I'll do it soon or I haven't seen it' and you think you're done with it. Unfortunately, peanut butter: unfortunately, it puts a huge strain on your brain and well-being, such a waste of your airtime! How do you solve this structurally?

kiss the prince, eat the frog: do the most important or difficult thing first...

“Girl, girl, time flies” I had to say on stage when someone threw an alarm clock at me. Time does fly. Before you know it, you're mad at yourself for “not doing what you must/wanted to do.” How do you work systematically and joyfully on the right things?

waiting for Godot: how to follow up structurally and practically?

Chef: How far along are you with the Kakafonie project, Dimitri? You: Well, I'm waiting for information from Rudi Godot from our sales department. Chief: Have you reminded him yet? You: Chef twice already! Chef: You need to be a little bit more behind it, Dimitri, daily if necessary, until he gets tired of it. You: O.K. Chef... but you think otherwise because your experience shows something else...

waiting for Godot: how to follow someone up in an understanding but task-oriented way?

Sometimes you can't get on with your work until someone else has done a task. And then you wait... and you wait... until you weigh an ounce. Or you get busier and busier... until you weigh an ounce. In the meantime, a lot of energy and time has already been wasted. You may be getting hot breath from your boss. How to deal with it?

waiting for Godot: how to start a follow-up and... how do you follow EVERYONE?

Unnecessary downtime and waiting time occurs everywhere in a company. Where optimists may see this as a zen opportunity, practice shows rather a loss of time and money, delays and frustrations in your own work, with yourself, within your team, in your organization. How do you turn this around this structurally and constructively in a positive way?

tidy and tidy: distraction = distraction, ensure oversight, view over!

Your office, 8:47 a.m.... Your cell phone rings and you're absolutely sure it's on your desk, by the way: you hear it. However, he is tediously playing hide-and-seek behind the stacks and under the papers of “your well-organized desk”. What does your desk/desktop look like and what consequences?

stay out of your mailbox: start in your agenda!

Imagine... The first thing you do every day: open all windows & doors, lights and heating on everywhere, music on all over the house. Then you quickly walk around, so to speak, logically, but completely randomly, to shut everything off again. What does that sound like? However, this is how you deal with your mailbox!

keep focus: turn off distractions!

How many times did you look at your mobile phone, your mailbox, whatsapp... today? When was the last time? Half an hour ago? Three minutes? What did you interrupt for it? Recognisable? Then you may have been bitten by Zeigarnik. Quickly to the doctor or...?

stay out of your mailbox: some smart shortcuts...

What do you do when you write an email? Right: you go to your mail overview and... see “that Jean-Pierre has finally answered”! You're going to watch 'just a bit' because that will only be those 3 seconds and... before you know it, other emails will also pull you into the mailbox and you'll soon be busy for half an hour - or more -. How do you become a boss yourself again?

you are unpleasantly disturbed: buffer for work that requires your focus!

Set your alarm extra early, at 8 a.m. at the office, coffee at the ready because... you're finally going to finish that heavy file that's causing you headaches until noon today! Action darn it! But then Jeannine comes in, relieved by the Jos and followed in the wake by Layla...

holes in your memory cheese? write down!

In the afternoon in the dining room... “Will you still deliver that report?” “Sure” you say before you go to the toilet. There you check your social media, on the way back you are approached twice by colleagues and when you arrive at your workplace, an urgent post-it ostentatiously glued to your screen asks for your attention. What do you think will happen to “that report”?

help... my head is a flickering Christmas tree: write down & centralize!

3 a.m. and 5 p.m., the alarm sounds... at night! You woke up in the middle of one of your REM nights because something suddenly came to mind. A gift from your subconscious mind...
How do you deal with this and how do you solve it if it happens regularly?

long live post-it's, straight to your inbox!

“Georgette asked to call back!” someone yells at you when you come back from the toilet. “Gosh, you'll stop by the Delhaize soon for melocakes” you think while you work. “Will you throw in Piet Uyttebroeck's file later” your chef asks in between... How do you prevent your desk from becoming one big post-it?

what you don't want to forget straight to your inbox: easy and fast apps!

You know it; you're sitting on the toilet, in the shower, on the road - train, tram, bus, bike, trottinette - or you've just shut down your computer and you're thinking again about something you shouldn't and shouldn't forget. How do you solve that easily and in one go?

sooooo much to do, I still have so much to do... keep an overview of all your actions!

To do lists! In all shapes and flavors, by the way, and for multiple purposes. To freak out! And if you're not careful, they're ooooo everywhere! Your brain is losing weight and stress is just around the corner... Still, everything is better than trying to remember, isn't it? Your couple is already so full... How do you practically create one solid action list that is useful to you?

archive, archive, whoever does their best will learn: keep an active and permanent mail archive!

“Gosh, where is that mail again? “I just lost it, I just don't remember where I filed it.” Then you're looking for a bump because you have to and will find it. Frustration! What is archiving wisdom and how do you always find everything quickly?

what do your agenda and bank account have in common: reserve a budget!

'I still have a good month left at the end of my paycheck, 'Rob - my boss of yesteryear - sometimes joked. Then he shouldn't have to spend that much, of course, the Dutch bon vivant! How do you prevent the same thing from happening with your time, if you still have work tasks left at the end of your day?

double stress when your colleague is on vacation: keep it in mind!

The leave period! Always fun. If it's yours. From the moment your colleague pleads, your phone is twice as glowing, the forwarded mailbox arrives at yours, your tray bends under the extra mail, etc. Pffffffhhhh! Solution: your colleague will never leave again?

prevent leave stress: keep space before and after!

Stress is never as big as the day right before your vacation! You rush through your files, still want to finish everything - whether your boss or customers want it -, you close your computer far too late, you rush home to pack your bags, and after leaving, you wonder if you've closed the side door. How do you prevent leave stress?

how to process mail avalanche super quickly and effectively after your vacation?

Unfortunately, no matter how clean leave can be, it ends somewhere! Back from vacation completely relaxed? Are the batteries properly charged? “Welcome back” is what you hear Chef Burns say with a grin! And what are you going to do first - after a chat and a coffee or tea, of course -? Your hundreds of emails... sigh...

work? K.A.P. with it: keep an eye on things, replan & count your blessings...

The clock is ticking towards departure time at work and there is another one on your to-do list today - also stop by the store, quickly into the pharmacy... -. But you have to leave now! You arrive home as a zombie with ADHD... How to end your workday in a productive and motivating way?

no idea where your time went again: the time travel checklist!

“man, take advantage of it because time flies” my mother-in-law often said. She was already 90 at the time and I thought 'you have to complain! '. That was in 2020 and indeed: where has that time gone since then? How to use your time consciously?

Pacman eats up time: avoid wasting time and focus on what really matters!

Swede Carlson investigated managers' most important time-eaters. Read about it here and find out where it can boost you!

your schedule is never right: prevent, buffer and keep it realistic!

One of the invariably rules of time experts is that you schedule your agenda to keep an overview of what's coming your way. Makes sense! But... at what time is your daily schedule ruined?
And what does that do to your day and your stress level? How do you structurally and while maintaining a good mood ensure that your plans are constantly being turned upside down?

become happier... how to do it in a practical way?

What exactly is happiness?
And who or what decides whether you are happy?
How can you actively increase your influence on this?
After all, it's about your happiness, isn't it!
Read here how to give direction to your good intentions!

how can you still influence a meeting as a non-chairman?

Meeting workshops often mainly teach you how to lead strong meetings as a chairman. How to keep structure. How to keep everyone talking or talking. How to deal with difficult participants. But what if your chairman himself is a difficult participant?

Your time profile + immediate advice?

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