No, says Buckingham. It’s about finding love in what you do. Simply because you want to keep doing what’s enjoyable to do. This is key, rather than striving for a balance between work and private life. Finding a perfect balance is not obvious as this is almost impossible in our constantly changing reality. What we…
Each of us has potential, since “having potential” means that we have the capacity to grow, learn and become more efficient in what we do. What matters more to Buckingham M., in contrast with the focus on a person’s potential, is the realization of momentum. This is the result of good coordination between someone’s character…
Just about all studies of the last forty years show that people cannot be reliably assessed. Regardless how much we try to do this. A more reliable way to collect information about people is to score our own experiences. Your own experiences reflect your experience and cannot be seen as “wrong”, just because it is…
The above statement is turned into people’s need of attention. The focus is shifted from giving feedback to giving attention, with the same goal, to make people more efficient. Only the approach changes: when giving attention, the focus will be on strengthening one’s own solution capacity and creative thinking, you focus on what the other…
“I have the opportunity to use my strengths at work every day.” How would you answer the above statement? We hope that your answer is positive, because that would mean that you are convinced that you will be empowered by the work you do. Each of us is unique and has its own specific strengths…
Harvard Business Review recently published an article as a preview of the new book by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall – “Nine Lies About Work”. Both authors warn us for some lies considered as truths. Lie 1: people love the company they work for. Who is working, playing, living with me? There is always someone…
I put it all together: small money well invested can bring you lots of happiness (money being the most important happiness factor in Flanders as researched and published by Lieven Annemans’ (UGent) Research on HAPPINESS. But without people, partnership, positivism, passion, and professionalism nobody realizes any dream. We promote all this as facilitators of PERFORMANCE,…