We seem to be increasingly disillusioned by organizational life. The question I often asked myself is simply “Why” ? Why is work even source of so much suffering ? If not suffering, disengagement ? Why could the corporate world not be a place of fulfillment ? Of expression ? …
From Google’s project discussed in the first post of this series, it may sound like you “just” need to tell people to take turns during a conversation and to listen to one another more. You can “just” instruct employees to be sensitive to how their colleagues feel and to notice …
This FREE ebook is “based on and inspired by “ Frederic Laloux’s book, “Reinventing Organizations”. With “Unleash your team’s natural potential”, my goal is to share what has inspired me and resonated with me as I read Frederic Laloux’s book. Based on my own experience as a manager, I have …
For many years, I really believed that conflict equaled anger, and that anger led to conflict. I was avoiding conflict as much as possible, mostly because I did not know how to deal with it. Just did not have the skills to properly address conflict and manage anger, mine and …
Taming the ego could have deep repercussions on how we structure and run organizations. Many of the corporate ills today can be traced to behaviors driven by fearful egos: politics, bureaucratic rules and processes, endless meetings, analysis paralysis, information hoarding and secrecy, wishful thinking, ignoring problems away, lack of …
If you have been kind enough to read my posts on Mindfulness, you may have thought “Isn’t that a bit too self-centered?” Up until now, the posts have been mostly about our inner life (thoughts, feelings and sensations); Let’s now move from the intrapersonal to the interpersonal, taking into account …
We have all heard mindfulness or meditation provide many great benefits: less stress, better health, stronger body, more creativity, stronger resilience, etc, etc, … But in today’s world and society, what I have seen is that people want proofs before getting into anything. Show me it works, bring me the …
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Victor Frankl DO more. Do faster. Do. Do. Do. We always are doing something. When we are not trying to meet our …
Like in all other aspects of our lives, we get emotionally triggered by all sorts of external stimuli at work. I recently wrote a series of posts on how mindfulness can indeed help us ride what somewhat feels like an emotional roller coaster. I work as a manager at an …
We have reached the last part of our series on mindfulness at work. Let’s now look at another very concrete way of being more mindful and bringing peace in difficult work situations. RAIN is an acronym for the four key principles of mindful transformation of difficulties. RAIN stands for Recognition, …