Tag: language

Dogfooding with powerful questions

An experiment of using powerful questions for self-coaching Over the last months I stumbled across powerful questions for agile teams multiple times. Powerful questions help with emerging change, they are open for the client’s mental models and they literally invite to introspection and new perspectives. There is a great overview and a resource list compiled […]

Reframing applied

plus a pinch of scientific background Lately I came across a couple of occasions for applied cognitive reframing. Just three recent examples: “I am wasting 2,5 hours per day for commuting.” versus “I have time to sort my brain, be on the water, hear music or even do sports – and I am arriving at […]

Who Says? – Experimenting with your core beliefs

Who Says? On new year’s eve I read this tweet of my friend Marianne where she planned to ask ‘Who says?’ more often in 2017. This little question already made me think in this moment but I did not expect that it would keep working that long in my mind. I find it easy to […]

Nachlese PM Camp Dornbirn

Was ich über das Unterscheiden und das Trennen gelernt habe… und noch mehr… (picture credits: Joachim Schlosser, license: CC BY-SA) Am Fr/Sa 18./19.11.2016 war ich Teilgeberin beim PM Camp Dornbirn. Dornbirn ist quasi die “Mutter” der PM Camp Bewegung, die mittlerweile in vielen Städten europaweit Unkonferenzen zum weiten Themenkomplex Projektmanagement auf die Beine stellt. In […]

Pro-Action Café

Art of Hosting – a full evening long] (picture credits: Frits Ahlefeldt, license: CC BY-NC-ND) Yesterday I attended an evening full of meaningful conversations at Bregenzer Salon in – you guess it – Bregenz (Lake of Constance). The evening was based on methods and elements from the Art of Hosting and the main part was […]

Unterscheide, ohne zu trennen.

Mein Beitrag zur Blogparade zum PM Camp Dornbirn 2016 PM Camp? Erstes Mal! Blogparade? Noch nie gemacht! Und doch: ich bin dabei. Freue mich darauf. Aufs PM Camp Dornbirn… und hier kommt nun mein Beitrag, meine Gedanken zum Thema Unterscheide ohne zu trennen. Als ich diesen Satz im August das erste Mal im Blogbeitrag von […]

Mindful communication – Using the language of your counterpart

Lately I had different occasions where I got in contact with creating & using a new terminology. These made me think about how mindfulness and communication play together when focusing on language and terminology. Software rebranding: introduce a new terminology One was the rebranding of a software I am working on. Almost everything is now […]