#42: Experimenting; Value of Coaching; Influencer - A New Career Option; Benefits of Doing Nothing

On Experimenting

When LinkedIn enabled the newsletter feature for me, I was thrilled at the opportunity as it was rolled out to only a few, back then.

After delivering this unique newsletter consistently for 40 weeks sticking to one format, I feel the need to experiment a bit. If you ask "why to experiment?", I will have to borrow the words of Charles Darwin to answer:

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.

In fact, if there is one thing I learned being on LinkedIn , it is to experiment on this super safe platform.

If you have any feedback for me, please drop me a message.

Coaching works: Here is a proof

If you asked me the value of Coaching a few years back, I would have been very bullish.

Now I am ready to share proofs as well. Here is BetterUp 's research (1055 participants).

The research demonstrates that coaching can help employees not only navigate change but thrive through it — to the benefit of the individual and their organizations and teams.

Why limit yourself to being resilient when you can be anti-fragile? (check out this poll)

Influencer - A Career Aspiration (Career Option too?)

We all know how the "influencers" are influencing us these days.

But a growing new generation of people doesn't want to stop following the influencers but wants to be one. Can't believe it? Read this.

56 per cent of females aged 15-25 said they would leave their career or education to become an influencer if they could, compared with 39 per cent of Millennial women.

This makes me wonder if being an influencer can be a career aspiration today, can it soon become a viable career option too?

Benefits of Doing Nothing

I would have laughed at the suggestion of "doing nothing" a few years back (definitely before 2019). But a meditation experience changed my perception completely.

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

There are clear benefits of scheduling time in our calendar to do nothing. There is enough scientific proof about it.

But the best way to start believing is to practice and see the results for yourself.

If you are not convinced, try reading the below article for now.

Book(s) Discovery:

In the past, a few people asked me to share book recommendations but I never found it appealing to "recommend" books because I myself don't follow others' recommendations.

I recently had this realization that I could help people build a "Book Discovery" list instead. Read this post where I explain how I think "discovery" is different from "recommendation".

Here are a couple of books I add to your discovery list without creating any FOMO.

1) multipliers: Most organizations are suffering from "new demands, insufficient resources" and this book helps you understand how to develop #leaders as "multipliers" to meet all your new demands with insufficient resources.

This books explains how "multipliers" tend to get the most out of people - more than what the people themselves believed they could accomplish with their #potential whereas the "diminishers" make people feel inferior, overworked yet underutilized.

2) Nurturing Our Humanity: If you are in a position of influence others, you must read this book. I feel that all of us have the power to influence our environments and so it will be a useful read for all of us.

Inviting the readers to build a society based on #consciousness, caring, and #creativity, this book will push us on the scale from domination to partnership. It is a book to nurture hope in us, in our endeavour to nurture our #humanity.

A quote in the end:

“If our purpose is bigger than ourselves, we think more creatively, we're less likely to give up in the face of setbacks, and we replace feelings of anxiety with feelings of hope because we're driven by the biggest positive transformations that we can imagine.” –??Jane McGonigal

Until next week #TraceYourMastery. Check out?all the previous editions here.