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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What about a refreshing break? Sit down, lay back and relax. Feeling comfortable? Now push play. Watch and enjoy ! Now go through the following questions, taking a moment to answer them for yourself, each in turn : How did you feel watching this process? What thoughts crossed your mind? Any judgements
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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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Are “small mistakes” really not important? Why would something be right or wrong? Many people struggle to make effective, ethical decisions because they don’t fully realize what consequences their action will have. They might see only one of the many consequences and think – well, it’s not that great, but it’s not that important either,
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Creativity is not reserved to a few Creativity is often perceived as something reserved to certain people – artists, researchers… who seem to be creative “by nature”, while most of us can at best admire their creations and wonder how it all happened. Creativity, however, can also be about very simple steps one inserts in
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Too many options? Sometimes moving ahead is not about spending time reading books or reports, visiting yet another new training or reflecting about an issue even more in-depth. Sometimes it’s not even about gathering new information or collecting informed advices. Sometimes moving ahead is about picking that one issue you’ve been wanting to tackle for
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If you like jazz standards, you might have heard that song on your national jazz radio… Or maybe you remember it from the closing shots of Barry Levinson’s movie “Good morning, Vietnam!”, strongly overlaying war strikken landscapes with Louis Armonstrong’s warm, hopeful praise of this “wonderful world” we live in… But have you ever paid
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“Although not a religious woman, she had a mystical faith in the old Yiddish proverb that for every pot there is a cover, that in every problem the good Lord presented her there was a matching problem which provided the solution to both. There had been plenty of men when she was younger who had
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I couldn’t believe my eyes when I came back to Prague some time ago. So many changes since the 90’s ! Colors have flourished on the freshly painted façades everywhere, shops occupy every single space on ground floors, and the entire city seems to have been cleaned over night by a team of efficient landscape designers, organizing
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The last weeks have been just incredible but a bit surprising – typically wonderful, sunny days, with temperature up to 28°C… yet some fresher moments and really cold, treacherous wind, so this morning I was wondering whether or not I should take my jacket with me when going out. Since Ryan had been out about
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