Upper current
Strategy, figures, processes and roles. We clarify where you are heading, who is responsible for what and how you track progress.
How strong is leadership in your company?
10 questions. About 3 minutes. Immediate insight into what needs attention.
Your result is a self-assessment and a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis.
Where do you start?
Take your next step in leadership
Discuss your result with us. We will tell you which route fits your company and what a first step could look like.
The Ei Openers method
You know what needs to change. Yet decisions stay on the table and old patterns return. The Ei Openers method helps business owners, successors and managers turn insight into different behaviour.
We start from a concrete situation in your company. We explore what is going on, make choices and practise what you and your team will do differently. Experienced facilitators, peers and practical models support the process.
We bring things to a head.
When does this approach help?
Decisions keep landing on the owner's desk. A specialist gets stuck as a manager. Succession is causing friction, or the strategy stays on paper. Together we explore which choices, habits and agreements are holding change back.
- Direction. Decide what matters and make clear choices for the next step.
- Ownership. See your own role and take responsibility for what you can change.
- Execution. Translate insights into concrete conversations, agreements and behaviour on the shop floor.
Understanding what drives behaviour
Plans, structures and figures tell part of the story. Trust, interests and unspoken expectations determine how people deal with them. That is why we look at the upper current and the undercurrent together.
Undercurrent
Trust, motivation, loyalty and culture. We explore what moves people, where tension arises and which expectations have not yet been voiced.
The crucial drivers help you understand behaviour: autonomy, fairness, status, connection and trust. This is how you link clear agreements to what people need to get moving.
Confrontation. Insight. Action.
We make visible what is going on, put words to patterns and practise different behaviour. Participants and guest speakers share their challenges and mistakes. That openness makes it possible to move forward together.
Confrontation
Take an honest look at what works, what chafes and what has gone undiscussed for too long.
Insight
Understand which patterns, interests and drivers steer your behaviour and collaboration.
Action
Make concrete choices and practise the conversations, agreements and actions that are needed.
Learning from practice
More than 20 companies have hosted our sessions. Dozens of one-to-one sessions a year show us what occupies leaders in very different companies. We bring that experience into every programme.
- Recognition. Meet people who know similar responsibilities, questions and doubts.
- Challenge. Get honest questions and different perspectives, without judgement or politics.
- Confidence. Learn to deal with uncertainty and take your next step with more conviction.
What does it deliver?
For you
- More direction in your role and responsibility.
- More insight into behaviour, culture and collaboration.
- Sharper choices and clearer conversations.
- More confidence in difficult situations.
- Concrete actions to apply what you have learned.
For your organisation
- More ownership on the shop floor.
- Better conversations about behaviour and collaboration.
- A clear strategy and better execution.
- Clear agreements on goals and actions.
- Leaders who build continuity.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Ei Openers method?
A practical approach that combines confrontation, insight, connection and action. The method helps people and organisations look more sharply, discuss more honestly and act more concretely.
Is the method mainly theoretical?
No. We only use models when they help to understand practice better and lead to better choices, conversations and execution.
What are crucial drivers?
A way to understand what motivates people, why behaviour changes and where resistance, commitment or tension arises. We go deeper into them in our programmes.
Who is the method for?
For business owners, successors, young leaders, management teams and organisations that want to strengthen responsibility and turn insights into practice. Our international programmes are delivered in English.
Which approach fits your question?
Start with what your responsibility asks of you now. We help you choose between a programme, a training or a company-wide trajectory.
- Growing as a manager: see Leaders of Tomorrow.
- Strengthening leadership and culture: see Leadership, teams and culture.
- Setting a shared course: see OGSM and strategy.
- Strengthening leadership in a dealer or branch network: see Dealer leadership.
Marco de Vrind
co-founder Ei Openers
Feel free to get in touch
Do you have questions about your situation, your organisation or your next step? We are happy to think along about the route that fits your practice, responsibility and ambition. Our international programmes are delivered in English.
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