A little treasure for keeps. Beautifully styled and playfully cunning. A headstrong conviction brought to you with grace and glee.

Author Isabel De Clercq talks to you about Hybrid Work. She speaks out the hope within her. Hope for a better future. The future of the knowledge worker.

Not only does she take you into her own dreams, but also crystallises the future with 7 careful suggestions.

Let yourself be carried away with Isabel’s magnetising prose, sharp pen and refreshing insights.

Isabel hopes you do not read this book in one sitting. Read a suggestion. Close the book. Let the words reverberate.

For help in English to buy this book: contact pp@diekeure.be
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A little treasure for keeps. Beautifully styled and playfully cunning. A headstrong conviction brought to you with grace and glee.

Author Isabel De Clercq talks to you about Hybrid Work. She speaks out the hope within her. Hope for a better future. The future of the knowledge worker.

Not only does she take you into her own dreams, but also crystallises the future with 7 careful suggestions.

Let yourself be carried away with Isabel’s magnetising prose, sharp pen and refreshing insights.

Isabel hopes you do not read this book in one sitting. Read a suggestion. Close the book. Let the words reverberate.

For help in English to buy this book: contact pp@diekeure.be
Ook verkrijgbaar in Nederlandstalige versie

La fierté. Après l’amour, c’est probablement le plus beau sentiment du monde. C’est quelque chose que nous recherchons activement, également dans notre environnement de travail. Néanmoins, en réalité, cette ’fierté’ ne fait pas partie du quotidien au travail. Ainsi, plus de 70 % des employés vont au travail sans enthousiasme. Dès lors comment motiver et engager vos collaborateurs ?

Ce livre traite d’une culture d’entreprise qui est plus qu’une simple campagne de communication. D’une culture d’entreprise qui permet de trouver des employés, de les passionner et de les unir. C’est un livre truffé de conseils utiles pour développer et cultiver votre propre culture d’entreprise. Laissez-vous inspirer par l’histoire de Protime, racontée par son cofondateur et son CEO, Peter s’Jongers.

Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets and finally on PES.

Guiding citizens through this (r)evolution and supporting them to manage necessary or desired transitions is a shared challenge of European PES and a huge public responsibility PES are actively taking up. Thereby PES are contributing to well-balanced labour markets which are essential for sustainable growth and for maintaining our social welfare supporting systems.

PES jointly develop solutions through exchanging and learning from each other, rethinking practices and policies and continuously improving their organisations for more sustainable and inclusive labour markets and in order to better serve employers and jobseekers. This book gives an insight into PES policies and practices which are inspired by the close collaboration in the PES Network. PES Network members reflect on their European-wide learning organisation, they point out challenges and their strategic and operational answers from a national perspective, bringing in valuable personal experience. “PES Policies and Practices” thus touches upon a broad variety of PES core topics and gives you the chance to understand their business in a politically shaped environment, characterised by a unique collaboration.

Public Employment Services are confronted with the ever-changing world of work from various angles: as organisation, as employer and as key actor on the labour market. Decisive mega trends such as globalisation, demographic shifts or migration, driven by tremendous technological developments and characterised by a considerable extent of complexity and volatility, have a huge impact on our labour markets and finally on PES.

Guiding citizens through this (r)evolution and supporting them to manage necessary or desired transitions is a shared challenge of European PES and a huge public responsibility PES are actively taking up. Thereby PES are contributing to well-balanced labour markets which are essential for sustainable growth and for maintaining our social welfare supporting systems.

PES jointly develop solutions through exchanging and learning from each other, rethinking practices and policies and continuously improving their organisations for more sustainable and inclusive labour markets and in order to better serve employers and jobseekers. This book gives an insight into PES policies and practices which are inspired by the close collaboration in the PES Network. PES Network members reflect on their European-wide learning organisation, they point out challenges and their strategic and operational answers from a national perspective, bringing in valuable personal experience. “PES Policies and Practices” thus touches upon a broad variety of PES core topics and gives you the chance to understand their business in a politically shaped environment, characterised by a unique collaboration.

How the most forward-looking organisations leverage work-life integration to attract talent and foster employee wellbeing

One Life is a must-read guide to successfully adopt work-life integration within your organisation. How can you attract and retain talent, reduce and prevent burnout, engage and motivate employees? You’ll find the answer in this book. Bursting with real examples and multidisciplinary case studies from all over the world, One Life is a fundamental reading for leaders, line-managers and small business owners alike.

The book covers all aspects of Work-Life Integration Management, from theory to practice. It contains the following:

• a framework for organisations to situate work-life issues
• a work-life integration maturity model allowing organisations to assess their current level of maturity, and learn where there is room to grow
• the fundamental elements of Work-Life Integration Management
• a whole chapter dedicated to adidas, and their work-life integration department

After reading this book you’ll be inspired to get to work and take work-life integration in your organisation to the next level.

How the most forward-looking organisations leverage work-life integration to attract talent and foster employee wellbeing

One Life is a must-read guide to successfully adopt work-life integration within your organisation. How can you attract and retain talent, reduce and prevent burnout, engage and motivate employees? You’ll find the answer in this book. Bursting with real examples and multidisciplinary case studies from all over the world, One Life is a fundamental reading for leaders, line-managers and small business owners alike.

The book covers all aspects of Work-Life Integration Management, from theory to practice. It contains the following:

• a framework for organisations to situate work-life issues
• a work-life integration maturity model allowing organisations to assess their current level of maturity, and learn where there is room to grow
• the fundamental elements of Work-Life Integration Management
• a whole chapter dedicated to adidas, and their work-life integration department

After reading this book you’ll be inspired to get to work and take work-life integration in your organisation to the next level.

This book is not meant to come up with the typical ten point plan that you find in the plethora of books on “how to…” or “finding the shortcut to…”. It is simply not realistic to impose the one and only way to become a performance beast. We cannot be made immune to personal emotions and our brains work in a very unique way and therefore it seems illogical to accept the restrictions of such ten-point-plans. Dixie Dansercoer surely does not want to preach, generalise or standardise training methods to manipulate people into becoming high performers. Our brains may be trained just like muscles, but people cannot be as easily manipulated as flesh and bones.

The goal is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance, provide him/her with practical guidelines and stories to be read and shared without drowning in all-too-academic theories. The red line of polar exploration allows the author to write from the heart with accounts of his direct experiences. When confronted with the monotony of infinite white, wide-open spaces, one cannot but study the mental and psychological impact of these ambitious expeditions.

Do you have the dedication, discipline and concentration to finish what you set out to do? To be a high performer?

> Get inspired by this free chapter

This book is not meant to come up with the typical ten point plan that you find in the plethora of books on “how to…” or “finding the shortcut to…”. It is simply not realistic to impose the one and only way to become a performance beast. We cannot be made immune to personal emotions and our brains work in a very unique way and therefore it seems illogical to accept the restrictions of such ten-point-plans. Dixie Dansercoer surely does not want to preach, generalise or standardise training methods to manipulate people into becoming high performers. Our brains may be trained just like muscles, but people cannot be as easily manipulated as flesh and bones.

The goal is to provide the reader with inspirational insights with respect to high performance, provide him/her with practical guidelines and stories to be read and shared without drowning in all-too-academic theories. The red line of polar exploration allows the author to write from the heart with accounts of his direct experiences. When confronted with the monotony of infinite white, wide-open spaces, one cannot but study the mental and psychological impact of these ambitious expeditions.

Do you have the dedication, discipline and concentration to finish what you set out to do? To be a high performer?

> Get inspired by this free chapter

Social technologies in business
Connect | Share | Lead

Do you want to discover how social technologies transform individuals and organisations? Are you looking for hands-on tips on how to implement this technology? Are you ready to steal ideas from the very people who succeeded? Then this book is exactly what you need.

• 15 authors from across the globe share their experiences, successes and failures.
• From the more philosophical matters, and tool-related questions, right across to concrete cases and “how to” tips: this book is a one-stop shop.
• It’s a handbook: pick a chapter at random and enjoy.

Social technologies in business
Connect | Share | Lead

Do you want to discover how social technologies transform individuals and organisations? Are you looking for hands-on tips on how to implement this technology? Are you ready to steal ideas from the very people who succeeded? Then this book is exactly what you need.

• 15 authors from across the globe share their experiences, successes and failures.
• From the more philosophical matters, and tool-related questions, right across to concrete cases and “how to” tips: this book is a one-stop shop.
• It’s a handbook: pick a chapter at random and enjoy.

Leadership has never been as difficult as it is today. And it has never been as crucial. In this VUCA world people ask leaders to provide certainty. They cannot. In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world certainty comes from character. Leaders can base their leadership on empathy, fairness, kindness and reciprocity. These basic human elements are under pressure. This book provides both emerging and established leaders with the ingredients they need to develop a sustainable leadership style.

David Ducheyne wrote this book as a source of inspiration for leaders who are looking for ways to maintain their leadership in VUCA times. It’s also a documented intention to try and do better.

Leadership has never been as difficult as it is today. And it has never been as crucial. In this VUCA world people ask leaders to provide certainty. They cannot. In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world certainty comes from character. Leaders can base their leadership on empathy, fairness, kindness and reciprocity. These basic human elements are under pressure. This book provides both emerging and established leaders with the ingredients they need to develop a sustainable leadership style.

David Ducheyne wrote this book as a source of inspiration for leaders who are looking for ways to maintain their leadership in VUCA times. It’s also a documented intention to try and do better.

Les dirigeants réussis basent leur leadership sur leur style personnel. En restant fidèles à eux-mêmes, ils vont chercher un contexte dans lequel leur personnalité peut contribuer à la solution.

Ce livre vous procure les ingrédients qui vous aident à diriger d’une manière durable dans un monde en perpétuel changement. La recette ? Mieux vaut la composer vousmême. C’est que le leadership ne s’apprend pas en classe ou d’un livre. Un leader réussi possède tout un amalgame de compétences qui se développent au fil du temps et qu’il s’est approprié en commettant des erreurs et en apprenant des situations auxquelles il a dû faire face.

David Ducheyne a écrit ce livre pour ceux qui sont à la recherche de l’inspiration qui façonnera leur leadership. Il incarne également l’ambition de mieux faire les choses.

Dans sa capacité de psychologue de travail et d’organisations, David a accumulé plus de 20 années d’expérience professionnelle pendant lesquelles il a accompagné et guidé des dirigeants au sein d’Alcatel, de l’Université de Gand, de Henkel, de Case New Holland et de Securex. Il est également orateur principal et un blogueur passionné.

“For European Public Employment Services business will never be ‘business as usual’ anymore. As recent years painfully made clear, rapid and massive changes are increasingly occurring on the labour market. Moreover, the social function of Public Employment Services is changing. Today, they have to transform into ‘work-focused gateways to welfare systems’”. PES 2020 Strategy Output Paper

Public Employment Services
This pathbreaking volume offers a thorough and nuanced picture of the intended strategic reorientation laid down in the common strategy endorsed by all European Public Employment Services in order to contribute to the overall EU 2020 Strategy. Starting from the importance of Transitional Labour Market theory for employment services, it highlights the challenges and describes the changes in the role and function of Public Employment Services. It discusses the strategic capabilities that Public Employment Services need to acquire in order to reinvent themselves.

Building bridges
Presented in a professional-friendly way, ‘Building Bridges’ also helps to unravel Public Employment Services’ starting points and gaps that need to be bridged. It advocates connecting and being connected with all stakeholders, actors, job-seekers and employers within the labour market ecosystem.

Theory and practice
Written from the perspective of policy makers and academic researchers, it manages to be highly relevant to practitioners working in or engaged with Public Employment Services, as well as academics and students of labour economics, social policy and public administration.

Le bonheur, ça paye !
En lisant ces mots, ne balayez pas les lieux du regard en quête d'une caméra cachée prête à fixer votre mine dubitative. Cet ouvrage ne relève ni du gag ni de l'utopie et encore moins de la provocation marketing pour appâter le lecteur. Non, Laurence Vanhée nous démontre juste que rechercher le bonheur des collaborateurs profite à toute organisation immensément plus que l'exploitation désenchantée des seules ressources humaines.

Le bonheur : ingrédients et recette.
Exemples et chiffres à l'appui, la "DRH de l'année 2012" nous démontre que le bonheur rapporte... en milliers et même en millions d'euros. Forte des résultats obtenus dans sa propre administration, la première Chief Happiness Officer de Belgique nous délivre les secrets des précurseurs. A chacun de se les approprier : patron, directeur, leader, manager ou collaborateur de toute organisation, quels que soient son secteur d'activité et sa taille.

Le bonheur : près de chez vous
Au final, Laurence Vanhée nous lance un sympathique "et maintenant, à qui le tour? La lecture du guide pratique Happy RH - le bonheur au travail, rentable et durable" constitue sans nul doute la première bonne étape sur la route de la performance et du bonheur professionnels. De plus en plus de décideurs l'ont compris et empruntent chaque jour cette nouvelle voie. Elle n'attend plus que vous. Alors, partant ?