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Once or twice a week I publish an idea, question, insight or reflection. Topics can be inspired by world events, coaching conversations, random thoughts after a workshop, anything!
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Andrew J Calvert
Mar 52 min read
The Best Things I Learned in Training: Using the room as a training tool
As a trainer one of your many roles is to make the best use of the space in the training room - best use here means using the room to...
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Andrew J Calvert
Feb 271 min read
Go ahead, be a failure!
Failure in the learning process is like a hidden doorway to success and growth — every so-called “failure” can open up an opportunity for...
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Andrew J Calvert
Nov 14, 20242 min read
Note to self...
Journaling has been a part of my journey for a while now. And it has become one of the tools many of my coachees use on their journey....
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Andrew J Calvert
Sep 26, 20241 min read
The Backwards Bicycle
Is a brilliant video that articulates an idea that it is really really really hard to unlearn something... The implications for leaders,...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jul 11, 20242 min read
Missing the flight
I was going to miss my flight. Circumstances that January in a crowded Goa in Western India had led me to be in the wrong place at the...
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Andrew J Calvert
Apr 11, 20241 min read
The Joy of firsts
A friend of mine - actually the oldest person I'm friends with - he's well into his 80s - is a retired pilot of a major airline. He first...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jan 3, 20242 min read
The best things I learned in training
When I came to Singapore for the second time back in 2004, I landed a role with AchieveGlobal a training company who offered Sales,...
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Andrew J Calvert
Dec 7, 20231 min read
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Monarchy vs Republicanism Individualism or the collective Climate change programs or business as usual Growth or sustainability...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jul 27, 20231 min read
Learning is social
I signed up for a cohort based online course and this is one of the central tenets. Share your ideas, be open to being challenged, to...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jul 18, 20231 min read
Brain writing
I had a head of HR (my bosses boss) who hated the phrase brainstorming, another colleague used to speak of such sessions degenerating...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jul 11, 20231 min read
The Idea Cabinet
Every day we have dozens of ideas, from where to eat and who to call, to how to focus and the criteria we use to prioritize our task...
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Andrew J Calvert
Mar 28, 20232 min read
Progress over Perfection
WE haVE TO get started somewhere and too often we want what eever we create to be perfect, to say what we wnat exacly as we want, and...
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Andrew J Calvert
Feb 28, 20231 min read
Preparation
I recently was in Bali with my family, and one day my son and I had a massage. The appointment was booked for 3:15pm. So at about 2:55 I...
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Andrew J Calvert
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Emotional Granularity
I've heard it said that as adults most of us are pretty poor at noticing our internal state and labeling it beyond just three emotional...
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Andrew J Calvert
Jan 19, 20231 min read
A willingness to experiment?
I recently was at an exhibition of Cezanne's paintings in London and in the collection were several depictions of Montagne...
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Andrew J Calvert
Nov 20, 20221 min read
Happy Birthday Benoit B Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot born this day in 1924 was a Polish-born French-American mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the...
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Andrew J Calvert
Nov 15, 20222 min read
Longcuts beat shortcuts (how you get to where you are headed)
A quick story A few years ago I met a retired British Army officer who had (almost) climbed Mount Everest. The tale he told was full of...
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Andrew J Calvert
Nov 10, 20221 min read
Learning is Social (Recordings don’t work)
And for those of you not able to join live, we'll share the recording.... Learning is best when we learn with a group. In that group we...
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Andrew J Calvert
Sep 29, 20221 min read
Since the pandemic started I...
am more grateful for the basics in life more readily shed tears make more calls to those I cherish tag more connections on social media...
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Andrew J Calvert
Sep 15, 20221 min read
Walking up the down escalator
When you finish your full time education and get your first job, you realize how much you need to learn. When you get your first...
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