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Unlearning in the time of continuous learning

ReNew Business

The Whisper does not want constructs. It wants me to unlearn the story I have constructed and just be: alone, broken, silly, shy, fearless. These are inquiries into the moral obligation to live and stand not only in the lights but in the shadows, the dark. What lies underneath the shadows needs to be sheltered and freed.

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Expecting the Worst vs. Preparing for the Best

International Coach Academy

I realized that I was looking to the future with this same fearful lens, which was extremely limiting and was not allowing me to consider and embrace new opportunities and adventures that lay ahead, for fear of reliving the same experiences of the past.

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Leadership as a Broken Mirror

ReNew Business

A construct so polished, so unattainable, it has become a chain around our collective necks. Who can live under such a shadow? Leadership , as we imagine it, is a myth. For centuries, we’ve wrapped leadership in a hero’s cloak, draped in the stories of men whose exploits towered over the human scale. Rockefeller.

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Trust and Employee Engagement: Building the Foundation for Organizational Success

Vantage Circle

Leaders should be willing to cultivate the ability to receive feedback neutrally and use it constructively without bias. Employees across various departments participating in shadowing initiatives to understand diverse roles and responsibilities. One of the most common blind spots is misinterpreting feedback as personal criticism.

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Pursuing Happiness Through Hardship

International Coach Academy

Most things break or bend when put under stress and pressure and in the construction world we can even consider robust and strong building materials like reinforced concrete used in skyscrapers! However, it is important to consider what the value is of happiness. Tal Ben-Shahar suggests that it has the ability to help us become antifragile.

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Put Your C.A.P On: Heroes and Villains vs. Being Humain

International Coach Academy

This conscious way of interpreting the world permits the narrative construction of stories 8. Pick the perspective : He shifted from “I am the villain” to “I am somewhat of a newbie,” and he decided to ask for more shadowing and help from his colleagues.

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Sticky vs. Step

International Coach Academy

In this way, through our construction, information becomes knowledge. One of the three Life Styles he describes termed the Constructive Style is focused on: achievement, self-actualizing, humanistic and self-encouraging, and affiliative behavior and style. Sometimes doubt is described as a shadow that is always with us.