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2024-06-05

Emotional Rollercoaster at Work: Argue Like an Adult

Work environments can often feel like an emotional rollercoaster, throwing us into situations that test our patience and balance. As team leaders and agile coaches, it’s crucial to understand how these emotional upheavals can influence team dynamics and to guide your team toward healthier conflict resolution. Let’s explore some common triggers, why we sometimes act like children during conflicts, and how to argue like an adult.

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2024-04-22

Navigating Company Communication: The Flight Level Approach

We live in a world of catchy frameworks and methods. Companies want to be agile, they want to be effective, they are looking for modern management methods. They train, implement, improve... In this rush, understanding goals and “heading towards the same goal” takes on new meaning. We often experience chaos, disorder and unpredictability, which causes frustration and fuels conflicts.

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2024-01-29

Demystyfing conflicts in organization

In the world of business, results matter. Everyone has goals to achieve, although there are many ways to achieve them. Unfortunately, we often encounter various obstacles, the most common of which is different visions of how to reach our goal. We work in a team, in an organization with a large number of dependencies and connections. It is difficult to achieve consistency in such conditions.

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2024-01-12

Aim far, look close – or how to win in your resolutions?

In 2017 I started writing down 1-2 goals at the beginning of each year. It all began with my health. The stomach pain became unbearable, and all tests were OK. Unfortunately, it turned out that it was most likely stress. For me, it meant I had to slow down and calm down. Easy to say, I thought, smiling through my tears.

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2024-01-04

Permission to dream (not only set goals)

Dreams are like wings that lift us above everyday life, giving color and meaning to our lives. I have dreamed of traveling to Iceland for many years. I looked at photos on the Internet, listened to the stories of friends who were there and I wanted to go there someday. I was waiting for the right moment - when the children would be older, when there would be more time...

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2023-12-15

Conflict under the Christmas tree

Holidays should be a time of joy, love and spending time together with family. “Should” is key here, because this word often acts as pressure. As a result, for many of us, the holiday season also becomes a time of stress and conflict. So what's going on here? And what can we do about it?

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2023-12-05

How to start…

In my work and everyday family life, I have always paid (and still do) great attention to development. I read a lot and trained myself to do everything better and more effectively. Each time I was gaining new knowledge and ideas, I wanted immediately to implement them in my life. And usually I was met with misunderstanding, frustration and, on top of that, my inner critic who scolded me for every failure.

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Małgorzata Kowalczewska

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