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Your basic needs, source of positive and negative emotions

Where do you want to go in life? What are your basic needs?

Our customers often ask themselves questions such as “What do I want in life?”, “Where do I want to go?”, “Does my current leadership position make me happy and satisfied?”. Here is a small, hopefully enlightening exercise on this topic.

Astrid von Soosten

As a holder of a fourth black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, I use the conflict resolution-oriented approach of Aikido to strengthen leadership presence. The transformative approach is not based on a purely cerebral approach, but is also promoted through physical experience. My mantra is: attitude, action, results.

Good communication in the team – achieve your goal with a simple 6-point program

Why a training course for “good communication”? Anyone can communicate. We talk, don’t we? We don’t need training in “good team communication”. If your communication is really good, no destructive tensions will build up between you and your employees or in your teams. Then there is little content-related or emotional… Read More »Good communication in the team – achieve your goal with a simple 6-point program

Our leadership belief: Appreciation and performance are interdependent!

What nonsense! Based on our coaching and our own project experience, we say: yes, absolutely. Appreciation, respect, humanity and high performance, high focus, high energy – absolutely realistic. In our experience, appreciation, respect and humanity are the basis for really high team performance. Only when everything is in place do… Read More »Our leadership belief: Appreciation and performance are interdependent!

Beate Haverkamp

My work is consistently solution-oriented. Analyses are only important to lead to new perspectives. The second important aspect is the systemic view of the company and its own scope for action, which must be shaped within it. The third important aspect is the result. The aim is to get to the action level so that the findings from the coaching sessions are clearly reflected in everyday life and, in the best case, make it more relaxed and easier.

Recommended reading: Beyond the self – neuroscience vs. Buddhism

In my new series, I share ideas from my reading pile. “Beyond the Self” by Wolf Singer and Matthieu Ricard is a fascinating collection of dialogs that combine the effectiveness of Buddhist meditation with neuroscientific findings. A must-read for coaches and personal development.