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What doesn’t kill you, it makes you stronger… familiar, isn’t it? Quite true though!  "There is only one thin that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." Paulo Coelho Our lives are full of experiences, which some of them might be more pleasant than others. It is easy to acknowledge that successful stories bring you satisfaction and kind words to speak up in front of your audience. However, one day I learnt a master class that I will not ever forget: resilience skills make greater leaders. What a true lesson! As we do have success stories, we do also have downsides, caveats that can burry you deep into negativity and demotivation. I recognize that failure can be sometimes painful, frustrating I would say. That’s life, we are not going to success every single time we try something new or we challenge ourselves, let’s assume it. Nonetheless, what matters is not how many times you failed or how big the mistake was but what you’ve learnt from i...

Hi all! I've been taking a deep breath before I come back to share with you what I've learnt... It's been already three months since I started what I consider the best job position I ever had. Why? I believe that there are three key points that must be present one way or another in your job to keep your self-esteem up: Challenges, Ongoing Learning and Passion! Challenges Reaching a Sunday evening to plan my week tells me the level of challenge I have in my current role. It is when I discover that a new thing is coming, something I've never done before but without doubts, makes me feel more alive than ever because it pushes me to continuously re-invent myself to get ready to perform what I might have to do. As a Social Selling Coach, you face different coaches profiles that get me to think differently, to use different ways to let them see how good the change is going to be for them. But most importantly, I open myself to different perspectives, diversifying m...

Dear all! 2 years ago, I got the incredible opportunity to start living in Austria and, what`s more, I started my International Business Management Master. You might have heard of “great things are coming out your comfort zone…” such a common topic, isn’t it? I have to say that the real satisfaction of considering of such a quotation comes from really trying to achieve something that you never thought of it. Let me tell you my great experience… I remember as it was yesterday when I met a bunch of people in Valencia (Spain), most of them could speak more than three languages fluently. I wasn’t even able to fluently speak English by that time… what an embarrassing situation! After my exciting trip to Valencia, I had ahead 7-hour-road trip to come back to Seville, my hometown. Many hours but in more than good accompany with my best friend. Conversations came in and out but finally, I decided to face the biggest challenge of my life so far. I wanted to live in other countries an...

Today I am going to talk you very briefly about some key points when treating with young people. Those are very simple but simultaneously quite effective. Although I will go through different aspects, all of these points are focused in a primary need which helps developing effective people: principle-centered character. Therefore, it is important to give positive feedback, to encourage interests, to create a family culture and last but not least giving support, resources and feedback. One day I learnt how big the impact from positive feedback can be. How many times did we give or have got feedback in a negative way? Have you ever thought to give the opposite? Praising people for what they have done successfully? Whenever you give feedback, try to do it in a constructive way, whether is positive or negative. A big percentage of the self-esteem is based on receiving nice words from our job. If you want to improve the motivation of people, whether they are your employees, colleague...

Introduction “Leadership is not about the leader, it is about how he or she builds the confidence of everyone else“ [1] . In the global environment where companies are acting, it is considered crucial to innovate to develop competitive advantages. Innovation has an essential role when companies are finding new ideas to survive in the future. Thus, human capital it has to be the forefront of the innovating process. “People must be innovated to innovate”. [2] This paper explains a general idea of how companies can use leaders to develop their human capital in order to reach a higher percentage of different ideas and better understanding of the holistic idea of what innovation involves. This document encompasses an overview of the importance of knowing thyself for leaders to better understand the people who are working in them. It also compiles how creativity can be improved in order to increase the capability of innovation. Know thyself Achieving the real potential of l...