REMEMBER! In formal English you should: avoid contracted forms (e.g. he’s, we’d, they’ve) but be careful about Saxon Genitive as its forms are correct and very similar to the previous (e.g. today’s meeting, John’s car, parents’ day) address people using the correct word (e.g. difference between a friend and a colleague) [...]

By Sergiusz Prokurat Source: Warsaw Business Journal, Number 06/07 (39), June/July 2017 Are we there yet? Three industrial revolutions have created the world we live in now and we are about to witness yet another major leap. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is sweeping the developed world: constant data exchange between machines and continuous data [...]

By Sergiusz Prokurat Source: Warsaw Business Journal, Number 37, April 2017 Retirement is the ugliest word in the language claimed Ernest Hemingway, who loved to live and work, and for whom a pension was synonymous with sad old age. Not everyone shares Hemingway’s opinion on pensions. For Polish citizens it is a highly controversial, [...]

Mentoring is a long-term relationship between a person with tremendous baggage of experience and knowledge (mentor) who supports the development of a person with less experience or shorter period of employment (mentee). Mentoring can be both an informal relationship and a formalized program. It's one of the most effective (focused on practice) methods of learning [...]

Interview by Beata Socha, Source: Warsaw Business Journal, March 2017, No. 36 Employers remain confident they are covering all the bases in attracting and retaining talent. Meanwhile, employees, particularly the Millennial generation, are increasingly mobile, demanding and well informed. WBJ talked to Ahu Yildirmaz, vice president and head of the ADP research institute, about [...]

What is coaching? It is an interactive process which helps individuals or organizations to speed up development and improve the results of actions. A coach supports a coachee in development and looking for solutions; however, they don’t give ready solutions or answers. It is a coachee that is responsible for decisions and results. Thanks [...]

The English word „coach” comes from French in which, in its turn, it appeared thanks to the Hungarian town Kocs where the first wagon was constructed in XVI. As a result, they started calling the work of coachmen „coaching”. After that „coach” started to have other meanings which diverged from its sources. Namely, in 1830 [...]

By Beata Socha, Source: Observer, Number 12/01 (34/35) They have been called many names, some cute, but most, at least to some extent, mocking and sarcastic: the Entitled Generation, Generation Me, the Net Generation, the Boomerang Generation (for moving back home after college), the Peter Pan Generation (for taking longer to fully mature) or [...]

By Beata Socha, Source: Observer, Number 12/01 (34/35) For the time being, it is the managers (predominantly Gen X employees who have had more time to climb up the corporate ladder) who complain that the younger generation is simply unmanageable. But in the not-so-distant future, the tables will turn: Millennials are already the largest group [...]

Journalist: The other day my acquaintance found out that he was going to take part in the co-called 360-degree feedback. He is terrified as he thinks that they are going to get feedback about him from his colleagues and subordinates. HR expert: And he must be wondering who he rubbed the wrong way (laughs)? [...]