Paul Koeck, MD » Leadership

Is European President Herman Van Rompuy a great Leader?

paulkoeck — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:48:54 +0000

Read today the interview by Dominique Soenens at www.vacature.com !

More Leadership video’s and interviews with CEO’s at www.coachteam.tv and in future blog posts here. A Dutch translation of this video is available on the Dutch pages of this blog.

Full Interview at http://www.vacature.com/blog/van-rompuy-wel-een-goeie-leider

Training Members of the Lithuanian Parliament in Vilnius

paulkoeck — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:36:47 +0000

In October 2009, I trained members of Parliament and staff members in the Lithuanian Parliament. Feel free to have a look at a selection of this training in both languages:

English Lithuanian (simultaneous translation)

The topic of the training was: „How can Leaders and Governments resolve unemployment with „Solution Focused Reactivation Strategies“?

The Secret of Gary Kasparov

paulkoeck — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:11:38 +0000

Chess World Champion Gary kasparov came over to Belgium this week. He analyses his own success secrets. Since it connects very closely to my personal experience as a Business Coach of highly effective leaders, I wanted to summarize some key idea’s:

Reflect on your ‘Decision Process’:
1. analyze how you take decisions in your life: become counscious of how you took your succesfull decisions and make reflecting on your decisions a habit. This will lead to creating a personal decision style.
2. success is the consequence of the quality of your decision processes, and long term success of the quality of your improvement process of making better decisions
Selfconfidence: trust your own decisions
1. Be consistent in your decisions by learning to trust your own decision process
2. flexibility and adaptability to circumstances are not a contradiction to consistency on condition that you choose yourself your own strategy
3. Keep following your plan, and do not let others distract you from your plan.
4. choose your own style and play your own game

The reason why I want to share this with you, is because it correlates with the findings in our coaching survey: clients who have been coached succesfully, all report that the main added value of their coaching process is “reflection”: they all report that they have learned to reflect on their decisions.