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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...
Champion mindset
If a company wants to become the “Global Standard”, the "reference, or "best in class" in its field of business it will need to develop and instil a champion mindset. A champion mindset is one that looks for new ways to think about adversity, and most...
Team building
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
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
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 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 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
"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 are...
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...
Mental Toughness & Wellbeing – Challenge
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...