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What is a coaching leadership style? A way to engage employees.
The coaching leadership style is an approach that creates a high-performance culture at work. It also ensures a safe work environment and supports individual satisfaction. The hallmarks of this culture are collaboration, empowerment, and personal and professional fulfillment. Collaboration is the most important of these characteristics and often contrasts with a "command and control " approach, aka autocratic style. "Command and control" behaviors suppress individual pot
Ryszard Skarbek
Aug 30, 20239 min read


Myths about Highly Sensitive People
In any field, including that of Highly Sensitive People (HSP), there are often misconceptions and myths. For instance, HSPs are frequently perceived as being weak, fragile, prone to tears, or emotionally unstable. Additionally, they are often linked to traits such as shyness, clumsiness, and introversion. However, this has little to do with the truth. Of course, there may be people who behave like this, but firstly, it does not mean that they have a highly sensitive personali
Ryszard Skarbek
Jul 28, 20239 min read


Fun facts - 10 things you didn't know about skin
Where do people have the thinnest and thickest skin? How many nerve endings fit in one square inch of human skin? What are touch receptors and where are they most sensitive? When do fingerprints form on the fingers and are there people who do not have them? The answers to these and other questions can be found in the following list of 10 interesting facts about human skin. Fun facts about human skin I wonder how much of the information provided here will surprise you. For exa
Ryszard Skarbek
Jun 30, 20234 min read


What does a mentoring session look like?
Business mentoring is attracting more attention. More and more companies are launching mentoring programs. More and more NGOs are offering open, free mentoring initiatives. More and more people are considering finding a mentor. Each novelty, on the one hand, attracts, on the other, fills with some anxiety. Because if we haven't experienced something, we don't know what to expect. In addition, before deciding on a mentor, people want to gather as specific and verified informa
Ryszard Skarbek
May 22, 20237 min read


About the art of making choices. Family
Rodzina zebrała się przy obiedzie. Najstarszy syn ogłosił, że zamierza ożenić się z dziewczyną mieszkającą po przeciwnej stronie ulicy.
Ryszard Skarbek
May 16, 20232 min read


What do heaven and hell look like
One day Swami asked Shiva: "Lord, tell me what heaven and hell look like?" - You wanna know? Come with me. I will show you.
Ryszard Skarbek
Apr 10, 20232 min read


HSP Highly Sensitive Person - what is their uniqueness?
The term "Highly Sensitive Person" (HSP) was first coined by psychologist Elaine Aron (1996), who herself has a high sensitivity trait. She and her husband developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) , which led to further research into this trait. Earlier, Carl Jung was the first to recognize the importance of sensitivity and believed that it plays a more important role than sexuality in the susceptibility of an individual to neurosis (Aron, 2004). In this article, w
Ryszard Skarbek
Mar 11, 202313 min read


Diversity and Inclusion Coaching. How do you view the world?
During the course, the lecturer asked the students what their current list of the 7 wonders of the world would look like...
Ryszard Skarbek
Feb 22, 20233 min read


Sense of Agency Coaching. How often do you have to and how often do you choose?
With regular coaching practice, my coaching ear becomes more and more sensitive and is able to pick up seemingly innocent phrases and declarations better and better. Today let's spend a moment on our sense of agency and see how it manifests through various expressions. I wonder how is your sense of agency. And would you believe that you don't really MUST do anything? "MUST" rules Please, note how often the innocent but destructive word "must" appears in our wording (and there
Ryszard Skarbek
Feb 7, 20232 min read


Career Coaching. Intelligence, Promotion (?), Frustration, Burnout
Isn't it that when we shave or do make-up in the morning we think about what will be at work? The same thoughts accompany us at breakfast
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 29, 20236 min read


Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game and origins of modern coaching
Timothy W. Gallwey (born 1938 in San Francisco) is an outstanding thinker in the fields of personal and professional excellence, business health and education, and the ability to push yourself beyond limits - especially in the area of competitive sports. He developed the concept of "The Inner Game", which became the foundation of modern coaching. Tim Gallwey is a prolific writer. His books include The Inner Game of Tennis (1974), Inner Tennis: Playing the Game (1976), Inner S
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 21, 202312 min read


Loneliness in the crowd. How do you feel about yourself?
Each of us is looking for a recipe for a happy life. We are watching the world. We talk to people. We read books.
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 13, 20234 min read
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