The business environment has always been demanding and more so today. Companies want to “hire the best” in the market so that they can have flatter and “cost-efficient” organisations. Many executives I’ve coached struggle hard to fulfil the responsibilities they are charged with. They work at work and they work at home, weekdays, weekends, nights, public holidays. They are far too busy and too stressed up…
Problems and difficulties will come into everyone’s life and cause havoc to their reality. They bring pain and can feel really obscure. Most people will feel stuck and all they can think of is what they could have done to prevent it from happening. They focus on the “should’ve” and “could’ve” and they keep asking “Why?” They go deeper and deeper into the problem. Solution? What…
I had a conversation recently which delivered a potent reminder that nobody is perfect. And, that if we’re looking for that perfect person out there, the one who will “complete our life” or be the "perfect boss" or "perfect executive", he or she simply does not exist. I know this. Everybody probably knows this too, yet we say, most often when we want to defend ourselves…
At some point in our lives, we are likely to discover that the reason for some of the things we do or do not do in the workplace, socially or at home are due to feelings of unworthiness - feelings of not deserving of someone else’s attention, a reciprocal effort or respect. When people feel unworthy of themselves it is usually because they get their motivation from…
Is there such a thing as smooth and chaos-free change? We all know the answer: There isn’t. Change, in organisations can cause havoc to the lives of everyone who is affected and frustration to the implementors. Too much to do and difficult to see an end to the situation. There is a phase in every change situation where no one really knows what they are doing.…
