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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – SEEING SELF AS THE CAUSE
by Janet Sernack|05 July 2022|Coaching blog, Leadership blog
Taking personal responsibility is an especially crucial capability, for entrepreneurs and innovators to develop in the decade of both disruption and transformation. It involves developing a set of powerful self-awareness and self-regulation skills and is further enabled by being able...
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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – CREATING THE LINE OF CHOICE
by Janet Sernack|31 May 2022|Coaching blog, Leadership blog
In our last blog, Taking personal responsibility - going back to leadership basics, we described how people’s personal power is diminished when they don’t take personal responsibility for the impact of their behaviours and actions and the results they cause....
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TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – GOING BACK TO LEADERSHIP BASICS
by Janet Sernack|04 May 2022|Coaching blog, Leadership blog
I was first introduced to the principle of Taking Personal Responsibility when I attended a number of experiential workshops facilitated by Robert Kiyosaki who is now well known globally as the successful entrepreneurial author of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” book series....
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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS AND ADVERSITY
by Janet Sernack|31 March 2022|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Interestingly, this disrupted our habitual unconscious safety and...
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RE-THINKING FOR A NEW AGE
by Janet Sernack|28 October 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog
In our last blog, we proposed, rather than living in a world where everyone hates to fail, why not adopt a rethink, respond, regroup, thrive pattern, and experience failure as an opportunity for change, unlearning, and re-thinking? Adopting this approach...
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EVERYONE HATES TO FAIL – WHY DO YOU?
by Janet Sernack|06 October 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of deep emotional and visceral, largely unconscious, negative, reactive response to it.  By becoming passively...
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BEING PLAYFUL AND EXPERIMENTAL TO CREATE AND INNOVATE
by Janet Sernack|06 September 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog
Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever.  It was the dawn of an explosive era where fashion...
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Creating high-performing and faster-moving teams
by Janet Sernack|05 September 2019|Coaching blog, Collaboration blog
It seems that every meeting I went to recently, and almost every person I spoke to, mentioned the new book, from the authors of How Google Works – The Trillion Dollar Coach. I dutifully ordered it and once I had...
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How can we prepare people for a future we cannot predict?
by Janet Sernack|05 June 2018|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog
As many of us are aware, we are living in an era of extreme rapid & continuous change, driven largely by the technological leaps of the Digital Age. These are impacting exponential shifts in customers' needs, priorities, preferences & expectations...
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Cultivating a Fail Fast Culture
by Janet Sernack|04 December 2017|Coaching blog
In last month’s blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable...
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