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: 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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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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Constant rejection is no good friend of trust! Would you trust someone at work if they consistently push back when you ask them something ? Whether it’s about some information, some quick help, scheduling a meeting… if « no » is a recurrent answer, most of us start to develop mistrust, even though this person’s reaction might be
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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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“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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