I've got a question for you... Do you ever think, deep down, maybe so deep down that you've never even consciously thought it to yourself, and certainly you wouldn't say it out loud... Do you ever think that somebody as clever as you are shouldn't have to work as hard as you do?
Blog Category: Blog
[Article] How can I set goals if I don’t know what I want?
Have you ever found yourself wondering what your goals are? Not because you haven’t thought about them, but because you haven’t got anything in mind that you want to commit to, that you’re excited about doing, or that looks like a meaningful challenge. It happens to most people at some point.
[Video] Making sense of differences in a team
People often ask me: "What are the best tools for understanding the way that people are in teams?" So I thought it would be helpful to have a clear idea of the different types of models and how they are useful...
[Video] Be the Best
In this video I explore something I heard on the radio in an interview with the former Rugby Union player, Will Greenwood. One of the things he said that stuck with me was: "Be the best at things that don't require any talent or skill".
[Article] Why leaders need to work in teams
The SCARF model (developed by David Rock) is based in neuroscience. It defines the key requirements for keeping the human brain in Reward mode and out of Threat mode. The focus of this article is how, as leaders, we can use the SCARF model to maintain our own performance.
[Video] Why are my developers so grumpy?
Let me just say up front... I don't know whether your developers are grumpy, and I don't know why YOUR developers might be grumpy. But I DO know some of the reasons why developers in general might SEEM grumpy to their colleagues around them.
[Article] Life-changing – what does it mean?
In a recent email I referred to the NLP Practitioner training as ‘life-changing’. To say that something is life changing is indeed a bold claim and one that is worth qualifying. I have two ways of qualifying my statement – one is dramatic, the other much more pragmatic.
[Video] The Six Deadly Words
What I'm going to share with you in this video are six words that are in common usage. We call them 'The Six Deadly Words' because they can have such a profound effect on somebody else's thought process when you use them.
[Article] Be Yourself
“Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken.” This quote, often attributed to Oscar Wilde, is one that is familiar to many people. Good advice? Probably. But what does it mean, to be yourself?
[Video] The best job in the world
When I was in conversation with another NLP trainer, I heard myself saying to her: "I think teaching NLP Practitioner is the best job in the world". It is true... of all the different things I do in my business, teaching the NLP Practitioner programme is probably my favourite thing. And there's a number of reasons why...
[Article] Leadership Development in 2022
What have you done in the way of personal or professional development in the past two years? Where is your company in relation to developing people? I suggest there are five levels of operation here. Check out the levels...
[Video] Charisma
If you ask people what makes a great leader, the chances are you're going to get a huge variety of different answers. But there's a word that often crops up and people talk about great leaders having charisma...
