Leadership and Collaboration

Receive new insights through the valuable input evening at Rock Base

Leadership and collaboration are two elements that are strongly linked. Rock Base, the collaborative label of Peter de Wit and Anthon Geersing, is proud to announce their upcoming interactive evening on this theme. Dedicated to strengthening personal leadership and effective collaboration, this evening offers a unique opportunity to learn from the combined expertise of these two visionaries.

After the first official announcement three weeks ago, in which Peter and Anthon announced "we are going to do something new!", now comes the unveiling of their mission: bringing together the worlds of the Marine Corps and business. By combining the powerful lessons from both fields, they are creating a solid foundation for personal and professional growth.

Expertise

Peter de Wit has an impressive background in the Marine Corps. He will share about his experiences in Afghanistan and Somalia. In doing so, he will provide insights valuable for everyday life and the workplace. Anthon Geersing had a career in sales and management within top 10 automotive organizations. Through his expertise as a trainer and coach at The SalesCentrum, he brings practical and theoretical knowledge. The focus is on the areas of sales, communication and leadership. Together, they give the evening's participants essential input that gives direction to life!

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You can be there!

On Thursday evening, January 30, attendees will be taken through an interactive evening at the Eemlandhoeve in Bunschoten Spakenburg. During this evening everyone will receive valuable input that is immediately applicable to grow in leadership and cooperation. The evening promises to be an inspiring and educational experience in which stories will be shared. In addition, one will receive practical tools and insights to make a difference.

Order your ticket through this link

Don't miss this unique opportunity to grow personally and learn from the best in their field.

Motivation and Positive Mindset

Keys to Success for you and your team

How to motivate employees and ensure a positive mindset?

Motivating employees and maintaining a positive mindset are essential to a successful team. Whether you are a manager managing an entire team or an individual salesperson looking to increase his or her own motivation, these strategies can help.

First and foremost, realize that employees need clear communication. Therefore, share strategic plans and goals with your team. Explain why these goals are important and how everyone contributes to the success of the company. As much as possible, let your team contribute their own ideas to achieve the goal. By doing this, employees feel engaged, better understand their role and are motivated to achieve these goals.

Not only the company can set goals this you can also do yourself. Write down your annual goals and make them visible. This will strengthen your focus and motivation. It may be an idea to do this together with your team members as well. Remind yourself and possibly your team why you are pursuing these goals.

How can you further motivate your team?

Regularly ask for advice or opinions. Allow employees to contribute ideas and give them a voice. This promotes engagement and motivation. Moreover, your team may come up with solutions, for challenges or goal achievement, that are more logical and simple than you had thought of.

Show appreciation for employees' efforts. Consider a personal message, compliment or attention on birthdays and holidays. It helps keep their motivation high. Note, the trick is to continue to express your appreciation during moments when things are not going your way. By doing so, you break through a negative tenor. Moreover, you yourself also get positive energy when you give compliments to others. In other words, your actions determine your own motivation and positive mindset as well as that of others.

Organize team outings or activities to strengthen team spirit. A close-knit team motivates each other and works better together. You can also build the team further by knowing each other's skills. In this way, you can make use of each other's qualities and push each other to great heights.

Show understanding for employees' personal lives. Flexibility and room for personal matters contribute to motivation. Create a home team of supporters for your employee, of you and your company at the kitchen table. A good work-life balance is essential to maintaining a positive work mindset. In addition, make sure you have one or two people, separate from your work environment, who speak positively into your life.

As the individual grows, the team grows and so does the company!

Laugh and put things in perspective. Humor helps reduce stress and maintain a positive atmosphere. For example, share funny moments with colleagues. Laugh away tension around a complicated case. One way you can do this is to take situations completely out of context or imagine what things would look like if a wrong decision developed in the extreme. If you have laughed away challenges or mistakes you will succeed better in finding an effective solution.

Further influence your motivation and positive mindset by:

See setbacks as learning opportunities and criticism as valuable feedback. Making mistakes is allowed! That's how you grow and stay positive. Teach your team to give each other feedback and to receive it. It also increases mutual commitment and motivates to look beyond one's own world. In short, when the individual grows, the team grows and so does the company!

Partial success stories ( e.g. positive customer experiences), success principles and quotes from team members or famous people. You can read through them at difficult times to inspire yourself or your team and keep your mindset positive.

So, remember that intrinsic motivation is not so much about pay raises as it is about engagement, appreciation and personal growth. Stay focused on your ‘why’ and believe in your own skills, the qualities of your team and the company you work for.

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These are important nutritional values for proper motivation and a positive mindset.

Do you want to build yourself or your team and work on proper motivation and a positive mindset? Get in touch via this link.

 

What I learn from my son's challenge

My 3-year-old male probably has TOS (language development disorder). This means that his speech does not come naturally. It is a huge challenge to teach him speech. To keep his world orderly, he has an enormous need for fixed patterns. Fortunately, he gets professional help and we get tools to deal with this.

The special thing about a challenge is that there is often a downside. In this case, a huge learning curve. Not only for him but certainly for me as well. I will give you an idea of what I learned as a result and can apply further in my life and work.

There is often a positive upside to a challenge!

✅ Patience

To understand him, to do something according to his familiar pattern, and to make something clear to him, I achieve something fastest by being patient. If I take my time with him and put myself in his shoes, we achieve the most together.

✅ Clearly and concisely convey a message

A jumble of words does not reach my little guy. If I make short sentences and restate the main word separately, my message arrives.

✅ Nonverbal communication is key

Using sign language, we are teaching our little man to communicate. In the last few weeks, he is making huge leaps and discovering the value of being able to express himself in this way.

✅ Learning from all ages

This morning my little son made a gesture I was not familiar with. Because he was pointing to a specific white object, I suspected he was gesturing the color white. After checking in the gesture app, I was confirmed in this. My 3-year-old son was teaching me the meaning of a new gesture! I am so proud of him.

✅ Don't go too fast

If I want to do something quickly that is contrary to his familiar way of doing things, my son can become extremely sad. The familiar pattern is rudely disrupted. What was safe suddenly gives uncertainty and he cannot put words to it.

✅ Confirm that you heard the other person.

My son speaks some words and has sounds for other meanings. When he wants to make something clear he repeats this sound until I confirm him with the intended word. This way he gets recognition and confirmation of what he wants to make clear.

These are some examples of what I have learned and the translation to the professional world. Besides enjoying his happy presence immensely, I am learning a tremendous amount from my beautiful happy little man.

Project for Mechan Academy

By order of Mechan Academy I started a project at Vlaming Group BV.

Mechan Academy

Mechan Acadmie is part of Mechan Group from Achterveld. This group is the agricultural mechanisation distributor for the AGCO brands Massey Ferguson, Valtra, Fendt and Fella throughout the Netherlands. These brands are sold through specialized dealerships.

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Through its own academy, training programs and courses are offered to the dealers in line with their wishes and needs. The training courses are intended to be in line with current events and to prepare the dealers for future developments in the market.

Fleming Group

Vlaming Groep B.V. engages in a range of activities serving the agricultural and industrial sectors. The group has divided its activities into 4 divisions, namely: Vlaming Agri, Irridelta, Vlaming Intern Transport and Products.

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Anthon at Fleming

The goal of the training project is to get these different divisions to work even better with each other in order to achieve even more synergy and thus customer benefits from these unique services and products. To be more successful externally, it is essential to make sure things are right internally.

"We have grown tremendously in recent years, now it is time to make sure that we match that even better with our internal processes and communication," said Fredo Vlaming. "That is why we are happy to have a trainer through the Mechan Academy with Anthon who will take us through a communication improvement."

Need training?

Whether or not you are part of Mechan Group's dealer base and are interested in the possibilities of such training please contact me. On the website of the SalesCenter you can read more about the way I work. You can do so by sending an email or calling me at call. You can always make an immediate schedule an appointment in my calendar.

Corporate clothing

Corporate apparel for The Sales Center!

Last week I worked for corporate apparel for The Sales Center at Ropaflex Nijkerk. With this corporate clothing, the Sales Center can put itself even better on the map and we are also recognizable at external trainings and events. Better recognition also provides the space to engage in conversation with new contacts and thus receive more opportunities for the growth of the Sales Center.

Ropaflex

For some time now I had been trying to find beautiful matching corporate clothing in the right style, color and expression. Through a tip from another entrepreneur in Amersfoort, I came in contact with Ropaflex in Nijkerk. There I was helped by several ladies of the team in picking out the appropriate clothing. Besides the right business as somewhat casual look, it was important to me that the company logos could be included in a clear way. For the latter, I received some design examples from the team at Ropaflex in the mail after which I arrived at my choice with the help of some acquaintances.

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Anthon Geersing and Ilona Veenendaal (Ropaflex)

In addition to long and short sleeve polos in dark blue, I chose a smooth jacket. This one is in black in color and is waterproof.

I am very happy with the result and look forward to wearing it when visiting existing and new clients and, of course, during the various trainings!

My Sales Strategy, something for you?

Objectives?

How do you ensure that goals are met and that sales people develop into even better quality salespeople?

The ‘My Sales Strategy’ offers a solution!

It is logical to say your own service is a solution. Yet I believe that the 'My Sales Strategy' ties together important elements that are often seen separately. The great thing is that it's all brought together in a readable A3 format.

Before other organizations chose the My Sales Strategy, they wanted to know if this could be a solution for their respective organization/structure. Mee by answering a few questions they were able to further define their choice. These questions help pinpoint the problem and give us both an idea of what the different options are for addressing this together.

Policy Developments

However, there does not always have to be a problem to make it necessary to evolve, society is developing rapidly and many companies that operated on previously well-functioning systems are now finding that they need to change to stay current. Again, this may the SalesCenter help.

Check here directly whether this approach is also a solution for your organization!

In this video, I briefly explain what the My Sales Strategy is all about!

A pile of wood as a life lesson?

Have you ever made a pile of firewood? I have. The other day I had 2 cubic meters of wood brought in to fire the stove in our living kitchen. The advantage of handling that much wood is that it gets you hot twice. First to get it all in a nice pile and then when you start firing.

Sometimes it means taking what has been learned and stacking it up again for a while so that it becomes a solid whole again.

The blocks of wood I received were all different shapes. Some a little shorter, others longer. Some round and others all different angles. It is not easy to make a nice whole out of such a diverse quantity. On top of that, you have to shape the pile so that it doesn't topple over at the first breath of wind.

Synonym

As I was processing the wood, I realized that all these different blocks could be synonymous with what we are taught in terms of life lessons. If all goes well, your parents once started teaching you what you needed. Assuming there were grandparents, they also interfered with you with all kinds of good advice. The lessons of your first kindergarten teacher were sacred to you. Gradually you came into contact with adults, friends and new teachers who all taught you things in their own way. You learned every day.

The trick is to make all that has been taught into something personal. Sometimes it means turning what you have learned upside down and stacking it again so that it becomes a solid whole again. That takes effort and it can get pretty hot. It can also mean burning things from the past. That too generates heat but doing it does make it a lot more comfortable for you. It gives space and it provides opportunities to add other blocks of information. Properly considered, you always stay with what you are taught. It is important that you have or get a solid foundation so that you can firmly build on that which is taught to you.

The Sales Center likes to offer customization and realizes that sometimes it is essential to examine learned behavior. Perhaps together we can turn the whole thing upside down and lay a good foundation on which you can build existing and new elements. We will undoubtedly burn some elements and yes, that will make you hot, but at the same time it will also make you more comfortable.

Leadership begins with yourself!

There are many insights about leadership. What is leadership at its core?

According to Wipikedia is this:

What Wipikedia describes here is that there is usually a relationship between leadership and a position. In other words leadership is hung up on a position in a work environment or a place where a group of people are active and where the group is influenced by the leader,. In my opinion, this is a meager reflection of what leadership actually means. Because the question is to what extent you as a person are able to influence the other. Do you know what to do to influence the other person?

Covey

In his book “the seven traits of effective leadership” Stephan Covey discusses personal leadership at length. In summary, it is first about yourself and leading yourself before getting to the second stage of leading others. Covey writes that it is possible to appeal to our self-awareness, imagination and conscience. By focusing on these and making changes, we are only able to expand our circle of influence. In other words, that is leading ourselves.

Leadership begins with ourselves.

An example to clarify what is meant by this. Suppose you are married. With you and your partner the sparks are no longer flying and you want to change that for the better? So you start a conversation together. That is wise but there is a chance that the conversation will not achieve what you have in mind. When you start looking at the situation from your self-awareness, you can regain a grip on the situation. You start to imagine how you would like the relationship to go. And in doing so, you imagine how your partner reacts to certain things. In doing so, you can go so far as to form an image of what you would say or do. All aimed at getting the other person to change the atmosphere in a positive way. Now that you know this from your imagination, you can decide to make the necessary change in yourself. The impact on yourself and the change you make will become noticeable in the other person.

The impact on yourself and the change you make will become noticeable in others.

Change

So leadership begins with ourselves. If we want to lead another person somewhere, we ourselves will have to have a picture of what steps we need to take to get to where we want to get out. In essence, you see that which the others do not yet see. For some, it is enough when as a leader you tell them the end goal. The listeners are independently able to reach that goal. For others, you start with Step 1 and lay out the path step by step before you get to the end goal. Sometimes you tell what is needed and other times you can create movement by asking the right questions. As a leader, you can envision what you yourself need to do or what personal change you need to make before you can influence others. That is leadership from the bottom up!