We need a trainer / facilitator / team coach
So, I'm not a "pure" team coach. Sorry about that. I don't have any issue with Team Coaching as [...]
What is the #1 question our team isn’t asking?
If you're looking to change things up in your next team meeting, I have 2 questions for you to [...]
2025: Speak not with your words
Principles for 2025 (humbly suggested) … Turn someday into today. Forget the goals that maintain the status quo. Craft [...]
Poor Working Assumptions
The assumptions we nonconsciously carry into the team environment have a fundamental and profound influence on the effectiveness of [...]
INTERRUPTION! in service of your thinker
Once, in a Co-Active training session, INTERRUPTING was the key coaching skill I was assigned in a many-to-one coaching [...]
The 6 Dimensions of Trust
The foundational behaviour-set of any team or working group is safety and trust. Safety within the group + trust [...]
Safer spaces for more meaningful dialogue
A high-degree of dialoguing skill is a prerequisite of team performance and effective leadership. It's also relatively rare, especially [...]
Know your brain. Transform your performance.
Every aspect of leadership and personal performance you want to get better at starts with the brain and starts [...]
What culture of feedback am I helping to create?
If a prospective new joiner asked you about the culture of feedback within your team, would you be able [...]
Our Conversational Sweet Spot
As a Coaching Leader, your primary goal is to unlock people's potential to maximise their own performance. Conversation is [...]
Develop specific and specialised knowledge
When I was in my second year at university, I wrote 3000 words of analysis on just the final [...]
What comes after skill development?
What comes after skill development? MINDSET. Never work on one (skill) without the other (mindset). A timeless rule for [...]
Coaching for employee engagement
An effective way to increase employee engagement is to shift to a coaching style of leadership. As individuals. As [...]
What if I don’t have a plan?
A short while ago, we talked about the virtues of planning. But what if (heaven forbid) you don't have [...]
Group Learning vs. Team Learning
There is a fundamental and profound difference between training everyone in the team and training The Team. One is [...]
Where is my sense of power coming from?
Anyone stretching themselves in work and life is going to come up against challenges involving other people. Given so [...]
The optimism of coaching leaders
To successfully adopt a coaching style of leadership, we must commit to a far more optimistic view than usual [...]
What does the team climate say about my leadership style?
What is the team climate saying about your leadership style and priorities? Leadership style has an outsized influence on [...]
What’s the most valuable hour of your week?
Are you spending, investing, leveraging or wasting time? 🤔 There is high-return activity, low-return activity and everything in-between. To [...]
Effective Teaming is a Skill to be Practised
In our coaching work with teams, an important part of our early inquiry is into TEAM PRACTICE. It's rare [...]
What’s your practice for that?
Think of the one skill in your professional work that, if you took it up to the level of [...]
Inclusion vs. Autonomy
If you're a leader of people and teams, you're probably (hopefully) thinking deeply and often about psych safety and [...]
Being a Coaching Leader is more than Rote Technique
I love the thought of more coaching leaders out there. But I DO NOT enjoy the thought of more [...]
Be here. Be swift. Be effective
Be Here. Be Swift. Be Effective. A 6-word, self-leadership strategy perfect for anyone having "one-of-those-weeks" … 🔸 BE HERE [...]
Five Good Minutes
We tell ourselves we "don't have the time". But is that really true? And what do we deny ourselves [...]
Bring a little improv
A while back, my youngest son and I went to an improv class. It was awesome. Highly recommended. And to [...]
See them first as uncertain
How does certainty impact performance? Think of when you've been certain about something and the impact it's had on [...]
What can I do when I’m lacking confidence?
It's not uncommon to feel (think!)"I don't have the confidence". But there are better-serving, more resourceful thoughts available to us [...]
Change Resistance or Change Anxiety?
To leaders, everywhere: It's common to react to another's resistance with resistance of our own. But what if that [...]
Not Enough Meaningful Projects
Very few people in your team are ever likely to say they have nothing to do. No one wants [...]
Setting The Bar Too Low
We never want to set anyone up to fail. But in response, do we set the bar TOO LOW? [...]
What gets measured gets attention
You know the importance of distinguishing between the important and the urgent; between being busy and being effective. Your [...]
Thinking to talk. Talking to think
How accommodating are you to the working styles of others? Do you give more introverted staff the time they [...]
When have you seen me do my best work?
Instil a regular practice of asking your team this simple but potent question. It signals your commitment to receiving [...]
Psychological Safety is more than Wellbeing
Psychological Safety is so much more than wellbeing. When people feel safe to speak-up, take risks, make mistakes and [...]
On making the implicit explicit
Making the implicit explicit always generates valuable conversation, new learning and clear alignment. Leaders and managers: make no assumptions. [...]
Start a Conscious Leadership Weekly Tally Sheet
What's your ratio of [good questions] to [shared opinions]? We talk at length on the topics of conscious leadership and [...]
“This meeting is bollocks!”
There are many things I miss about my previous career. Time lost to vacuous, low-value meetings ain't one of [...]
What’s worth doing?
Everything has its price, including our goals. We rarely enjoy that thought. It reduces life to nickels, dimes and [...]
Your ability to focus is your unfair advantage
What are your 3 most pressing questions to answer? Write them down now. What are your 3 most frustrating [...]
Getting to know what you ACTUALLY value
Do your actions reflect your highest values? 🚀 When feeling frustrated with life or work, it's often because your [...]
Perfectionism is procrastination
If we're not shipping our work because we want it to be "perfect", we're not perfectionists. We're procrastinators. "Perfectionist" [...]
Would-be goals declared impossible
What have you put on your “impossible” list? Make a list of all those things you've often thought about [...]
When you buy a book, you don’t also buy the time to read it
Happiness is knowing that I DON'T have to finish every single page of every single book. 📚 When you [...]
The Most Important Leadership Quality No One Is Talking About
What would you say is the most important leadership quality we're NOT talking about enough? The leadership quality we're looking for from our leaders - and from ourselves - is not the intense and hardcore rush, rush, rush that most choose in reaction to a demanding workplace. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Here’s how we can return to leadership serenity. #BrainBasedCoaching
4 Body Language Tweaks to Deepen Connection and Rapport
I often hear how intimidated people can become when meeting with (for example) senior leadership. What do I say? How do I say it? How am I coming across? Am I doing this right? If this resonates, try not to lose sight of the fact this is still person-to-person connection; and that as a human being, you're innately gifted at it. So, drop your internal questioning and commit to creating connection and rapport. Building rapport is about reducing differences, amplifying commonality, finding complements (with an "e") and all whilst staying true to your own nature and values. The first basis for genuine and meaningful rapport is physiology. Here are 4 quick, simple and super-effective body language "tweaks" to settle you into the conversation.
15 Essential Questions to Ace Your Next Presentation
From short project updates to major strategy decision gates. From small internal presentations to significant external keynotes. Being able to deliver showcase moments with skill and confidence is one of the surest ways to build reputation and career capital. But also, the need to speak publicly is a daunting thought for many. Where to start? What to focus on? What to omit? How to conclude? Quickly and painlessly get to the heart of your audience and your message with these 15 essential questions. #BrainBasedCoaching
12 Easy Ways to Achieve Greater Balance and Harmony
Whatever your definition of work/life balance and harmony, they're only achieved when we get out of autopilot and into intentional focus. Try these 12 mini challenges to rediscover your balance.
The Leadership Habits that Create an Empowering Culture
Shifting a culture starts with ourselves and our own little corner of the world – and a series of small but impactful behaviours that, incrementally, add-up to positive change. Here are 4 leadership habits to inspire that stimulating and empowering culture within your team. #BrainBasedCoaching
10 Surefire Ways to Energize Your Career Transition
Work can be draining - especially when working on the next career move. Learn to look after the driving force behind the change - yourself.
8 Game-Changing Lessons in Professional Performance
Whenever events don't quite go according to plan, our potential for learning goes way up. So, take time now to learn these 8 Game-Changing Lessons in Professional Performance
Cultivating the Mindset that NEVER Procrastinates
A procrastinating mindset is a powerful and attractive perspective. But we can use that idea of perspective to overcome procrastination. Here's how.
7 High Performance Habits of Exceptional Leadership
Habits are efficient, performant and robust. That's why the human brain wants to turn anything and everything that looks important into a hardwired habit. And it's why, any time we want to perform, habit formation is a great strategy. We all want to be better leaders and managers. So, what are the performance habits that amplify leadership quality and skill. I’m going to guess you’ve already got the core fundamentals in place. So, here are 7 disciplines which are maybe just a little different from the normal advice.
Delivering Tough Feedback for Development and Growth
Despite the obvious need for a strong conversation when underperformance is having a detrimental impact on the project and the team, most of us shrink from the task. At the very least, we procrastinate and then water-down the message. At the very worst, we avoid it entirely. It's easy to judge another for not having that tough conversation - but we've all been there. Why is it so difficult? We fear the INTERPERSONAL RISK. Here are 7 thoughts to help you be of deep service to your people, at those times when a tough message needs to be shared.
Why You Should Set Your Own Model for Leadership
There is a near-infinite number of leadership models out there. So, which model should you adopt and align with, for best results? Answer: Your Own. The most impactful model of leadership we can follow is one of our own authentic design. This is the gold standard for the high-performing leader … and what each of us should be aspiring to. Here are 5 foundations to begin building yours.
9 Behaviours to Improve Your Relationship With Your Boss
Think of a favourite boss … and notice the word “boss” is not nearly enough to describe the role he or she played for you! Role model. Mentor. Coach. Advocate. Teacher. Sounding board. Confidant. And so, given the significance of this relationship, we want to be adept at fashioning a strong working partnership with them. Here are 9 behaviours to achieve the kind of productive, deeply respectful and free-flowing relationship with your boss that sets you both up for ongoing success at work.
Elevate Your Thinking, Elevate Your Leadership!
There are many stand-out competencies that make up stand-out leadership. Strategic thinking. Communications. Influencing. Relationships. Execution. Results! But the day-to-day can quickly send us into a cascade of fighting fires that promotes focus and attention on the immediate, at the expense of the longer-term priorities. Switch-up your thinking, so your agenda is not dictated by the fires, but by your priority results.
Compound Effects: The Power of Consistency for Peak Performance Over Time
More often than not, we focus on *the* performance, achieving *peak* performance, putting on *a* performance. But there is another format of potent performance. The kind that compounds over time from consistent and sustainable focus on first principles. This approach generates the accumulative – and underappreciated – power of an average day. And it can create equally stellar results - just without the unhelpful stress that comes from continually chasing (and chasing, again) peak performance in the moment.
Cultivating Powerful Decision-making Habits
A powerful decision need not be defined as anything other than a "yes" or a "no". Or perhaps better to say, "HELL YEAH" or "no", but still the same clear and clean distinction. Anything less than that is not a powerful decision. And anything less than a powerful decision … and direction, momentum and energy are lost to limbo. Your decision-making system needs to be robust and highly effective, especially for the high-pressure moments. Optimise your decision-making skill with these 7 easy-to-adopt disciplines.
7 Ways To Recover From a Dip in Performance
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.
6 Mistakes New Leaders Make… and How to Avoid Them
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.
Catch Your Breath … And Your Best Thinking
Forget New Year's Resolutions. If you want to achieve something (on ANY day of the year): decide, get strategic, create a plan and do it. So now, you can spend January 1st reviewing the last 12 months and capturing your 30 best and most useful insights. Then: commit to a years' worth of thinking those good thoughts. Here are a few to get you started ...
How Your Relationship to Personal Power is Stifling Your Career Potential
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.
8 Habits to Enhance the Quality & Rigour of Your Strategic Thinking Process
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.
5 Bold Strategies to Revolutionise Your Time Management Discipline
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.
6 Science-led Strategies for Managing Bias at Work
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.
Leadership Excellence: Open and Honest Communication in the Face of Challenge
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 …
From Functional To Vital: How To Make A Stellar Contribution To The Team
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.
6 Science-backed Strategies for Maintaining Focus, Productivity & Effectiveness
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
A Brain-based Approach for Game-changing Leadership Through Challenging Times
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.
6 Ways to Handle Tough Feedback…Like a Pro
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.
The Neuroscience for Optimising Decision-making Under Pressure
Decision-making is a critical, role-defining skill for every leader. But decisions are complex cognitive operations, often stressed to breaking point at times of challenge, crisis and uncertainty. Optimise your decision-making capability with these insights from the neuroscience of leadership.
The Fundamental Cornerstones of Self-Mastery
Most overlook and undervalue the fundamentals as an inconsistent contradiction to their current level of expertise and performance. But the fundamentals are THE cornerstones to self-mastery. Make the differentiating mindset shift to take complete command of the 3 domains of self-mastery excellence.
What The Neuroscience Says About Our Approach To Change Leadership
All recognised change management practices are logical. But the brain isn't - it's emotional! Set your change leadership apart by taking a fundamentally brain-focused approach to leading and managing organisational change.
Masterful Leadership Communication During Crisis and Challenge
At times of challenge and uncertainty, a leader with a calm, clear and wholly-open communication style is worth everything to the organisation. If you had to choose, what would be your list of 5 non-negotiables … to master the key leadership competency of clear and open communication at times of challenge?
The Consistent Practices of Sustainable High Performance Leadership
High Performance Leaders aren't born; they're made. How? By committing to small but impactful practices, consistently and over time. And then fuelling those practices with some golden leadership rules. Here's how to make you yourself a High Performance Leader.
4 Toxic Character Traps High Performing Leaders Know to Avoid
Top performing leaders are conscious self-leaders. They exercise self-awareness and take personal responsibility in ways that deepen their leadership impact, not least by continually checking-in on some of the toxic character traps we can all fall into, from time to time.
9 Essential Ingredients for Greater Career Fulfilment
After basic career hygiene factors, what adds-up to career fulfilment? And how do you currently rate? Because we can go weeks, and sometimes months and years, refusing to notice how dissatisfied and unfulfilled we are in our work. Here are 9 essential ingredients for you to consider, today.
Career “Satisfaction” is Selling Yourself Short
When it comes to your career, is “Satisfaction” really good enough? We have positive and reassuring associations with that word, for sure. But … satisfaction is just satisfaction. It’s nothing to get fired-up about. It's "as expected". Good enough for your career? I don't think so either. Here are 6 ideas to set you on the path to career astonishment!
The 6 Daily Practices of High Performing Leaders
What are your difference-making practices - both the hygiene factors and the "secret sauce" - that help you excel as a leader? There are a core set of fundamentals that all leaders practice. But those are mostly technical and tactical. And the type of success high performers are interested in is consistent, sustainable and career-long. Here are 6 game-changing daily practices you can implement quickly and easily to perfectly complement your already-established core fundamentals.
9 Career-Building Habits to Break Out of a Career Rut
When your career trajectory runs flat, you need effective strategies to break out of your career rut and get back to successful career-building habits. Here are 9 career management mistakes that could be holding you back from your full career potential.
A Brain-based Approach to Charismatic Leadership
What captures the essence of your charisma? The "experience of you"? Charisma is one of those qualities of being that is, at once, founded in you, but manifest in others. Something that's completely personal, yet universally understood. It is also something that can be learnt and intentionally developed. Here's a 5-part brain-based model for your most charismatic self.
The Source to Becoming a More Resilient Leader
Resilience is an essential leadership quality, underpinning so much of the work that stands you out as a leader. To develop your leadership resilience, sidestep the mistake that most people make: failing to see the quality of resilience as, at once, thought, feeling and behaviour: to be worked on in combination. In this article, a few ideas to help you access the deeper wells of your natural resilience.
Why You Need To Recalibrate Your Career Success Habits
What early-stage career habits do you need to revisit and reset because they're no longer serving? Left unchecked, these patterns can have significant impact on both career and wellbeing. Do yourself and your career a favour and build this alternative success habit: the awareness and responsibility to notice - and re-condition - those self-conditioned patterns that are now showing-up for you in unhelpful ways.
Tell Me Something I Don’t Want To Hear
The conscious leadership advantage of being able to receive and work with tough feedback. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Difference Between Your Rut and Your Grave is Just a Few Feet
"The difference between a rut and a grave is just a few feet!" This is a saying of a favourite coach of mine, Steve Chandler. And it's been with me for the longest time, really helping me over the years to notice any time I've slipped into something of a rut - and the absolute importance of yanking myself out of it, at the very soonest opportunity!
Disorganisation = Self-Sabotage!
Organisation is one of my core values. And I'll just say it: I like my sh!t to be organised.
Don’t BE your thoughts
A useful question to ask oneself is: "How spacious a relationship do I have with my own thoughts?" It's not a question many people would comprehend, let alone (think to!) ask. Because the first thought is: there is NO SEPARATION between me and my thoughts. And that's exactly the point.
What you judge in another you strengthen in yourself
One of the many truths that have played out to me over the client-coaching years is that what we judge in another person, we deepen and strengthen in ourselves.
The Empathetic Leader: A Coaching Approach
Complaints about a lack of empathy in team leaders and middle managers puts empathetic leadership high on the wanted skills list. A coaching approach allows us to strike the right balance of empathy with rational compassion.
Win The Second Half
If I had choose, I would always want to win the second half. That's the team that has the momentum. That's the team that goes on to win.
What We Appreciate Appreciates
Appreciate has two meanings. Recognising the full worth of something or someone. And an increase in the full worth of something (or someone).
Positive Momentum
Start your day with positive momentum.
What’s Your New Performance Normal?
What's normal for you now that was not normal 3 months ago?
The Problem With Problems You Already Know How To Solve
Here’s the problem with problems you already know how to solve: they keep you from the ones you don't.
Your Commitments Are Lived
Your level of commitment shows up in LIFE. Take a look at your calendar. Take a look at your emails. Notice who you're talking to and the kinds of conversations you're having.
The Goals That Are Costing Your Team Efficacy and Focus
As business needs and priorities change, so do goals. And without the intervention of a conscious leadership, previously highly-prized goals are now a liability to team efficacy and achievement. Here are the goals that are costing you and your team. #BrainBasedCoaching
What’s The Most Valuable Hour Of Your Month?
Quick question: What's been the most valuable hour of your month?
Improve Your Decisions By Doing This
The more space you can introduce into your decisions, the better the decision.
Magnetise Yourself
We all know people, in both our personal and professional lives, whom others just gravitate towards. People whom others want to be around. People whom others want to invite into their world and projects. People we ourselves want to be around.
Extreme Ownership
Ownership is about more than just responsibility. Ownership is about AGENCY. Ownership is about SELF-LEADERSHIP. Ownership is about CREATING, in place of reacting.
3 Essential Recovery Rituals to Optimise Team Performance
All leaders want sustainable development, growth and success for their team. To combat the damaging cycles created by the demands of work, inspire your team with these rituals essential for optimum recovery. #BrainBasedCoaching
Over-Thinking? Or Under-Acting?
Overthinking is a common issue. How often have you caught yourself going round and round an issue, or back and forth on a decision?
Wanting to Change vs. Wanting the Change
Wanting to change is not yet committed. Wanting the change is.
3 Leadership Strategies for Peak State Decision Making
Leadership Mastery Series: Decision-making is a leader's superpower - or kryptonite: an especially apposite thought in the current climate. The decision-maker's best defence? To engineer as many peak state experiences and in-flow moments as possible. Here's how. #BrainBasedCoaching
Creating Your Edge with A+ Work
"Perfectionism" is a problem, if and when implemented in one or a combination of two ways.
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?
As the 2020/2021 Olympics kicks off in earnest, I love to take the opportunity to grab a little extra inspiration, motivation and peak-performance-learning from watching the best in the world excel at their sport.
Judge Your Thoughts. Not Your Actions.
This sounds like we have it backwards. Surely we judge on what we actually do, not just what we think and say we will?
Mastering Your Level of Leadership Engagement
The nature and quality of engagement comes down to one-to-one interactions between an employee and their manager/leader. What leadership level are you engaging at? #BrainBasedCoaching
12 Simple Practices to make you a Better Coaching Leader
The coaching leadership style is one of the most effective in the long term. Improve your coaching leadership style with these 12 simple practices.
What Future Self Are You Inspiring Your Team To?
You might have seen my previous post, just yesterday: "What Future Self Are You Consigning Yourself To?" An interesting thought to consider, noticing how the way we operate throughout the day SIGNALS to ourselves who we are and are becoming.
What Future Self Are You Consigning Yourself To?
It's a useful thought to consider the Future Self you'd love to live into. But that desired future self is not who we’ll become, unless we get conscious and intentional about it - something we rarely do.
Try Meditative Planning
The benefits of meditation to the brain, the mind (two different things!), wellbeing and performance are well-researched, well-understood and well-evidenced. For those that have (or have ever had) a practice, you know what I'm talking about. Clarity. Focus. Direction.
Schedule Inspiration!
I remember giving a talk a whole back on productivity and focus. And one of the corporate team asked that, given the amount of structure and discipline I was espousing, what did I do to keep INSPIRATION alive? Because surely inspiration would be stifled by so much structure?!)
You can’t solve the problem When you’re IN the problem
When we're IN a problem, we can never solve it as creatively, elegantly or efficiently as when we're not. We're just too heavily associated with the problem … and the thinking that created it.
7 Steps to Effective Feedback that Transforms Performance
Effective leaders transform performance with well-delivered feedback. Here are 7 steps from the coach's playbook so you too can give feedback that transforms performance.
What Team Resistance Might Be Saying About Your Leadership Style
Resistance is, to me, one of the most interesting and useful topics to work with and tune into. It tells us so much about what's really going on for us (and others) - and where the solution lies.
“I Tend To” is the Past!
"I tend to …" is a non-specific observation about the past that need not dictate my choices and behaviours in this moment.
How to Silence Your Inner Critic
The brain has strong narrative circuitry. We get "lost in thought". Our whole conscious thinking process is little more than a Q&A session with ourselves!
Time Spent!
If you have a project that's not progressing or an obstacle you're stuck on, start here: take an honest look at the time you're spending working on it.
STOP STOPPING!
Voltaire said: "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." I enjoy that thought. And just as much, I enjoy the sister-thought: No opportunity can withstand the progress of sustained action.
Supercharge Your Brain, Supercharge Your Productivity
Productivity is about the efficient achievement of outcomes. And to do more of that, more of the time, a different approach is required. A brain-based approach.
Want more flow time?
An hour of uninterrupted time is not only worth 3 or 4 hours of constantly disrupted and distracted time. It's also the only opportunity for your best insights to take hold and become something. Else, that gateway is closed to you.
Be patient for results. But impatient for action.
Be patient for process and results, for sure. But be impatient for action.
You’re Not Good at 20 Things
Well, you probably are good at 20 things. But if I challenge you to tell me what you're *really* good at and where you need to spend the vast majority (+80%) of your time on, the list isn't 20 things. It'll be more like 3 things.
Busy Work = Not Enough Meaningful Projects!
When business descends into a holding pattern, it's easy for busy work to take hold. We're used to filling our working days with … work. And in the absence of anything else, we'd rather be working on busy (non?) work than idling.
The Art of the Question: How to Open-up Thinking
Questions are not only how we gain insight into another person's thinking; they are also how that other person gains insight into their own thinking. If we ask the right questions.
Manage Tasks. Lead People
"Manage tasks. Lead people." An obvious thing to say. But an important distinction to hold keenly in mind.
An Underperformer? Or just Uncertain?
One of the many coaching points I teach in my philosophy of Brain-Based Leadership is to see anyone who you would otherwise label as an underperformer as simply: UNCERTAIN. Try it now......
How Are You Doing The Thinking?
"What do you mean, how am I doing the thinking? I don't do thinking. It just kinda happens!" And therein lies the problem. So often, we’re on autopilot and our results are far from optimal....
Amplify Performance with PROCESS
Mostly, we define performance in terms of measurement. Outputs. Results. Outcomes. Our internal dialogue might be: "We performed at the top of our game. And we know that because of these top results." ......
Beyond Time Management: 5 Thinking Secrets to Getting More Done
The world doesn't need another time management system. It needs a shift in the thinking. 5 thoughts to inspire a different view, reduce the overwhelm, and leave us feeling good, getting things done.
Track Your Averages
One of thing things I've always admired in top athletes is that, when asked about their winning streak: they're so level-headed.....
A Framework for the Year to Come
So often in these opening weeks of 2021, we've heard the Groundhog Day sentiment: it feels like nothing's changed. But our reality is ours to create. In this article: a fraemwork to help you create change in the year to come. #BrainBasedCoaching
Your Brain-based Toolkit for Mastering Challenging Times
Make 2021 a fantastic year with a brain-based approach for managing challenge.
3 Sins of Feedback in Challenging Times
The need for feedback is never not needed. But in a climate full of uncertainty, apprehension and fragility, it's a tricky undertaking. Here are 3 feedback sins to guard against in these challenging times. #BrainBasedCoaching
You Talk Too Much
A Quality of Thought: "You Talk Too Much" #BrainBasedCoaching
6 Brain-based Secrets to Stay Focused and Productive in Times of Crisis
In times of crisis, the human brain is on constant alert. And in such a state, our cognitive capacity is significantly impaired: to the point of impacting near-term performance and long-term wellbeing. In this article: 6 brain-friendly strategies to get back to high levels of focus and productivity. #BrainBasedCoaching
Unfinished Business
A Quality of Thought: "Unfinished Business". #BrainBasedCoaching
2020 Mid-Year Review: Time to Create Your Next Set of Challenges
This year hasn't been like any other. But that doesn't mean we should sidestep our mid-year review and/or not set new challenges. In this article: a few thoughts to help you both reflect back; and create your next set of challenges. #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: Reawakening Inspired Motivation
COVID-19 Audio Special: Reawakening Inspired Motivation #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Detrimental Cost of Being Intensely On
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Detrimental Cost of Being Intensely On #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: 3 Strategies to Manage Our Existential Anxiety
COVID-19 Audio Special: 3 Strategies to Manage Our Existential Anxiety #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: Headspace: 6 Thoughts for Creating More Room
COVID-19 Audio Special: Headspace: 6 Thoughts for Creating More Room #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Present Moment Mindset Built for Times of Challenge
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Present Moment Mindset Built for Times of Challenge #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: Mental Training for an Anti-fragile Mindset
COVID-19: Mental Training for an Anti-fragile Mindset #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Immense Freedom of a Well Designed Routine
COVID-19 Audio Special: "The Immense Freedom of a Well Designed Routine" #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: The Pitfalls of Forecasting in Challenging Times
COVID-19 Audio Special: "The Pitfalls of Forecasting and Goal Setting in Challenging Times" #BrainBasedCoaching
COVID-19 Audio Special: Taking Ownership in the Face of Adversity
COVID-19 Audio Special: "Taking Ownership in the Face of Adversity" #BrainBasedCoaching
The Early Stage Career Success Habits That Lead to Burnout
At the outset of our careers, we stumble into strategies that might deliver near-term success but that, unchecked, can lead to damaging burnout in later career life. Before we cost ourselves and our relationships dear, be awake to those patterns of thinking and behaving – and open to making changes for the better. #BrainBasedCoaching
If This Were Easy
A Quality of Thought: "If This Were Easy …". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Secret to Effective Time Management
Time Management is one of the key determinants of success. But so often, the work we all do to improve our time management is at the surface level. And changes at the surface level DO NOT STICK. Make a fundamental shift with this secret to effective time management (that no one else thinks about). #BrainBasedCoaching
Don’t Wait!
A Quality of Thought: "Don't Wait!" #BrainBasedCoaching
Finding Joy in a Thoroughly Ordinary Start to the Year
If January is an unhelpfully and over-expectant time for you, find joy in a thoroughly ordinary start to the year. Ordinary days. No more pretend interests. Joyful in the little things. Letting go of the rest. And the best part - you can choose any day to be the (ordinary) start of your year. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Power of Now
The Power of Now. Your theme for success in the new year. #BrainBasedCoaching
The New Success Habit: Strength for Two
A Quality of Thought: "Strength for Two". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Perfect System for Your Most Successful Year Yet
Systems are better than goals and outlive habits. They can be the cornerstone of your most successful year to date. Yet we pay them almost no conscious attention - and our success is far harder than it need be. Here are 5 deep insights to support you in installing the perfect system for your most successful year yet. #BrainBasedCoaching
Ready Ready
A Quality of Thought: " Ready Ready Lists ". #BrainBasedCoaching
15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Your Keynote
More and more of us are coming-up against the need to speak publicly: a daunting thought for many. Where to start? Begin by answering these 15 questions to get to the heart of your audience and your message. #BrainBasedCoaching
100% Commitment is Easier
A Quality of Thought: "100% Commitment is Easier". #BrainBasedCoaching
How to Redefine Your Relationship with Power and Achieve Career Success
Power is commonly misunderstood. And our relationship with it is often held in mind in unhelpful ways that can stunt career progression. Redefine your relationship with power in ways that will accelerate your career success. #BrainBasedCoaching
Is Circumstance Using Me?
A Quality of Thought: "Is Circumstance Using Me? (Or Am I Using Circumstance?)" #BrainBasedCoaching
How to Elevate Your Mentoring Skills (Part 3): 6 Mentoring Disciplines for Better Mentoring Relationships
Mentoring is a noble contribution and a practised skill. In this final article in the series, we develop and commit to 6 mentoring disciplines that, when practised, lead to outstanding mentor/mentee relationships. #BrainBasedCoaching
How to Elevate Your Mentoring Skills (Part 2): Overcoming Common Pitfalls
Mentoring might look to the uninformed like just a casual conversation. But there's a craft to providing powerful mentorship – and that craft comes with some common pitfalls. In this second in a 3-part series, we explore the 6 most common pitfalls and the effective strategies to overcome them. #BrainBasedCoaching
How to Elevate Your Mentoring Skills (Part 1): Guiding Principles for Solid Foundations
Mentoring is a great thing – for all concerned. And if you're interested in being a mentor – or are already there and want to sharpen your skills – I'm not surprised! In this 3-part series: setting solid foundations, overcoming common barriers and pitfalls, and top tips for powerful mentorship from the world of performance coaching. #BrainBasedCoaching
It’s Not What A Goal Is
A Quality of Thought: "It's Not What A Goal Is" #brainbasedcoaching
Transformation, by Being OK with “No”
A Quality of Thought: "Transformation, by Being OK with No". #BrainBasedCoaching
Tough Love. 7 Steps to Delivering Difficult Messages.
As a leader, part of your role requires you to deliver the tough message, in response to under performance. But whilst we know it's a service to all concerned, it's easier said than done! Here are 7 steps to having that tough conversation. #BrainBasedCoaching
Language Matters
A Quality of Thought: "Language Matters". #BrainBasedCoaching
Powerful Thinking Strategies for More Effective Delegation
The secret to powerful and effective delegation that gets the most important things done at the right time and in the right way is not delegation technique. It's thinking technique. Here are the top 3 characteristics of a best mental state for delegation – and the thinking strategies to make your mental shift. #BrainBasedCoaching
A Daily Practice of Silence
A Quality of Thought: "A Daily Practice of Silence". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Powerful Distinction Guaranteed to Accelerate Your Success
Ever noticed how we love to study success, rather than just go be successful? Take this distinction to heart and accelerate your success in powerful and uplifting ways. #BrainBasedCoaching
Never Send an Email
A Quality of Thought: "Never Send an Email". #BrainBasedCoaching
An Alternative Perspective to Help you Get and Stay Motivated
We all lack motivation, from time to time. At least, that’s our sense of it. But a lack of motivation is not really our problem. Experiment with this alternative perspective to get back to your most motivated self. #BrainBasedCoaching
Done for Day
A Quality of Thought: "Done for Day". #BrainBasedCoaching
8 Atomic Habits for Better Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking is a much desired and sought-after skill, but increasingly difficult to attend to, given the pace of change and the competing distractions of work and business. Here are 8 atomic habits that we can install to help counter the noise and create a valuable reputation for being a "Strategic Thinker". #BrainBasedCoaching
Stop Thinking Your Way to Clarity
A Quality of Thought: "Stop Thinking Your Way to Clarity." #BrainBasedCoaching
Gracefully Navigating Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
The shortcuts taken by our unconscious mind often serve us well – but are fallible, too. And those shortcomings can have real-world consequences for us all. Here are 6 strategies to help navigate the biases implicit in the world of work. #BrainBasedCoaching
A New Label for the Perfectionist
A Quality of Thought: "A New Label for the Perfectionist." #BrainBasedCoaching
6 Secrets to Working With Tough Leadership Feedback
As a leader, I don't want to avoid the tough feedback. I want to ask for it – and get better and better at working with it. Here are 6 secrets to help work with the tough leadership feedback. #BrainBasedCoaching
Fear is High Maintenance
A Quality of Thought: "Fear is High Maintenance". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Art of the Pep Talk
Conversation is a key leadership skill – and that includes the pep talk! But easier said than done. Try the A-GAME technique to bring genuine connection and motivation to your pep talk conversations. #BrainBasedCoaching
Starter Action Lists
A Quality of Thought: "Starter Action Lists". #BrainBasedCoaching
Why Career Satisfaction is the Wrong Goal
A first association with the word "Satisfaction" is good and positive. But here's the thing: is satisfaction really good enough when it comes to your career? Here are 6 ideas to move from Career Satisfaction to something far more fulfilling. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Power of a Problem-loving Mindset
A Quality of Thought: "The Power of a Problem-loving Mindset". #BrainBasedCoaching
4 Powerful Mind Shifts to Create Transformation in 2019
2019 is here. And now ask yourself: Do you want 2019 to be the same and similar as 2018? Or are you willing to commit to making 2019 your most transformative year, yet? Here are 4 powerful mind shifts to set you on your way. #BrainBasedCoaching
2019: An Opportunity for Reinvention
We can do so much better than set vague and uncommitted resolutions. Take this new year anniversary as an opportunity to reinvent yourself towards your most elevated self-concept. #BrainBasedCoaching
Powerful Subtraction
A Quality of Thought: "Powerful Subtraction". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Silent Gift of Listening
Deep and powerful listening is a skill that takes focus and concentration. And when practised, is a gift for the person being listened to. But there are challenges. So, here are 8 fresh perspectives for deeper listening. #BrainBasedCoaching
Actionable Actions
A Quality of Thought: "Actionable Actions". #BrainBasedCoaching
3 Complaints Your Team Has About You, Boss
It can be a rarity to get open and honest feedback from your team on your performance as their boss. And so, in the absence of that valuable input, it's useful to have a few go-to places to look, as you conduct your own self-leadership check. Here are 3 complaint areas to start your self-review. #BrainBasedCoaching
Stop Studying Your Stuckness
A Quality of Thought: "Stop Studying Your Stuckness". #BrainBasedCoaching
9 Behaviours to Build a Trustful Relationship With Your Boss
Throughout our careers, the people we work directly for have not just a huge influence on our success at work – they very often have a profound effect on us as a person. Here are 9 behaviours to achieve the kind of relationship with your boss that sets you both up for ongoing success. #BrainBasedCoaching
What’s Your Practise for That?
A Quality of Thought: "What's Your Practice for That?" #BrainBasedCoaching
7 New Performance Habits to Amplify Your Leadership
We all want to be better leaders. And one of the best and most reliable ways to create that shift is by installing performance habits that are just part of the DNA. Try these 7 disciplines which are a little different from the normal advice! #BrainBasedCoaching
Stop Trusting. Start Trialling.
A Quality of Thought: “Stop Trusting. Start Trialling." #BrainBasedCoaching
One Powerful Perspective Shift to Overcome Procrastination
A procrastinating mindset is a powerful and attractive perspective. But we can use that idea of perspective to overcome procrastination. Here's how. #BrainBasedCoaching
Momentum
A Quality of Thought: "Momentum". #BrainBasedCoaching
7 Powerful Disciplines for Better Decision Making
Alongside "ambition for the organisation" and "exemplary people skills", "powerful decision-making habits" is the other must-have for any leader. Here are 7 powerful habits to install alongside any major decision point. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Power of “Get Into”
A Quality of Thought: The Power of "Get Into". #BrainBasedCoaching
6 Common Mistakes of New Leaders
In our eagerness to hit the ground running in our new leadership role, we can often misstep. So, it pays to reflect on some of the common pitfalls – and install the performance habits that ensure your next leadership role is a success from the outset. #BrainBasedCoaching
Intentional Imbalance
A Quality of Thought: "Intentional Imbalance". #BrainBasedCoaching
The #1 Leadership Quality (That No One Ever Talks About)
The "focused leadership" we're looking for from our leaders - and from ourselves - is not the intense and hardcore rush, rush, rush that most choose in reaction to a demanding workplace. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Here’s how we can return to leadership serenity. #BrainBasedCoaching
5% More Consciousness
A Quality of Thought: "5% More Consciousness". #BrainBasedCoaching
Why High Performers Prioritise Process Goals Over Outcome Goals
We think focusing on outcomes shouldn't get us stuck - but it can. When that happens, shift your focus from Outcome Goals to Process Goals. #BrainBasedCoaching
Out of Dreams. Into Reality.
A Quality of Thought: "Out of Dreams. Into Reality." #BrainBasedCoaching
8 Lessons in Performance from 20 Years’ Worth of Gym Injuries
Whenever events don't quite go according to plan, our potential for learning goes way up. So, take time now to learn these 8 lessons from 20 years' worth of injuries. #BrainBasedCoaching
The “How To” is NOT the Problem
A Quality of Thought: "The How To is not the problem". #BrainBasedCoaching
7 Sources of Your Peak Personal Performance
Even high-achieving peak-performers lose their mojo from time to time. So where to look, when we suffer those occasional lapses in performance? Start with these 7 sources. #BrainBasedCoaching
What Am I Saying Yes To?
A Quality of Thought: "What Am I Saying Yes To?" #BrainBasedCoaching
One Surefire Ingredient to Make an Emboldened Career Move
Whether your focus is career acceleration or career shift, there is one ingredient that is always the difference between success and continued stuckness. That ingredient is AGENCY. Use these 4 practices to instil a powerful sense of personal agency for your next career move. #BrainBasedCoaching
A Cascade of Thoughts
A Quality of Thought: "A Cascade of Thoughts". #BrainBasedCoaching
A Simple Formula for the Most Effective Leadership Behaviours
No style of leadership is neutral. The very way we come at a situation has a fundamental impact on its outcomes. So, here's one simple formula to help us lean towards more helpful leadership behaviours for our people. #BrainBasedCoaching
5 Qualities of Leadership Thinking That Drive Results
There are many crucial leadership competencies. But in the end: unless you're delivering results, the rest aren’t going to get talked about or recognised. Here are 5 cornerstone thoughts to your results-delivering leadership strategy. #BrainBasedCoaching
High Performance Leadership is … SELF-LEADERSHIP
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Self-leadership". #BrainBasedCoaching
4 Leadership Habits to Inspire a Positive and Empowering Culture
Shifting a culture starts with ourselves and our own little corner of the world – and a series of small but impactful behaviours that, incrementally, add-up to positive change. Here are 4 leadership habits to inspire that stimulating and empowering culture within your team. #BrainBasedCoaching
High Performance Leadership is … The Creatable Future
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … The Creatable Future". #BrainBasedCoaching
A 5-point Checklist to Promote Open and Honest Communications
Leadership is about leaning into the status quo - and so, challenges are inevitable. Open and honest communication at those times of challenge and crisis is a core leadership competency. Here are 5 behaviours to help you achieve mastery. #BrainBasedCoaching
High Performance Leadership is … Strong Internal Connection
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Strong Internal Connection". #BrainBasedCoaching
A Simple Question-set to make you a Better Strategist
Strategy is not something to be feared or shied-away from - but many up-and-comers do. Here is a simple question-set to get us thinking and behaving more strategically. #BrainBasedCoaching
High Performance Leadership is … Coaching Before Managing
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Coaching Before Managing". #BrainBasedCoaching
Action Radar
A Quality of Thought: "Action Radar". #BrainBasedCoaching
High Performance Leadership is … Co-created Agreement
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Co-created Agreement". #BrainBasedCoaching
How High Performers Turn “Average” into Outstanding Results
Our focus for performance is most often for outstanding delivery in the moment. But what would happen if we adjusted that view and chose instead to focus on "good enough" performance over the longer term? #BrainBasedCoaching
When “Start With Why” Gets in the Way
A Quality of Thought: "When Start With Why Gets in the Way". #BrainBasedCoaching
2 Decision-making Traps Great Leaders Know How to Sidestep
We all know the frustration of having our thoughts backed-up by an unmade decision. Here's a process to sidestep two of the thinking traps most likely to get in the way of powerful decision making. #BrainBasedCoaching
Lean on the Process
A Quality of Thought: "Lean on the Process". #BrainBasedCoaching
The Daily Practice Guaranteed to Reclaim Your Headspace
It's in our nature to carry around with us distracting thoughts and preoccupations - and that limits the time, attention and focus we can dedicate to our priority. Here's a simple but powerful daily practice to reclaim some of that headspace. #BrainBasedCoaching
Growth
A Quality of Thought: "Growth". #BrainBasedCoaching
Bulletproof. 5 Powerful Perspectives for More Resilient Leadership.
Resilience is an essential leadership quality. And it's hard. Enhance your resilience by coming to know your always-available sources of greater resilience - and the 5 simple disciplines to embed that knowing.
Labels that keep me stuck
A Quality of Thought: "Labels that keep me stuck". #BrainBasedCoaching
The “I” in Team: 6 Thoughts to be an Outstanding Team Member
The literature is crammed full of ideas on team leadership - but is sparse on ideas for team membership. Here are 6 thoughts to help you be an outstanding "I" in team. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Single Most Powerful Idea from my Year in Books
75 books. 44 audiobooks. 15 kindle books. One very powerful idea. #BrainBasedCoaching
New Year. New Career. 9 Posts for Greater Career Success in 2018.
Here’s hoping that 2018 is everything you want it to be. And to fuel the journey, here are 9 of my favourite posts to set yourself up for career success this year. #BrainBasedCoaching
Forget The Resolutions. Think on This, Instead.
If you're anything like me, on this first day of the New Year you won't be setting resolutions. Here's what to do with your day instead. #BrainBasedCoaching
Kick-starting Your Year Ahead with the “Power of 3”
How good could the year ahead look to you? Use the "Power of 3" to amplify your intentionality when it comes to your hand-created future. #BrainBasedCoaching
Busy NOT Going For It
A Quality of Thought: "Busy NOT Going For It".
High Performance Leadership is … Opting in
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Opting in".
4 Character Traps Every High Performing Leader Needs to Know About
High Performers are conscious self-leaders. And they exercise their awareness to know what to focus on - and what traps to avoid. Here are 4 to add to your list.
Mind vs. Brain
A Quality of Thought: "Mind vs. Brain".
High Performance Leadership is … Ownership
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Ownership".
The 6 Daily Practices of the High Performing Leader’s High Performance Life
High Performing Leaders are not just interested in success. They're interested in consistent, sustainable, career-long success. Achieving that requires a High Performance Life - which itself requires a few fundamental practices. Incorporate these to elevate your own performance.
Over-commitment
A Quality of Thought: "Over-commitment".
High Performance Leadership is … Creativity
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Creativity".
Why High Performing Leaders Set Their Own Model of Leadership
The most impactful model of leadership we can follow is one of our own authentic design. This is the gold standard for the high-performing leader.
An End in Itself
A Quality of Thought: "An End in Itself".
High Performance Leadership is … Self Communication
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Self Communication".
High Performance Leaders Aren’t Born. They’re MADE.
High Performance Leaders aren't born. They're made. How do they do it? By committing to small but impactful practices, consistently and over time. And by fuelling those practices with some golden rules.
High Performance Leadership is … Social Legacy
A Quality of Thought: "High Performance Leadership is … Social Legacy".
How Conscious Leadership makes BEST use of the Future
Leadership is about the future. But there is a way of thinking, doing and being that makes a different use of the future - and gives us access to the type of conscious leadership today's world requires and demands.
Creating Courage
A Quality of Thought: "Creating Courage".
Career Beliefs: Challenging The Truths Limiting Your Highest Career Potential
What we choose to believe - about career in general and our own career specifically - has a deep and lasting impact on the ways in which our careers play out. Take some time to challenge your beliefs and find perspective and energy to bring to your career journey.
Consistency + Courage
A Quality of Thought: "Consistency + Courage".
When It’s Our Values That Stand In Our Way
Along with goals and beliefs, knowing and aligning with our values is one of the most powerful self-development steps we can take. And not least because they don't always play out in positive ways.
Fuel
A Quality of Thought: "Fuel"
Getting Honest About Your Career Stuckness
Many find themselves stuck in a career that doesn't work for them. If this is happening for you, here's a thought: before getting trapped - and comfortable - in unhelpfully-circular, outward-looking thinking patterns, get honest about your part in what's really keeping you stuck.
The Most Important Step in ANY Task
A Quality of Thought: "The Most Important Step in ANY Task".
The 1, 2, 3 Wildly Important Steps for Your Career, Right Now
At any given moment, there are (only ever always!) 1, 2 3 wildly important steps you need to take. And you know what they are. Step out of autopilot and create a project around those career-accelerating initiatives.
The Cost of Thought Without Action
A Quality of Thought: "The Cost of Thought Without Action".
The Mighty Powerful TRAP That Will Undo Your Pivotal Career Moment
In those crucial moments that define a career, there's one response - above all others - that will undo you. Know the trap - and choose a different response.
One Simple Thought for a Better Meeting
We spend a lifetime in meetings. And so they'd better be productive. Here's one simple thought - for you and your attendees - to make for a better meeting.
The Currency of Connection
A Quality of Thought: "The Currency of Connection".
The Levels of Action it Really Takes to Accelerate a Career
Whether it's career shift or career acceleration, what it really takes to make - or break - a career is not just action. It's not even 10/10 action. It's off the scale action.
Headspace
A Quality of Thought: "Headspace".
Create the Container
A Quality of Thought: "Create the Container".
2 Lists to Make When You HATE Your Job
Sometimes "hate" is the only word that'll do to describe our feelings towards the current job. But even in those circumstances (especially in those circumstances!) , it pays to find things to be grateful for. And to get real about the things that need to change now.
And The World Kept Turning
A Quality of Thought: "And The World Kept Turning".
What To Do When You Just Don’t Know
A Quality of Thought: "What To Do When You Just Don't Know!"
STOP Letting the World Dictate Your Agenda
Have you noticed just how frequently, easily and without resistance we can be knocked-off our agenda? When our plans were so otherwise set! Here are a few distractions to look out for. And a few thoughts to keep you to your agenda.
What’s Your Motivation?
A Quality of Thought: "What's Your Motivation?"
The One Person Who Really Should Follow Your Advice
We love to give advice. But rarely accept it. We expect the world to follow our advice. But rarely listen to our own. Enjoy the benefit of your own wisdom by choosing to follow your own advice.
Let’s (Not!) Get Serious.
A Quality of Thought: "Let's (Not) Get Serious".
What To Do When You Can’t Find Your Passion
When we align with our passions, we're at our best. But what if we just don't know what our passion is? Or how to find its expression in what we do? Here's a strategy to find your passion and move you forward.
Redistributing the Pleasure and Pain of Action
A Quality of Thought: "Redistributing the Pleasure and Pain of Action".
12 Mini Challenges for Greater Balance and Harmony
Whatever your definition of work/life balance and harmony, they're only achieved when we get out of autopilot and into intentional focus. Try these 12 mini challenges to rediscover your balance.
The Power of Routine
A Quality of Thought: "The Power of Routine".
Back of an Envelope
A parting thought to close-out the week: “back of an envelope”.
4 Quick Body Language Checks to Increase Rapport
We all love to connect. And the first basis for genuine and meaningful rapport is physiology. Use these 4 quick body language checks to minimise the differences between you and so increase rapport.
Knowledge Isn’t Power
A Quality of Thought: "Knowledge Isn't Power".
20 Reasons Why You’re Not Hitting Your Potential
Imagine what you might achieve, if you removed all obstacles. Whatever your feelings about coaching, there's much to be learnt from the way coaches unlock potential. Here are 20 ideas to help you stretch yourself for new levels of performance.
Chunky Productivity
A Quality of Thought: "Chunky Productivity".
Fireside Chat with Dan and Mike
In the modern working world, we are all paid to think for a living. And in a world full of distraction and overwhelm, a "Quality of Thought" has never been a more important determinant of our success. We need to put our brains to work. But first, we need to overcome the limitations of a brain that's just not wired for work. So, come and learn effective strategies to overcome distraction, increase focus and leverage the brain's preferred ways of working - to improve performance.
Be Happy Now!
"I'll be happy when … " signs us up for a deferred life. And such thinking can limiting our otherwise-well-intentioned goal-setting. Find ways to be happy now, starting with these simple but impactful ideas.
From Something to Something More
A Quality of Thought: "From Something to Something More".
10 Ways to Stay Energised and Motivated for Your Next Career Move
Work can be draining - especially when working on the next career move. Learn to look after the driving force behind the change - yourself.
Raise Your Standards
A Quality of Thought: "Raise Your Standards".
9 Brain-based Secrets to a Stellar Pitch
Pitching is a fundamental skill. And our pitch is a fundamental asset. Amplify your message with these brain-based insights: to architect a pitch that really lands with your audience's brain.
Source the pain. Go right at it.
A Quality of Thought: "Source the pain. Go right at it."
9 Ingredients to Greater Career Satisfaction and Fulfilment
What adds-up to job satisfaction? If you find your work lacking for pure satisfaction, check yourself against this list. And see if you can find new areas to re-discover fulfilment at work.
A Result Every Time
A Quality of Thought: "A Result Every Time".
9 Career Management Mistakes That Are Holding You Back
Don't waste valuable effort with all the external reasoning. Take responsibility when your career is not where you want it to be, starting with these 9 career management mistakes that are holding you back.
Love the Process
A Quality of Thought: "Love the Process".
Quit Whilst You’re Ahead
We might not like the idea of quitting. But our brains love the idea of finishing and feeling complete. Use this phrase to challenge yourself in the moment and choose the satisfying feeling of completion.
One Simple Commitment To Make Your Decisions All-Powerful
Decisions only become impactful when we accompany them with action. Make it your habit to take action at the scene of your decision making.
12 Plans to be Making a Year Ahead of Your Next Review
Annual reviews still dominate for most of us. And the stellar annual review we all want to receive takes a year to create. It's never too early to start laying the groundwork. Kick-off your plans with these 12 steps.
Start the Year Right: Ditch the Resolutions
The New Year comes with usefully motivating ceremony. Don't waste it on a "resolution".
Acknowledging 2016
A parting thought to close-out the year: “acknowledging 2016”.
Take Dead Aim
Whatever your development plans for 2017: Take Dead Aim!
80/20
A thought to start the week: “80/20”.
3 Brain-based Strategies to Change the Thinking and Perform Under Pressure
A key defining quality of those successful in their careers is that ability to handle the pressure, keep the thinking brain online and manage situations to successful outcomes. Here are 3 neuroscience-backed techniques to help.
Choose to Model, not Compare
A thought to start the week: "choose to model, not compare".
7 Ways to Reinvigorate Your Personal Brand
The world is always changing. And so must your personal brand if you want to stay authentic, consistent and wholly relevant. Reinvigorate your brand with a revisit of these 7 winning brand-defining characteristics.
State vs Goals
A thought to start the week: "State vs. Goals".
6 Brain-based Tips for the Best Profile You’ll Ever Write
We don't need yet more advice on what to put in our profiles. What we need is a brain-based approach to put all that other advice to work. Take a brain-based approach for your best profile, ever.
Present Thinking Percentage
A thought to start the week: "present thinking percentage".
Forget Your Elevator Pitch. Work on Your Professional Promise.
Redefine your elevator pitch as your professional promise. And never again feel uncomfortable talking about who you are, what you do and how you do it.
Use The 15 Minutes
A thought to start the week: "use the 15 minutes".
Unhappiness Over Uncertainty
A parting thought to close-out the week: “unhappiness over uncertainty”.
CONFIDENCE: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out Leadership (3)
Of all the behaviours we might choose to develop, confidence is most people's Number One. And with good reason. Get to grips with a simple formula for confidence, and let you most authentic, resourceful self shine through.
Stop Educating Start Doing
A thought to start the week: "stop educating, start doing".
Renewing the Challenge
A parting thought to close-out the week: “renewing the challenge”.
CHARISMA: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out Leadership (2)
Charisma is a quality often included in our descriptions of leaders we admire. It's also a quality many feel they either have - or don't. But like any behaviour, it can be learned and developed. Here're some brain-based thoughts on how.
Confidence Follows Action
A thought to start the week: "confidence follows action".
You Know What You Need To Work On
A parting thought to close-out the week: “you know what you need to work on”.
INFLUENCE: A Brain-based Approach for Stand-out Leadership (1)
Great leadership is nowhere better marked than by the ability to improve another person's thinking. In this series, get the brain-based approach to 3 key leadership traits, starting here with: INFLUENCE.
The Power of Decision
A thought to start the week: "the power of decision".
16 Inspiring Thoughts to Meet the Challenge of Modern-day Leadership
Today's challenge of leadership is plagued with obstacles we'd do well to acknowledge. Drawn from hundreds of exec coaching hours, here are 16 inspiring thoughts to meet that challenge.
What’s the Meaning?
A thought to start the week: "what's the meaning?"
Constancy Amongst Change
A parting thought to close-out the week: “constancy amongst change”.
9 Career Drivers to Accelerate Your Perfectly Designed Career
A career driver is more than a tendency. It's an impassioned inner voice full of motivation, inspiration and clarity. Get clear on your career drivers and accelerate your perfect career design.
From Problems to Projects
A thought to start the week: "from problems to projects".
Your Agenda
A parting thought to close-out the week: “Your Agenda”.
What 20+ Years in the Gym has Taught me About Personal Development
There are useful analogies to be drawn between personal development and keeping fit. Here are 5 lessons from the gym to make your personal development less of an effort and more of a habit.
Get Intentional
A thought to start the week: "get intentional".
4 Thinking Strategies For Powerfully Transformative Results
We always get a result. But not always the result we want. Learn to master these 4 key thinking strategies to take back your agenda and achieve the transformative results you’re looking for.
The Thinking Challenge of an Outcome Focus
A thought to start the week: "the thinking challenge of an outcome focus".
Act … !
A parting thought to close-out the week: “Act … !”
Finding the Turnaround
We can be very quick to look externally for the issues - and exclude ourselves from the post-mortem process. Restore yourself to responsibility by finding the turnaround.
Focus on the Useful Problems
A thought to start the week: "focus on the useful problems".
Needy Is Creepy
A thought to start the week: "needy is creepy".
12 Career Values to Powerfully Inspire Your Next Career Step
Careers are defined in the pivotal moments. To maximise our potential for success, we must be crystal clear on what matters most to us and our career. Here are 12 powerfully inspirational values - and how to get clear on their meaning for you.
No More Waiting
A thought to start the week: "no more waiting".
5 Transformational Habits That Will Change Your Life
Habits are powerful, dependable processes. But in the pursuit of success, not all habits are created equal. Here are 5 transformational habits that have the potential to change your life for the better.
Work On You
A thought to start the week: "work on you."
Creating the Space vs. Filling the Space
A thought to start the week: "creating the space vs. filling the space".
Results vs. Reasons
A thought to start the week: "results vs. reasons".
Assertiveness: How to Stand-up for What You Deserve
Many of us shy away from developing our assertiveness as if it's somehow a negative. But in today's world, assertiveness is a very necessary skill. Learn how to enjoy the process of standing-up for what you deserve.
Forget Change, Focus on Progress
A thought to start the week: "forget change, focus on progress".
8 Brain-based Ideas for Your Most Restful Holiday Ever
Time away from work is crucial to our in-work performance and outside-work wellbeing. Try these 8 brain-based tips to make sure you don't short-change your precious vacation time.
Capturing Attention With Movement
A thought to start the week: "capturing attention with movement".
How to Get Your People Thinking Clearly in a Crisis
Managing crises is part of the job - and a great opportunity to stand-out in the crowd. Learn to get your people thinking clearly and bring all your team's resources and resourcefulness to the table when it's needed most.
A More Worth Less
A thought to start the week: "a more worth less".
10 Tips to Negotiate What You’re Really Worth
We feel euphoria at getting the job - and then dread when it comes to negotiating the details of the offer. Here are 10 tips to help you ask for what you're really worth.
Result vs. Process
A thought to start the week: "result vs. process."
3 Rules for Powerful and Effective Negotiation
Negotiation is everywhere. And developing the ability to confer with another party for compromise and agreement is an important skill for your arsenal. Here are 3 simple rules for more effective negotiation.
The Power of Expectation
A thought to start the week: "the power of expectation".
6 Quick-Fire Strategies to Stay Cool Under Pressure
Our ability to keep our heads at work improves helps us make better decisions, have more influence and impact with others and improve performance – in ourselves and in those around us. Use these simple but effective strategies to help you keep your cool.
Deserving of our Goals
A thought to start the week: "deserving of our goals".
Two Insightful Self-Coaching Questions to Beat Procrastination
Procrastination comes in many forms; and acts-out many of our deep-seated motivations. To break-free of these self-imposed patterns of behaviour is hugely beneficial. Here are 2 coaching questions to help.
Pleasing vs. Serving
A thought to start the week: “pleasing vs. serving”.
Achieve Your Perfect Balance With Yes & No
Only we can determine our perfect sense of balance. How we vote “yes” and “no” can reveal much about where our balance is right now, where we’d like it to be – and what we need to do to move it to where we want.
Tolerations, No More
A thought to start the week: "tolerations, no more"
The Negative Self-Talk That Could Be Ruining Your Career
It can be all-too-easy to let our self-talk slip into negative language with costly consequences for our career. Learn to limit the impact by practising mindful awareness of these negative self-talk patterns.
React or Create?
A thought to start the week: "react or create".
12 Signs It’s Time To Move On In Your Career
When unfulfilling days at work turn in to unfulfilling weeks, months and years, it’s already well past the time to move on. Watch for the signs and take action before your career gets to that point.
The Feedback Loop
It can sometimes seem such a nonsense that we wait 6 or even 12 months to deliver feedback. Improve the performance of everyone around you (including yourself) with regular feedback.
Thinking About the Thinking
A thought to start the week: "thinking about the thinking".
Life’s Too Short For a Career Full of Compromise
When it comes to career, negative compromises can all-too-easily emerge and develop over time. And can all-too-quickly add-up to significant cost. Learn to take a fresh look at the compromises your career has you making.
Own Your No
A thought to start the week: "own your no".
21 Great Coaching Questions for the Pivotal Career Moments
Our careers should be our own agenda. Should excite and fulfil us. And should facilitate our life's design. Help yourself to achieve that goal with these 21 great self-coaching questions for the Pivotal Career Moments.
8 Attitudes That Will Stifle Your Career Development
There are many ingredients that go into building a successful career. And you’ve no doubt got plenty. But if you’re attitude’s not right, none of that is going to matter. Avoid these 8 career-damaging attitudes.
Start With The Goal
A thought to start the week: "start with the goal".
Think Your Career Strategy Isn’t Working? Think Again!
For the results you're creating. For the place in which you find yourself. Your career strategy is working perfectly. And new results are going to require a new strategy. Find the counterbalance by learning to notice the pivotal moments.
Can we Coach Leadership? (Yes, we can. Yes, we must.)
Whether we believe leaders are born or made, coaching remains the very best form of learning and development to get us there. And in today's world of work, is more relevant than ever.
Can’t? Or Won’t?
A thought to start the week: "Can't? Or Won't?".
You’re a Master Influencer, for Better or Worse
We are all influencers. For better or worse. For richer or poorer. So what stands successful individuals apart is they have mastered the influences they are already creating.
Why It’s Your Small World Thinking That’s Leaving You Stuck
When we expand our world, transformation happens. But more often than not, we avoid thinking big. Learn how to expand your world, reduce the overwhelm and get things moving again.
Just 5% More
A thought to start the week: "just 5% more".
Public Speaking: 9 Steps to Making a Powerful Connection
We're adept at making a connection with another person. So what happens to that skill when we step in front of a larger audience? How do we make the same powerful connections when speaking in public?
Slow It Down
A thought to start the week: "slow it down".
10 First Steps to a Stellar Reputation in Your New Role
You’ve done the hard work and landed your new role. Now it’s time not just to make a good impression. But to blow them away as you set the foundation for a stellar reputation.
The 8 Behaviours Derailing Your Career
When it comes to our career, much of our success is shaped not just in the “big” career moments. But in the consistent behaviours we demonstrate, day-to-day. Make sure your behaviours add-up to career success, not career suicide.
Let It Breathe
A thought to start the week: "let it breathe".
Priorities & Choices
A thought to start the week: "priorities and choices".
Promotion: It’s The Other Journey That Matters
Promotion is two journeys: doing great work; and being the most promotable. You’re already doing great work. Now make yourself the most promotable.
6 Steps to Inject More Creativity into Your Work
We don't often think of work, business and career as creative pursuits. Yet our professional environments are crying-out for more creative thinking. Here are 5 steps to switch-off the regular thinking patterns to generate new ideas.
Confusing Movement With Progress
A thought to start the week: "confusing movement with progress".
Is It True?
How many of our discomforting feelings come from the un-investigated, un-evidenced stories we attach to? Give yourself new perspective with enquiry.
How You Make Them Feel
A thought to start the week: “how you make them feel”.
Why You Need To Stop Making Everything So Big
Aren't we all very-often guilty of making all sorts of things too big? And isn’t that what’s getting in our way?
Embedding the Learning
A thought to start the week: "embedding the learning".
Self Improvement for High Achievers: Knowing What to Stop
The better we get at our jobs, the more our development focus becomes behavioural. Improve your behaviours by focusing on your "To Stop" list.
How Your Brain’s Model of the World is Limiting Your Success
To manage the vast amount of information in the external world, your brain constructs its own working model. And that model doesn't always serve us best. Learn how to usefully challenge our perspective.
Their Ideas First
A thought to start the week: "their ideas first".
Values: The Single Most Powerful Self-Development Step You Can Take
Our values drive us throughout our entire day and underpin all our major decisions. But do we really know what our core values are? And what would we change if we did?
Why Launching Into Action Too Soon is Limiting Your Success
Successful goal pursuit is determined by what happens immediately after you set your goal. Amplify your success by delaying action and instead promoting your goals to well-formed outcomes.
What’s Your Sentence?
A thought to start the week: "what's your sentence?"
Is a Sense of Purpose What Your Career Goals are Missing?
Without our own clearly-defined purpose, we live and work according to the agenda of others. Reclaim direction, set more meaningful goals and make better decisions by defining your purpose statement.
The Best Article You’ve Ever Read About Brain-based Coaching
What is Brain-based Coaching? What makes it so beneficial? And why might you choose brain-based coaching over other options? My challenge: to write the best article available to answer the question: What is Brain-based Coaching?
Being Present
A thought to start the week: "being present".
4 Questions to Develop Your Quality of Thought
A robust quality of thought has never been more important than right now. Ask these 4 questions to develop the habit for a quality of thought.
MASTERING YOUR BRAIN: Why you Should Rethink the Value of Your Brain
Given the competition for our attention, it's no wonder our brains are so-easily overwhelmed. Limit the impact on your performance by rethinking how you value and use your brain.
Killer Conversations
A thought to start the week: "killer conversations".
3 Brain-based Ingredients to Accelerate Rapport
The brain is a social animal. Accelerate and deepen rapport with these 3 brain-based ingredients.
Conversation Killers
A thought to start the week: "conversation killers".
Seizing More Opportunity by Learning to Listen to Yourself
Our intuition is a powerful ally to our more "rational" decision-making tactics - if we can learn to listen to it.
The Interpersonal Skill That Stands Out Most in Super Successful People
The more you prioritise the other person, the more you will shine in that person's eyes. An interpersonal skill for great success.
One Simple Question to Supercharge Your Actions
Know the difference between output and outcome, activity and action. One simple question to move you forward.
9 Brain-based Strategies to Stop Prioritising Your Fear Over Your Success
Our brains are hardwired for survival - and that bias can leak into moments when pure survival is not our only goal. Learn to prioritise your success over your fear with these brain-based strategies.
One Empowering Question to Unlock Empowering Beliefs
Beliefs are the rules we live by. And we can choose them. Ask this one great question to challenge your limiting beliefs and unlock empowering beliefs in their place.
How to Get Beyond a Mental Impasse
Our deeper thinking can frequently get stuck. And what do we ordinarily do? Think harder! But to overcome a mental impasse quickly and efficiently takes a different approach.
How to Keep Perspective on Your Journey
Knowing where we are and where we're headed is crucial to goal pursuit. But we can only achieve true perspective if we acknowledge where and what we've come from.
The Only 3 Rules You Need When Giving Feedback
Feedback is a gift. An opportunity for insight, learning, development and improvement. Become an expert giver with these three simple rules.
How and Why You’re Limiting Your Team’s Thinking
Successful people bring out the best in the high-calibre teams they surround themselves with. But it can be all-too-easy to become the obstacle. Instead: become a master of supporting others' thinking.
The Only 2 Words You Need When Receiving Feedback
Feedback is a gift. An opportunity for insight, learning, development and improvement. Become an expert receiver with these two words.
The Power in Simplicity
How often do you look for complexity? Try looking for simplicity instead.
Choose Your Thinking to Get Things Done
There are 5 levels of thinking, some helpful, some not. Improve the quality of your thinking by applying this simple model.
3 Secret Ingredients to Reawaken Your Motivation
Extrinsic motivation is not best-suited to the more complex, challenging and interesting work of today. So when we do need that extra impetus to get us moving in the New Year, look to intrinsic motivation.
Your Brain-based Resolution for 2016
Thinking is the source. Introduce a brain-based resolution to your list for 2016: to have your thinking serve you better as you work towards success.
Making Resolutions You’ll Keep
Resolutions don’t have to be big, just meaningful. And only worth making if you’re intent on keeping them. Here’s how.
Forget the Resolutions, Just for Today
Take a different approach to New Year and use its ceremony to celebrate what has been and what's to come. And save the resolutions for tomorrow.
Make 2016 Your Pivotal Moment
Success is defined in a few pivotal moments. Make the turn of the year your pivotal moment.
Where to Find Turn-of-the-Year Inspiration
At this time of year, many of us are reflecting on what's been and what's to come. Find inspiration: look to your childhood.
The Thinking Skill Guaranteed to Improve Focus and Attention
Competition for our brain’s attention is fierce. Every minute of every day. To really zero-in on a topic, we need to employ the right thinking skills.
How to Complete on Your Thinking
During your downtime, give your brain permission to turn its attentions to something other than work.
A Simple Trick to Keep Your Brain on Track
It's never just one thing competing for our attention. Try this ultra-simple brain-friendly trick for keeping you and your brain on track.
The Circumstantial Influences on our Thinking
Noticing the patterns and relationships between our flawed thinking and the circumstance can provide an early warning system to combat future thinking errors.
How Keystone Habits can be the Recipe for Your Success
With limited time, energy and willpower, career success can depend on identifying and cultivating not just any habits, but impactful keystone habits.
How to Harness the Power of Habit
Bring into conscious awareness the component parts that make-up your habits and reshape these powerful processes according to your own design.
5 Traits and 3 Rules of Peak Performance in the Moment
A number of ingredients are necessary for performance at the high-pressure moments. Here are 5 traits of high performers. And 3 rules to help prevent choking.
How Your Subpersonalities Can Improve Your Performance
With practised self-awareness, we can learn to make conscious choices about which versions of our self show-up in the pivotal moments.
How to Manage Stress to Your Advantage
Stress is an issue at work. But in the right dosage, stress can also be an ally. Here are 7 tips to help achieve the right balance.
5 Steps to an Intentionally-designed Work/Life Balance
All-too-often, the balance in our life and work is not according to our intentional design. Promote awareness and responsibility with these 5 steps.
The 3 Cs of Great Goal Setting
Goal-setting can be overwhelming. The 3 Cs of Great Goal Setting provide a simple but effective strategy for setting a goal of direction, purpose and ownership.
How to Get Unstuck and Have Powerful Results
An effective thinking model around the 6 areas of learning and Change. To get unstuck and start aligning yourself with your goals.
The Faulty Thinking Hampering Your Success
A closer look at our thinking reveals faulty beliefs and irrational thoughts keeping us from our success. Learn to spot and combat your 6 most common thinking errors.
The Other Side of Decision Making
For the big decisions, we must expand our conscious awareness and acknowledge the other side of the decision-making story - if we're serious about change.
3 Essential Skills for Brain-based Communication
Take a brain-based approach to deepen your communication skills and bring lasting value to those you are communicating with.
7 Brain-based Techniques for More Creative Leadership
The ability to quieten our minds and tap into our innate creativity with a few brain-friendly techniques can set us apart in a corporate world otherwise set in its ways.
8 Essential Habits for Optimum Brain Performance
The 8 good mental habits that will keep your brain firing on all cylinders: at home and at work.
4 Truths Successful People Know About Winning Promotion
The 4 stand-out truths about promotion that successful professionals just get. And how you can use them to win your next promotion
The 5 Social Domains Driving Behaviour at Work
How successful leaders increase staff engagement by understanding the 5 social domains that drive behaviour.
5 Little Lies That Keep Us From Success
Reclaim responsibility for your success by challenging the little lies that keep us out of action and away from our success.
The Coaching Leader’s Nemesis: Adding Value
The biggest challenge for leaders who want to adopt more of a coaching mentality: turning-off the burning need to add value. Learn to do that and watch the performance of your team soar.
15 Thinking Strategies to Improve Performance
Overcome the limitations of your brain by employing these thinking strategies to work smarter, improve focus, minimise distraction and improve performance.
5 Powerful Coaching Questions to Beat Impostor Syndrome
By learning to internalise accomplishments, challenge limiting beliefs and cultivate helpful patterns of thinking, Impostor Syndrome need not derail you.
From Goal Setting to Goal Achieving: How to Set Goals That Get Done
Setting an End Goal is just the beginning. Unleash goal-achieving potential with complementary Performance, Process and Learning Goals.
9 Domains Crucial to a High-performing State of Mind
The 9 crucial domains of a high-performing state of mind. And the simple self-coaching questions to cultivate each.
10 Minutes to Coach Yourself into Action on Your Goals
10 minutes. 10 steps. Get crystal-clear on your goals and start making transformative changes driven by powerful action.
6 Coaching Tips to Increase Effectiveness in Meetings
6 techniques translated from the coaching toolkit to amplify personal effectiveness in meetings and increase overall meeting productivity.
6 Insights into the Brain at Work: Part 3
The final 3 brain-based insights - and ways we can update and even override that hardwiring.
6 Insights into the Brain at Work: Part 2
Brain-based insights that show us just how different our brains are - and what that means for performance.
6 Insights into the Brain at Work: Part 1
Brain-based insights to help meet the challenge of work and business, amplify our impact and improve our performance.
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The What, Why and How of Brain-based Coaching
What is Brain-based Coaching? How does it differ from other forms of coaching? What makes it so beneficial? And why might you choose brain-based coaching over other personal development options?