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17 Aug

Why Conversations Get Stuck

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, Tools & Methods, VUCA & Leadership

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When leadership conversations become repetitive or defensive, the real problem may not be the content. This post explores how relationship and structure shape communication—and how leaders can use the three-layer communication model to create greater clarity, trust and more productive dialogue.

17 Aug

The Leadership Iceberg

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Organizations & Culture, Self & Personal Growth, Tools & Methods

What leaders say and do is only the visible tip of the iceberg. This post explores the assumptions, emotions, values and beliefs beneath leadership behavior, and how coaching helps leaders turn deeper awareness into deliberate communication and lasting change.

14 Jul

ADHD Leadership Videos

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, Video, VUCA & Leadership

An executive summary of the five best videos on ADHD for leaders. A hard-science lecture, a memoir, a reframe, a coaching explainer, and the popular superpower talk, watched together, converge on one conclusion, and it's the argument of The ADHD Leader in a sentence.

14 Jul

The Best ADHD Videos for Leaders: Science, Stories, Strategy

By salomons.coach
In Self & Personal Growth, Video, VUCA & Leadership

A short, curated watch list for leaders who want to understand ADHD, from Russell Barkley on executive function to Jessica McCabe's story of failing at normal. The best videos on the science, the lived experience, and the strengths, with a note on what to watch critically.

14 Jul

The ADHD Leader

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, VUCA & Leadership

Most leaders with ADHD aren't short on ability, they're working with a brain the role was never designed around. A look at the real challenges, the strengths hidden in the same wiring, and the development steps that turn a private struggle into a workable design.

05 Jul

The Authenticity Paradox and the Work of Becoming

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, VUCA & Leadership

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"Just be yourself" is the worst advice a growing leader can follow. Herminia Ibarra's authenticity paradox explains why growth starts with behavior that feels unnatural, and what 35 years in management and 20 years of coaching confirm: discomfort is the entry fee, not a warning sign.

27 Jun

You Don’t Plan a Career Switch. You Explore One.

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Senior leaders are trained to remove uncertainty, yet a career switch resists exactly that. You can't analyse your way into a new identity; you have to explore your way in. Here's how the Pioneer Map and The Expedition guide the senior career pivot — and the theory beneath the method.

11 Jun

You Don’t Have a People Problem. You Have a System.

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Your team won't take ownership. The same crisis keeps returning. You replaced the problem person and nothing changed. These aren't character flaws — they're the shape of the system you're standing inside. Drawing on three decades in the leadership chair, Jan Salomons on why so much competence produces so little change, and where the shift actually begins.

10 Jun

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

By salomons.coach
In AI, Blog, Change & Transformation, Self & Personal Growth, Tools & Methods

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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.

29 May

Parent, Adult, Child: The Three Modes You Lead From

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Self & Personal Growth, Teams & Collaboration, VUCA & Leadership

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Parent Adult Child leadership explains why the mode you default to — Parent, Adult or Child — quietly shapes whether your people grow or stay dependent.