Business coaching is an approach aiming at developing individuals, improving their skills, providing directions to enhance performance and opening up opportunities to new solutions. For the last 20 years, multinationals like IBM or Hewlett Packard have included coaching skills in their management development programs, while others like British Airways or Starbucks...

Looking for a job is always disruptive. Looking for a job abroad can be daunting. Our clients assume that looking for a job, as a foreigner, is the same as in their home country. Not quite! And a lot of them are all at sea with it. If you want to...

Did you make any New Year resolutions? .. I don’t think they really work and definitely prefer a more practical perspective. I like to concentrate on what events had a real impact on my life last year and also what I enjoyed – then I try to do it again. Nevertheless,...

Low self-esteem is a negative evaluation of oneself. During coaching session many people admit that they suffer from a low self-esteem, more or less controlled, disturbing more or less their daily life. Furthermore we all know people who seem incredibly self-confident. But “Seem” does not mean “Be” and presuming about others'...

Nowadays if you want to organise something, you will likely read a thousand testimonials, identify pros and cons and compare pictures, prices or contents. I admit that sometimes looking for a hotel can easily become a nightmare! Companies like Tripadvisor are quite smart to surf on the wave of our difficulty to...

Let me compare the coaching SMART objectives with a sport challenge. 3 months ago a client decided to enhance his sport ability thereby complementing his professional objectives. In June he signed up for a 10 km race. His "big picture" was this race. He wanted to be ready. What was important for...

A lot of people who have found a job make the same observation: they found a job, but they also got lucky. How can you be the right person at the right place at the right time? How can you be open to serendipity (a chance encounter that leads to a happy...