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Stagnation vs. Innovation

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A Coaching Power Tool By Greg Major, Business Owners Coach, AUSTRALIA The Concept of Stagnation vs. Innovation The concept of stagnation was first mooted as an economic theory by Tyler Cowen (2011). It may also cause the individual to assign the problem to incorrect or flawed causes that hinder the development of innovative solutions.

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Parental Burnout: Burnout High in Parents of Neurodivergent Children

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When grandparents, well-meaning friends, and teachers start prescribing solutions to stop the tantrum or force a child to comply through discipline, rewards, or other tactics, parents can feel even more lost, often because those strategies were attempted and failed.

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Incorporating Mindfulness Meditation Into Coaching Practice

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al, 2011), meditation allows a quiet space for us to examine, and arrive at the key to learning that we are not our thoughts. Mindfulness is not a solution to your story problem. It is not a narrative solution at all. Instead, Mindfulness is a solution for the problem of having to live with these narrative constraints.

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Neuroplasticity and Coaching: A Healthcare Leader’s Challenge

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By creating new synapses, new information can be connected into an already existing network of relevant, stored information from our previous experience (Sultan & Day,2011).”These 2011) Epigenetic mechanisms in memory and synaptic function. These neurosynapses create new thinking and new behaviors. & Day, J.J. Williams, R.

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Strengths-Based Coaching for Cultivating Engagement, Momentum, and Well-Being

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Self-concordant goals – linking signature strengths to goals (where strengths can serve as means or ends to a goal), (Grant, 2011). Incorporating character strengths interventions in a broader coaching model, e.g. Aware – Explore – Apply (Niemec, 2013), OUTCOMES (Grant, 2011), Appreciative inquiry change framework (Gordon, 2008).

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Self Pity vs. Self-Kindness

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Identifying the sources of your stress briefly and being solution-focused instead of problem-focused can help you overcome challenges in life. 2011) Self-Compassion , The proven power of being kind to yourself. Gratitude may do more than just help you focus on the positive. Most of us are already good at being kind to others.

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Rules vs. Re-imagine

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Great designers observe the world in minute detail, they notice things others do not and use their insights to unlock fresh solutions. Optimism | Despite the challenges and constraints at least one new solution will be better than the existing alternatives. link] Accessed 14.09.23. Tversky, A. and Kahneman, D.

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