What stops our success? It may not be the obvious place to start to answer the question, but how blind are you to your own beliefs, attitudes and behaviours and the impact they have? Whether positive or negative, your beliefs about the situation you are in and...
How do you Stop Bullying in the Workplace?
How do you stop Bullying in the Workplace? Bullying is stubbornly still prevalent in the workplace and business life. Although organisations know how damaging it is, many employ policies and procedures that are fair, right and logical but those approaches are clearly not working. Why not stop...
How does mental toughness help?
Mental toughness is back! The phrase is once again hitting the headlines in the world of leadership, performance and development whether in sport or business. It is a term used by many people to refer to the attributes that enable people to perform under pressure in different...
Employability – a view from an experienced recruitment specialist
Employability – a view from a recruitment specialist ‘Over 80 applications for every graduate vacancy’ – headlines from just 12 months ago, with similar dramatic claims regularly being made. But it’s not just the graduate market that is concerned about the number of applications people make. With...
Why do leadership development programmes fail?
Why do Leadership Development Programmes Fail? According to a report by Pierre Gurdjian, Thomas Halbeisen and Kevin Lane and released by McKinsey this month (January 2014) four reasons are given: Overlooking context; Decoupling reflection from real work; Underestimating mindsets; Failing to measure results. Will this evidence be...
Mind Fit and the 4 Global Strengths – No4 Feedback
Any feedback has value. Bold statement maybe, but whatever feedback you were given, by others or yourself, there is a value. Awareness, Control, Focus , Feedback are the 4 Mind Fit Global Strengths. They form a continual loop that will ensure you start to close your perception reality...
Mind Fit and the 4 Global Strengths – No3 Focus
Few use focus well The ability to focus on what’s important is a skill we all have but few use it well. It’s pretty clear when the camera is out of focus as we see a blurred image. But everyday we’re faced with lots of choices and...
Mind Fit and the 4 Global Strengths – No2 Control
Awareness and Control are inseparable In No1 we looked at Awareness but in reality the concepts of awareness and control are inseparable. They are the two key determinants of mind fitness and underpin any success you will have in creating healthy individuals, a dynamic team and organizations....
Mind Fit and the 4 Global Strengths – No1 Awareness
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” (Abraham Maslow) However, as we should know it’s far broader than just awareness of him/herself. The key is how you do ‘awareness’ is what counts – we say do because you have to...
Were you as lucky as this ugly duckling?
This ugly duckling was lucky. Remember the Hans Christian Andersen story about the ugly duckling? Well, as all of his stories there’s always a happy ending and in this case the ‘ugly duckling’ grows into a beautiful swan. Not that Simon, the subject of our story,...