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Meetings Cost

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Meetings are part of our day-by-day activities. All companies do meetings, which probably is the most common practice ever. However little is done to change or even improve such practice. How many times do you see people cleaning up meetings, meaning analytically and systemically removing meetings as a regular activity? During the 2020 pandemic, everything became a meeting resulting in a Zoom call. Do you want to troubleshoot some problem, you need a meeting, do you need to ask your friend how is he going, guess what? You need a meeting.

The Issue with Coaching

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Coaching is under lots of critics down here in brazil, the critics started to happen around ~5 years ago around 2015/2014. As time pass more and more Coach role is being criticized for several reasons.  This kind of theme always gets me with mixed feelings in regards to blogging and videos because they are often flamewar subjects therefore I try no to blog about. After lots of considerations, I decided to blog some thought about it. I was wondering to blog about it last week but it was a super busy week so that why I'm writing today. During COVID-19 time my blogging activities had increased a lot since there is no place to go. Back to coaching, IMHO is not a bad thing, actually, it's good however I deeply understand why people are trying to avoid as much as possible. For these blog post, I want to talk about the Good and the Bad things about coaching and also about some forces behind it and problems which need to address no matter if you do coaching or not. I believe there ...

Leadership, Coaching and Mentoring are not Roles

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Today Coaching, Mentoring and Leadership are hot topics everybody is talking about this. Looks like everybody wants to be a Coach/Mentor/Leader but i not sure if people really want do this. This sounds wrong to me, as a Coach / mentor and Leader could sound suspicious say something like that but for me there is a different of letting this things emerge and happen naturally rather than make this as ROLES and try to grow people on this. I dont belive much in this generic roles, i belive in professions i think you can be specialized and do great stuff but to todo that you need a FIELD generic implementations of this things sounds to me like buzzwords trying to reach out people with something new.