André Declerck has written an instructive article in which he offers the HR community insight and advice on how to manage a European transnational restructuring from a Labour Relations perspective. An issue which, given the growing risk of an economic recession, will become more relevant again in the coming period.

Debbie Baute and Philippe Bailleur, together with Mieke Toppets and Hans Hoegaerts the founders of Progression Designers, note that the interest in team coaching is growing. In their blog you can read when team coaching, next to individual coaching and executive coaching, can be an added value and what the contraindications are.

In “Organizations can also get injured” Philippe deals with the topic “System Trauma”, a phenomenon that is particularly relevant today for organizations that all too often continue to reduce its symptoms, such as burn-out, to something of the individual rather than seeing it as a possible expression of a suffering organization.

Companies can learn a lot from bee colonies, more specifically in the areas of “organizational design”, “shareholder value” and “collective performance”. An enlightening approach that Karl develops in “What Companies can learn from the Birds and the Bees”.