There is an animal or primal part of all of us that is dangerous to suppress, because it is like a lava that is always present in the core of the Earth, but comes out where we don’t want it to, hurting ourselves and others. Unexpected outbursts of rage or anger at things that are […]
Many of you will have read Gary Chapman’s book “The 5 Languages of Love”. The book is written in the context of intimate relationships, to help partners understand each other’s language of love, and then to monitor their own use of language in order to maintain and (re)develop the relationship. Or, if the languages are
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I’ve often been asked in training and mentoring how to figure out what you like to do and what you could do in life. Of course there are excellent methods and guides for this (e.g. Gallup Strenghts, birth chart, personality tests, human design, IKIGAI, etc.), but over time I’ve developed what I call test questions:
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“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 future therapist. Yes, it is not worth digging in
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Which chapter are you in? In relationships, at work or wherever… Oh how much I have used the song below lately in my 1-1 work with clients, in advising management teams, not to mention in my own life when I see the same hole over and over again. Same pattern, different people. Same problems, different
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Authenticity, openness and being myself – a few weeks ago I heard anonymous feedback that there were too many dogs around me in roles where I was supposed to play someone else. These guys are such a big part of me and my authenticity, and authenticity is a value that I intend to amplify even
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Leaders are called into their roles with the aim of bringing about development through change and leaving behind a legacy of what I call leadership legacy: a trail in the development of people, the organisation and themselves. The role of the leader is to prepare the organisation for the next stage of development and to
The success of a manager is measured by the speed of redundancy of his own post. Read More »
As a trainer, I am constantly in contact with a lot of new people and that means there is a lot of getting to know you (who you are, what’s important to you, etc.). There is one worrying issue, which from personal experience I think is more of a threat, and which Nekrasov has written
Can children love too much? Read More »
In 1997, there was one person in my life, thanks to whom I started to think that it was okay to be myself. Of course, it is only now, decades later, that I realise that this was an important starting point. But thanks to this person I went to study mathematics, thanks to this person
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You know those moments when you feel things are flowing exactly the way they’re supposed to and you’re surrounded in that right flow by exactly the people who are helping you get better and who you’re helping to get better? You don’t understand exactly what it is, but you feel that nothing is bothering you
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