Developing your Mental Toughness

Developing your Mental Toughness

  If you want to develop your Mental Toughness, you need to “get below the surface” and understand what Mental Toughness is and what makes up Mental Toughness. In the benchmark Clough and Strycharcyk model of Mental Toughness, it is defined as “A narrow, plastic...
The C-Suite

The C-Suite

  Having a C-Suite is one thing; having a C-Suit leadership team is something else and having a real C-Suite leadership team, empowered, engaged and aligned, is ……………………….. not easy. C-Suite leadership teams are difficult beasts as egos are usually omnipresent A...
The importance of unlearning to leadership

The importance of unlearning to leadership

  I often kick-off my leadership seminars by asking the participants to get into small groups and share their unlearning objectives; “what do you need to unlearn during our time together”. This usually causes a few raised eyebrows and some surprised looks! Before...
From diatribe to dialogue – part 2 Core characteristics

From diatribe to dialogue – part 2 Core characteristics

  In part 1 I looked at the 4D’s – Diatribe, Debate, Discussion and Dialogue In part 2 I will look at five core characteristics that you need to develop to help you on your journey to dialogue Openness This is the willingness to let go of certainty...