What we do
Ambits reinforces managers in their leadership through Business Mentoring. To bring your people and business into balance.
Your people are struggling to implement a new strategy. Your implementation is out of control due to human bottlenecks. You attempt to solve it with training, coaching, and more consultancy. We’ve heard it time and time again.
Ambits offers a new service centered on pragmatically guiding your personal transition to an effective leader.
Our vision
Helping to achieve your ambitions
To reinforce managers in their leadership and people management
by business mentors with expertise and all the scars of learning
in order to create immediate and sustainable results and safeguard your investments.
A Business Mentor was my rescue to quickly adapt my leadership style to a new reality. At a time when major adjustments were needed both privately and professionally. Within a context of significant cultural differences and the first signs of the emerging financial crisis of 2008.
Business leader of the Brazilian subsidiary of a Belgian multinational.Founders team
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Gerrit Sarens
All-round entrepreneur with strong academic roots: 10+ years as professor at several national and international universities. Hands-on experience as consultant, coach and director in diverse organizational contexts. Proven mentoring experience in diverse fields. Strong interest in leadership challenges. Clear vision on the way forward in aligning people and business.
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- lack self-confidence
- don’t know how to go from being a colleague to being a boss
- need to loosen up on the command & control leadership style
- must let go of the (technical) expert status
- cannot give or accept constructive feedback
- feel pressure to perform as manager
- have difficulty building relationships
- want to be liked by everyone or want to be the ‘bad boss’
- play the hero
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- stay too involved in operations
- have trouble prioritizing
- cannot delegate
- fear conflict situations
- disconnect from the team
- flawed strategical thinking
- do not relate to higher management
- lack clear communication skills
- remain not self-aware
- avoid difficult conversations
- miss political antennas
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- need mental preparation as successor
- need to be able to lead big changes ahead
- need to learn to be emotionally resilient and in control
- need to learn to make big decisions fast without all the information
- must become persuasive presenters
- need to learn how to cultivate their own personal brand
- need to learn how to lead by example
- manage by trust, not by fear
- need to overly develop empathy
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