The second wave is coming. Once again we are faced with the situation that on-site trainings are cancelled and personal coaching sessions are no longer booked. Contacts to customers are lost - and there is no end in sight. These are hard times for all those who offer trainings or coaching. But the experience of [...]
As a coach it is now about existence. No meetings and no group meetings in closed rooms - that means no workshops and trainings. And therefore no income. A frightening, existence-threatening situation for many coaches and trainers. Is it? New ways are needed. One way that seems to me to be very feasible and successful [...]
The COVID-19 crisis has turned the way of working upside down. Home office instead of open-plan office, couch instead of ergonomic office chair, cosy family breakfast instead of daily commuter traffic jam. We coaches and trainers are also strongly affected: How can one conduct a training, a workshop without meeting other participants in a suitable [...]
Let me tell you a little story. More than 30 years ago I went to the USA and participated in the cultural and educational program Up With People. With more than 120 young adults from 17 nations, I was able to spend a year in more than 90 cities in North America and Oceania where [...]
Recently I was asked, what is the point of rummaging out old ideas and naming them again? Why shouldn't we start with new ideas right away? Surely a thought that is shared by many. But there are two main advantages of "warming up" ideas that have been put forward before: - First, the brain is [...]
