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Career Coaching: How to Achieve Career Goals with a Career Coach?
Career coaching is an effective method for supporting both professional and personal development . If you're looking to create your own career path , seek new challenges , or prepare for a promotion , working with a coach can be highly beneficial. In this article, you will learn what career coaching services are, what benefits they bring, and how they can help you develop your career . What is career coaching? Career coaching is a process that helps clients analyze their d
Ryszard Skarbek
Oct 167 min read


Carl Jung: Jungian Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Explained
The whole world knows Carl Gustav Jung as a brilliant psychiatrist and psychotherapist . His works and words have had a significant impact on Western civilization. Called the rebellious disciple of Sigmund Freud, he criticized Freud's psychoanalysis and created his concept of analytical psychology. He went down in history mainly as the author of two concepts. His most famous achievements are archetypes and the collective unconscious . We also owe him the invention of the "
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 120 min read


A list of essential questions to ask your mentor in your next meeting
A mentor can be an extremely valuable source of knowledge and support for both business leaders and specialists. Using mentoring at the right time can easily open new doors to achieving your dream goal and create completely new development opportunities, both professionally and personally. How does a mentorship relationship work? A successful mentoring relationship is built on curiosity, openness, and continuous learning, ensuring both mentors and mentees benefit from the
Ryszard Skarbek
Sep 22, 202415 min read


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...
Ryszard Skarbek
Jun 14, 202411 min read


Marilee Adams: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life. 4th edition review
Today, I present a review of another book worth reading at least once in your life. This time, it will be an international bestseller, featuring a foreword by Marshall Goldsmith , recognized as one of the world's top executive coaches . "Change Your Questions Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life" by Marilee Adams I refer to the 4th edition of this book. The first two held the subtitle "10 Powerful Tools for Life and Work." 1. What is

Agnieszka Kucza
Jan 9, 20247 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...
Ryszard Skarbek
Feb 7, 20232 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


The meaning of Pyrrhic Victory - King Pyrrhus and his unhealthy aspirations
The Greek king Pyrrhus was considered a military genius. He also had a wise adviser, Kineas, who had such a conversation with him
Ryszard Skarbek
Oct 20, 20229 min read


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
Ryszard Skarbek
May 7, 202218 min read


A story of big revelation
A certain Guru promised a scholar a revelation more significant than that contained in the holy books.
Ryszard Skarbek
Mar 29, 20221 min read


Self-coaching: questions for leaders with depth
One of the simplest methods of developing greater self-awareness is the quartet of the following questions
Ryszard Skarbek
Jan 8, 20222 min read


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!
Ryszard Skarbek
Dec 26, 20212 min read


What is appreciative intelligence?
Appreciative intelligence is an extremely useful psychological competence. Above all, it helps us to recognize our strengths but also...
Ryszard Skarbek
Dec 4, 20214 min read


Devil and his friend
Once upon a time, the devil went out for a walk with a friend. Suddenly, he saw a man bent over the ground, trying to collect something
Ryszard Skarbek
Oct 4, 20212 min read


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?
Ryszard Skarbek
Sep 26, 20213 min read


Self-coaching - thinking either - or
Today I will risk saying that many of us are not fully aware of what words we use every day. And most of all, we don't realize that ...
Ryszard Skarbek
Aug 19, 20213 min read


Self-coaching - GROW method
Today I would like to show how the GROW method in which I work can be wonderfully applied to self-coaching.
Ryszard Skarbek
Aug 12, 20213 min read


Self-coaching - difficult situations and NVC method
Today, we are starting a series of columns that are intended to provide specific tools for working on ourselves. They can be used both for..
Ryszard Skarbek
Aug 2, 20213 min read


Endurance Coaching. How much can you take?
Life has pressed me down lately. It hit the ground. Hold down. There are times when it is falling apart on all fronts. And so it is now...
Ryszard Skarbek
Jun 9, 20216 min read


TED Video - Projecting your personal shadow
When we are set off we loose our personal power. We loose the skill and power to not do and say things we gonna regret later
Ryszard Skarbek
Feb 24, 20211 min read
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