You're living in challenging times, a lot is going on and changing at the moment. Just staying afloat sometimes feels challenging already. Resilience can help, but what is it exactly?

In this exercise, you’ll start by evaluating yourself. You’ll gain insight into your own perceptions of your personality and traits. Next, you’ll explore how others perceive you through their perspectives. Finally, you’ll have the opportunity to compare and discover where your own perceptions align with or differ from those of others.

At Hotel zum Hirschen, we ran a workshop called "Inside Out Leadership - Lead yourself first, then others" to expand management's understanding of themselves, their leadership style and create a shared set of rules of engagement for working and leading together by taking ownership.

M&A in the skilled trades rarely fails because of numbers, data, or facts—but rather because of culture and a lack of communication. At Schlosser Dachbau, we were able to demonstrate through this PMI (Post-Merger Integration) workshop how to put the human factor front and center from the very first moment.

Growth is good. Clarity is better. At Schlosser Dachbau, we’ve reimagined communication, collaboration, and processes together—with the entire team, from the CEO to the apprentices. 4 groups. 2 days each. Clear results. And we’ve proven that change in the skilled trades works when we tackle it together.

Trust is earned drop by drop, but lost like a kicked-over bucket. It's not often that one sentence forms such a clear picture in your head. Every exchange or conversation you have either fosters trust or erodes it. Protect your credibility.

Quitting can be seen as accepting failure or defeat. Perseverance and resilience are great mindsets for overcoming challenges. But sometimes, determination can trap us into losing positions instead of reassessing our situation and changing course.

Spend this Christmas with your family and try to really be present and listen. Here are three tips that help you with listening:

When you want to learn anything, you have to cover the basics first. To advance, you need to do the basics well. This is the same in any area or skill, even in leadership. Here are 4 leadership basics from 2 retired Navy SEAL officers.