A 2023 randomized trial pitted four breathing techniques against each other. The winner takes five minutes a day. Here's what it taught me and how I built it into my coaching practice.
Especially after redundancy, many professionals explain themselves too much — in interviews, CVs, and conversations. But interviews are not about telling your story. They are about positioning. This article shows why “tell me about yourself” is a strategic question — and how to answer it with relevance, not biography.
In high-pressure leadership environments, silence is often mistaken for indecision. Yet the most important insights rarely emerge in the middle of noise. They surface afterwards, when reaction stops and space is created to think.
Drawing from decades of leadership experience and supported by neuroscience, this article explores why silence is not the absence of leadership, but a condition for it. Silence reduces cognitive load, calms the nervous system, activates reflective brain networks, and supports clarity, creativity, and better decision-making.
You will learn what silence actually does to the brain, why different forms of silence serve different purposes, and how long silence needs to last to be effective, from brief pauses between meetings to deeper periods of reflection.
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Purpose isn’t a slogan or a statement — it’s a force that moves you. In this post, Jan Salomons explores the difference between intellectual purpose and deep purpose: the kind that calls you into action even when it’s uncomfortable. Drawing on insights from Frederic Laloux, his coaching practice, and his experience in VUCA leadership, he explains how purpose guides choices, builds trust, and creates focus amid uncertainty. Discover how to sense your true purpose — not from your mind, but from what feels deeply right — and how to lead from it.