Last week we identified the benefits of humor as an important leadership quality. Some studies even see it as an indicator of intelligence. This week I would like to go one step further and shed a little more light on the power of self-humor for personal development....

Of course, cool career types and power-oriented managers who make your working life difficult will unfortunately also be remembered. But when will your team remember you positively as their boss? Which leadership qualities and personality traits are important for this...

Warren Norman reduced our personality to 5 traits: open, agreeable, extraverted, conscientious and emotionally stable (or, converserly, “neurotic“). Empirical evidence from more than 600,000 interviews reveals that the first 4 traits are all positive but we should be...

Ranking from last week’s quiz may not convince you but it‘s the result from more than 600,000 interviews:  A: Having own children = ② (even more so for men …) B: Making more money = ② (if you earn at least €2000 per month) C: Sleeping less than 6h = ③ (three hours per...

Sociologist Martin Schroeder analyzed more than 600,000 interviews in a rigorous fashion. Let’s get a bit closer by a little quiz - rank the following five points either 1 = „Makes very happy“, 2 =  „Not really important“,  3 = „Makes very unhappy“: A: Having own...

The decisive factor for a winning presentation is YOU: your body language, followed by your voice – the content only makes up 7%! What does that mean for you? Before your next presentation, deal less with the content, but remember a sense of achievement or happiness...

You know the picture: the last few minutes before a decisive presentation, many people spend trying to recap their pages. But what does your audience really appreciate? What percentage importance does it attach to the success factors „content, voice and body...

1. No test of the equipment for pleasant sound & picture impression (online check-in the day before?) 2. No personal eye contact, gestures, voice & upright posture 3. No clear plan, tasks, goals and online documentation (e.g. via Jamboord, Miro, Mural, Trello...

Quite some of you do miss their offices after being locked up at home ... - will shed some light next week on 5 key don’ts when it comes to video calls - stay healthy and confident ... 🙂

In the meantime we all do have quite some experiences with working at home and/or in the office - am interested in your views: 1: Working at home is great! 2: Miss my office! 3: Need the choice between both! Will get back to the results of this little survey next...