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I am allergic to uneffective meetings! They suck the energy out of me 😵. I have also coached many leaders on meeting managment and I found this article useful in summing up how to create a safe frame for fruitful, honest and effective discussions. Have a read yourself and see what you think!

Make Your Meetings a Safe Space for Honest Conversation More freedom leads to more candor.

We know now that «change is the new normal», but why is it still so hard to deal with change when it hits close to home? I found these four questions useful to explore when feeling resistance to change:
What is my source of resistance? What is my primary emotion associated with this change and what is that really about? What possibilities might the change open up for me and my team? How can I be involved and take ownership in the change?

How to Embrace Change Using Emotional Intelligence If you’re resisting something new, think about why.

Attention is crucial for learning, as it helps to sort what is important to save and what is not. «Research has suggested that mindfulness and exercise can both have beneficial effects on attention. You could argue that martial arts are a combination of both – active sports that involve aspects of meditation and mindfulness.»

Martial arts can improve your attention span and alertness long term – new study Martial arts help boost both brain and body.

I held a workshop on the brain and learning yesterday and just found this interesting article that backs up a lot of what we went though. Sleep and repetition - crucial for learning! 😴🧠

Sleep frees the hippocampus for new memory contents - Neuroscience News A rapid memory system transition from the hippocampus to the posterior parietal cortex is stabilized as we sleep. Sleep and repeated rehearsal of memory jointly contribute to long-term memory consolidation.

Here is to , , and . May it inspire you to try again, keep your head up, and reach a little futher.

Frédéric Chopin - Spring Waltz

«Learning anything new is, by its nature, uncomfortable. You will need to act in ways that are unfamiliar. Take risks that are new. Try things that, in may cases, will be initially frustrating because they won’t work the first time. You are guaranteed to feel awkward. You will make mistakes. You may be embarrassed or even feel shame, especially if you are used to succeeding a lot». Amen to that.

If You Want to Get Better at Something, Ask Yourself These Two Questions Learning anything new can be uncomfortable.

Having held several workshops on communication and presentation skills - this piece sums up some of the important factors in giving great presentations. Adding a concious body language, pitch of voice and planned pauses and we are on the right track 🚊

To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words A TEDx producer on how to connect with your audience.

This article underlines my previous post about learning. This teacher gets it👏🏼; learning doesn’t happen when students sit passive and copy some power point into their books or read a passage. Learning happens when you reflect out loud, DO something physical with the info, writing it down, combine it with something visual, and put it straight into practice. This is not just true for students, but also for employees who are sent to expensive courses to learn a new skill. They come back and say it was great. But ask them again in 3 weeks and they remember zero. Nothing! Very expensive investment. Even wasteful.

To Learn, Students Need to DO Something Too often, we're expecting students to learn material without asking them to do much of anything with it. Why is this a problem? Where did it come from? And how can we fix it?

I am sooo getting this book! It completely coincides with my philosophy of learning that I have picked up much from BeAbove leadership gurus like Ann Betz and Ursula Pottinga, as well as Erickson MCC Jan Georg Kristiansen. The brain learns best when it has fun, is relaxed and in combination with as many sensory impressions as possible.

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies A practical and engaging guide to smart studying tips.

Are you unhappy with your job situation and maybe even thinking about changing into a different career path altogether? This little piece offers a fun game to research for yourself what this «something else» might be. I did a career change myself a few years back based on micro-motives described in the article. I started with a big blank sheet of paper and started brain storming about what I liked to do - no filters (meaning not judging anything I dropped down on that paper). Turned out to be a pretty good idea, because here I am and I am happier in my job than I ever was.

How can you uncover your best self? Start by judging other people — really Uncovering your micro-motives — that collection of super-specialized things that make your particular heart sing — are key to finding fulfillment and success at work, say social scienti…

I have watched this video a couple of times and I always find it reminds me of some of the essence of learning, building a team and being a strong leader or coach.
Ledbetter states that character drives process which again drives results. "Goals can provide a vision and sometimes give inspiration, if set correctly", but rather than focusing only on goals, you can harvest more focussing on character and the process - things which are actually within your control. A video worth its 6 minutes

Brett Ledbetter: What Drives Winning Brett Ledbetter is the creator of FilmRoomTV.com, a website that features Championship Coaches, Professional Athletes, and Best-Selling Authors that he inter...

Just because neuroscience and learning intrigues me - this is a fun way to go over the different parts of the brain and their functions, and having a laugh at the same time 😄(which is one of the best ways to learn anyway, as you have access to bigger parts of your brain when you relax and have fun 😉)

Regions of My Brain: The Airbnb Reviews “The amygdala had everything a millennial neuron could hope for: frequent existential crises, a modern kitchen stocked with therapy, and Wi-Fi.”