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  • business,  coaching,  mentoring

    coaching and mentoring – strategic purpose and usage at executive and senior levels

    25th Apr 2022 /

    Coaching and mentoring are two of the effective approaches in Learning and Development which are gaining popularity nowadays. Since they were developed, they keep expanding and evolving across different organisations. The executive level officers are aware of the advantages of introducing these to companies, especially for the employees from the mid-level and up. Since both are, opposed to training, focused on establishing longer term, not necessarily immediate changes and share many similarities, they are quite often mistaken for one another (Stewart and Cureton 2014)1. The techniques they use are based predominantly on one-on-one meetings (although there are group and team sessions as well). While in the everyday use of these…

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  • business,  life

    mindfulness practice for expats’ families

    11th Apr 2022 /

    Being an expat is tough, but it’s even tougher to be the expat’s partner, no matter how we would call them (my preferable term is “a trailing spouse”, but I know that for some people it sounds belittling). When I…

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  • life,  travel,  Ukraine

    Kyiv, not Kiev: pre-war thoughts

    14th Mar 2022 /

    A post about Ukrainian capital was on my list for quite some time. You see, I have always felt strong affinity towards the Ukrainians and the truth is, I have no idea why. Western Ukraine used to be part of…

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  • food,  Poland,  traditions

    The sweetest day of the year!

    24th Feb 2022 /

    As promised, this week’s post is published on Thursday instead of Monday. Why? There is a perfectly valid explanation. This Thursday is a very special day, the sweetest day of the year in Polish culture. It is called TÅ‚usty Czwartek,…

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  • coaching,  life,  relocation

    questions my clients ask – part 1

    7th Feb 2022 /

    I have been working with expats relocating to other countries for many years and even though they come from different cultures, they actually ask very similar questions. They check my website, so this post is written to answer some of…

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  • life,  South Korea,  travel

    our big fat Korean wedding – part 3

    24th Jan 2022 /

    This is the third part in my Korean trip cycle. To read the previous parts, follow the link below: our big fat Korean wedding – part 1 our big fat Korean wedding – part 2 This is probably the only…

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  • life,  South Korea,  travel

    our big fat Korean wedding – part 2

    17th Jan 2022 /

    This is the second part in my Korean trip cycle. To read the previous parts, follow the link below: our big fat Korean wedding – part 1 As I mentioned in a previous post, we flew with Asiana and it…

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  • life,  South Korea,  travel

    our big fat Korean wedding – part 1

    10th Jan 2022 /

    Before I share with you my thoughts and memories from Korea, a few words of introduction are needed. The trip happened in 2019 and, as always, I took plenty of notes during and shortly after my travel. I started to…

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  • business,  life,  Poland,  travel

    My intercultural journey

    3rd Jan 2022 /

    Hello, My name is Konrad Wdowiak and I was born in Poland in 1976, when the communist regime realised that it is supported by less and less Polish citizens. At one point they decided to introduce Martial Law, blocked the…

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Lublin, my hometown and the city where my whole fa Lublin, my hometown and the city where my whole family lives, is the first step to safety for Ukrainian refugees. Now I live in London and that's my own choice, but they don't have one. And everyone deserves to live in peace without worrying about surviving rocket shelling.

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