Aaarrrgggg, those ******* meetings!
You need meetings! You want them to generate ideas, inspire action and flow but in their essence meetings are paradoxical! In many cases we see, hear and feel that within organizations meetings do not deliver to their expectations. Participants come ill prepared, disengage and hardly follow-up. At best, you have a love-hate relationship with meetings. You […]
Get in charge of your life! Optimize for happiness. (our book story)
From time to time you feel bad as a consequence of the way you live our life. Either you know about it or you do not know about it, but in many cases you just accept the situation as it is and keep living your life the way you were. Well… it should not be […]
Entrepreneurs Design Their Metrics for Success
Something we do together with our partner for the Belgian startup and entrepreneurial community is what we call the “Startup Coaching Retreats” and is based on similar principles as all the above but focused on the needs of entrepreneurs with a startup company. – see report of our first run ‘here‘ – Participation for the ones […]
Gamestorming Retreat grows facilitation skills
Today’s gamestorming retreat session took us through the facilitation of 6 different games which were played several times. Each time we took into account the learning from the previous session into a new experiment and as such grew our collaborative facilitation skills tremendously. Conclusion of the day: it is not all about the game, the right facilitation […]
Free Retreats, our way to serve you and grow competence.
As passionate people at work, we are constantly on stage and we never take enough time to practise. Our retreats are meant for practise and sharing experiences on a regular base in order to shrink the gap between where the level of our skills are and where we want it to be. There is no […]
Happy customers are our fuel to do more.
It is good to have satisfied customers, especially the ones that are willing to take a leap of faith helping to build up your renewed business! As we founded Co-Learning to continue our efforts previously known with a different commercial name we asked a couple of our more recent customers if they were willing to […]
iStart Coaching Retreat Kick-Off
June 29th was the day of a new beginning for the iStart mentoring track that was setup between IBBT, Erik Talboom & myself (Jurgen De Smet). About the iStart Coaching Retreat We believe that, next to financial guidance, it is equally important to explore various systems, models, techniques, practices and experiences on how to go […]
Johan Tré is writing: “human effective learning”
Quite a few years ago I came in touch with Jurgen De Smet. It appeared that we had similar opinions on how our corporate world is setup. Coming from a technical background as well I noticed the same visions were shaped from a similar background and learning curve. It was until later on I found out what Co-Learning was […]
Plant the seeds and enjoy their growth
It has been more than a year since we organized the first Belgian Management 3.0 training with Jurgen Appelo(March 28, 2011) and subsequent premiere of co-teaching Jurgens (June 27th, 2011). In the mean time we have had the opportunity to spread the love in several public and in-house occasions in Europe for which we received great feedback of which you […]
Kanban retreat #1 experience report
On April 7th we had our first kanban retreat as a means of peer to peer exchange, having a safe place to bounce ideas amongst each other and learn. In order to get the people into the kanban state of mind, we started off with the famous getKanban board game (the beta version we bought some time ago) followed with an imaginary, yet […]