This is the conclusion we came to a few days ago during a discussion in a training group. The participant discussed that as a manager he tends to take responsibility into his own hands, to be a constant hand in the machine of what team members do.
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In December 2020, I wrote down my so-called ideal life phrases in a notebook, because I had heard that what you tell yourself and where you put your energy, it will happen. It sounded absurd to a rational person, but I thought I’d give it a try. After all, there was nothing to lose, because there was no satisfaction in life anyway. I was supposed to earn money, and the opposite (money earns me) sounded like a nice idea, but far away. I wrote down the things that at the time were totally dream level.
What you tell yourself and where you put your energy, that’s what happens. Read More »
“I’m happy and grateful to be able to give people the opportunity to shine a light into their true depths.”
This is the sentence I have formulated as my MIKS. A phrase that inspires me. It brings together my work as a deep-dive leadership trainer and therapist. At one point, when I was choosing between coaching and therapy, I chose therapy because I sincerely believe that we must first make peace with our past in order to come to terms with the present. And it is only when we have been able to be present in the present that we can create the future.
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Last week, I spoke at a conference at the Estonian Training and Conference Centre for management assistants about motivation and inspiration. It was a lovely half hour with nice people!
I don’t think people can be motivated. But you can inspire people if you do what you do with passion and inspiration. Through it, we can unintentionally draw other people in as we shine and enjoy our own lives in our work and activities.
I don’t think it is possible to motivate people. Read More »
About a year ago, I met Sirje Kautsaari, the then director of Rapla Gymnasium, by chance during lunch on a conference day. We ended up at the same table. Our conversation turned into a passionate debate on education and leadership. Sirje’s idea that why not come and talk to young people about leadership, so that they would know how to make more accurate choices about their careers and leaders in their lives, sounded nice, but unrealistic.
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I’ve been getting questions in the last few days asking me, since the reader is not a manager, whether my book “The Footprint of Management” could still be of value to them. These questions are a great symptom of just being valuable. If we continue to separate the worlds of subordinates and managers and assume
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I sincerely believe that no one should tolerate bad management! I was on TV3’s Stuudo and I talked about a book 😊 A book that talks about leadership from a slightly different angle for non-leaders and also for leaders. It was a short but nice chat! https://play.tv3.ee/embed-video/ivar-raav,clip-4955980?autoplay=true&muted=true
We always see the things we look for and believe are there. A good example is when the outgoing manager gives the new manager an overview of his or her team’s perspective and the new manager starts to assess people and seek validation for this. However, people are still constantly changing with new information and
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Unfortunately, suppressing emotions and pretending to be happy is still common in the workplace. Man is an emotional being. Why do we find it difficult to cope with workers who cry or otherwise express their negative emotions? I wrote more about this in Director.
What to do if a worker starts crying? Read More »
We all come from our childhood and carry it with us. Subconscious patterns affect us more than we know. So we adopt one mask or another, also in the work environment. But what potential lies behind the masks? It’s not about labelling people, it’s about finding the potential that may not be visible behind the
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