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Insights that matter to design and redesign your Leadership Development Program

28 May 2026

How do you design your leadership development program? How do you evaluate it — and, most important, how do you redesign it?
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Forget the “first 100 days” playbook

07 May 2026

Most leaders step into a new role with the same script: listen, observe, meet stakeholders, and unveil a plan somewhere between day 60 and day 100. It sounds sensible, but it has a hidden flaw: by the time the leader “understands” the organization, many people have already drawn conclusions about the leader—and often, those conclusions are wrong. In complex, fast‑moving organizations, leaders cannot afford to wait months to truly know what’s going on.
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Forget the “first 100 days” playbook

Mastering Organizational Change: From Reactions to Real Brain-Driven Adaptation

30 April 2026

Organizational change efforts fail at staggering rates - 30 to 70% - primarily because they sideline the human element: individual and collective reactions. Over two decades of research underscores this, yet forward-thinking approaches like employee participation can rewire brains for adaptation, unlock novel collective insights, and dramatically improve outcomes. Platforms such as CircleLytics provide a scalable antidote to flawed top-down methods, enabling timely, consistent, and fair people involvement.
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Mastering Organizational Change: From Reactions to Real Brain-Driven Adaptation

Why People Don’t Speak Up in Groups - and How Dialogue Helps

30 April 2026

People often have good ideas, concerns, or experiences to share, yet stay silent in meetings, workshops, and other public settings. That silence is rarely a sign of indifference. More often, it reflects a mix of psychological, social, and organizational barriers that make speaking up feel risky, uncomfortable, or simply not worth it.
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Why People Don’t Speak Up in Groups - and How Dialogue Helps

Why organizations need both hierarchy and networks

30 April 2026

Organizations are often described as either hierarchical or networked, but in reality, most successful organizations need both. Hierarchy brings clarity, accountability, and direction. Networks bring energy, adaptability, and the ability to solve problems across boundaries. The question is not whether hierarchy or network is better. The real question is how leaders use both in a way that helps people work together effectively.
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Why organizations need both hierarchy and networks

The Works Council of HasKoning: Dialogue as the Key to Success

10 April 2026

In the world of co-determination, the Works Council (OR) of HasKoning Nederland BV stands out as an example of effective, inclusive representation.
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When Leaders Oversimplify Complexity, Change Fails

02 April 2026

In many organizations, it is not complexity itself that derails decisions and change. It is our reflex to oversimplify that complexity, to deny it, or to push it out of sight. That reflex feels efficient in the boardroom, but it is costly on the work floor.
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Listening Without Defense

02 April 2026

"Listening Without Defense": How Wereldmuseum Director Marieke van Bommel Ensures Dialogue and Vulnerable Leadership. CircleLytics in Conversation with Marieke van Bommel, Director of the Wereldmuseum.
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Listening Without Defense

Involving Everyone in Quality Management: Practical Lessons from a Large Region

05 March 2026

Reclassering Nederland is an independent foundation with approximately 2,000 employees. Reclassering is a statutory task, where staff are experts with deep knowledge of criminal behavior, effective measures, and how to assist clients; their work is people-focused and grounded in scientific approaches and insights
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Work Frustrations: A Source of Innovation!

16 January 2026

Pfff... know what’s so frustrating about how things are going? It irritates me so much how we’re working now, you know that? What a struggle to get this organized properly. Do you recognize these kinds of feelings, and maybe even comments you make out loud? At lunch with trusted colleagues? I certainly had things that frustrated me when I still worked at large organizations. But even now, when my WiFi glitches, two appointments are double-booked, and that sort of thing. Frustrations where I can sometimes do something about it, and sometimes they’re beyond my control—or so I think.
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CUSTOMER CASE: MUNICIPALITY OF BREDA: DIALOGUE RETRIEVES CONSTITUENCY’S COLLECTIVE OPINION WITH A SMALL TIME INVESTMENT

22 December 2025

“As a participation body, you are there for your constituency. You want to find out how everyone thinks about certain topics. With other tools, you only speak to a small group. Dialogue offers insights into what really matters to our entire constituency.” Shuwei Loo is a member of the works council within the municipality of Breda, which employs some 3,000 employees. He is happy to share his experiences with CircleLytics’ dialogue.
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CUSTOMER CASE: MUNICIPALITY OF BREDA: DIALOGUE RETRIEVES CONSTITUENCY’S COLLECTIVE OPINION WITH A SMALL TIME INVESTMENT

CUSTOMER CASE: MINISTRY OF VWS: “DIALOGUE CLARIFIES PRIORITIES ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES”

22 December 2025

Edith Scholten is programme manager of ‘Working Contemporary’ within the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports. Edith: “Some 1,300 employees work at the core department of VWS and when research is done, everyone receives a survey. Employees did complain that they are a bit survey tired, and I can understand that. Still, as an employer, you want to keep testing certain topics. For instance, during the Covid period last year, we asked about their state of mind via various online employee experience surveys and later also about their experiences of working from home: ‘What do you run into when you work from home and what would it take to solve this?’
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CUSTOMER CASE: MINISTRY OF VWS: “DIALOGUE CLARIFIES PRIORITIES ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES”

Reclassering NL: “Important to work on perceptions and judgement”

22 December 2025

The works council of Reclassering NL has been working with CircleLytics’ dialogue solution for works councils and employee participation for some time.
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Reclassering NL: “Important to work on perceptions and judgement”

Partner Case: Metamorfase: Get the Best Ideas from the People Themselves

18 December 2025

Johan Berends worked at Fortis Bank Netherlands, was a member of the works council and lost his job after a reorganization. In 2012, he decided to offer training and consultancy for the works council of his company Metamorfase.
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National Police: "Proven Strength: voting up and down what matters most."

18 December 2025

“The dialogue helps us to get the opinions of our constituents and place them where they belong in our organization; with the director, with the teams.” A Central Works Council wants to talk to its constituents. The challenge within our organization Politie Nederland is that we wanted a representative group within all disciplines to have their say. However, in a large organization with over 65,000 employees, many of whom also work on the street, that’s quite an effort.
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National Police: "Proven Strength: voting up and down what matters most."

Solving complex problems in a fast and structured way

18 December 2025

The advisors of The Growth Lab (TGL) have years of experience in improving team and organizational performance. With data-driven and people-oriented insights, they transform employee experiences in a way that also positively influences customer experiences.
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Solving complex problems in a fast and structured way

How Leaders Can Keep Their Organizations Resilient in a Polarized World

21 October 2025

by Maurik Dippel, CEO and Co-founder, CircleLytics Dialogue.
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Insights that matter to design and redesign your Leadership Development Program

09 July 2025

Insights that matter to design and redesign your Leadership Development Program
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Insights that matter to design and redesign your Leadership Development Program

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