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Are you really agenda free?

01/06/2011 15:43

Are you really agenda free? by Jennifer Day "Bossy-boots" was my nickname as a child. Apparently I was always telling others what to do—my father jokes that the only difference between then and now is that now I get paid for it! Ahhh—if it were only that simple. Being a coach is,...

MASTERING THE ELEPHANT?

08/19/2010 20:35

Last summer, I came across an analogy in a book (The Happiness Hypothosis by Jonathan Haidt) that struck me as quite clever. Encountering it again a few months ago in another book (Switch by Chip & Dan Heath), my esteem increased by several notches from ‘that’s clever’ to ‘that’s bloody...

From The Inside Out

08/01/2010 11:11

4 Steps to Helping Children (& Adults) Build Healthy Self-Esteem By Jennifer Day Much has been written on the subject of self-esteem – particularly as it pertains to children – over the last three or four decades. A great deal of it has been valuable, some of it...

What’s Love Got To Do With It?

07/28/2010 14:23

Which parent hasn’t experienced that wonderful, warm, fuzzy feeling in your heart when you watch your child sleep, felt the proud swelling in your chest as you watch her or him playing happily with other children, or had that irresistible urge to smile as your child recites a poem or...

The Real Energy Crisis

06/09/2010 13:55

The Real Energy Crisis The real energy crisis is about emotion energy. Our emotional states create the behaviour that lead to crisis. On a global level, the economic crisis & recession, the gulf’s oil catastrophe and the numerous other environmental predicaments we face,...

To Be A Coherent Coach

11/04/2009 20:36

THE COHERENT COACH By Jennifer Day We don’t need research to show that when we are internally coherent – that is when we feel physically and emotionally balanced, safe and in harmony – our brain works fast and accurately, ideas emerge naturally and effortlessly, we find the right words to say...

Change, Leadership, & Values

08/02/2009 15:36

There has been a lot of focus recently - in the press, on the internet, and elsewhere - on issues of values during these times of organizational change, organizational re-structure and (heaven forbid!) organizational collapse. I came across the following quote while...

Managing Workplace Stress

06/08/2009 13:50

It is probably fair to say that we could replace several of the recent government bailouts with the money we lose through badly managed workplace stress. All of you, and probably most people in the business world, know by now that billions and billions of dollars are lost each year due to...

Applied Emotional Mastery & Emotional Intelligence

08/10/2008 14:16

Emotional intelligence is, in a nutshell, the capacity to differentiate healthy from unhealthy emotions - emotions that serve us from emotions that don’t - and to appropriately express and self-regulate ones emotions in ways that are healthy and that do serve us, and to help others do the...

Emotions Are Running the Show

08/06/2007 16:58

“Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – this is not easy.” Aristotle The ability to manage our emotions effectively may be more significant at this time in...

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