Leadership

Sleep-awareness programs can produce better leaders

14 March 2016

A really interesting article, written by Nick van Dam, McKinsey’s global chief learning officer and Els van der Helm tells about what sleep “mis-management” can do, not only for an individual, but also on a larger corporate level. The article actually encourages companies to take sleep management seriously. In an…

Managing a spa onboard a cruise ship

27 January 2016

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the LivNordic spa onboard Viking Star. Michael Simoes is the Spa Director for this beautiful spa and I took a chance to ask him about LivNordic and how it is to work onboard a cruise ship. Is it any different…

Christmas Competition

14 December 2015

You now have a unique chance to win a Spa Management Online Course. To celebrate four successful years providing online education, we would like to offer the possibility for one student to participate in our Spa Management Course for free. Maybe you are the lucky one? The Spa Management Online Program…

News from our Spa Business Education

9 November 2015

First of all we would like to welcome all our new Spa Management students, who started the program last week. We are so excited to have you on board and we look forward to be part of your development and learning process. Welcome! We would also like to share with…

Education is the most important part of success in Spa and Beauty Therapy!

29 June 2015

Our MD Anna-Cari shares her view on the importance of education: “Don´t underestimate the need for Continuous Professional Development. In my view, everyone needs it and it is only in recent years the term CPD has been around. Although it is not mandatory it is considered important for everyone to…

Our favourite books

13 May 2015

The team at Raison d’Etre read a lot of books and we have a particular interest for books about leadership and personal development. We would like to share a few of our favourite books. We recommend them because they have an important message, they have touched us and made a…

Do you have the skills to lead your spa team into success?

26 March 2015

There is a great saying about learning, that is often used in schools and when it comes to pedagogics for children. ”Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” We love this quote and it applies very much to how we have created…

Focus on "why"

23 March 2015

Starting off the a new week with some wise words from our Junior Project Manager Maria Stanislavova. Sometimes with daily routines, challenges and reactions, one can lose a perspective on things and focus can get blurry. As Anna Bjurstam said during one of our Raison d’Etre Days “regardless of where…

We so often want things, people, places and experiences to be extraordinary. Ourselves too. We focus on something and by sheer force of will want it to be more than it is. This takes a huge amount of effort and if we do manage to create the illusion of extraordinariness,…

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