Coaching for Change

“Oh, man! This is so frustrating. I can’t go out anywhere. I can't play with my friends. All my activities have also been stopped.” ranted a 12-year-old. “I had planned a play date with my friends today. But then we found, we can’t play in the clubhouse anymore! Just playing by myself at home is so boring” whined a 10-year-old. “I have my GCSE coming up. But sitting at home and doing the self-study is hard. I am missing my school and my friends. I feel like I am under house arrest” lamented a 14-year-old. Tween and teenage is a time when the child’s brain is generally anxious over the smallest of things. When we add a virus and an epidemic to the equation, it goes crazy with frustration, anxiety, and stress. Sonia Lupien at Centre for studies in Human Stress has a handy acronym for what causes stress in our lives: N-Novelty  Something that you have not handled in your life before. U-Unpredictability  Something you had no way of knowing occurs T-Threat t...

CAREER PATH FOR NEXT GENERATION The corporate career progression today is being called “jungle gym” in contrast to "ladder" as it was traditionally expected to be. Which means instead of taking a predictable series of upward steps from graduation until retirement, today’s professionals are making lateral moves and unexpected jumps. Goldman Sach's CEO, Solomon’s advice, he likes to tell ambitious millennial's of their career path, “You don’t have to know where it’s all going to go. Just live it and try to enjoy it as much as you can.” Does your teen have what it takes to be in the "Jungle Gym"? Read what Goldman Sach's CEO has to say to the next generation here .