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17 Aug

Why Conversations Get Stuck

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

Two professionals in a coaching session discuss a stuck conversation, with a glowing pyramid diagram between them; 'When Conversations Get Stuck' text on dark blue background.

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.

08 Aug

Power Deafens: Here is How to Avoid it

Dark blue stage scene showing a gold executive chair on a circular pedestal, facing gold-framed panels and glowing circuit lines, with the headline “Power Deafens: Why Leaders Stop Hearing the Truth.”

Authority buys you access to everything except the truth. The more senior you become, the more information reaches you and the more it is edited on the way. Here is why leaders stop hearing candor, and a practical playbook for building it back.

01 Aug

What Makes Some Teams Stronger Under Pressure Than Others?

Why do some teams remain effective under sustained pressure while others gradually become overwhelmed? This article introduces six collective capabilities that help teams recognise pressure early, redistribute responsibility, adapt priorities and learn from demanding periods, without replacing individual accountability.

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 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.

26 Jun

Transactional Analysis for Leaders: The Foundations, and How to Use Them

Infographic showing three TA ego states—Parent, Adult, Child—on the left and three leadership actions—Develop, Manage, Stay strategic—on the right, with a central 'A' node labeled Lead from Adult.

A clear, deeper introduction to transactional analysis: where Eric Berne's Parent, Adult, Child model comes from, the psychology of why we shift between stances, how it connects to Kahneman, Rogers, and psychological safety, and how to apply it in everyday leadership.

07 Jun

Your Personal Stress Coping Profile: Turning Pressure Into Insight

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.

23 Apr

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

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Change & Transformation, Teams & Collaboration, VUCA & Leadership

Abstract illustration of golden human figures forming a crowd under a spotlight inside a stylized arena.

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.

27 Mar

Beyond Hofstede: A Unified Framework for Cross-Cultural Executive Leadership

By salomons.coach
In Blog, Organizations & Culture, Tools & Methods, VUCA & Leadership

Hofstede is the most cited framework in cross-cultural management. It is also, by itself, incomplete. This article compares Hofstede with three other major research programmes — GLOBE, Trompenaars, and Hall — finds the ground where all four agree, and translates that consensus into seven executive management principles backed by five decades of independent evidence.