Aviv’s Blog
To Lead is to Transform
The KEY: Seasons of Innovation – A Utrip Learning
What are the seasons of innovation? They are the phases from idea to actualization. I recently asked my son, Edan Shahar, “What is the Utrip experience teaching you? What have you learned about innovation and business creation?” Utrip helps travelers plan the most personal trip to their dream destinations. It takes the headache out of travel planning. If you are planning a two-week vacation to...
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The KEY: What Successful Coaches and Consultants Do
To create profound value you need to: Help your client create dramatic improvements. Stimulate new awareness, provide tools and techniques and offer strategic insights. Help your client overcome resistance, take action and accelerate results. Help him or her improve the situation of the people they serve. Make the client stronger, faster, more competent, confident and attractive. Read here about what successful coaches and consultants do....
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The KEY: The Corporate Epidemic – Stop the Hysteria!
Rob is a hard working manager. He is driven and has given his best to his company. He has been promoted because of the unique skillset he brings: technical engineering knowledge; passion for the customer; and effective people and presentation skills. By working hard in the trenches, Rob had climbed the ladder and taken on P&L responsibilities. Soon after taking a general manager role for...
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The KEY: Five Lessons Kelly Will Teach You
Imagine discovering one day, after having lived with your partner for 32 years, that she is a highly-talented artistic painter and that she is creating amazing paintings. What would you do? This is after all is my subject: “How do you help people liberate their creativity and potential to express and realize their gifts?” is the question I’ve been working on for 30 years. Discover...
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The KEY: The 72-Hour Rule
Jeremy and Justin were both bright sales managers. There was no way to predict the difference in their results. But a thorough debriefing of how they each applied themselves revealed the mystery and explained their results. Discover how high performers engage growth opportunities to surprise themselves and the people around them. © Aviv Shahar
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The KEY: Decision-Making Blind Spots – Part II
Personal mastery is one of the objects of life’s journey. You face challenges and are given opportunities and you learn how you respond, and how to make decisions. We’ve all made smart and also not so smart decisions. Decision making should be taught early in life as a fundamental skill. But unless you’ve had an enlightened mentor it’s unlikely you practiced the knowhow to avoid...
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The KEY: The Future of Coaching
As coaching entered the business arena, coaches were asked at first to offer remedial help. They were hired to help “fix” people with “problems,” especially individuals whom managers did not know how to manage or motivate toward higher performance or creativity. Coaching became mainstream in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when companies realized that the best coaching application and ROI was to support top...
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The KEY: Your Spring Reboot
It’s time for a spring clean-up, tune-up and reboot to make this the year of dramatic improvements. What got you here clearly served you well but it will not be sufficient to create the future you are capable of realizing – the future you were born to manifest. You now need to build new practices, engage new “muscles,” and embark on new possibilities. Discover in...
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The KEY: The Future of Work
The difference between market leadership and chapter 11 is the ability to attract and retain the best people. With rapid change accelerating, leaders must develop practical strategies to recruit, develop and collaboratively engage five generations in the workplace. This has never happened before, so coalescing these generations at work in the dynamic environment ahead presents extraordinary opportunities and challenges. Companies that are not prepared to...
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The KEY:Top 5 for 2012
The top lesson I propose you take forward into 2012 is to be surprised by nothing. Always expect the best and believe in possibilities, but be prepared for any eventuality, wild card and setback. Anything and everything you assume is stable and safe may not be. Look at the world with new eyes. In the next five years there will be very few institutions and...
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