Muriel Schrikkema: “I have been getting a lot of energy from activities focused on ‘learning and development’ of people for more than twelve years now. Through Direction I design and facilitate many learning and development projects within organizations.
I started my career in the care sector where I was able to gain practical experience in the ‘soft’ side of work. I then started to explore the ‘tougher’ side in business. Within both the training industry and the automotive industry I have developed and facilitated learning programs, both nationally and internationally, within a dynamic goal-oriented and political force field. I have been exploring my entrepreneurial side since 1999 by creating Directions together with Marco Schreurs and Esther Mollema. Since then this is where I focus on leadership and Team Development.
I am a qualified psychologist and have completed several certificate courses, such as NLP Practitioner, Personal Coach, Management Drives ®, Real Drives trainer ®, and trainer and supervisor in Systemic work. In addition I am the founder of the Direction Foundation ‘Finding Your Voice’. I have gained much relevant experience in the business sector, including measuring and guiding specific behaviors and cultures within organizations. The combination of my background, training and experiences ensure that I enjoy become the sparring partner of key decision makers in business and in government institutions.”
Topics involving Muriel Schrikkema:
Personal leadership: questions about personal development.
What are my personality traits that can get me further but also get in my way? How should I handle these? The desire to work on competencies such as: coaching leadership style, talent-and team development, flexibility and ability to change, are often the instigators of discussions. How do you create an organization in which an open discussion culture and being able to give as well as receive feedback play a central role?
Career Essentials: questions about career, positioning and finding a balance
How can I shape my career and position myself more effectively, so that my talents are put to better use? What do I want? What suits me? How do I make my input at work more visible? Where is my balance between work and private life? What are my personal qualities, blind spots and pitfalls? Together, we look for the optimal match between your ambitions and the ambitions of your Organization.
Team Development and Organizational Development: Questions about diversity, communication, and collaboration for example.
How should you manage a diverse and / or cohesive team? What degree of flexibility is best? How do you tune individual ambitions and drives to organizational objectives? Issues of engagement, involvement, communication, performance improvement and cooperation are the core issues here. How can you make this negotiable and concrete? Mobilize underlying thought patterns, create openness and facilitate cooperation. The aim for the team or organization as a whole is to become more efficient, more effective and to be more decisive.
To make sure that people who get feedback do not shut off but open up instead, we use the feedforward analyse™ to
If you have any questions, interest or comments, please contact Muriel Schrikkema.