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March 5, 2023March 25, 2024

Elsa Giménez - Speaker, Grupo Planeta

Elsa Gimenez She is an engineer and a coach specializing in self-leadership and well-being. She is the founder of KitCo, a company that provides gamified resources for talent management and emotional intelligence development.

A chemical engineer who, after several years in positions of responsibility at various multinational companies in the energy and technology sector, decided to embark on her own personal project, KitCo. Its mission is to guide people in discovering their potential and developing intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, leading to a more motivated, satisfying, and fulfilling life, and making the world a better place. Its driving principle is:

You have to believe it to create it.

She lived on autopilot, working and developing her career, until one day she felt she had a different value to offer. She began volunteering in personal development, until she realized that this was her true calling. Currently, she is an ACTP-accredited coach by the ICF (International Coaching Federation) through ECOI (Escuela de Coaching Integral), a coach for adolescents and families through EEC (Escuela Europea de Coaching), and a sports coach through Quantum Bcn. She is an expert and certified in Assertive and Effective Communication from the Faber and Mazlish school and holds a Master's degree in Psychology and Emotional Intelligence from ESNECA Business School.

Engineering, combined with a passion for helping people and making the world a better place, has led her to create a unique, gamified, visual, and inspiring personal growth methodology based on talents, emotions, values, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which makes the difficult easy. She shares this methodology in companies, schools, public institutions, and other settings through workshops and presentations that offer meaningful experiences for learning how to be and how to live together, allowing each unique star within us to shine.

You can see the news here: https://conferenceplaneta.com/autor/elsa-gimenez

September 22, 2022March 25, 2024

EFE publishes KitCo's project for young people from the European Commission

NEW INJUVE PROJECT – MINISTRY OF SOCIAL RIGHTS AND AGENDA 30.

Through funding from the European Commission's Erasmus+ program, KitCo, a company specializing in physical and digital resources for personal development, will provide online training in partnership with the online academy beUnicoos to approximately 200 young people across Europe to enhance their self-awareness and help them discover their talents.

A new kind of education is possible. Moving completely away from the traditional system, KitCo, a company specializing in physical and digital resources for personal development, will offer, in partnership with the online academy beUnicoos, an online self-awareness training for about 200 students from all over Europe with the aim of helping them discover their talents and value propositions, in line with the SDGs (sustainable development goals).

“The initiative is based on the conviction that each person is unique and has great value to contribute to society and the world. The need to invest in an education that we generally don't receive in schools: the education of being. Based on self-knowledge, personal development, and emotional intelligence., to learn to be and to learn to live together”,” explains KitCo founder Elsa Giménez.

This training, entitled 'Discover your value proposition & SDGs Certification for a better world', It will be held between September 30 and October 22 and will be funded by the European Commission's Erasmus+ funds., managed in Spain by the Youth Institute (INJUVE), an agency attached to the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 30, specifically from the General Sub-Directorate of Internal and External Cooperation.

A better education is possible

A personal self-discovery project

The initiative, KitCo explains, is aimed at young people between 18 and 28 years old who want to explore a process of self-discovery and personal growth in a fun environment, connecting with people from other countries and cultures through the metaverse platform. nubii.

“Through a pioneering approach to personal development based on the use of games and dynamics, both group and individual, Students will have resources to clarify their doubts about which career path to choose. or on how to redirect their career after an unsatisfactory first work experience”,” explains Esther Rocasalbas, partner and co-founder of KitCo.

Similarly, Giménez appreciates INJUVE's commitment to the KitCo initiative, considering it “a unique proposal to link talent management and emotional management in line with the SDGs”.

You can see the news here: https://efecomunica.efe.com/injuve-apuesta-formacion-pionera-inteligencia-emocional-de-kitco-y-beunicoos/

August 31, 2022September 2, 2022

Great project to add value, for young people!

We are very proud and happy to be able to announce this great project that KitCo has achieved together with beUnicoos Thanks to the great work of the team at INJUVE Youth Institute of Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 and to European initiatives such as Erasmus + and TCA NET of the Erasmus solidarity corp

Training course in October 2022 in which young people (from 18 years old) can:

1.- Pass a process of self-knowledge Y self discovery through the dynamics of KitCo to answer two of the most important questions of our lives: who I am? and what do I want?

2.- Create your own value proposal from their talents Y values

3.- Connect with the world through SDG (sustainable development goals) and tools created by beUnicoos to make the process fun and exciting.

4.- Develop the competencies required in the professional field.

5.- Create your own action plan Of future

6.- Getting certifications of: Self-knowledge, ODS and Youthpass.

7.- Through an online and experiential experience in the metaverse thanks to the platform nubi.city

And much more thanks to the work of the training team: DAVID GRILL STREET (founder of UNICOOS Y beUnicoos Elsa Gimenez Buendia (founder of KitCo), Gustavo Medina (founder and CEO of nubi.city), Francisco Alcaraz-Cabero (partner of UNICOOS and co-founder of beUnicoos), Nacho Herrero Hernando (partner of KitCo), Esther Rocasalbas Samso (executive coach and partner of KitCo), Leyre Varela (Talent and Career Transition Coach | collaborator of KitCo)

And great speakers such as, among others: Susanna Cabos (Agile Methodology), Ana Maria Olivan (The elements), Martha Larraz (Personal brand), Maria Jesus Saenz Suso (Stress Management), Beti Ribs (Wellness), etc.

Help us spread this message, so that young people can sign up totally free to this great project created by and for them.

Registration deadline: September 19

November 4, 2020January 11, 2023

What happens when we love too much?

What do you feel when reading this title?

If you feel curious and you may even feel some pain or sadness, I understand you. This is how I felt a few years ago when the book of Robin Norwood: "Women Who Love Too Much". He talks about women, but I don't think it's a matter of gender, nor of age, it just happens, we suffer when we love too much.

When being in love means suffering, it is that we are loving too much. When this person occupies your thoughts most of the time, it is that we are loving too much. When our goal is that he or she wants to be with us, it is that we are loving too much. When we feel that he or she controls our emotions and much of our behavior, we are loving too much. When we understand that this behavior has a negative influence on our health and well-being, but we have a hard time getting rid of it, we are loving too much.

If you have felt identified so far, I want to help you or inspire you with my own lived experience. I drastically summarize the solution: learn to love yourself.

I know it's painful to hear this drastic statement, in fact, I read it and I feel like crying because of the vivid memories. Because you know what? I thought I loved myself enough until I learned what it was like to really love yourself.

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August 12, 2020January 11, 2023

How are the organizational charts of companies changing and how does this imply that we work on our self-knowledge?

The best known organizational structure to date has been the vertical hierarchical structure. This hierarchical pyramidal structure is marked by authority, with responsibility and decisions falling especially on the top of the pyramid.

Although it has been a structure that has been adapted by all types of companies, both production and service, the hierarchical structure is designed for jobs with clear and repetitive processes, with stable environments. It is characterized by being a productive and efficient structure in jobs that do not require innovation or creation, but only production. This would be the case, for example, of industrial production chains.

But, What is happening right now that you need to know?

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July 20, 2020January 11, 2023

“I have been wrong non-stop since 1999”.

My professional career has been, until recently, a succession of wrong decisions. One after the other. I could even put a slogan on it “making mistakes non-stop since 1999”. I have also had successes and joys, but my work has always been in a second (or third or fourth…) plane in my life as a whole.

In fact this is the first and main mistake I made. And this error is the one that triggered all the others: I shouldn't have separated work from my life.

I explain.

About five years ago I discovered Coaching. I was lost professionally. I knew what I didn't want (continue to do the same thing) but not what I wanted.

Coaching helped me to have a systemic vision of my life. In that process we didn't just talk about work. We talk about values, interests, pleasure, hobbies, my family, my friends, fears, joys. We also talk about work of course, but in a way that I didn't know. Looking inside myself and taking into account not only skills, salaries or opportunities, but many other things that, until now, I thought had nothing to do with work.

Now I know that surely nothing I do professionally is going to work well in the long term if it is not aligned with the rest of my life. Basically with three aspects: my values, my talents and my emotions.

Commonly, there has always been a tendency to classify certain professions as "vocational" (doctors or nurses, police or military, firefighters, politicians, teachers, etc.), but what if it turns out that all professions are?

If your work is aligned with your values and talents, your work will be a piece that will perfectly complement the rest of the aspects of your life..

If I had worked on self-knowledge, or put myself in the hands of a coach when I was a teenager, my path would probably have been more pleasant.

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July 8, 2020January 11, 2023

Ikigai, a simple word... and what great meaning it can give to your life

I remember that day years ago at the train station, on one of those trips that my work took me on. He used to go into the kiosks at the station to look at the books, and many times he ended up buying one.

One day I entered a store of things and clothes designed for traveling people. I noticed that there was a book section and I went straight there. The title especially caught my attention: “ikigai, the secrets of Japan for a long and happy life”.

ikigai, that word that I did not know, to begin with, it sounded nice and intriguing to me. So I decided to buy the book.

It is based on finding the reasons why the island of Okinawa, in Japan, has the highest longevity and happiness in the world. In addition to food, the simple life in the open air, etc. one of the keys seems to be the ikigai that rules his life.

According to the Japanese, all of us have our ikigai, which some philosophers translate as our “reason for being”, or “life purpose”.. Ikigai is within us and exploration requires deep and patient work to find it.

Ikigai is represented as a mandala of four circles as you can see in the figure below:

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June 30, 2020January 11, 2023

Who are you?

So many years studying to work, but how little I learned about who I was.

I remember as if it were yesterday the following coaching dynamic that I experienced as a coachee:

"Who are you?" My coach Marta asks me
"I'm Elsa." I answered

"Who are you?" Marta asks me again.

I knew that Marta (my coach) had listened to me and then I realized that she expected another response from me and I said: “I am Elsa, mother of three children”.

"Who are you?" Marta asks me again, looking me in the eye.

That third question was beginning to bother me, but I decided to answer the first thing that came to mind: “I am Elsa, a mother of three children and I am an engineer”.

"Who are you?" He asks me again seriously, looking into my eyes without saying a word.

Ufff that fourth question came to my heart like a spear, now writing it I remember it and I still feel the pain that was inside me. I was wondering who am I? but who am i? And, I decided to answer: “I am a person who has fought all his life to become someone, and now I don't know who I am”.

"Who are you?" Marta asks looking me in the eyes.

Already with tears in my eyes I answer: "A good person who has dreams and hopes to create a better world."

"Who are you?" Marta asks me again with a warmer tone.

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June 23, 2020January 11, 2023

What people are happy?

As described in book "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (by the way, a highly recommended book), and after numerous research studies, happiness is not the result of good luck or chance, it is not something that can be bought with money or power. It does not seem to depend on external events, but rather on how we interpret them.

As soon as we have our needs satisfied, new needs appear. Rising expectations are not the problem as long as we enjoy the fight that we must do along the way. The problem lies in people's obsession with what they want to achieve, that they no longer derive pleasure from the present.

Many people They reach forty or fifty years old realizing that a house in the suburbs, an expensive car, etc. are not enough to have satisfaction in life and peace of mind. And they continue to hope that by changing the external conditions of their lives they will find the solution to their problems. They believe that if they could earn more money, have a more understanding partner, have a better body, or be in better physical shape, they would be happier.

The reality is that satisfaction and quality of life do not depend directly on what others think of us, or on what we have materially; it depends on how we feel about ourselves and what happens to us.

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June 18, 2020January 22, 2023

How are you?

If I ask you how are you?, what would you answer?

Your answer will probably be well, well, pulling, more or less, etc. You can do the test if you want with family or with your friends, you will see how little emotional language we have.

Most of us have been raised to be practically emotionally ignorant.

The other day I was having dinner with my partner and my children on a terrace. As we sometimes do when we sit down to dinner, we ask ourselves: how are you? Our answers must go beyond the typical good, etc. having to look for the emotion we feel. My daughter answered “calm”, my other daughter answered “satisfied”, my partner answered “happy”, and I didn't know what to answer.

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