Performance Psychology
Performance Psychology
Always carry an ideas book
When I am coaching my clients on negotiation and all other high perforamance business skills, I give them a small notebook to write down their thoughts and ideas as they occur to them. This week Jeremy Wilson vice chairman of Barclays PLC and Chairman of Bloomsbury Publishing reminded me that he always carries my notebook [...]
Posted on July 19, 2008 • No comments so far
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Wednesday the most depressing day?
The University of Sydney have just published a piece of research which says that Wednesday is the most depressing day of the week. Apparently this is because we are furthest from either weekend. They also found that although we look forward to the weekend it doesn’t actually improve our mood.
What amazes me is that these [...]
Posted on July 2, 2008 • No comments so far
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Performance Psychology
Wow Cards
Travelling back from the National Speakers Conference in Manchester (having keynoted in front of the most challenging audience in the UK) we were confronted with a delayed flight to Gatwick. We tried to get on a BA flight to Heathrow abd after much rapport building and negotiating we were told it would cost £64 each. [...]
Posted on June 29, 2008 • No comments so far
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360 degree feedback – johari window
Used properly 360 degree feedback can be very helpful. However it has to be debriefed carefully as people do not know somethings about themselves that other people know about them. Go to http://www.businessballs.com/johariwindowmodel.htmfor an explanation and clear daigram of how this works.
When you do give people feedback, do it sensitively, privately and with the outcome [...]
Posted on June 26, 2008 • No comments so far
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Scolari – Portugal / Chelsea Coach who influences him?
Performance coaching with psychologists. One of the top sports psychologists is Regina Maria Ferreira Brandao who is generally only known in academic circles. However she has been working with Scolari for the last 10 years, when he won the world cup with Brazil, with Portugal at present and will be working with Chelsea shortly. Her [...]
Posted on June 14, 2008 • No comments so far
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