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Force Mentale – Mythes & Réalités
On parle beaucoup de la Force ou résilience Mentale (Mental Toughness) aujourd’hui ; mais, la Force Mentale qu’est-ce que c’est au juste ? Quelles sont les composantes de la Force Mentale ? Faut-il être un "Terminator" avec des nerfs d’acier et les émotions du...
The ladder of inference
If you ask someone why they behaved in a particular way in a given situation, they would probably say that “it seemed obvious to them” or that it “was instinctive” We all have a “data bank” of experience in our head, and maybe in our bodies, that we...
Why developing your Mental Toughness is important.
I thought I would use my engineering competencies (I was a Chemical Engineer a long time ago) in terms of “strengths of materials” to look at why Mental Toughness is as important as Metal Toughness First some definitions from the world of strengths of materials...
Teams – part 5
The fifth and final post of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part I will look at team building Rafting down a river together, cooking dinner together or building a paper tower together do not constitute teambuilding. It is...
Future leaders beware
If you are found guilty of deploying your leadership for a good cause; everything you say and do will be taken out of context, distorted and used against you! That photo of you in the same room as someone smoking a joint, your distant membership of some obscure...
Jung & Mental Toughness – Part 2
In part two of this two-part series I am going to try and superimpose the work of Jung onto the Mental Toughness model. Concerning the work of Jung; I am going to use the Insights “colour” approach as the reference. Both Insights and Mental Toughness use a...
Jung & Mental Toughness – Part 1
If you are not sure what Mental Toughness is all about, you can take a look at some of the articles I published previously on the subject here I have been helping people develop their leadership capacity for just over thirty-five years now and a cornerstone of...
Teams – part 4
The fourth of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part I will look at the team development process “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success” Henry Ford Clearly, high performance...
Teams – part 3
Part 3 of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part, I will look at what I consider to be the essence of a performing team. Albeit each framework has its specifics; however, there are clearly commonalties between the different...
Teams – part 2
Part 2 of a five-part series of posts around the subject of teams In this part, I will look at some of the “frameworks” that have inspired me and helped me over the last 30 years “A framework helps to understand the issue, it doesn’t give the answer” My current...