One challenge. Several ways of seeing.
Human challenges rarely have only one interpretation. Multiple Lenses brings different coaching and developmental perspectives together so you can explore what each one notices, which questions it opens, and what may become visible when several perspectives are held together.
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Curated challenges
Editorially prepared challenges, each explored through several coaching and developmental perspectives.
The Conflict That Keeps Coming Back
Most workplace conflicts feel like something that should, in time, resolve itself. Yet some don't. Instead, they return — the same friction with the same person, often triggered by the same kinds of moments, playing out with a familiar and exhausting predictability. Maybe it's a colleague who dismisses your ideas in meetings. A manager whose feedback always lands as criticism. A peer who takes credit, or goes quiet, or escalates, in ways that feel as though nothing has changed despite every attempt to move past it. When a conflict recurs, it's tempting to conclude that the other person is simply difficult, or that the relationship is fundamentally broken. But repetition itself is meaningful. The fact that a pattern keeps reasserting itself — across conversations, across attempts at resolution, sometimes across years — suggests something worth understanding more carefully. The loop isn't just a problem to fix. It may be an invitation to look more closely at what's actually happening beneath the surface. This feature explores recurring workplace conflict through five genuinely different lenses: how we relate to each other interpersonally, how our identities and histories shape what we experience, how organisations create conditions that make conflict inevitable, how communication patterns get locked in, and what unspoken values and assumptions may be in tension. No single perspective has the full picture. Together, they open up more space to think — and perhaps more options for how to move.
Explore this challengeWhen the Ground Shifts: Rebuilding Confidence After a Setback
Something happened — a failure, a rejection, a mistake, a loss — and in its wake you find yourself smaller than you were before. Not dramatically broken, perhaps, but quieter. More hesitant. Second-guessing decisions that once felt natural. This is the experience of lost confidence after a setback, and it is one of the most quietly disorienting things a person can go through. Confidence, it turns out, is not simply an attitude you either have or lack. It is built from accumulated experience, from a felt sense of competence, from the stories you carry about who you are and what you are capable of. When a setback strikes — whether it is a public failure, a professional stumble, a relationship rupture, or a goal that collapsed — it does not just disappoint you. It can disturb the very ground you were standing on. The challenge explored here is not simply 'how do I get my confidence back?' That framing may actually be part of the difficulty. This feature invites you to look more carefully at what happened, what it meant to you, and what different ways of seeing might offer — not a shortcut back to your former self, but perhaps a richer understanding of what confidence really is, and what might genuinely support its return.
Explore this challengeFeeling Stuck at Work: When Forward Feels Impossible
There is a particular kind of discomfort in feeling stuck at work — not the sharp pain of a crisis, but a duller, more persistent sense that something has stalled. Movement feels blocked. Days blur into sameness. The energy that once made work feel purposeful has quietly drained away, leaving behind a nagging question: is this it? Feeling stuck is one of the most common experiences in working life, and also one of the most misunderstood. It is easy to assume it signals failure, weakness, or a wrong career choice. But a closer look reveals something more complex. Feeling stuck can be a signal — pointing toward unmet needs, a mismatch between values and role, an exhausted coping strategy, an organisation in transition, or a deeper question about meaning and direction that has finally become too loud to ignore. This exploration does not try to diagnose why you are stuck or prescribe what to do next. Instead, it offers five genuinely different ways of looking at the experience — each one illuminating a different dimension of what it might mean to feel stuck, and what might become possible when you look at it from a new angle.
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