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Mihirini de Zoysa

Mihirini de Zoysa

I am a leadership and team coach with over 25 years of experience in working with leaders from diverse organisations, supporting them and their teams to become their best version.

My experience, not only as a coach but also as a trainer, workshop facilitator and organisation development consultant has enriched my work over the years in supporting and guiding leaders, teams and organisations to:
- navigate transitions
- transform themselves
- build collaborative relationships and
- own their story

If you are committed to a process of learning and deep inquiry and if you or your team find yourself stuck or challenged by transitions, I would love to hear from you.

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Forget Brainstorming

Inspiration4 August 2010
What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works. Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output:…

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The Creativity Crisis

Inspiration4 August 2010
The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. Yet it’s not just about sustaining our nation’s economic growth. All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the…

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Frustrated with the Progress of Your Dreams?

Musings23 July 2010
Sometimes it can be frustrating to watch the progress of your own dreams. One of the funniest quotes I came across recently on twitter is "I'm sick of following my dreams I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later... " by @MrTommyLand. I thought that summed up the frustration of following your dreams. And good advice in dealing with the frustration. What frustrates me personally about following my dreams? There are many, but today these were the ones I came up with.

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Using computers to teach children with no teacher

Inspiration21 July 2010
A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education. Professor Sugata Mitra has watched the children teach themselves - and others - how to use the machines and gather information. Follow up experiments suggest children around the world can learn complex tasks quickly with…

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The Buzz on Disappearing Bees Grows Louder

Inspiration14 July 2010
There's no denying the wave of horror that washes over you at the moment you finally connect the dots and realize that there's a crisis looming — and no one is listening. Case in point: the plight of the humble honeybee. It's no secret that colony collapse disorder, viruses and even exceptionally hard winters are…

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The Emergence of a Biosphere Economy

Inspiration14 July 2010
Almost 200 years ago, Thomas Newcomen built the world’s first commercially successful steam engine in order to pump water out of deep coal mines. In the process, he handed humanity the keys to the Earth’s fossil-fuel resources, an event which, in turn, helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Ever since that moment, the natural world has…

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Hope: Don’t Leave Home Without It

Inspiration14 July 2010
“The force multiplier throughout history,” write Gallup research veterans Bruce J. Avolio and Fred Luthans, “has often been attributed to the leader's ability to generate hope." Leaders are purveyors of hope. With the unease caused by the Great Recession, it is easy to spiral into a negative state of mind and ignore the promising signs…

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Acting today, a past of honour and a future of hope.

Musings8 July 2010
We want to be able to look back on our past actions with honour. But, if we feel regret, guilt, remorse on our past actions there in lies our greatest teacher showing us exactly the difference between actions that bring honour and actions that brings regret, guilt and remorse. An attachment to the regret, guilt and remorse stops you from acting today. An awareness of the rise of those emotions empowers us to break the habits and patterns that repeat such actions.

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What is your gentle action today?

Musings28 June 2010
Take a deep breath if you are feeling powerless. If you think you are only a drop in the ocean, without the ability to influence change in the larger world, that your will and action will be diluted. Breathe. Know that as you breathe in, you are breathing the air that connects you to others, the environment and all living things.

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