Performance Psychology

Positive People in Vancouver

Posted on March 25, 2007 • Read the rest of this entry »

Performance Psychology

Vancouver, Canada

I am speaking at a conference in Vancouver this week. I cease to be amazed about how positive Canadian people are and how much more positive they are than people generally in the UK. Why is this I ask? Is it because of the culture, you have to take more action to be a success? [...]

Posted on March 25, 2007 • Read the rest of this entry »

Negotiation

Are cash flow problems are caused by an inability to Negotiate?

“You couldn’t make it up if you tried” That is an expression that my mentor Alan Weiss uses a great deal. He tells me I must relate stories in my keynote speeches to things that happen to me on a daily basis. I have two clients who I have invested time with and they intend [...]

Posted on March 11, 2007 • Read the rest of this entry »

Performance Psychology

Care with your HANDSHAKE

Saturday morning and there is a bash on the door. There is an enthusiastic young man on the doorstep, asking me if I know about the council elections in May. He was good a bit over enthusiastic BUT there was one thing that let him down. HIS HANDSHAKE. He shook hands with me at the [...]

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Performance Psychology

Aristotle said it

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit”Aristotle

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