by Angela Spaxman | Feb 19, 2007 | News & Events, Updates from Angela
Welcome and thank you for joining me here at my brand new blog! I want to tell you why I’ve started this, who it’s for and what to expect. Why a Blog? I intend to use this blog to better serve you, my clients, contacts and friends by making it easier to...
by Angela Spaxman | Dec 1, 2006 | Leader as Coach
“Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.” –Lord Chesterfield What does it feel like to receive advice? Have you heard the words “I think you should…” and felt yourself turn off or become defensive?...
by Angela Spaxman | Oct 31, 2006 | Living and Working in Hong Kong, Loving Your Work
Hong Kong is a modern westernized city on the surface, but it can be surprisingly difficult to adjust to the unspoken cultural norms of many workplaces. Expat managers should raise their levels of awareness about workplace assumptions and values to avoid sticky...
by Angela Spaxman | Oct 31, 2006 | Self-Improvement and Success tips
This week I watched the movie ‘The Secret’ which was an excellent reminder of the easiest possible way to achieve our dreams. The movie relates ‘The Law of Attraction’ that states that whatever you think about, you will attract. And it is so...
by Angela Spaxman | Oct 1, 2006 | Leader as Coach, Self-Improvement and Success tips
“Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.” –William Carleton One of the fastest ways to develop yourself,...
by Angela Spaxman | Sep 30, 2006 | Loving Your Work
All over Hong Kong, manipulative bosses following selfish agendas are making life miserable for their employees. The story of a senior banker and his unreasonable boss shows one way out of this trap using three simple steps to take back control and make work life much...
by Angela Spaxman | Sep 1, 2006 | Leader as Coach
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes, US author & physician (1809 – 1894) An “ah ha” moment is one of the most interesting and exciting events in learning. When...
by Angela Spaxman | Aug 1, 2006 | Leader as Coach
“It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes US author & physician (1809 – 1894) Last month’s article “Listening Like a Coach” discusses the value of...
by Angela Spaxman | Jul 1, 2006 | Leader as Coach
“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” –Dr Karl Menninger, Psychiatrist and Author One of my clients...
by Angela Spaxman | Jun 1, 2006 | Living and Working in Hong Kong
(for the Hong Kong TradeDevelopment Council) Angela Spaxman swapped the forests of Canada for the urban jungle of Hong Kong when she arrived with her husband Dave in 1996. On seeing the opportunities here, the former logging engineer retrained as an executive coach...
