Let's GROW now!

Great news! I am officially a Nokia certified Coach, part of the Nokia Coach team.

It was a great and sometimes a winding learning path, in Bengaluru a few weeks ago, and in Dubai last week. We make it, with 18 other wonderful Nokia fellows from every part of the world, in an amazing and emulating team atmosphere, with a lot of enthusiasm and positive energy, sharing and caring.

Two rich and intense weeks of effective training and coaching practice, supervised by Angela Philips-Stockwell (Inez Consulting) and Andy Maggs (Arema Consulting).... and the virus is instilled. A big thank you to both.

Interesting to see that Coaching is absolutely not what I thought it was... and it is even better! I have no doubt that opportunities to practice will arise soon, in our complex and changing environment. I will definitely take up the challenge and continue the journey.

But I am not sure how to tackle the mischievous challenge raised by a friend of mine yesterday evening, during our dinner conversation: "JP, fantastic, but you will have to coach robots in a few years from now. How will you do it?"

I have to share with you that the bleak perspective of coaching AI softwares, blockchain, and other XYZbots, who will by the way probably invent a self-coaching method in a supreme effort of artificial neuronal creativity, cooled my juvenile enthusiasm a bit down.

"What can be a good outcome for our conversation today Sylvia?"

" JP, I have developed 15 years of experience in machine to machine learning in 15 different cloud dimensions, I have been the Head of blockchain for the APAC region for 2 years, but my software will be decommissioned in 6 months. I am wondering what my next career step could be" " hummm......"

But probably encouraged by a wonderful smooth white wine, I recovered, and as Coaching always starts with a Goal, I set-up a simple goal for myself : let me humbly start with humans first, which seems already to be a complicated but fascinating experience; and let's have another glass of wine, and find disruptive ideas to address the bots later.

Let’s go, let’s GROW now!