Ivar Raav

Looking at promotion from a slightly homoerotic angle, as Fridays do, one can see that promotion is often simply a matter of rewarding hard work with even more work. When we talk about promotion, it could mean more meaning, freedom and joy. But often, promotion means more influence and therefore more responsibility, more meetings, more […]

The number of incapacity for work leaves due to burnout in Estonia increased by nearly 60% during the year.This was the news on ERR a few days ago, referring to data from Statistics Estonia. Not six percent. Sixty. And that’s when people go to the doctor. But I believe that most of the time people

The quality and standard of what a person can offer at work directly depends on the choices they see and perceive in their lives. If a person perceives that “I have no choices in life”, they cannot be expected to show initiative, responsibility or creativity and offer new added value to the customer. 📍 If,

Do I want what I want to happen?Or am I ready for what is bound to happen? As leaders, we are used to planning, directing, making an effort, organising and taking action. But sometimes we don’t notice how we are holding on to something that life, or a so-called evolutionary force, has long wanted to

Some things in working life do not need a new development plan. It needs… to be sent away to ‘die’. We are good at taking on new projects. New goals, new tools, new responsibilities, new tasks, etc. It’s what moving up the career ladder is all about – do more, you can do more –

As a subscriber to a training course, do you feel that this is a familiar question:👉 How can you make sure that the training doesn’t just remain a nice event and that after the training the managers don’t drown in their daily life again? The answer is not just in updating content or finding new

Leadership doesn’t start with management tools. Leadership starts with self-awareness. I don’t think it can be any other way, although I often see that it is thought that when a manager starts his job, he has to be given a huge amount of skills in a short period of time, to be trained, to be

Have you ever noticed that some leaders don’t lead/inspire, but as if to prove that they deserve to exist. Not consciously, but subconsciously. Such behaviours are often more visible from the outside, but of course it is only useful if we can see that part of ourselves. I have this pattern in me, I believe

They take place at the level of the child and the parent. Not consciously, but subconsciously, so there is no need to look for blame here. It is an unconscious behaviour which, when it becomes visible, often causes serious and thoughtful looks on the faces of the leaders, but also, later on, a laugh of

Customer story: Leadership does not start with strategy. Leadership doesn’t start with strategy. The question is – are we guided by a subconscious part of ourselves or is it guiding us? Increasingly, I have seen how leaders’ actual choices, reactions and relationships are not based on what they know, but on what they do not