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Hosted by René Sonneveld · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 42 episodes
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Navigate life’s complexities with clarity and confidence. Join experienced coach Rene Sonneveld as he shares powerful perspectives and actionable insights for personal growth, harmonious family dynamics, and effective leadership.
René Sonneveld hosts Coaching The Elephant, a education show with 42 episodes published.
Daniel Goleman, renowned for his work on emotional intelligence, highlights the importance of versatile leadership. His research indicates that leaders who get the best results don't rely on just one leadership style; th
Is traditional leadership keeping your team from reaching its full potential? In this episode, we follow Alex, a mid-level automotive manager in Irvine, California, who believed authority meant strict control and long ho
In this episode, we meet Maxime ("Max"), a Silicon Valley tech veteran whose promising data-analytics startup hit a wall. Stuck in a rigid mindset and fighting a product-market disconnect, Max was on the brink of giving
Managing group climate is no longer a decision according to the leader's preferences. Nowadays, many organizations in different fields measure the satisfaction of their members with team assessments. In a previous blog,
Organizations frequently solicit leadership and team coaches to help improve three aspects of high-performance leadership. This article focuses on the first of these three: Productivity. Two following audio blogs delve d
Visionary business leaders who want to align their company's mission with the stakeholders' interests, i.e., shareholders, employees, clients, suppliers, community, and/or environment, often encounter fierce resistance f
Not every sadness is a disorder. Sometimes what looks like breaking down is the heart trying to make sense of love, loss, and change. This piece is an invitation to listen more deeply before we label ourselves or others.
Procrastination isn’t about laziness—it’s fear wearing a mask, and we’ve all been there: staring at a looming task while finding every excuse to avoid it. This article dives into the emotional roots of procrastination, s
One of the recurring goals in coaching sessions is to live a happier life. My clients sometimes doubt if happiness exists or if it is a utopia, impossible to attain. The truth is that it exists and is measured all over t
Curiosity is one of the most powerful tools to help us grow, develop relationships with others, adapt to change, and create innovative solutions. While the literature suggests that we are born with some natural level of
Learning occurs in stages. It takes patience and time to acquire new skills. Gaining proficiency takes practice. The Learning Matrix, also called the Four Stages of Competence, is a four-stage model that can help to unde
On a flight from Paris to Tbilisi, a 77-year-old former Wharton professor shared a lifetime of insight in one sentence: learning matters more than grades, money, status, or achievement. This article explores why capable
In team coaching, I have learned that my presence begins before I ask a question. It begins in how I enter the room, how I manage my own urgency, and how I notice what is happening beneath the conversation. This article
A joyful dinner in Paros begins with music, laughter, and napkins in the air. But when people on the quay start watching, the energy in the room begins to change. What starts as spontaneous fun slowly becomes a performan
Windmillingness is the constant motion leaders create when they confuse activity with impact. By filling every silence, solving every problem, and carrying too much of the team’s thinking, they can unintentionally create
Children learn not only from what adults deliberately teach them, but also from hearing how adults reason through real situations. In enterprise families, young people cannot be expected to develop judgment if they are e
René woke from a strange dream: HR had cut his client's pay because the company's AI had filed for a raise of its own. This episode uses that unsettling image to ask the real question — when machines become colleagues, h
A coach has great questions for your answers; a mentor has great answers for your questions. René untangles five disciplines people constantly confuse — coaching, mentoring, teaching, therapy, and consulting — and explai
Most people undersell themselves because they don't know their own worth. Drawing on his ten "commandments" of salary negotiation, René makes the case that the big ask is less about nerve and more about timing, preparati
A coffee run taught René something uncomfortable: most people never looked up to thank the barista — their phones mattered more. This episode asks whether all our connectivity has actually brought us closer, and argues t
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