Senior teams

Senior 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

  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

  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°...
Leadership Impact – the importance of Self-awareness

Leadership Impact – the importance of Self-awareness

  “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” Carl Jung Leadership, as defined by the GLOBE study, is “one’s capacity to influence and motivate others to contribute to the success of the organisation they...
Mental Toughness & Wellbeing – Confidence

Mental Toughness & Wellbeing – Confidence

  Much has been written about how Mental Toughness contributes to increased performance; however, even more fundamentally, Mental Toughness has a significant impact on Wellbeing. In fact, wellbeing is almost a “precursor” to high performance – it is difficult to...