by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
Are you doing what you say? Words matter, look around you: it’s the words that take you or don’t take you. In political campaigns, they are crucial. Obama won the election with “Yes, we can. But then it starts: are we going to do it? Can you live up...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | media training
Without communication, everything stands still. That is perhaps why we communicate all day long. Often it goes well, but very often it doesn’t. How often do you experience miscommunication? I recently saw a video explaining exactly the essence of...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
Just a little longer, and then she’ll be gone: Angela Merkel. Who would have thought that a smart girl from a simple family in the GDR would become Chancellor of Germany? That by staying very close to herself she would last so long? To put a picture on it: This...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration
When you are 18 years old and you have become world field hockey champion, you are convinced that the world is yours. And in a way, it is. You are the center of attention. And the media world makes you and your team world famous. “Don’t I know you from...
by Elsemieke Havenga | Jan 15, 2025 | inspiration, news
There was another Corona press conference and tomorrow there is another one. A new cabinet, a new Minister of Health; one who knows what he’s talking about. That’s very nice and that helps. But yes, did Mark Rutte and Ernst Kuipers do so much better and...
