Oct 10, 2022 | Leadership, Personal Development
Without blowing my own trumpet, I like to think that I am quite good at what I do; I have been working with some of my clients for over 30 years – so I guess I must be doing something right. I’ve been helping people to develop their leadership capacity for over 35...
Sep 13, 2022 | Personal Development
The concept of comfort zone is attributed to the psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson, who carried out experiments to show that a state of relative comfort generated a constant level of performance Many posts about the comfort zone will tell you...
Aug 21, 2022 | Leadership, Personal Development
Diatribe, also known as “Ad hominem attacks” is when someone attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of a person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself. Diatribe is the “nemesis” of dialogue; the latter is...
May 25, 2022 | Personal Development
The results of personality questionnaires depend on how you answer the questions; in fact, most of the associated reports start with something like, “the information used to generate this report was obtained solely from the questionnaire you completed”. The...
May 19, 2022 | Personal Development
Staying in the zone is not easy and we are sometimes our own worst enemy! I went out for a run today and after about a kilometre or so I could feel the “bounce”; I was in my stride and could feel myself bouncing from my left to right foot and back? Strangely,...
May 1, 2022 | Personal Development
Feedback may be the breakfast of champions, but not everyone knows how to makes eggs over easy that do not give indigestion Being open to receiving feedback is not always easy, we all go through the Shock Anger Rejection Acceptance cycle; with some getting to...
