tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12804193468741276342012-01-16T17:32:25.304+01:00This is a free resource on leadership and innovation written by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/madelonevers"> Dr. Madelon Evers</a> from <a href="http://www.trustyourpotential.com"> Trust Your Potential</a>. Executive coaching and consultancy for high potentials and young talent in business. For more information: <a href="http://www.trustyourpotential.com"> trustyourpotential.com</a>Trust Your Potential::Tips by Madelon Evershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14265897176454534865noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1280419346874127634.post-12268064239653164562012-01-16T17:22:00.001+01:002012-01-16T17:32:25.312+01:00

Many people are going into this year filled with ideas about how 2012 could be a year of disaster, a year of crisis, even a year that the world might end. I prefer to see this year as one in which, like in any other year, there is a huge opportunity for transforming your life by stepping up to a stronger and more sustainable kind of leadership. You can do this by training your mind, body and

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We can learn a lot about how we act as leaders in life, by being aware of how people who come into our lives might be role models for us, or that they influence our thinking in some way. Each person of any significance whom you encounter in your life, can help you learn something from your  experience. J. Krishnamurti, a well-known philosopher, notes that I can only really know myself in the

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Yes the workyear is in full swing again. Are you getting stressed, having a lot of "bad hair days" lately? Join the crowd.  Many women leaders are under too much pressure at work. You may not be grounded in the leadership role -- in your own dynamic energy, femininity, and power. The danger is that you may lose your Self in self-doubt, or over-extend yourself in your role. As a result, you

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Developing yourself as a leader is a challenge, not only at work, but also in relation to your family and home life.  You need to have a vision for your future at work, but also really think about what the ultimate reward is for you in your career. Is it money, fame, security, endless holidays? the car, the house, the gold watch? A clear conscience, a happy old age? And if you are really honest

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Executive education in Sustainability Management I am delighted to be involved in the launch of a unique initiative that aims to do something about the big challenges that our planet, society and business are facing in the coming decades, by working with one smart leader at a time. These smart leaders are people who are at a turning point in their lives, and have done the '

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We have just celebrated International Women's Day, and we realize more than ever that Dynamic Feminine Leaders are as rare as they are in demand right now. Women leaders around the world are working to bring women into the top of the global power structure, so that economies can tap into a huge potential for positive change in family and in business life. There is a long long way to go, but there

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 “Dynamic Feminine Leadership: Walking Your Talk” Our femininity is a great asset and source of power, but we often deny our natural abilities when taking on a power role. Women in management positions tend to fall into a 'functional' work identity, denying feminine values such as receptivity, compassion, win-win approaches to negotiation, empathy, intuition, authenticity, integrity,

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Cosmopolitanization is all about international young talent.  It's all about you and how the new working generation (25-35) is changing the way companies are recruiting. 

Cosmopolitanization is a change process that is transforming how people think and act, as well as social structures, balances of power and influence. It is the result of the far-reaching international integration of economic

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Welcome to a fresh year full of exciting opportunities and colorful challenges! Just before the holidays, I led an intensive training week for aspiring design managers in Luzern.  Design Management aims to improve results from design and innovation projects. This can involve creating products or services for any sector of industry. The focus is on improving decision-making, the quality of new

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If you are looking for a place to develop your understanding of authority and leadership, in the context of real live change, you can't go to amazon and buy another self-help book. Instead, you might want to consider a 'full immersion experience', where there are no lectures or presentations, but a space to co-create everything yourself. Imagine the freedom!   I just came back from the 41st

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If you go into any supermarket you'll notice 2 things: 1. Everything is in a thick package. Maybe even with an extra wrapper for rain protection. 2. The packaging doesn't necessarily tell you exactly what's inside the package. For example, let's take a box of chocolates. The packaging is beautiful and looks delicious, but it doesn't necessarily tell you exactly what the filling is of the

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What will it be like when women take the lead?On September 22, Switzerland experienced a small revolution in leadership, by giving women a majority in the top echelons of government. They now hold 4 of 7 seats of the executive federal council. In a country that only gave women the right to vote in 1971, this is an historical event. The election of a Federal Assembly is regarded here as a major

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Join us at W.I.N. 2010 – Europe’s Leading Global Conference for Working Women In more places across more fields, women are forging new trails and leading the way. Now more than ever, taking part in this global conversation is essential for your personal and professional success. And this year’s W.I.N. Conference puts you right in the middle of it.  W.I.N. 2010 promises you a pioneering

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Many of the women I work with are professionals in business, who are making a change from a mid- to senior leadership role, or taking up new business ownership. It's an exciting time. How do you know if you are ready? • You are faced with having to lead large groups of people. • You must realize the visions of your company. • You must keep the enthusiasm and care for yourself and

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Over my summer break I enjoyed reading again about one of the thought leaders in current quantum physics research, and an internationally acclaimed organisational consultant: Dr. Margaret Wheatley. Anyone who is working on building a bridge between innovation and leadership should know about her amazing work, as it draws together various principles from the fundamental (traditional) sciences and

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Your capacity for innovation is directly influenced by your (choice of) leadership style. What is the style (and accompanying process) that your company has implemented? Or is your innovation process suffering from a case of "leadership by default style"? It is surprising (ok let's just say shocking) how often this default mode comes up in teams, projects, strategies... entire company structures.

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Companies are searching for talented leaders to help them win new customers and achieve successful innovation. Innovation is now the key defining factor for the world's most successful companies, and even entire countries are being ranked and monitored for their capacity to support populations, institutes and industries to innovate successfully.In 2010, Scandinavian and Asian economies dominate

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This past month I've started work with a team on a project that involves high risks and required fast decisions to capture a moving target. It's a project that we are all passionate about -- it focuses on green economy and sustainable business practice. Which the world needs more than anything right now.Every day, the team is trying to focus on the possibilities and to face the challenges ahead

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Have you noticed that with the Spring weather the past couple of weeks, people around you have started to relax? It's almost as if opening a window in the office after keeping the stuffy air in all winter releases all the pent up energy and frustrations into the outdoors. People are looking visibly relieved to be working in a more flexible way -- "Let's go have a coffee and discuss this outside!"

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Making a change in the way you work, or your team works, is a huge challenge.Myth: "People resist change"A common complaint I hear from managers, is that their people are resistant to change. Working with groups over the years, I am just not sure this is really the case. My sense is that resistance is only one element in a whole range of feelings and fears that come up within a change process. By

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One of the things that I've noticed stumps us all in a leadership role is our ability to adapt quickly to a new role, and get on with the job at the same level of performance and communication with a (new) team as before you made a move. Major transitions you may face during your career include promotion, on-boarding into a new organization, and making an international move.In research published

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"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.' -- Peter DruckerJust spent a wonderful week working on an MBA leadership stream with young high flyers at IMD. During the program, the goal was to show up, every minute, every day, to be able to do

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Mindfulness is a way of focusing our minds into a non-thinking space that helps us switch off busy mental activity and let go of stressful emotions that can block us in daily life.Mindfulness is a simple and practical approach to look at how we are doing in a situation, and then looking at how we might handle our emotions differently -- with more detachment, with more understanding and with more

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This week I'd like to share my reflections on how to integrate another key value of leadership into your working life. The value is Openness. Openness means you are able to share how you feel, and to listen to and offer feedback in a clear and unfettered way. This does not mean you can just blurt out whatever opinion you may have. Rather, openness works positively when people feel you're being

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Welcome back! Did you make any New Year's resolutions?One of my new year's resolutions is to dedicate more of my blog posts to key values for leadership. Values are for example, integrity, commitment, respect, courage, creativity, orderliness, patience. Right off the bat, I can think of about 75 values that shape our lives, direct our interactions with others, and form the basis of what leaders

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These 12 days before Christmas have been filled with coaching on leadership programs that bring up some tough questions, great feedback from peers on how you are doing, and new perspectives for your future development as a leader (to yourself and others). It was a powerful end to a year of ups and downs for many people.The timing felt perfect, like a kind of end of year check up for people to '

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Organisations, individuals and families spend billions of Euros worldwide every year on consultancy, therapy, mentoring and training. Experts are called in to solve problems in relationships and teamwork, negotiations and conflict, health and safety, etc. The result?Very little change.Why? Because we may create a structure in which people 'should' behave in a certain way, but beyond the

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I am working with a system of coaching that is based on decades of research by scientists like Dr. Bruce Lipman (www.brucelipton.com), who has finally proven that we create our own experiences, heal our bodies, and direct physiological change by the way we think, not by virtue of the package of genes we happen to be born with.It the past 20 years it has been scientifically proven how belief works

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I live in a small village of farmers who grow their own crops, cows and chickens.Unlike them, I grow talent in companies and sow seeds of change during intensive organisational development retreats. I ask teams to identify challenges, formulate new goals, and come up with solutions to implement once they are back at the office.After much debate and casting about for ideas, some teams produce a ‘

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You thought you were safe, and then it happens. You get notice. Your job is being 'reorganized', your department is being downsized, first in must go out first, your company is moving to China.... The bottom line is: you are being laid off. The shock of redundancy does not have to hit straight away. While the pain of knowing you are going to have to go out there and look for another job, when

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There's a great new book out (published October 6th) by Michael Watkins that I would like to recommend, called Your Next Move: The Leader's Guide to Navigating Major Career Transitions.The book is featured on Harvard Business Press.Watkins identified 8 types of career challenges that most leaders in business face during their career. Have a look to see where you are at and what questions you

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Resistance is never futile!There are some projects you really don't like doing, but you know you have to do them because, your boss says, your job depends on it.So you accept the project, but while you are working, everything seems to go wrong. Teams don't cooperate. Budget suddenly gets halved. Management doesn't seem to support you in what you are trying to achieve.Slowly the horrible truth

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Do you notice, when you get feedback from colleagues at work, that there can be a real contrast between how you think you are coming across, and how others see you and react to you? What is your own image of your Self?For example, you might go into weekly Monday meetings with the intention to help people do things better. You might jump in there, showing them other ways to do things or suggesting

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Last week I had the pleasure of joining about 50 men and women at Nestle in Vevey, Switzerland for a Women's International Network sponsored event around career transition for international professionals. We had great discussions about women in top positions (and the continued lack there of), as well as cheering the new attention that is (finally!) being paid to dual career couples on an

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Many companies are looking for ways to get their teams to share ideas and learn from each other, to make their work more effective on a daily basis. One of the most powerful ways I know to do this is is to use action learning. Action learning is a structured process that involves a set group of people coming together regularly to help each other solve issues, learn from the experience (both

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This week a new report reveals there's plenty of work to be done by young talent and high potentials, some more pleasant than others. Catalyst has just released the report about the retention and advancement of high potential women and men during the downturn. The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline, surveys graduates of major

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First day back at work.What's it like for you? Are you happy to be (re)connecting with colleagues, or stressed about possible miscommunications that could flare up in your team or with your boss or clients? What was it that you did not miss at all over summer and would much rather avoid in the future? During this 'start up' day, I am taking some time to think and reflect on my holiday

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These are tough times. Managers are trying to show people there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but managers are telling me their teams are paralysed with fear that "the light could be the beam of a huge truck coming to crush them".Mistrust is high, morale is low, panic and apathy are all around.- How do you get your teams to keep going, rather than freezing like rabbits in the headlights

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Sometimes a storm is very refreshing. Like yesterday, a great summer rain shower broke loose over our orchards and shot down hail on our vegetables. It flooded the grass, but it also cooled the air and wiped everything clean. in the days before the storm, it was quite exhausting because the heat built up so much. It seemed as if the night would never end while the lightening and thunder was

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This seems to be the week of the warriors. It seems that many of of my clients are struggling to make choices around conflicts at work. I can imagine you, too, have been in a situation where there is a conflict with another colleague or your boss, or even a customer. In many cases, a conflict goes on for a while and ends up feeling like there is no end. You have tried to suggest solutions but

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"When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then the whole brain is working." - Stephen CoveyIt is easy to get stuck in Life. Even progressive, forward-thinking and highly intelligent people get stuck. Sometimes you bang your head against a problem, but you just can't move forward. The most frustrating part of

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Many talented professionals suffer from the 'there are not enough hours in the day' syndrome, which makes us feel the only solution for getting all their work done and still having a modicum of Life (outside of work) is to invent the 27 or 39 hour clock. Meaning that only when they stop work will they start taking care of the other critical areas of their lives (physical, emotional, social,

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Want to get constructive feedback from your peers?One way I recommend you use to achieve this is by setting up a 'peer learning circle'. These are groups of 5-10 peers -- colleagues in your company, professionals in your line of work or a network of people in the same field and at approximately the same level in business. As peers, your wish is to get feedback from each other on a specific set

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An acquaintance of mine, who works as a project manager and mentor, recently described to me what it is that makes a big difference to him at work:"Attitude. I love my positive attitude to life and I see how it opens doors, solves problems, and helps others. I think that 10% of our lives are the things that happen to us. The 90% is how we perceive it: our ATTITUDE is more important than talent,

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Sometimes we are faced with a tough decision.Tough decisions are not always about life and death, hard core survival, but often about dilemma's that we just cannot seem to get a clear answer to. Some questions my clients face are:Shall I quit my job now, or wait until I am made redundant? Shall I stay on this current career path, or expand my horizons into a whole new field of work? Shall I tell

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Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Psy.D., in her seminal work The Gifted Adult: a revolutionary guide for liberating everyday genius, writes about how the exhaustion and stress many talented professionals feel, may stem from the fact that young people with a lot of talent can do a lot more, move faster, see into things more quickly than others, and feel impatient when others cannot. Are you setting yourself

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A wonderful colleague, Ann Harrison, who is a retirement coach in the UK, shared this with a mastermind I am involved in this week. I wish to pass it on to you because over the last months I have spoken with so many clients and acquaintances who simply cannot get past their stuckness and negative thinking in order to reach what they want in changing their jobs / career path. This is a valuable

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One of the most useful ways of developing yourself as a young leader is to join a professionally facilitated mastermind group. As an executive coach, I set up and lead these kinds of groups for management teams in business.A mastermind group is a group of people who come together to mutually assist each other in their pursuit of success. The idea is that the members of the mastermind group each

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There is no end of bad news on the financial crisis. So many people are hitting rock bottom, with their companies, themselves and their career outlook. We could be very understanding of that and feel sorry them, and for ourselves. But... are we just going to stay there and talk ourselves (along with the rest of the world) into doom and failure? I would rather invite you to explore the possibility

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One of the women who I admire as a role model for creative geniuses is Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of an internationaller bestseller called Eat, Pray, Love. This year, she gave a talk at TED, an international community that shares ideas that are worth spreading. She offers a different way to think about creative genius and, with humor and disarming irony, she muses on the impossible things we

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The financial crisis is an interesting time to distinguish between those who buckle down, put their noses to the grind stone to keep their jobs, and those who can't or don't want to follow the rules, who break out and become entrepreneurs. Today I am talking about the majority of young talent, those of you who want to keep their jobs, because you may just have come into the company and are

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My clients often ask what a coaching session might look like and what the results might be. Great question. Here is a taster of the steps I usually take in guiding you to your goals. Step 1 PROFILE: I assist you in profiling your strengths, the values you are missing in your work and other areas of your life. I help you and use questionnaires that you can do as preparation beforehand, to begin

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Three years ago, quite a discussion about executive coaching erupted around a report in Harvard Business review. For some reason, it is still unclear what the real meaning and use of executive / professional coaching is for many people who work in business. Many executive believe getting a coach is the equivalent of 'seeing a shrink' or 'being sick' or showing you are 'weak'. I wonder why.

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If you are working consciously on your development as a young leader, it is essential to pick a role model (or complementary role models) who represent what you want to achieve in your working or business life and learn from what they are doing to make a brighter future for themselves. For example, Richard Branson, who always expands his business in difficult times. His goal is to 'be brave when

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Last day of work. what a year this has been! Many new beginnings, and many a point on which I chose consciously to make an ending. To lighten up my life and keep the focus clear. There's only so much room for so many projects and people and priorities. It feels good to have some time now to wipe the slate clean and dream about all that I wish to create in the new year!What we wish to create has a

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The main problem that people have nowadays is being bombarded with images and messages from birth via every form of media to want, want, want, and to need, need, need, yet not having the mentoring to be capable of progressing themselves to the level of understanding and education to go out and create, create, create. - graham wendesOn the 28th-30th January 2009 the annual "War for Talent"

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High potentials like yourself want to grow and find work that suits their talents best. Often however, you may be doing a job that is not quite in sync with what you feel inside, with your sense of a relaxed Self who has a natural way of doing things.At times, the contract between what you feel inside as the natural way you would like to work become a loud voice that starts to demand attention.

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The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the 'Peanuts' comic strip.You don't have to actually answer the questions. Just ponder on them.Then straight through, and you'll get the point.1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America pageant.4. Name ten people who have

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What does coaching have to do with leadership and awareness?One of the people I have the priviledge of working with this year is Professor Jack Wood at the IMD (the Institute of Management Development, currently ranked as the #1 Business School in the world by the Economist). Jack recently published findings about what the purpose of coaching is, and what he sees as the potential positive impact

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It's been a crazy few months. I have been travelling non-stop to clients, which has been great for me, but I have also been concerned with the influx of high potentials who are extremely stressed and needing guidance in these very uncertain times. Clients in the financial sector in particular are fearing for their jobs and worried sick about their futures.Being a person who believes in the power

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During a leadership program that I was coaching on this past week, it struck me that in corporations, where thousands of young talents like yourselves are making their way, there is not enough to attention to the things that can give meaning in our lives. One of those things is being willing and able to create and really connect with a community. We may all try hard on an individual basis, to

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In studies done on happiness at work, done around the world, show results are quite scary: Most people don't really like their jobs, they see work as a 4 letter word but they need to bring home the bacon. They are not happy at work but they just grin and bear it anyway.Even more so, many countries generally are not very happy, the whole society we may live in may suffer from a low-happiness

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In these balmy summer weeks it is great to remember that it is not always helpful to work so hard at everything, including self-development. There are seasons to move, and seasons to rest. This is the time to take a break and just let all your experiences from the past months sink in."A man who is seeking for realisation is not only going round searching for his spectacles without realising that

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This week I had the pleasure of working in an inspiring place called Dialogues House, a creative and conversational space for entrepreneurs in Amsterdam. As I flew in for the strategy sessions I was to guide with a management team, I thought about how easy it seems to put people in a funky coloured playroom, bring in alot of post-its and markers and then expect them to start thinking out of the

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Thanks to Bestka K-Burr MCC from Coaching and Leadership International and author Lynn Stevenson CPC, a colleague who also trained as a coach at CLI, for sharing this story and the 'law' with me.The Law of the Garbage TruckI hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi

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I am reading Jamie Andrew's amazing book "Life and Limb" about his story of tragedy and survival as a mountain climber. After seeing him in person presenting live today to a large audience, I know this is a person who truly trusts his potential. He stood there, having lost both hands and feet to the cold, telling us about how he is climbing up mountains again, despite his tragedy. What a great

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Where else can I meet Madelon?Madelon is a coach for business schools like IMD (Institute for Management Development), De Baak and the Media Academy. She is a partner in Humanshareware, an innovation consultancy, a guest lecturer at colleges, academies and universities, and a founding member of the new Gen Y awareness network, Potential Buddha.

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How do others value my talent?It's a jungle out there. Check out this audio interview by Economist.com (May 2008) as it describes what the global economic downturn can mean for top talent like yourself. Will you keep your job? Are you in the top 20%?What is my true talent?Wondering what you're best at? Take a free test online to find out a few key talents. This is fun, but serious insight comes

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Working with others can be intensive, especially if you're advising people who feel 'stuck' or 'lost' or even burned out. If you are exhausted after meetings with people, then you may not taking care of your energy. Our physical energy is the key to staying in balance; cherish and protect it no matter what. Meditation and yoga is all about rejuvenation and channeling energy in your body. But what

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