Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: Setting limits at work is an important yet delicate question. Just like some individuals prefer high and elaborate metallic fences around their houses, others would rather go for some open gardens only delineated by a few plants and yet
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What’s the last, frustrating and still unresolved conflict you’ve been facing? Remember the situation, and imagine you’re in a room, facing your conflict counterpart, and speaking to him or her*. How would you summarize your feelings about the situation? How
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  Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: In our societies, success is often associated with “how high” one sits. This image is of success is so strong that we often hear about people “climbing up the leadership ladder”. This clearly implies that development, growth and success
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: How happy do you feel about your current health and energy level? What positive habits have you integrated in your daily life to take care of your health and energy? How often do you follow these? How effective are they?
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  Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What are some professional projects for which you’d like to get more space, as in : more resources, more visibility, more power, etc? What exactly would you like to get more of? If you get more space for that
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What were your key successes over the last year? Who are the people who need to know about them? Who among these people are indeed aware of your successes? What do they know about them? What do they ignore? What
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Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What are the different generations you work with?   What do you find most interesting and enjoyable about it?   What do you find most difficult?   What do you do well when working across generations?   How could you
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  Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: What’s the most difficult project you’re working on at the moment?   What type of difficulties are you facing?   How could you develop a different perspective on these difficulties?   Who could help you?   Who else?  
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  Would you like to try a few coaching questions? Take a notepad and get started: When you delegate some work, what is your typical communication style? What feedback did you get about it? What typically works well? What aspect of your communication do you typically struggle with when delegating? What would be one or
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How comfortable do you feel about making mistakes? Why in heaven would I encourage people to make mistakes? Because it’s one of the most powerful ways to really and truly learn about risk management.  Obviously part of managing risks is about scenario planning. Yet how do you truly assess risk-taking? And learn to deal with
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