Changing on the Job
I was given the book “Changing on the Job” by a friend and a very esteemed colleague of mine. He is very excited about the ideas in this book. Usually I read books about psychology – and lately many...
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There is scant evidence, objective evidence, to confirm that this massive, expensive, thirty-plus-year effort [to teach leadership] has paid off. To the contrary: much more often than not, leadership...
View ArticleMy best advice to the coaches I mentor
A lesson I re-discover again and again, session after session…
View ArticleMy 2 cents
My favorite Solution-Focused Coaching Tools: - the mantra by Alexandra Stoddard keeps me grounded and has proven itself to be true time and again. Even if I have no clue about what is going on in the...
View ArticleAWEsome
The video above was used to put participants in a state of awe in a study led by Stanford Professor Jennifer Aaker. The title of the study says it all: Awe Expands People’s Perception of Time, Alters...
View ArticleVirtual teams?
I work a lot via Skype, and I find it very effective in one-on-one coaching sessions. Actually, when doing Brief Coaching, I work exclusively via Skype – and it works! On longer coaching engagement,...
View ArticleGreat intro to Positive Psychology
THE HAPPINESS ADVANTAGE – by Shawn Achor Shawn Achor does an excellent job introducing Positive Psychology in a very funny, engaging way, and in all of 12 minutes. What I found really interesting was...
View ArticleLove 2.0 and the interactional view
In her latest book, Love 2.0, the renowned Positive Psychology author Barbara Fredrickson introduced an interactional view of love. According to the latest research she presents in her book, love is...
View ArticleCan Focusing on Progress Undo the Progress?
Professor Ayelet Fischback and Professor Ravi Dhar discovered one paradoxical effect of focusing on progress: “goal liberation“. Here is how it works: happy with the progress made toward a long-term...
View ArticleThe Interactional View of Emotions and Solution-Focus
Following up on a recent post in which I noted how Barbara Fredrickson put forward an interactional view of love, I read Lisa Feldman Barrett paper on the interactional view of emotions. In her paper...
View ArticleOn Positive Feedback
Solution-Focus relies on positive feedback – i.e. noticing what is working and going right instead of pointing out what is not working and going wrong. Even more so with Solution-Focused training: for...
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