<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Feelgood Coaching and Consulting]]></title><description><![CDATA[Empowering Leaders to Develop Team Wellbeing & Coherence Using Emotional Intelligence ]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:52:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/de/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The organizations and businesses making the most consequential decisions about AI right now are doing it without a plan.]]></title><description><![CDATA[That’s not just me making a statement, that is what the numbers show. According to Deloitte's 2026 survey of 3,235 senior leaders, organizations where leadership actively shapes their AI approach achieve significantly greater business value than those handing the work to technical teams alone. Yet handing it to the IT department remains the dominant pattern. The strategic question, namely what does this mean for our people, our structure, and our culture, is being passed down while the rest...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/the-organizations-and-businesses-making-the-most-consequential-decisions-about-ai-right-now-are-doin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a04739d48aeb3fcb2428aba</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:55:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_1b4946cfb89d4bffacd6c83ce21a27eb~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your role may not exist in three years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Which roles in international organizations AI will change and what that means for you The reports, the analyses, the documentation, the coordination, the translation, and the work that has defined your week, your grade level and your professional identity for years, is precisely the kind of structured, process-driven, repeatable work that AI absorbs first. Your competence and your organization's regard for you are beside the point. The nature of the work itself is what has changed. The United...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/your-role-may-not-exist-in-three-years</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f2501cd3f2ae6dd9177842</guid><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:46:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_cd8ea279757c45fbbca43de2a0c39b11~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental health is costing the UN millions of dollars every year. The data suggests that it is looking for the answer to the problem in the wrong place.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every year, thousands of international civil servants go on sick leave, and the organization they work for responds with strategies, frameworks, and wellness initiatives designed to help them cope better.  But the data points consistently to a different source of damage, one that sits not in the nature of the work, but in the office, in the daily dynamic between a senior manager and the people who report to them.]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/mental-health-is-costing-the-un-millions-of-dollars-every-year-the-data-suggests-that-it-is-looking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e8b80f4d4008739086293e</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:06:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_2ac4d472df954686906bdc7576a2704f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why leaders have better lives but worse days]]></title><description><![CDATA[On paper they [leaders] are thriving, and yet compared with individual contributors, those same leaders are more likely to have experienced stress the previous day by 7 percentage points, anger by 12, sadness by 11, and loneliness by 10.]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/why-leaders-have-better-days-but-worse-days</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69df7ed016b0ab534cf2a69b</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:09:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_0b753c73b0984499b58d8b1b57e52576~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You left that interview knowing you did not show what you were worth. Here is why.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The senior professionals who come to me for help have impressive track records, decades of serious work, and results that would make any hiring panel sit up. They also share something else - the memory of walking out of an interview knowing, with absolute certainty, that the person they showed up as was only a small part of the person they actually are.   That gap has nothing to do with preparation and everything to do with conditioning that started long before you ever sat in front of a...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/you-left-that-interview-knowing-you-did-not-show-what-you-were-worth-here-is-why</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d64fea0611ac839ce70ede</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:59:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_7491e5e707fd4ce28b06b60995ee55fe~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can You Afford to Waste Another Day of Your Life Not Knowing What to Do Next?]]></title><description><![CDATA[You sit down to think through your career options, properly this time. You make the list, you weigh up the pros and cons, you consider the risks, you think about what your colleagues would advise, and you remind yourself of everything you have built and everything you stand to lose. An hour later, you are no clearer than when you started ...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/can-you-afford-to-waste-another-day-of-your-life-not-knowing-what-to-do-next</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cd548e535e7bcd2695710a</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:31:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_d61472f442ab4f18a59620c3332fc360~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Feedback Vacuum]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the Absence of Accountability Costs More Than Most Organizations Are Willing to Admit, And What to Do About It When did you last receive feedback that was specific enough to act on, not a vague comment that things were going well, not a passing remark at an annual review, but a clear, honest account of how you were performing and what was expected of you? For the majority of professionals working inside large organizations today, that question has no answer. Gallup published research in...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/the-feedback-vacuum</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c40ee2043183ace6e04c3b</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:39:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_66aa21d28e8c4668ba9f8559b33db2c0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Organization Has Already Decided You Are Not Leadership Material.]]></title><description><![CDATA[You deliver way beyond what is asked, you take on way more than your fair share of the pressure, and the results you produce are consistently excellent. Yet when the promotion decisions are made, and when leadership opportunities are allocated, and when the next high-visibility project is assigned, your name is not the one that surfaces. What you are experiencing is one of the defining professional crises of 2026 playing out across global organizations, international bodies, and multinational...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/your-organization-has-already-decided-you-are-not-leadership-material</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ba9fbefde2f1f6ed2b1216</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:55:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_801648188fe64706b927b054fc370691~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_310,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A book won't save you ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[She had recently lost her job, an expert in her own right, in a sector she had given herself to completely, just gone , because the landscape in the organization where she had been working had changed.   When we spoke she was doing what most capable, intelligent people do when they feel uncertain.  She was trying to find the right next step by looking in the right next place. And as our conversation came to an end, she asked me whether there were any books I could recommend that might help...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/a-book-won-t-save-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b175e74b8043385bd5c767</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:07:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_d7ff5048ae464d029a5aba829c192415~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "Good Girl" Career]]></title><description><![CDATA[The "Good Girl" Career Working for the UN had been the goal for years. So in the late 1980’s when I was initially told that I couldn’t apply to the position I wanted, I dug deeper and discovered that HR was not applying its own policy consistently in a way that had worked directly against my candidacy.    My desire to be there was simply greater than my concern about what challenging the decision might look like. I put the challenge in writing, cited the relevant regulation, addressed it to...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/the-good-girl-career</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ad96079df7b5aa9b4f9481</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:35:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_6056c7fe600a41e4aa25e62c8bea4f61~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hopium. The drug destroying careers in international development right now.]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of professionals reading this. The first knows exactly what they need to do and they have known for months. They have had the conversation with their partner, made the to-do list in their head, opened the LinkedIn job search page and closed it again. They know exactly what needs to happen but for reasons they don’t understand, they are simply unable to make themselves do it. The second is not worried. They have been in the sector for 20 years and have institutional...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/hopium-the-drug-destroying-careers-in-international-development-right-now</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a7fe21ffff75773eb9074c</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_65cb037454ae49a485f93026f9de3b5b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_547,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You didn't just lose a job. You lost yourself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's how to find your way back. The call comes, the contract ends, the funding dries up, and within days, something devastating happens that nobody warned you about. You automatically reach for your identity the way that you would reach for your ‘phone in the morning - and it isn't there. The title, the organization, the mission, the community, the reason you relocated your family across three continents and worked weekends without resentment, gone, and with it the version of yourself you...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/you-didn-t-just-lose-a-job-you-lost-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699f57eabf1bf6f6a2a7a4f2</guid><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:19:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_c13e1ffd18104c2ebbdf1d4a625eca84~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_921,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Basic AI Skills That Employers Want : Read This Before Your Next Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’re in job search mode right now, or you suspect that you may be later this year,  read the following with one question in mind: what will help you stand out when the market is more competitive and hiring panels are more cautious. AI is not replacing good people overnight, but it is changing what employers expect a capable professional to be able to do, and it’s shifting interview questions in ways that can catch even confident candidates off guard.]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/if-you-re-avoiding-ai-read-this-before-your-next-interview</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6995cc319910c1b83a6a1736</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_40879288cebe4db9a4c66ce547faed73~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[These boots won't get you anywhere ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[... Because AI has changed the terrain, and old strengths can become hidden liabilities Most leadership breakdowns don’t arrive with a bang. They arrive dressed as competence. You still hit the deadlines. You still stay calm in the meeting. Your calendar is full, your reputation intact, and in theory your team is technically fine, and yet something is making you feel as though you’re pushing through an undefinable resistance, compensating in ways that look like discipline but feel like drag....]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/these-boots-won-t-get-you-anywhere</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698cf6a731ffa9c2435ff494</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:40:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_20ad7a741f6a42128488d4c06891653a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_627,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty-Proof Leadership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why your nervous system is now part of the org chart If you’re leading a team right now and it feels as though the ground keeps shifting under your feet, you’re not imagining it. Budgets are tightening, AI is accelerating the pace of work, and global teams are absorbing an extra layer of complexity because the same message can land as clear and decisive in one culture and cold and abrupt in another. In that environment, many leaders reach for the traditional levers: even more meetings, even...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/uncertainty-proof-leadership</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698311dc1e55646770ffbfcf</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:18:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_9f2246693be0421684c752b9d4187695~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Everyone Agrees, Leadership Gets Lazy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don’t be fooled by a room full of nodding heads because you’ll pay for it later in the form of missed deadlines, limited accountability, and disengagement ... If your leadership meetings feel uncomplicated on a regular basis, pay attention. Because whilst “uncomplicated” can be a sign of a well-led team, it can also be a sign that everyone has learned how to stay safe. The difference shows up later, when the strategy hits real-world friction and you realise that the group never truly...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/when-everyone-agrees-leadership-gets-lazy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6978c325afcda6c8b9e96d53</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:27:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_512989b6f62849d8b82b8bb7ad7a2fe7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Polished AI Outputs. Weaker Work Ethic.]]></title><description><![CDATA[At its worst, AI becomes a proxy for thinking rather than a support for it. The output looks too polished, too well-structured, and when you scratch beneath the surface you’ll see that there is very little substance holding it all together.]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/polished-ai-outputs-weaker-work-ethic</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697128b561068570a94c569b</guid><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:45:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a Leader You Have a Choice, Or So It Seems ...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most leaders reach this moment eventually, although it rarely announces itself in obvious ways. Nothing has exploded, nobody is openly difficult, and yet the atmosphere in the team has changed. Conversations feel tighter. Certain people speak less. Others become more defensive. Work still gets done, but it costs more energy than it should ...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/as-a-leader-you-have-a-choice-or-so-it-seems</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6964d34b4cbf37e10f83cc00</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:25:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_dc8fd1c305564de399f17e644ccf74a1~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will 2026 Really Be Different?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Real change, or just another list to complete? The start of a new year often feels like an invitation to reset, a moment that appears to offer a clean slate on which to rethink direction, recalibrate priorities, and refocus attention. Yet despite the optimism that accompanies this moment, most resolutions fall away. It is tempting to label this as laziness or a lack of commitment, but that explanation rarely tells the whole story. One of the more overlooked reasons change fails to take hold...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/will-2026-really-be-different</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695f8dced6016b61396ffedf</guid><category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:59:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_d5220d6c06a644739ea19747006338db~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Working Hard Is Not Always The Virtue You Think It Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few days ago, a client told me something that stayed with me: “I don’t have time for the things I want to do - I have to work hard.”...]]></description><link>https://www.feelgoodcoachingandconsulting.com/post/why-working-hard-is-not-always-the-virtue-you-think-it-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">686e31bbf04dc635589d2507</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:10:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/decce6_4d198216b06a4c8aa9281421b6659f28~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>GwynethEL</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>