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: 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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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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What about a refreshing break? Sit down, lay back and relax. Feeling comfortable? Now push play. Watch and enjoy ! It’s over. Now check quickly – which tips do you remember? Did some ideas make you laugh? Did some others seem strange? Think just a bit… Let the pictures from the video cross your brain…
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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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Striving for certainty is one of the best ways to avoid or slow down changes. In the coming days, pick one dimension of your work life where you’d like to see some change. Challenge yourself to try out a new approach before you’re a hundred percent sure that this is the right approach – identify
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8, 10 or 12 months – the exact time when a baby truly starts discovering verticality and craves for walking varies quite a bit. Yet at a certain point, they all find the signal: raising their heads, waving their hands, grumbling… the call is clear and it means only one thing: if you’re an adult,
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“Can you believe he was about to go out bring Thomas to his nanny and forgot the milk bottles for the day?! I mean, how can I trust him with other stuff if he forgets such a basic thing? I just HAD to stop him at the door and tell him! I know we had
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We were just leaving a small, homey cultural center in our neighbourhood when I noticed some interesting posters on the big dashboard next to the entrance. I moved closer to see whether some interesting show or event was going to take place soon in the neighbourhood. Right to my left, two men were obviously arguing
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