I was recently introduced to the work of Finnish researcher Osmo Wiio and how relevant it is to the global events of today.
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Creating a coaching and mentoring culture isn’t easy; sustaining one even harder. Over three decades of observing attempts by organisations, one conclusion stands out. We cannot identify any examples of sustainable success that do not have a dedicated programme management team. Sometimes the team is one manager, supported by a steering group, but when they leave, the chances of sustaining gains made are minimal.
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The Japanese concept of Ikegai is based around four questions. In any discussion of career aspirations, starting with these questions is a very practical way of focussing on what’s important.
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Building the habit of reflection isn’t easy. Yet, some questions can give a much-needed prompt. Ask someone what they earned this week and they can usually remember something. Yet ask what they learned about themselves requires a much deeper level of introspection.
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AIs like Gemini or ChatGPT can be very helpful in speeding up research. I’ve always been careful to check out any references with another source, such as Google Scholar or Research Gate and where possible go beyond the abstract to evaluate the whole paper. Most of the time, I find that the work is genuine and that I can extract what I need from the article text. But not all the time.
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Board directors have immense responsibility – the future of the company is in their hands and in the decisions they make. They also have responsibility to multiple stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, customers, investors and the environment. In theory, great responsibility should be accompanied by great accountability. In practice, the consequences when directors do a poor job, are minimal. While there are sanctions for dishonesty (such as disqualification or in extreme cases, such as fraud, prison), the bar for incompetence is set so high in many Western economies that the only sanction is losing their job.
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“Stacking” is a term that refers to linking a habit you want to create with one that you already have. For example, if brushing your teeth is a well-established routine, then doing a stretch exercise afterwards becomes an extension of that routine. Washing the toothbrush under a tap becomes a reminder or trigger to stretch.
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The Defiance Compass poses three powerful questions, developed by organisational psychologist Dr. Sunita Sah, to help people determine how to act in accordance with their core values and resist pressure from others to conform.
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I once went through a battery of psychometric tests with one of the leading psychology consultancies. I wanted to understand them from the perspective of the client experience. For a lot of the questions, I found myself saying “From this perspective, I’d answer X; but from another perspective, I’d answer Y”. Clearly frustrated, the psychologist told me that my personality was too complicated for diagnosis!
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Daniel Ofman’s Core Qualities model seeks to explain how people react to each other in terms of the ways in which they demonstrate tendencies towards core qualities – natural ways of thinking and behaving that are innate to the person (not learned behaviours). They can be viewed as characteristics that are part of a person’s...
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