Performing teams

Performing teams

  “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs The first teambuilding I was involved in as a facilitator was in 1988; it was a week-long outdoor based event for the twelve-member management team of the...
Leadership – reconciling theory and practice

Leadership – reconciling theory and practice

  I wonder if leadership is in its death throes – if it was ever alive? Since the nineteen-fifties we have had (in no particular order), Situational Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Ethical Leadership, Servant Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Agile...
The Dark Side of Leadership

The Dark Side of Leadership

  Carl Jung, writing about what he called the “Shadow” wrote, “To become conscious of it involves recognising the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.” The dark side has been...
Children and Mental Toughness

Children and Mental Toughness

  I realised recently that I have been helping people to develop their Mental Toughness for almost forty years now. The first activity I was involved in after giving up my career in the chemical industry was working with children and adolescents; essentially in...
Mentally tough teams

Mentally tough teams

  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...