If you're in any type of counselling or life-coaching role where you're trying to bring about change in people, then you've probably heard of a technique referred to as "motivational interviewing"....... But in case you're not familiar with the method, it's an approach based upon helping another person (your client) become more connected with their own reasons [...]
Choosing the right training consultant for your business If your business is looking to bring in a training consultant to delver some training to your staff, what exactly should you look for? Whether it is leadership training for your managers, or team building to improve staff engagement and work-group cohesion, or perhaps customer service training for your [...]
The goal of peak performance is to discover your best Peak performance is less about whether you are performing better or worse than anyone else - and more about whether you are performing to your best. Sure, there are times in sport and business when you might well find yourself in competitive situations - and then you probably will be benchmarking yourself [...]
Positive psychology and the study of happiness Positive psychology is an emerging branch of psychology that seeks to better understand the dynamics of happiness and well-being. Any guidance that it offers aims to be rooted in good science ..... In other words, through the use of well-conducted research it aims to gather data that identifies what enables people to [...]
It was William Shakespeare’s Hamlet who said, “Nothing is either good or bad, it is our thinking that makes it so”. Those words might serve to remind you of the power in your thoughts. Yes, there will probably be times when you will face difficult and maybe deeply upsetting circumstances in your life over which you have no [...]
Hiring the wrong person can be extremely costly for your business. If recruitment is something that you do only occasionally – and if you feel that you lack the expertise, time or confidence to get this right, then you might well consider the use of a recruitment agency. Alternatively, if you decide you want to train your [...]
"What are you doing as a leader when you are performing at your best?" This is the question that researchers Kouzes and Posner asked when they interviewed thousands of people in management and leadership roles in the mid 198o's. The responses formed the basis of their model "Exemplary Leadership Practices" and which they wrote about in their [...]
Workplace motivation - what drives people to perform better? Daniel Pink, in his best-selling book "Drive - The Amazing Truth About What Motivates Us" reveals some of the recent science around motivation. Yes, the traditional notion of reward and punishment still has some relevance today. And the "carrot and stick" has been central to the way [...]
