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Yes, we know carrots are good for your physical health—your skin, digestion and blood pressure, plus some—and they’re good for your mental health too. I want to be sure our thinking is aligned regarding the “mental health” though… Using my exercise routine as an example, here’s my self-talk about exercising: “I enjoy a physical workout.Read more

Oh my gosh, occasionally circumstances seem to line up against us, don’t they? You know those days, when the traffic made you late for a meeting, then the content of the meeting had you feeling hot under the collar, and then, on the way back to your desk, one of your team members, Mike, informsRead more

Seth Godin, whom I must say is the most consistently stimulating and highly creative author I’ve ever encountered, strikes again in my Leadership Bulletin this month . This time it’s with a reminder of a pivotal insight into a setting that we each encounter day-by-day, even minute-by-minute… Seth said: “The batter has already hit twoRead more

You really want to make this change, right? Maybe you’ve tried before and it hasn’t stuck. Now you’re ready to step up to the plate again—but you need a new approach. You’re in the right place. I’m about to describe a dependable, NASA researched process for shifting a behavioural habit for good, once and forRead more

Difficult people can be exasperating! You put so much mental energy into thinking about them, allowing thoughts about them to niggle away at you. How can you resolve this?   Step One: Make a Decision Make a realistic decision about whether or not you’re able to change things with them. And if you don’t thinkRead more

Self-esteem. It’s a sensitive topic that, in an instant, could have you putting yourself into one of two camps… Camp 1:    My self-esteem is good, thanks very much. I’m not sure that I need this bulletin. Camp 2:    You’ve written this for me. I definitely need to feel better about myself! If you’re in theRead more

I don’t know about you but my last year was pretty damned good—however that’s not stopping me from figuring out what I can do to make this year even better. What exactly will I do? I need to shift something—a behaviour, or a habit, or an attitude I have towards something or someone—if I’m toRead more

A telltale sign of a great leader is that they have “behavioural flexibility”… Great leaders aren’t always tough, or always friendly, or always futuristic in their thinking. They have the capacity to be all those things, plus some—depending on what sort of situation they’re confronting. They have many arrows in their quiver, many tools inRead more

You really want to make this change, right? Maybe you’ve tried before, and it hasn’t stuck. Now you’re ready to step up to the plate again but need some new technique, a new approach in your leadership toolkit. You’re in the right place. I’m about to describe a dependable, NASA researched process for shifting aRead more

Things truly flow for some leaders. They’re organised and in control. Their energy levels are always impressive. Their relationships are first-rate. They seem to always feel really good. And here’s the clincher: As a consequence they’re able to genuinely focus on their targeted outcomes and set the scene for real leadership success. Contrasting these “in-the-flow”Read more

Some leaders excel and some don’t. We notice, don’t we? And the determinant’s not usually their stunning technical skills, extreme drive or tireless advocacy for their cause, is it? So what does the research tell us about the difference between leaders who excel and those who don’t? And what do your personal observations tell us?Read more

Some of the leaders I coach are simply too task-focussed! Well, being “too task-focused” is not exactly the real issue. It’s that these leaders are insufficiently “people-focused”. In their effort to get the job done they burn people up and consequently the job doesn’t get done! One leader I met a couple of years agoRead more

Would you like to feel personally more satisfied, more often? And at the same time achieve better results? Here’s a subtle, simple and reliable approach that I highly recommend to you…   Crafting What You Want When coaching leaders through a difficulty, I notice that one of their biggest shifts comes from this one question:Read more

Tony, a CEO I’d just started working with, in one sense had an appreciative leadership team! They were grateful that Tony was always willing to listen to their issues, understand their situation, empathise with them and go all out to support them. However problems were brewing, problems that eventually erupted… Two members of Tony’s leadershipRead more