Author Archives: Mikko H.

January is always a time for New Year’s resolutions. People around us are talking about their new lifestyles; one person has decided to quit smoking, another person has decided to spend more time with his/her family and some even resolve not to have any resolutions at all. The same phenomenon takes place almost everywhere in the world.

While I was at the gym a few days ago (which was packed with people resolved to get fit in the New Year), I thought about defining my own goals for the year, and I wanted them to be great. Then I thought about…

My career at Meltwater consists of training that takes place on a daily basis. Every day, we ”spar” our sales cases and strategies, discussing the details with our colleagues and supervisors. In addition, we occasionally get external training from top business & leadership coaches and professors around the world.

Last year, the Meltwater executive leadership training took place at Stanford University, where we worked on improving our negotiation skills and analysed our body language in a business setting.

This year our executive leadership training took place at the University of Oxford, UK. We participated in a tailor-made executive training that gave us some…