Blind spots prevent us from learning, resulting in mistakes we wouldn’t make when in conscious learning space! Awareness is a great space to be in – that’s where our best learning happens.
When You Know What You Don’t Know – You Learn
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“You are the creator of your own dreams, the architect of your own plan, and the only person who can play you in your own story.”
~ Jim Sebastian Sharman
Recent Articles
When Your Values & High Standards Will Elevate Others’
Like any advice that invites you to raise the level of values, there are challenges to overcome. In this case, neither anticipating others’ expectations nor then exceeding them is easy…
When Change Can Become Your New Best Friend
Everything that happens to us affects what happens in us. Just because something “bad” might happen to us, it doesn’t have to result in us feeling “bad”. That’s a choice we make.
When You Take Responsibility For Leading
The team you lead is a reflection of you as their leader. There might be many factors mixed in, but you are the leader – and your personality is reflected by their responses.
When You Remember How Joyful Learning Can Be
What has your life’s learning journey felt like – a drag, or a joy? Is learning painful, or do you relish the inspiration of new discovery? As a leader, do you look forward to or dread learning?
When You Create Your Own Spark
They say that change happens instantaneously – and maybe you wonder where your desired change is coming from, where the spark is, if it will ever come, that maybe you missed it…
When You Become Your Own Oracle
Unveiling, revealing, uncovering – discovering! When we dare to throw the covers back, we might not always like what we see in ourselves, but it’s the best material we’ll ever have for growth!
When Being ‘Weak’ Is In Fact Being ‘Strong’
Being vulnerable is not the same as being weak – it’s the opposite. It takes courage for leaders to stand up and be seen. Even if nobody’s watching, you can still know you’ve stood up and been seen!
When ‘Negative’ Words Lead To ‘Positive’ Development
In order to grow, it can help to be utterly unreasonable. Operating within limitations rarely grants you the freedom and spontaneity to excel. Leadership, at times, requires being “unreasonable”.
“Jim led an area of the Learning & Development work stream for us on a large Telco start-up in India [Reliance Jio Infocomm]. Jim is an accomplished and skilled consultant who really understands the challenges of creating world-class training interventions in a complex customer contact centre environment. Jim has an extraordinary ability to create a real and sustainable team spirit. I would have no hesitation in recommending Jim or working with him again when the situation arises.”
“Jim gave me invaluable support in communication with the Network as a whole and also provided one-on-one coaching and counsel support personally and to other team members in stressful times, enabling shift and continued motivation. Jim displayed dedication to the World Cleanup Day movement from the moment we interacted. In fact, he even emigrated to Estonia to make as big an impact as possible!”
“I have worked with Jim in various guises over the last twenty years. I have always found him to be extremely conscientious with a meticulous eye for detail. He has worked for me as a training designer (of soft skills – his area of expertise) and a Management and Leadership coach and IMI Assessor. He is extremely knowledgeable about communication skills and exemplifies his knowledge through a very genuine approach to his clients and those he works with on projects.”
