In this podcast episode, we go through the reasons behind changing the name of our podcast from "Knowledge Empowers" to "Corporate Beyond Stories" and what other updates you can look forward to. 

Let's set on a path of self-fulfilling prophecies and explore the concept of Life Scripts in Transactional Analysis, a psychoanalytic theory that examines how our early life experiences shape our beliefs and behaviours about ourselves.

From Parent-Child dynamics to Adult-Adult interactions, this video will explore how different how the Adult ego states can be used to improve communication and relationships with others, as it enables us to respond to situations in a calm and objective manner.

In this podcast episode, we explore the concept of transactional analysis, a theory of personality and communication that examines the interactions between individuals. We discuss the three ego states, transactional patterns, and how understanding these concepts can improve communication and relationships.

As we enjoy our winter break we provide you with 3 fun facts.

We've had a lovely discussion with Paul Skinner on the topic of purpose and how to upgrade it.

- purpose isn't #northstar and requires an #upgrade from time to time 

- yesterday's solutions are today's problems 

- how to navigate in the corporate world and their purposes

https://www.purposeupgrade.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-skinner-a73b8921

In this episode we share what languages we speak and how we got to get to learn them. Towards the end of the episode, Kat recommends few smartphone applications that boost your language learning efficiency.

What is ideation and how to conduct one? Our guest, Jakub Misun, share's his work experience in the area of ideation and brainstorming.

Ideation related recommendations:

Why hours are not used for workload estimation in Scrum? Why there are separate meetings involving whole team just to estimate the effort for the upcoming sprint? Jakub, certified Scrum Master will reveal answers all these questions and more.  

Book recommendation:  The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's Mind

What is retrospective and how is it practiced in a Scrum team? Jakub, certified Scrum Master, explains his approach to retrospective meetings and even retrospective practices outside Agile project management.