Category Archives: work

It is very important to me. I need this.

The other day I received an e-mail from an old participant. He asked me to get permission to one of our to be held workshops in the next year. He actually didn’t ask me this, he told me that he had the right on entrance because two years ago he skipped a workshop in the [...]

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“I only offend you because I want us to be closer with eachother!”

Today I attended the last day of a training course we organized for a client. I wanted to see what the result was of this particular training in the behavior of the people who participated.  Or in other words, did we change something in their attitude? Next to that I wanted to know whether they [...]

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Let’s take another break

In a very simplistic manor I distinguish people at work in two groups. One group consists of people showing up on time for their work, making their hours and trying their best. They have their bad days but in general they work hard. Then there is a group of people who consistently show up a [...]

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A true Ostrich act!

One of the things I do is writing reports about how a school functions. A sort of mirror to see its strength and its weaknesses in clear language. To do this I have a list of topics I need to know more about. With this list I hold semi structured interviews with students, teachers and [...]

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A host going through my stuff at a conference

Today I had to speak at a congress. Main topic was IT solutions in education. So I packed my bag with my laptop and my beamer and hit the road to be on time. The presentation I had to give was about a certain online tool we helped to implement at schools and focussed on [...]

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