Archive for Coaching, professional development
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur! Wikipedia says that ‘an entrepreneur is a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome’. That is my experience. It’s exciting, pioneering, hard, consuming and often quite isolated, but you are driven by your passion that gives you hope and [...]
Read moreFinding our Personal Best
Finding our Personal Best. Often, as I explore a dialogue with a person we go beyond the superfical issues, and start to approach the nagging worry that is central. It’s the area that has been holding them back. It lives in a sort of twilight, only partly concious, but enormously empowered. Its unlikley this is [...]
Read moreMinister without Portfolio?
I've often ended up in life 'minster without portfolio' – you know the guy that was on cabinet by didn't have anything 100% to do, but did special projects and created great stuff. You know he was needed, but… For me it's happened to put me somewhere in the system, a system that I didn't [...]
Read moreStep up to Stand Out!
Step Up and Stand Out. There is a famous children’s book called The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss It’s a series of cartoons with a little boy planting his carrot seed. “His mother said ‘I’m afraid it won’t come up.’ His father said ‘I’m afraid it won’t come up.’ His big brother said ‘it won’t [...]
Read moreYour full potential.
Our potential is realised by optimising our own uniqueness and individuality, never by moulding them to others opinions of what constitutes ‘the right way’. John Whitmore To achieve your potential, to see the full expression of it, to get your personal best performance are the highest goals we can set ourselves. It could be by [...]
Read moreNotes on Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence –EI, some notes. Emotional Intelligence is a ‘hot’ subject within Human Resources, and with pioneering books made popular by people like Daniel Goleman it’s a subject that has started to get into general dissuasions. Why? I believe there is a change in our world view. The world view on leadership is rapidly changing. [...]
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