We've all suffered the occasional (and sometimes, not-to-occasional!) dip in performance. Even high-achieving peak-performers lose their mojo from time to time! So we all know just how frustrating and disempowering those periods can be. In those moments when you're looking to rekindle top performance, there are a few high-leverage strategies to turn to. Let's think together about how to make those tonics part of our High Performance DNA - so dips in performance are something never to be feared (or tolerated!) ever again.

When taking a new leadership role, our eagerness can often cause us to make mistakes. Some are trivial; some are consequential. But all are deep learning experiences … IF we can develop the awareness, accept the responsibility, and learn to reflect on themes and commonalities that help us establish performance habits that eliminate issues, ongoing. Here are a few strategies to avoid the more common pitfalls - to ensure your next leadership role is a success from the outset.

Power is probably not what you think it is. You're probably not aware of the stage of power you're currently at. And you're probably not paying enough attention to how your relationship to personal power is limiting your potential, professionally. You’re already succeeding in many areas of your career. Now step-up again by re-evaluating your relationship with … and exercising all your many sources of … personal power.

The 3 key characteristics of successful strategy are focus, alignment and agility. The primary guarantor of these crucial ingredients is the quality and rigour you bring to your strategic thinking process. Here are 8 fundamental disciplines that will ensure that quality, from envisioning to execution.

Time Management may look, feel and play like an external problem; but in truth, it's an internal struggle that resolves to a very simple question of boldness. Time management systems are surface-level tactics that do little or nothing to address the internal challenge. Make a shift at your core with these 5 bold strategies.

Our biases are shortcuts that most-often serve us well, showing-up as intuition, instinct and powerful decision-making. But bias also has its shortcomings - oftentimes with far-reaching consequence. Pay attention to what the neuro-behavioural science has to say about managing and navigating unconscious bias in the workplace.

The function of all leadership is to lean into challenge and uncertainty. At those times, a leader with a demonstrably calm, competent and open communication style significantly increases the team's likelihood of success. A key leadership competency to master; here's how …

For those that would be an outstanding member of and for their team, there's not nearly as much literature on the topic as there is helping team leaders be outstanding in their role. So, if you've been thinking there’s more you could be doing to play your part and make a stellar contribution, here are six strategies to take you from functional team member to VITAL team player.

Ever-present stressors in the workplace push our emotional buttons and exhaust our cognitive abilities. With our brain's awareness and threat levels on constant alert, our capacities are significantly impaired - and it's an accumulative impact, over time. Dial-in these science-backed habits and strategies to stay focused and effective

In times of change, challenge, uncertainty and crisis, the human brain is not wired to make best use of its extensive capabilities - in fact, the opposite. Leaders and managers need to know how to stay resourceful if they're to change the game at the critical junctures.

Feedback is gold: if we can hear it. But it takes skill, practice and temperance to receive feedback - especially tough, leadership feedback - without embellishing it with unhelpful meanings of our own, to the point it becomes a blocker, not an accelerator. As a leader, I never want to stop asking for tough feedback. I want to get masterful at receiving it, using it … and then asking for more. In short: "Turning Pro". Here's how.