UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL
Tailormade, interactive, and fun
trainings and workshops
for people managers and teams.
For more Connection, Creativity and Joy
Do you recognise this?
Managing the people in your team can be challenging. After all, each person is unique. When you then put a group of unique human beings together, you do not necessarily get a well-functioning team. Add a rapidly changing international context to the mix and your challenges soar.
Our aim
Unlockyourpotential aims to make People Management more fun and less stressful. So you can unlock both the uniqueness of each person and the collective intelligence of the team, a team in which people experience trust, joy, and creativity.
How?
Through interactive and tailor-made workshops, trainings, and advice. If you look for an easy way to get started, then jump to the starters kit with the 10 elements to unlock your team’s potential.
How can we work together?
People Management
(in-house)
Management is the practice imperfect human beings leading imperfect human beings. That’s why it is so hard”. This quote from Anne Morris sums up the challenge very well. Would you like to experience less stress and have more fun while managing your (internationally diverse) team?
Facilitation of a Team Workshop
(in-house)
Would you like to organize a workshop which helps to tap into the collective intelligence of your team to create a specific outcome? Or a workshop which helps your team to communicate- and collaborate (even) better? Unlockyourpotential can support you with both the development of the workshop-methodology and with the facilitation of the workshop.
Empowering Communication
(in-house)
“The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it.” This quote by William H. Whyte shows that communication is often both the problem and the solution for many of the challenges we experience at work. What can you do to overcome typical communication pitfalls?
Training of Trainers
(in-house)
Would you like to learn how to develop- and deliver a training session or workshop that truly translates into actual learning and outcomes? In a Training of Trainers/Facilitators you will be both a participant and trainer. You will learn how to create a learning experience that lasts beyond the duration of the training itself. Topics include adult learning, dealing with challenging dynamics, creating safe learning spaces, interactive methodologies and more.
L&D Consultancy
In any organisation there can be many barriers which hinder the effectiveness of trainings and other learning opportunities. Sometimes it can then help to have an independent perspective on the situation to find a solution that works.
The Online Academy
A fun online self-paced e-learning program to unlock the potential of your team: for more trust, creativity, and collaboration in- and with your team.
Subscribe to the waiting list to be the first one
to hear about the launch.
Unlock Your Teams’ Potential : the model
The 10 elements to unlock your team’s potential!
A great team does not only depend on the manager of the team. A good manager certainly helps, but more than anything else, it is all about the connection between the unique individuals in the team. This connection cannot be engineered or imposed by one person alone, but is a shared endeavour.
The Unlock Your Team’s Potential model shares 10 elements which help you – as a team together – to unlock your team’s connection, creativity, and joy.
How can you use this model?
A great start is to discuss the 10 elements together. How well do you rate yourself for each element? What are you already great at? Where is space for improvement? Pick one action and focus on that one for the coming weeks. Whatever action you choose, it will always have a ripple effect, and impact the other elements as well!
You can find the Unlock Your Team’s Potential model in the format of a paper plane or in 3d.
Get the starter’s kit
Download this paper plane which lists the 10 most essential keys to unlock the potential of your team.
Keep it as reminder on your desk.
Or organize a paper plane contest with your team.
Be creative and have fun!
Explore the 3D plane
Do you prefer to play in the virtual space instead with a good old paper plane?
Here you can discover the 10 steps to Unlock the unique Potential in your Team.
Just hover over the plane to find the 10 elements and click on them to discover more.
Testimonials
Lieke’s presentation training series was one of the best trainings I’ve had on any subject.
Lieke is an extremely friendly, knowledgeable and professional guide who tailors her offer to the group at hand.
Not only was the content useful and practical, but the format was designed in a way that really got the best out of participants.
I would definitely recommend the individual sessions as supplements to the group ones.
Lieke is an exceptional trainer whose dedication and expertise have significantly impacted our teams. Consistently positive feedback highlights her ability to deliver valuable content that sparks reflection and change. Lieke tailors each training to participants’ needs, creating a trusting and connected learning environment.
Beyond just delivering knowledge, she ensures ongoing support after the training, helping integrate skills into daily work.
As a professional, Lieke is excellent and passionate, and as a person, she is caring and attentive, making her a joy to work with.
Working with you is inspiring and energizing and motivating!
You have enormous wisdom, insight and clarity, and you bring these qualities into our discussions, and into your trainings, with humility, empathy, and compassion.
You really tailor your trainings to support, guide and empower the people in front of you. Each time it will be different because you adapt to what each individual or group needs most. This ‘tailoring’ is often talked about, but rarely actually done beyond a superficial level, and your ability, desire and determination to do it every time really sets you apart from other trainers.
You create great momentum, and collaborating with you is huge fun!
Thank you very much and again thanks for the amazing training, everyone really liked it!
I worked with Lieke when she conducted a career development training to 85 international personnel in Juba, South Sudan.
Lieke was knowledgeable about the subject matter and used latest methods and theories in developing the training. It was well-structured, informative and proved useful and practical.
Participants appreciated her interactive, friendly and concise approach.
Lieke is a reliable and pleasant professional to work with. I highly recommend her.
Thank you for your great training!
You are brilliant really – so proud to have been part of this essential training with you – I really enjoyed the methodology, content, inclusive approach, facilitation, you sharing personal examples that anchor relation, trust and show how much we are all vulnerable.
The training helped me to see my problems differently. And when I’m less upset, I can also have a better dialogue. It helped me to not take everything personally so now I even sleep bette
Many many thanks for such inspiring, practical and useful training on people management!
Your facilitation was impeccable, and you even shared lots of your own personal experiences, which made us participants much more relaxed and less afraid to share our own.
I am planning to replicate some tools with my team during our next face to face meeting.
Thanks a ton for the fantastic training! I didn’t want to miss saying a big THANK YOU again. I truly appreciated every bit of the training and learned a lot! Looking forward to applying all the new insights.
I had the chance to work together with Lieke for 9 months in the L&D team at MSF, where she was the head of the L&D team and I was one of the team members. Lieke is a supportive manager, she reads people well. She looks at everyone’s qualities, thinks out of the box and actively works on growth and development of team members. She inspires by sharing info in your field, by sharing her ideas and by giving you the responsibility to follow up. One of the main things I learned from Lieke is to try out new things and learn by doing. By nature I try to overcome as many obstacles before launching new ideas. She encourages to have a more entrepreneurial approach, which results in growth and further development of our offer. Many thanks Lieke, I very much appreciated our collaboration.
Lieke has done a fantastic job at facilitating a workshop with the whole Logistics Department. The workshop, involving 30 participants, was about building the objectives of each units of the department.
Lieke is a quick-thinker and immediately grasped the intention and stakes of the workshop. She then proposed a methodology and showed flexibility to adapt it to the evolution of the workshop. She brought a very good dynamic, catching and maintaining the interest of participants and showing great mediation skills. Her analytic and synthesis capacities helped greatly in capturing the interventions of the participants and put them as constructive inputs to the workshop.
It was a real pleasure to work with Lieke on this workshop and I wouldn’t hesitate a second to recommend her for such a job.
FROM:
PAUL
DIGITAL MANAGER
EUROPEAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION
FROM:
CAROLINA
HR PARTNER
MSF GENEVA
FROM:
CAROLINE
FOUNDER/TRAINER
BLUE SKY COLLECTIVE
FROM:
SIW
GRUENLANDZENTRUM
FROM:
WAHEEB AL-ERYANI
AREA MANAGER
UNDP
FROM:
CAROLE
MANAGER
MSF GENEVA
FROM:
CYRILLE
TECHNICAL REFERENT
MSF GENEVA
FROM:
LINA
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TEAM LEADER
MSF GENEVA
FROM:
LUKAS
HEAD OF MEDIA AND EVENTS
MSF GENEVA
FROM:
JUDITH
MENTORING & COACHING PROGRAM MANAGER
MSF AMSTERDAM
FROM:
ELVINA
DEPUTY LOGISTICS DIRECTOR
MSF BRUSSELS
About UnlockYourPotential
Hello! My name is Lieke and I’m the founder of Unlockyourpotential.
For the past 15 years, I have worked in a wide variety of contexts: Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, CAR, South Sudan and many more. However different all these contexts may be, they have one thing in common: people everywhere are capable of incredible things when they experience a deep connection with each other and when they experience joy.
For this reason, people management is not about applying tools; it is all about the connection you create and nurture with the people you work with.
Teams are not just about putting unique individuals together and giving the job roles; it is about the connection these members feel between them that creates that magic spark from which new ideas arise. Communication is not just about speaking words; it is all about the connection you create with the people you speak with. Therefore, in our trainings we bring a mix of humour, true human connection, and a focus on people’s unique strengths as the basis to work from.
Let’s connect! Don’t hesitate to leave a message here on the website. Or connect with me on LinkedIn.
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