 Use your and our talents. Tilburg University wants to give you the opportunity to invest in your talents so you can use them optimally as an individual, as a member of one or more teams and as a member of our university community. You play an active role in developing and shaping your career and will be stimulated to enhance your personal leadership skills. Developing your talents will increase your job satisfaction and commitment, which is beneficial to your health and well-being. You know your strengths and what you are less good at and recognise strengths in colleagues. This allows you to complement each other as a team and to reach better results and solutions. The contribution of each individual is valued in achieving team goals. Openness, transparency, trust and the courage to take responsibility are important elements of effective collaboration. We engage in dialogue, listen and are attentive to one another's views and ideas. In recent years, we have engaged in dialogue about recognising and rewarding talent more broadly. Various initiatives have been developed to give everyone the opportunity to enhance their personal leadership skills and to provide space for everyone's talent development, paying attention to diversity in career paths like connected leading and recognition and rewards. At Tilburg University, this is how we collaborate towards the goals of our team, our school or division and the university as a whole. That's what we mean with using your and our talents.