Do you have an Achilles Tendon?

Do you have an Achilles Tendon?

  I come across a lot of people who are “globally” mentally tough but with “specific” issues or weaknesses; and it’s often the weakness that “let’s them down” in difficult situations. Mental Toughness is a “A personality trait which determines, in a large part,...
Feedback

Feedback

  Feedback may be the breakfast of champions, but not everyone knows how to makes eggs over easy that do not give indigestion Being open to receiving feedback is not always easy, we all go through the Shock Anger Rejection Acceptance cycle; with some getting to...
Interpretation

Interpretation

  “There is no truth. There is only perception” Gustave Flaubert I often hear people say that “we have different perceptions of the same event” or “we clearly don’t see things the same way”, etc. The word Perception comes from Latin “perception” meaning gathering...
Zone time

Zone time

  There is no next time, there is no last time, there is only zone time. Zone times are those magic moments when you are firing on all cylinders; you are physically fired up, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned. You are sitting atop of...
Leadership & presentations

Leadership & presentations

  A very good consultant friend of mine, Steve Dillingham, often says, “presentations are all about leadership”, to which I invariably retorque, “but leadership is not just about presentations” However, presentations, in the largest sense of the term, are clearly...