Month: August 2020

You have to improve, this is insufficient, there is still a lot to do. Have you ever considered how demotivating it is for employees to emphasize and highlight weaknesses? And that there are much better ways?
What is the difference between popular and professional sports?
In popular sports, the winner is the one who makes fewer mistakes. In top-class sport, the winner is the one who has maximized special strengths.
And what about the weaknesses?

As much as we try to be rational employees in the workplace, our emotions always run deep in our daily activities. Companies are ultimately made up of people with human weaknesses and strengths. A person who can moderate his or her own emotions while empathizing with the feelings of his or her colleagues will find it easier to let go of feelings that are counterproductive.

Mentoring describes a consulting process in which a professionally experienced person accompanies a mentee – usually a high-potential employee – who has only recently joined the company. A good mentor makes his or her proven knowledge available, discusses political and tactical approaches with the mentee and opens up his or her networks.

Several studies show that by using coaching, managers increase employee satisfaction, which is essential in today’s struggle for talent. In addition, employees who are coached by their manager have a clearer idea of the requirements that are placed on them.

The idea that “less is more” or “focus on the essential” is not new in itself. Particularly in the areas of art, design, fashion, and luxury, value is placed on minimalism. It is preached “simplify your life” and the following quotation is well-known and popular:
“Perfection is not reached when there is nothing more to add, but nothing more to subtract.”

When we say “yes” and mean “no”, we say no to ourselves, to our integrity and self-respect, our time and freedom, our own wishes and needs. If we do this often enough, we lose ourselves, become empty bottles floating helplessly on the river of life.