Boiled Frog Syndrome, Tall Poppy, Pollyanna Effect
Three common cognitive biases can affect both our personal and professional lives. These biases are the boiled frog syndrome, the tall...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 22
- 7 min
What does a mentoring session look like?
Business mentoring is attracting more and more attention. More and more companies, also in Poland, have decided to launch a mentoring...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 22
- 11 min
60 Tools of a Good Mentor
A good mentor can have a profound impact on a mentee's professional and personal development. A good mentoring relationship primarily...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Feb 7
- 2 min
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...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jan 29
- 6 min
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
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Agnieszka Kucza
- Nov 26, 2022
- 4 min
Book review - "The Mastery of Love" by Don Miguel Ruiz
Today we are starting a new cycle and a new category of posts on the Empowerment Coaching blog. We will publish reviews of valuable books...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Oct 27, 2022
- 4 min
Resilience Coaching. How to deal with adversity?
Life doesn't always go as smoothly as we'd like. We all face challenges, moments of stress, and even traumatic experiences.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Oct 14, 2022
- 5 min
Why are some people more cheerful than others?
Sonja Lyubomirsky and Marci Shimoff, presented in their books the results of research on the extent to which our level of happiness is ...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Sep 13, 2022
- 2 min
Ahimsa - do not cause unnecessary suffering
Do you know Ahimsa? The Buddhist root of the Non-Violent Communication method?
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 23, 2022
- 4 min
Can you dance in bed, can you meditate while dancing?
I believe that each of us has our own door through which we can enter unlimited space and fly away as if there was no gravity.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 9, 2022
- 7 min
How passion gives meaning to life
Today I am dusting off a text written quite a few years ago. It is a "photo" taken on the path of my personal development and...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
Personal development. A parable of sculptor
While passing through the city, a young boy heard loud sounds, something like clicking, rumbling, chipping.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 27, 2022
- 3 min
The Art of Assertiveness – Master Class 3
The moment has come for the "grand finale" of this series, and therefore a story about an Adult. However, before we start - one digression.
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 24, 2022
- 6 min
How to set healthy boundaries? And what to do when someone breaks them?
How to set healthy boundaries? Assertiveness is honesty towards oneself and others. I say what I think (not always and not to all of course)
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Ryszard Skarbek
- May 7, 2022
- 17 min
Top Competency and Personality Tests - a comprehensive review
Nowadays, personality tests are no longer only the domain of psychologists. They find more and more use in the business world
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
Self-coaching - Problem Solving
Today I propose a very specific exercise, which is a simplified version of the GROW model described earlier. Try it and enjoy the benefits!
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Self-coaching - Sense of Agency
One of the most important keys to our fulfillment is the ability to focus our attention on what we WANT. This, in turn, requires clarity...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
Self-coaching - life priorities and free guidebook
How often do you ask yourself: what is important to me in Life? How well do you know the answer to this question?
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 29, 2021
- 5 min
Imposter syndrome - how to deal with it
You work hard to get recognized at work. You have the constant feeling that you are not getting things done well enough. As if you are...
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Ryszard Skarbek
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
The Art of Assertiveness – Master Class 2
In the previous episode, we outlined three people inherent in us: Child, Parent, and Adult. Today, a lot more information about...
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