10 Jun

AI Can Coach Your Career. It Can’t Coach You.

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Generative AI is a superb career thought partner — for CVs, interviews, search strategy, and rehearsal. But coaching isn't information. Drawing on systemic and provocative coaching and three decades in the leadership chair, Jan Salomons argues that the deeper work, seeing your system, facing your blind spot, growing past your own comfort, is precisely what an AI built to agree with you can never do.
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07 Jun

Your Personal Stress Coping Profile: Turning Pressure Into Insight

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The Personal Stress Coping Profile™ provides a structured mirror of current pressure, coping responses, resilience resources, boundaries and recovery. It creates insight without diagnosing or labelling—and connects personal awareness with the wider team conditions that influence how people cope.
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15 May

The full logic (and context) of yes and no

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A yes from Beijing and a yes from Amsterdam can come out of the same mouth in the same meeting and mean radically different things. A reference-grade walk through the four cross-cultural frameworks — Hofstede, GLOBE, WVS, Schwartz — and the two psychological theories underneath that explain why.
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10 May

What is my colleague’s salary? I have the right to know!

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The EU Pay Transparency Directive shifts the burden of proof onto the employer. A pay difference will now require an objective, documented justification, or a correction. "She negotiated harder when she joined" is not a defence. "He's been here longer" might be — if your tenure logic is documented. The leaders who navigate this well will be the ones who do the work before the questions arrive. Conversation by conversation, fairness becomes a leadership problem.
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23 Apr

Leading in the Waiting Room: How to Hold Your Team Together When the Organization Hasn’t Decided Yet on Organizational Changes

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When four of your twelve team members may be made redundant — but nothing is official yet — leadership becomes something different. It becomes the art of holding people together in uncertainty. This post offers six practical principles for leading through the wait: with honesty, focus, differentiation, and the kind of steadiness that people will remember long after the decision is made.
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