The current global trend is to create smaller, self-managed and self-motivated teams as the economic value add that the team members bring, is way above what they are remunerated for. The DNA of high performing teams includes an understanding of emotional and social intelligence, effective communication and are able to manage strong and negative emotions to perform effectively with confidence internally and externally.
At My pocket Coach we assist teams in achieving systemic alignment, collaboration and creative thinking to address challenges, discuss the rules of engagement and mutual respect whilst focusing on individual differences and strengths.
No man is an island
“No man is an island, Entire of itself; Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.” John Donne Managing a team or directing a diverse…
Johanica Havenga
Executive Coach, Body Integration Specialist and Content Manager BTech (Drama), TUT; Qualified Vinyasa Yoga Instructor (RYT200), The Jozi Yoga School; Dip (Exercise Anatomy and Physiology), Institute of Fitness Professionals; NDip…
Alistaire Lategan
Certified Leadership and Business Coach MA (Leadership Studies), International Correspondence Institute; Mentoring & Coaching Certificate, Mentoring Business Coaches International With 18 years’ leadership experience and 13 years’ leadership development and…
The Value of Empathy
EMPATHY – THE CRUCIAL COMPETENCE FOR LEADERSHIP By Gail Cameron As a child growing up in South Africa in the apartheid era, I only came to fully understand the depravity…
Improving primal Empathy and Empathic Accuracy
At any given moment we are communicating vast amounts of information to one another about how we feel. Through infinitesimal changes in musculature and then facial expressions, we signal to…