One of the most recurring issues I hear from team members to top executives is how frustrated they are with their meetings: Too many meetings, too many participants, too long, no tangible outcomes, lots of uncertainty afterwards. Here’s what I have seen improving things in countless teams.

From 2018 to 2022, I have facilitated anti-corruption workshops in Madagascar and trained officers from the National Anti-Corruption Agency BIANCO in corruption prevention methods. The fact that the protest movement just led to an overthrown government, comes not as a surprise to me. Because corruption in Madagascar had gotten way out of control and can be considered the top cause for the protests. In this blog post, I explain why.

In our current economical logic, organisations, team leaders and working individuals have a strong tendency, to quickly "move on" and "turn the page" - for the sake of productivity. The truth is though, that under the surface, certain events keep working in us, because they remain unresolved.