Deferred attention

Deferred attention

Working with SME companies in Estonia and abroad, I keep seeing the same paradox: everyone knows that regular 1:1s with team members are important. Everyone’s read about it. Everyone nods, and still doesn’t do it. In big companies, 1:1s have long been part of the...
Networking for Results

Networking for Results

I’ve been to various conferences many times, both in Estonia and abroad, and they have always been industry -specific conferences. During my time in banking, these were mainly Cash Management topics, and for the last few years, of course, HR and Talent Acquisition....
Fear of missing life

Fear of missing life

Today, something personal. I’ll tell you about a pattern I catch myself in more often than I’d like. It’s FOMO – fear of missing out. It doesn’t always look like the anxious “What if I was invited?”Sometimes, it shows up differently: – You take on a new project,...
Scaling Without Chaos

Scaling Without Chaos

At some point, company growth becomes dangerous. Not because growth itself is bad – but because the systems don’t catch up. The revenue is going up. The team is expanding. The product is gaining traction. From the outside, it looks like a company on the rise....
Lost at Day One

Lost at Day One

In business, we love to calculate the cost of hiring: recruitment budgets, agency fees, hours spent in interviews. But rarely does anyone count how much a company loses when a new hire quits after just one month. And yet – that’s a loss too. And often, a very...