Corporate Beyond Stories

COVID-19 changed lives of many people around the world. In this episode we share our stories on how Coronavirus influenced our lives in Slovakia and China.

Do you know signs of toxicity in a workplace and what impact does it  have? How would you deal with it? This time we share with you our  experience with toxicity, how it influences whole teams or even  leadership and what specific actions we took to make our environment  less toxic. We also talk a bit about being toxic versus not being in a  good mood and what can you do i...

This time we share with you few stories and some tips & tricks we do  to practice what we've learned. Matej talks about 4 learning styles and  how teaching influences your learning. Links:  Honey and Mumford's learning styles https://expertprogrammanagement.com/2020/10/honey-and-mumford/

In this episode we talk about difference between procrastination and  laziness, how it relates to our emotions and EQ, then we share  importance of defocus, plus what do we do to avoid procrastination and  improve our time management.

In this podcast episode we cover how to mindfully manage your daily schedule, workload excess, identifying priorities, Pareto Principle, focus and distractions in work.

How would you tell your co-worker they smell? In this episode we share how to give "negative" feedback effectively, we go into SARAH model, Kubler-Ross grief cycle and SCARF model. The Five Stages of Grief

We discuss how feedback influences our emotions, types of feedback and why it's better not to use the Sandwich Technique.

How onboarding new employees changed during Covid? How would you onboard a new colleague that lives in a different location? We discuss all these challenges plus a couple more which are interviewing potential  candidates and how we build relationships remotely.

We discuss strategies on what to do when your intended brand is different from perceived brand. In addition we go through some general brand killers including breaches of common business etiquette rules. And  at the end we touch upon how others can help you to figure out and  evolve your own personal brand.

What does personal brand mean? How to build it and how not to? Names we mentioned: Simon Sinek https://simonsinek.com/ Adam Grant https://www.adamgrant.net/ Patrick Lencioni https://www.tablegroup.com/pat/

What is resilience, what types of resilience do we have and how to grow it? Links: What Is The Secret Of Happiness? (YT video by School of life) The game that can give you 10 extra years of life (TEDGlobal talk by Jane McGonigal) The SuperBetter gamified framework

What is work-life balance, what it is not and how do we strive for it? Links To have or not to have New year’s resolution? (article) Video: Psychiatrist Max Kašparů (available in Czech language) Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway Paperback by Susan Jeffers (Amazon)

In this podcast we share our stories of how we became financially independent and how we manage our personal finaces.

In this podcast we share few tips and tricks to make your work from home more efficient and bareable.

In the second podcast we discuss a new European law that allows to  digitally disconnect from work without facing negative repercussions.   ‘Right to disconnect’ article:  https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210114IPR95618/right-to-disconnect-should-be-an-eu-wide-fundamental-right-meps-say

Kat, Baruš and Koláč talk about working with colleagues of different countries and cultures and share few tips to make your work with such colleagues a bit smoother.