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Future leaders beware
If you are found guilty of deploying your leadership for a good cause; everything you say and do will be taken out of context, distorted and used against you! That photo of you in the same room as someone smoking a joint, your distant membership of some obscure...
Jung & Mental Toughness – Part 2
In part two of this two-part series I am going to try and superimpose the work of Jung onto the Mental Toughness model. Concerning the work of Jung; I am going to use the Insights “colour” approach as the reference. Both Insights and Mental Toughness use a...
Jung & Mental Toughness – Part 1
If you are not sure what Mental Toughness is all about, you can take a look at some of the articles I published previously on the subject here I have been helping people develop their leadership capacity for just over thirty-five years now and a cornerstone of...
Teams – part 4
The fourth of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part I will look at the team development process “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success” Henry Ford Clearly, high performance...
Teams – part 3
Part 3 of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part, I will look at what I consider to be the essence of a performing team. Albeit each framework has its specifics; however, there are clearly commonalties between the different...
Teams – part 2
Part 2 of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part, I will look at some of the “frameworks” that have inspired me and helped me over the last 30 years “A framework helps to understand the issue, it doesn’t give the answer” My current...
Teams – part 1
Part 1 of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams “A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong” Tecumseh, a Shawnee Indian chief The first teambuilding I was involved in as a facilitator was in 1988; it was a week-long outdoor based...
Developing your Mental Toughness
Mental Toughness is a “A personality trait which determines, in a large part, how people respond to challenge, stress and pressure, irrespective of their circumstances” People often ask me, “Where should I start?”, “Do I need to take on more challenging...
Collective Mental Toughness
Having mentally tough individuals in the team is one thing, having a mentally tough team is something else. We all bring strengths to a team, some of us are heads down and focussed on achieving the team’s objectives, some of us are questioning the team’s...
The importance of feeling Mentally Tough
Mental Toughness is not something you can see; it is a psychological concept made up from “constructs” – none of which you can actually see. Mental Toughness is, in essence, an attitude; it is something internal, something that is in our thoughts. The...