Forbes called it an overused buzzword back in 2012 but it stuck around to become one of the most cliché words of the pandemic. If you feel a little bit allergic to the word “pivot,” you might be wondering….is there anything more that can possibly be said? I believe it’s worth looking at this topic […]
Some leaders learn about psychological safety, candor, empathy, and other high-performance leadership strategies, and they immediately jump to trying to implement these strategies. But they forget about the foundation – building trust. We have nothing without trust. How can we expect to foster a high-performance culture with a lack of trust? How can we expect […]
There are so many stories that I have heard about athletes who simply don’t ‘have it in them to be gritty’, and as a result, end up being the players who everyone thought would flourish but ultimately… fizzled out. The journey to high performance and mastery in athletics is almost never an easy one. Maybe, […]
The author Angela Duckworth (who wrote the book Grit) has defined grit as passion and perseverance for long-term goals. Grit is the result of nurturing a growth mindset. Mindset is connected to grit because we may have everything it takes to succeed but we need to be mentally set up to roll with the setbacks […]
In a corporate context, leaders often struggle to connect with their people when trying to change systems, behavior, and/or to get buy-in for their initiatives. Oftentimes, it’s because they spend more time with charts, figures, data, business cases, and science, rather than on connecting with their audience in more creative ways and using the power […]
A lot of athletes have the misconception that their self-care quota gets met through any/all of their physical recovery routines. I often find myself talking about how this is not the case and how, if athletes don’t pay attention to their needs aside from the ones met in physical recovery, they put themselves at risk […]
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