by NADEGE ESTEBAN-FRUTOS Empathy means: “putting yourself in the other person’s shoes” or “seeing things through someone else’s eyes.” As a coach, undoubtedly, empathy helps us to build a deep, trustful and safe connection with our coachee. By sharpening our ‘people acumen’, it also allows us to understand and be attuned to others’ feeling and thinking.
by DR. SHAN NARAYANAN Want to transform?…. Self develop yourself Writing is something, I am beginning to fall in love with. I write a monthly column on child health issues in a community paper. Now, I am here, I am a beginner in writing on non medical articles but friends as we know ” a journey of a thousand miles…
by HELEN TEH A Learning and Growing Journey by HELEN TEH (Part 2 of 3) <If you missed part 1, click here> I was conducting a Performance Management Workshop for a group of staff. We came to the part where we discussed about what we must do for the one on one session. The individual…
by HELEN TEH I am sitting here, thinking of what to write. After putting my hand up to say “I will write for MACC!”, now, I am scratching my head ……. What would interest the readers? I asked my 15 year old son, “What do you think Mummy should write?” He said “All those lives…
by Merel Nahuysen The Unfreedom of Choice by Merel Nahuysen Our ancestors, the cavemen, were lucky people. Yes, they probably worried every day about feeding themselves and protecting themselves and their families against sabre-toothed tigers or mammoths. They also were very busy building fires all the time, to stay warm. But there wasn’t much else that…
by ARMELLE STOLTZ Let Go, Flow, achieve Big Some time ago, I had an amazing coaching session which would change my coaching approach forever. Before going to the coaching session, I spent time strategizing my session, preparing my documents, my mind, my heart. Keeping focused on the agenda of my client, deep listening, asking powerful…
by JERI XIE There are many races in life we just got to run. Most races in our life are actually intangible. Whether it is about getting a degree, embarking a new job, given a new work assignment, working towards a dateline, entering into parenthood, etc., these are races that we might felt we are…
By Nadege Esteban-Frutos What are your favourite quotes? How do you use them into your daily life and into your coaching practice? I love quotes. I even keep one file on my computer where I collect the quotes that I like. As far as I remember, I have always loved quotes. I started with this…
by JERI XIE Every one of us has this little voices from within that speaks to us every single day. These voices within us are our mental chatters – or in another word, our thoughts. When we were a young toddler or a kid, before memory and logic developed, we stayed in the present moment…
by NADEGE ESTEBAN-FRUTOS If you missed part 1 of 2, <click here> In recent years, the science of compassion has emerged. Now, we know more about the biology and the neurosciences of compassion : when we feel compassion, our heart rate slows down, our body secretes the “bonding hormone” oxytocin, and regions of the brain linked…