Team building

Team building

Apr 6, 2022 | Teams

  If you went to the emergency hospital with a broken arm and blood oozing through the sling and the consultant said, “before we look at your arm, I’d like you to watch this motivational video or play this game”, you would be surprised, I imagine. If you asked...
Mental Tougness & Performance

Mental Tougness & Performance

Apr 3, 2022 | Mental Toughness, Personal Development

  Not everyone with high Mental Toughness is a champion; however, all champions have high Mental Toughness. Skills and competencies will get you to the top but it’s Mental Toughness that will get you beyond and help you to stay there. Be it in sports, arts,...
Senior teams

Senior teams

Mar 30, 2022 | Teams

  Having competent team members is the sine qua non for any team; it’s the strict minimum. However, we should never forget that, it is not the team with the best players that wins, but the team that plays the best. This article will look at the holy grail of...
Personality profiling – don’t shoot the messenger

Personality profiling – don’t shoot the messenger

Mar 27, 2022 | Personal Development

  Personality profiles often get a lot of knocking, “I’m not at all like this”, “this report doesn’t represent me”, “who are they talking about?” and the classic, “they got my strengths right but completely messed up on my weaknesses” I have to say that in my...
A meeting with SARA

A meeting with SARA

Mar 24, 2022 | Personal Development

  A few years ago, I was asked, by a consultancy I was working with, to participate in the preparation of a workshop the newish (six months in post) SVP of a major division of one of their clients. They had “sold” the SVP the idea of undergoing a kind of 360°...