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Coaching: What if suddenly you are placed in an aquarium?

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Take a deep breath.

Once, twice, three times.

Feel yourself relax completely.

Now…

Imagine you suddenly woke up in an aquarium.

Feel yourself swimming round and round and round until you get dizzy from spinning around!

Try visiting the little ship your owners have put there.

Enjoy the bubbles bursting out of the shell.

Have you had fun?

Now imagine you’ve been there for a week.

Two, three…

One month, two months, three months…

A year, two years, three years…

How do you feel? Probably like the majority of the world’s population.

Due to circumstances or misfortune in their lives, most people live in a controlled universe where someone pours some food into their aquarium every month.

Few people take the reins of destiny into their own hands and choose … [ Read the rest » ] “Coaching: What if suddenly you are placed in an aquarium?”

In life, do you drive, or are you driven?

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One of the things I work on most with teams, in terms of motivation, leadership, and performance, is precisely the phrase, “In Life, do you lead or are you led?”

Anyone who knows us and our work in this area knows that we like to provoke people to think when talking about motivation.

It’s different from the standard approach that we go there these days.

The way out of the inflation in which the world is plunged is for people to move from the passenger’s seat to the driver’s seat in their lives.

Whoever says in their lives means in their companies, society, or in short, in the world around them.

When we face difficult situations, we have two choices.

Either we sit back and wait for it to pass, … [ Read the rest » ] “In life, do you drive, or are you driven?”

Feedback Mastery: How to Give and Receive Feedback with Confidence

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Chapter 1: Introduction The Dreaded Feedback Conversation

Ah, the dreaded feedback conversation. You know, the one – where you have to sit down with someone and tell them how they’re not measuring up. Or worse yet, when someone else is telling, you’re the one on the receiving end. It’s uncomfortable, it’s awkward, and it’s just plain stressful.

But let’s face it: feedback is a necessary evil. Without it, we can’t improve, we can’t grow, and we can’t learn. It’s like that old saying, “No pain, no gain.” Except in this case, it’s “No feedback, no progress.”

So, if we know that feedback is essential, why do we still dread it so much? Part of it has to do with our fear of judgment. We don’t want to be seen as … [ Read the rest » ] “Feedback Mastery: How to Give and Receive Feedback with Confidence”