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I’ve been offline for more than a week doing something I haven’t done before. The night before I left, I was rushing. My to-do list had spawned three new items for every one I crossed off, and I felt tense and agitated. I told myself the same thing I usually do: finish these tasks, then …
A tree, a wire around its trunk, and the trunk that continued to grow, despite the wire. I watched a video about bonsai this past weekend, and in it was an elm tree, whose trunk was growing around a wire. The bonsai artist used aluminium wire to bend the trunk into a specific spiral shape …
Bent but not broken: building an antifragile career Read More »
What if the setbacks you face in your career are actually part of your development? Antifragility is your capacity not only to withstand stressors, shocks, volatility, or uncertainty, but actually improve and benefit from them. Antifragility is the capacity to grow from disturbances that threaten your career or development. What’s the difference between antifragility and …
What if career setbacks actually make you stronger? Read More »
Concrete examples of coaching topics to clarify how it can help with professional and personal growth. A client came to coaching with constant self-doubt about their work, their professional value. They were worried someone was about to find out they are a fraud. The client saw themselves as an imposter at work, comparing themselves with …
What does it mean to successfully manage a transition during organisational change? Many leaders focus on the change, the event. They announce it once or twice, roll it out, and wonder why people aren’t on board six months later. To answer that and discover how to manage transitions well, we need to look at transition …
The hidden part of organisational change: managing human transition Read More »
Resilience is not an inherent trait, but a skill that can be developed. It’s not wired into certain people who bounce back fast, who keep going when shit hits the fan. It’s something you build, sometimes painfully, through direct contact with difficulty. I see resilience as the outcome of doing hard things. It’s important to …
The high achievers I work with are those who feel disconnected from their current job, they feel frustrated because they believe they are wasting their skills, talents and abilities. They feel bored and have a strong desire to do a different kind of work. They want their work to align with their personal values and …
Impostor phenomenon (or impostorism) is a psychological experience where individuals, despite clear evidence of their competence and achievements, feel persistent self-doubt and a fear of being exposed as a fraud. They attribute their successes to external factors, rather than their own abilities and live with an ongoing anxiety that others will eventually discover their supposed …
Let’s explore how coaching can be a game-changer in navigating challenges and turning them into possibilities. My aim with these posts is to bring concrete examples of coaching topics and shed light on how coaching can help as a tool for personal and professional development. A client came to coaching with a difficulty in taking …
🙋🏻♀️How working with me can help you go from passive to proactive at work Read More »
I never bought into the idea that success equals a title and a salary and that if I don’t move up the corporate ladder, I’ve failed. My definition of professional success was more about the work itself.That probably made me look naive to some people and I’m okay with it. An article I read recently …
I rejected the corporate ladder. Here’s what success means to me. Read More »
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