Jean Nicolaï
Managing director, SteppingStone
What is my expertise? To offer people and companies maximum chances of development, and help them optimize the available potential.
Thirty years of experience in a multicultural professional environment have taught me that satisfied customers and a captivating and healthy work environment are achievable objectives. And these two aspects are interrelated to a large extent.
After all, it is all about interaction, both internal and external. And every employee has a part in this: knowledge, quality and solution-oriented thinking should be an obvious fact, just like everybody should be able to fully employ all of his/her talents and get the opportunity to develop themselves.
I like to call it Business Thinking: a corporate culture which deploys all the available resources in an efficient way in order to create new perspectives and opportunities: 'stepping-stones' for you, your company, your employees and your customers.
1 contactDid you know that most people tend to focus on problems? And the consequences speak for themselves: negativism, stagnation, inhibitions, small and big frustrations. What about solutions? Yes, they turn up sometimes. But at the expense of what and of whom are they?
Focus your energy on the solution, not on the problem...
Using a number of simple and immediately applicable models, SteppingStone focuses on solution-oriented thinking, solution-oriented communication and solution-oriented working practices. Or to put it differently: use everything that crosses your path as a stepping-stone, a step-stone towards more satisfaction, more breathing space.
A subtle, but fundamental change of attitude: the attention and energy which we would spontaneously turn to the ‘problem’ will now be focused on the ‘solution’.
...and go for it!
Do not let any obstacles stop you. They will always be there. It is the way in which you perceive them that will determine how far you can reach. And take it from us; you can push back frontiers when you are armed with the right perspective. This being said, respect for all parties involved is crucial at all times.