Leadership is Connection
True leadership begins where it gets exciting. Those who have the ambition to grow must dare to look at what they would rather not see. Norbert Netten confronts, inspires, and connects.
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True leadership begins where it gets exciting. Those who have the ambition to grow must dare to look at what they would rather not see. Norbert Netten confronts, inspires, and connects. With his unique concept Zone O, he takes you beyond everything you already know but which doesn’t get you further. That’s where growth and true connection arise.
Everyone knows the feeling: you’ve tried everything, yet it still doesn’t work to make the collaboration run smoothly. It’s precisely at that moment that the adventure of Zone O begins — the O of the unknown, the blank spot on your own map.
Norbert Netten takes you to that place. With his unique approach, he confronts you — in a respectful and refreshing way — with insights and qualities that you sometimes prefer not to see, but which are essential for authentic leadership and sustainable collaboration. Because what you do not accept in yourself often stands between you and others.
During his lectures and workshops, something happens. Not a list of tips that will be forgotten by tomorrow, but an experiential journey where you are truly touched. Through relatable stories — like that of Gerard and Carla, two managers with a challenging collaboration — you experience how confrontation can lead to insight, growth, and job satisfaction. You don’t just listen; you experience what leadership in connection means.
Norbert speaks about:
• Leadership and personal development
• Collaboration — from impasse to connection
• Motivating and persuading to strengthen collaboration
• Social safety
Each lecture is tailored to the culture, challenges, and ambitions of your organization. The goal is clear: inspiration that lasts.
Norbert began as a television presenter. With over 35 years of experience as a coach, trainer, and process facilitator, sixteen years of professional training, and over a hundred courses in human behavior, Norbert is an experienced guide in the world of awareness, collaboration, and organizational development. He knows exactly what is needed to touch, inspire, and mobilize participants.
“Zone O is the blank spot on your own map. If you dare to look there, true connection arises — with yourself and with others.”
Book Norbert Netten for your conference, leadership day, or team event and experience what becomes possible when you get to know yourself and each other anew.
Everything you encounter in others regarding the effectiveness of your leadership is a reflection of ‘something’ within yourself, both positively, when things are going well, and with people who are not easily led by you. Your effectiveness in reaching others requires looking in the mirror at how you currently maintain behavioural patterns that do not work. Norbert calls this using others as actors in your own drama. Once you understand how this works, you know what you can change to be a coaching leader for more people.
Collaboration from connection is a choice for caring for each other, without compromising on openness, responsibility, and decisiveness. We discuss – depending on the need – five essential collaboration skills, communication from Transactional Analysis, the Declaration of Responsibility, and we practice practical tools from The Human Element method.
Democracy requires a different type of leadership than the strong leader who ensures things happen one way or another. In a political spectrum that runs from left, through centre, to right, the ability to connect is crucial for the functioning of the whole. This is no different in organisations. However, only in democracy can politicians get a ‘job’ without demonstrable affinity with this type of organisation. It’s like hiring an authoritarian manager without the right competencies who has nothing to do with the organisation’s culture. This lecture provides insight into the confusion that arises when there is no explicit choice for leadership from connection and what that means for politicians and voters.
Presenting is essentially getting others on board with what is valuable to you and your work. Conveying that value from the inside out is what creates the connection needed for this. The people you work with – your interlocutors – unconsciously use four checks in their ‘decision’ to think along with you and agree or oppose you. Each of these checks indicates the quality of connection between you and your interlocutors and between you and yourself. If that connection is strong, you encounter willingness. If it is weak, you experience resistance. In this lecture, we discuss interactively and illustratively the four dimensions of connection, practically and personally.
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