My job sucks

On the transition from team member to team leader

What do decisionmaking & multitasking have in common?

Are you interested, or interesting?

Post by Geoff Crinean, Senior trainer & business coach
Crossposted at Business-insight.biz

And now for something completely different...

Post by Geoff Crinean, Senior trainer & business coach
Crossposted at Business-insight.biz

Reducing overwhelm & stress

Many people are overwhelmed and stressed. What can we do to minimize the pressure? When clients ask me this I address two things:

First, what are the things you want to do every day? What daily habits do you want to cultivate? Most people say something like – eat properly, exercise, meditate, [...]

Why I am passionate about training

I train mainly in soft skills such as management, customer service, assertiveness, conflict resolution and negotiation. Planning training sessions and writing manuals is the easy bit; the real challenge is to engage each learner and encourage them to explore new ways of thinking and doing.

Before every workshop I spend some time thinking about my [...]

On becoming a coach

I remember when I decided to become a coach. It was at the beginning of my first coaching workshop, March 31, 2001. We had learned something about what coaches call “Powerful Questions” and there we were, suddenly coaching each other for the first time, one-on-one.

At that time I thought of questions as basically [...]