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Successful Coaching in the Arab world; Tales from the field 3
Part 3: Values of Islam
Successful Coaching in the Arab world; Tales from the field 2
Part 2: Family comes first
Successful Coaching in the Arab world; Tales from the field
Part 1: Introduction
What are the essential success factors and difficulties of coaching in the Arab world?
Selektive Wahrnehmung oder wozu Mehr Perspektiven?
Das Gute im Schlechten und Jemand hat immer einen Nutzen davon!
Schaut auf Relationen statt nur auf Personen
Was definieren wir als Problem? oder schauen wir doch auf unsere Ressourcen!
Ein MANAGER fragt: ich höre überall SYSTEMISCH; Denkt systemisch! Systemisches Handeln für Führungskräfte! Wir sind systemische Berater! – Was zum Teufel ist systemisch?
Wie schaffe ich hervorragende Leistungen mit „normalen“ Menschen?
Stefan A. ist gerade Abteilungsleiter des Controlling Bereiches eines Konsumgüterunternehmens geworden. Er kam aus dem Corporate Development Bereich und hatte bisher fast nur mit „Hochleistern“ zu tun. Mitarbeiter, die selbstständig, proaktiv, kreativ und mit hoher Qualität ihre Aufgaben erledigt haben.
Diese neue Funktion ist eine echte Herausforderung für ihn, denn: Read the rest of this entry »
TRICKY COACHING: DEALING WITH DIFFICULT CASES IN LEADERSHIP COACHING
Here you can find a case study of a difficult coaching situation and I how I dealt with it. Read the rest of this entry »
Sitting now in a house – that was build by my grand-grand father – on an African island. Having lunch with my ex nanny Zohra (the flower).
I ask her: how old are you?
She answers: I don’t know.
Amel: Why not? How can you not know how old you are?
Zohra: Why should it matter? I am living my life and one day I will die, why should knowing my age matters anyway? Others will come after me and live their life, it’s a circle.
This conversation made me contemplative for some moments …
In western countries people tend to “hide” their age because being young is the desired state. You should never ask – especially women – about their age! In the Arab world it is even desired for a woman to become old. You get more respect the older you are! Personally I enjoy that. Everything is getting better so far. I am more experienced, more mature, have fewer complexes, better s… and so one. I definitely do not want to be 18 again.
We can also ask this question for companies. The common understanding is that the older a company gets the better. Why actually? Steve Jobs said in a speech in Stanford: Death is the change agent of life. Perhaps it is time nowadays for some companies to die and leave space for new ones to emerge.
Perhaps it is nicer for people to be old and for companies to be young! Or even to forget about age, it does not matter after all ☺
Common sense but not common practice!