Dominique Hermans - Managing Director, Randstad Netherlands

I learned that a key factor is to truly involve your people, your team. From the beginning. It can be a scary thing.”

I’ve been in leadership for many years. The ever-returning challenge in the different roles I have had is not ‘how to make plans’, ‘how to set a vision and ambition for the company’? It’s always more important to find an answer to the question ‘how do we realize our ambition?’, ‘are we capable of activating our strategy?’.

I learned that a key factor is to truly involve your people, your team. From the beginning. It can be a scary thing. What if they don't agree with my thoughts? What if they come up with totally different ideas? The Thrive, Erik-Jan en Boudewijn, are the perfect partners to support every leadership team with this struggle. They know how to create a trusted environment where people can be the best version of themselves. They stimulate the contribution of everybody. What they don't do is make strict plans for the journey. That may feel like losing control of the proces.

But the contrary is true. By helping the team to discover their 'own best version', it becomes authentic, real. You will create real ambition. This is precisely what helps to realize what you are aiming for. When you work with Boudewijn en Erik-Jan you experience a gentle approach in combination with a strong result oriented mindset. Every session is full of energy (extraverted and introverted 🙂 More than once, in different settings, The Thrive helped us to thrive! The cooperation helps me to stay close to myself, and meanwhile become a better self.