A workshop in itself will probably not solve it

So, I am simulating the fact that a client company is reaching out to me. Explain their situation, saying that the energy in the company, especially between teams, is very negative, very down, very heavy. And they ask me to give a workshop to see if I can solve or switch this energy and make it a bit more positive. And my response to... them would be like this.

A workshop in itself will probably not solve it

I understand that... you would like me to... give a workshop, however, I do must say that a workshop in itself will probably not solve the heaviness or the negative energy within your team. Because the first question would be is what is the real cause of this negative energy?

You give a clown workshop where they have fun

Let's say you have someone who is a little bit down, right? Then you go there, you give a clown workshop where they have fun, you make them dance, you make them move. Oh, you make them have a good time. The feeling and the energy will shift. It's sort of almost sometimes easy to do. Sometimes it's difficult depending on the team, of course, and how much hate there is towards the company.

So you could shift that energy, bring it up, and then you would think that, okay, this is actually working well. I'm really happy, super happy, and you think that it will solve it. However, unfortunately, I must be direct and honest with you. Is that it will not really solve it. Because we're not addressing the cause and the root of why this, the negativity happened at the first place. So is a workshop a bad idea? It is not a bad idea. But it will just not solve your issue.

Take a drug to take away your headache

So either you can continue to mask it and continue to say, take a drug to take away your headache, but it's just gonna come back. It is not so much my way of working to say, yeah, let's just sell you a workshop. I can do it. But if I do it, I do it honestly and through transparency. I can lift up probably a little bit your team, um, if they're of course open for that. I cannot do miracles for those who are close to it. But it just might not lead you where you want to be.

And there's also sometimes some reality into that, that sometimes the reality, the reality of why the team is negative could be because of the management. Or could be because of one employee. Or could be because of other situations such as salaries or not good work conditions.

So, instead of putting money into giving a dose of happiness, I would say put the time and effort and energy into making the shift. Where you will not need any more of my services. Where you can be sustaining yourself from now on until the last. And because it's at the end, it's just about understanding how it really functions, how human behavior and relationship and that makes it really function based on what, based on the emotion. And it's actually a very simple mechanic. It's not so complicated once you understand it. But we tend to lose ourselves. Most of the time because the emotional world is sometimes too abstract for the mind. So we don't really know how to navigate it. Nobody taught us, of course. That's why I probably am here. But it is sometimes challenging. And that is simply it.

I am not this type of coach

So, if now you create a dependency on me, that I would go and give you a workshop now, and then, in 3 months, I give you another workshop, and in six months another workshop, you will still be dependent on giving me workshop. For me it's going to be good because you're giving me money, but it's not the purpose of my work. I'm not here to seeing you for the rest of my 10 years of life, unfortunately. It's not my intention. We could have a drink. But it's not my intention. To have you as a client forever. I am not this type of coach. I'm different. And that is what differentiate me.

The idea of the Romans

So, the belief that just a workshop is enough is something that I don't completely align with, because it's very easy for a CEO to just, okay, I will just give them something, a little bit the idea of the Romans, where if you want to, you have your, you have the population and you say, oh, you want to keep them calm, give them games and food. And it works, but it doesn't solve the underlying issue, and that is where I am good at. Going into the depth and seeing. It might require more investment in time and money at the beginning, but over time it will save you a lot because the idea is that you become independent and not dependent.

I'm talking about a human level

And it is something I really wish for individuals, but also for companies, that you become independent, that you empower yourself as an individual, or you empower each one of you, employees, so that your company becomes empowered on a human level. I'm not talking about money only. I'm talking about a human level. And I love to see. When you invest on the human level and you empower each individual, how together that company becomes more empowered, resulting in, obviously, much more revenue. Why? Because there is more drive, there is more drive. There's more motivation, and the motivation is not only dependent on the CEO that is being overwhelmed by the situation. Because each individual becomes sort of an anchor point for the company to stay grounded. And to thrive.

The CEO could go down

So, even if this sounds very strange to you, even a CEO, could in those best scenarios are worse scenarios for the CEO, but the best scenarios in terms of outcome after investing this time and effort into empowering the team. The CEO could go down. Mentally, emotionally, for whatever reason. And the company will still function. Because it would rely on his employees. And because their employees are empowered it will work.

Everything depends on the one having the leash

But when you're in a negative environment, what happens is everything depends on the one having the leash. Or the whip to smash on the employees when they're not doing a good job. So the CEO is the only driver. That's why they tend to burn out. And what is the reason why many people burn out? It's because there is the drive and the energy that flows into an individual is not there. It's only based on the fear of being punished.

Nourish their soul on a soul level

Therefore, you want to not just be a motivator, but nourish their soul on a soul of work, soul level, I would call it. By bringing, of course, the awareness and presence into the idea that the reason why they are at the work is because they want to, and then they become this striving force. So the CEO could just fall, and the company just continues, and nothing is pulling down. But in a bad negative situation, when you take away the, the CEO and the one that is actually holding the whip to smash them where they're doing wrong, everything will stop, because as soon as the CEO is gone, the one punishing them, as it was sort of like a slavery, then, let's say, the slave employee will just say holiday time. It is time to rest, and then you have your very revenue and all the rest will just be impacted.

That is how I approach things

That is how I see things. That is how I approach things. I do it my way. What I believe is good for the human relationship. And I don't always apply just, oh yeah, just do a workshop because it's good for the headache. I don't think that is effective, and I don't feel it's even aligned with actually my principles and values in what I want to help and bring to the world. And, of course, to the corporate world.