<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Adrian Liem — Articles</title><description>Digital team leader and certified coach helping teams build the systems, capabilities, and conditions for people to do their best work.</description><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/</link><item><title>My MSc Project: What I’m wondering</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/my-msc-project-what-im-wondering/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/my-msc-project-what-im-wondering/</guid><description>Five topics I’m considering for my MSc project in applied positive psychology and coaching psychology, from the time between sessions to AI in coaching.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>coaching psychology</category><category>positive psychology</category><category>AI</category></item><item><title>Are you stressed and teetering towards burnout? Are you a leader of people and feeling the pinch? This might be just for you.</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/are-you-stressed-and-teetering-towards-burnout-are-you-a-leader-of-people-and-feeling-the-pinch-this-might-be-just-for-you/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/are-you-stressed-and-teetering-towards-burnout-are-you-a-leader-of-people-and-feeling-the-pinch-this-might-be-just-for-you/</guid><description>Why high-performing people managers absorb organizational strain, what the research says about burnout and recovery, and how group coaching can help.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>burnout</category><category>leadership</category><category>wellbeing</category><category>organizational flourishing</category></item><item><title>Tannenbaum &amp; Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/tannenbaum-schmidts-continuum-of-leadership/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/tannenbaum-schmidts-continuum-of-leadership/</guid><description>The Tannenbaum &amp; Schmidt Leadership Continuum relates the authority a leader exerts over their team to the autonomy and freedom the leader provides.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>leadership</category><category>leadership models</category></item><item><title>To lead as a coach</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/to-lead-as-a-coach/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/to-lead-as-a-coach/</guid><description>What it means to lead as a coach — shifting from authority to autonomy, and redistributing positional power to empower the people you lead.</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>leadership</category><category>coaching</category><category>leader as coach</category></item><item><title>What story am I telling myself? What part of the picture am I “filling in”?</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/what-story-am-i-telling-myself-what-part-of-the-picture-am-i-filling-in/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/what-story-am-i-telling-myself-what-part-of-the-picture-am-i-filling-in/</guid><description>Our brains automatically fill in gaps in information — literally, in the eye&apos;s blind spot. How to notice the stories we tell ourselves about other people.</description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>perspective-taking</category><category>communication</category><category>cognitive biases</category></item><item><title>Feedback: Signals around and within us</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/feedback-signals-around-and-within-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/feedback-signals-around-and-within-us/</guid><description>Feedback is information that guides future behaviour — from other people and from our own bodies. Four ways to make the most of the signals around you.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>feedback</category><category>self-awareness</category><category>interoception</category></item><item><title>Embracing your rose-coloured glasses</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/embracing-your-rose-coloured-glasses/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/embracing-your-rose-coloured-glasses/</guid><description>Our memories of the past are shaped by cognitive bias. Rather than ignore our biases, four questions to work with them when planning for the future.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>cognitive biases</category><category>reflection</category><category>self-awareness</category></item><item><title>Wheel &amp; Compass</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/wheel-compass/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/wheel-compass/</guid><description>Wheel &amp; Compass is a coaching method for mapping the areas of your life, seeing where you are today, and choosing where to focus change next.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>goal setting</category><category>reflection</category><category>coaching tools</category></item><item><title>The Four I’s: Instinct, Impulse, Intelligence, Intuition</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-four-is-instinct-impulse-intelligence-intuition/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-four-is-instinct-impulse-intelligence-intuition/</guid><description>The difference between instinct, impulse, intelligence and intuition — and how intuition holds the other inputs lightly to reach an insight.</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>intuition</category><category>self-awareness</category><category>decision-making</category></item><item><title>Energy Bank</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/energy-bank/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/energy-bank/</guid><description>The Energy Bank is a simple worksheet for noticing what gives and drains your energy, so you can shift the balance toward what matters most.</description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>energy management</category><category>wellbeing</category><category>coaching tools</category></item><item><title>The Zone of Proximal Development: Where growth occurs</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-zone-of-proximal-development-where-growth-occurs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-zone-of-proximal-development-where-growth-occurs/</guid><description>The zone of proximal development sits between comfort and panic. How coaching uses scaffolding and “just manageable challenges” to grow there.</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>learning</category><category>growth</category><category>coaching</category></item><item><title>The “n of 1”: You are your own sample size</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-n-of-1-you-are-your-own-sample-size/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/the-n-of-1-you-are-your-own-sample-size/</guid><description>There is no one-size-fits-all formula for growth. The “n of 1” principle, and questions to understand the conditions that help you do your best work.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>self-awareness</category><category>performance</category><category>learning</category></item><item><title>Achieving your goals through Optimal Performance</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/achieving-your-goals-through-optimal-performance-the-importance-of-building-rest-and-recovery-into-the-pursuit-of-your-goals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/achieving-your-goals-through-optimal-performance-the-importance-of-building-rest-and-recovery-into-the-pursuit-of-your-goals/</guid><description>Applying the Growth Equation (Stress + Rest = Growth) to long-term goals, and why optimal performance beats constantly chasing new peaks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>performance</category><category>rest and recovery</category><category>goal setting</category></item><item><title>Stress + Rest = Growth — An introduction to the formula behind peak performance</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/stress-plus-rest-equals-growth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/stress-plus-rest-equals-growth/</guid><description>You get stronger when you rest. An introduction to the Growth Equation, Stress + Rest = Growth, for individuals and teams.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>performance</category><category>rest and recovery</category></item><item><title>“A tiny leap” and my pursuit of personal development — an origin story</title><link>https://www.adrianliem.ca/a-tiny-leap-origin-story/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.adrianliem.ca/a-tiny-leap-origin-story/</guid><description>How a one-year leave in 2011, a group coaching program and peer coaching led me back to my long-held interest in helping people learn and grow.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>personal development</category><category>coaching</category><category>origin story</category></item></channel></rss>