Is your emotional level allowing you to think clearly? Is it enabling you to influence others in a useful or effective way? Under high stress our ability to see nuance and different perspectives contracts because the prefrontal cortex where we do our more rational...
Some people are claiming we will have more negative consequences from being afraid of Covid-19 than the virus itself. They subscribe to the traditional view of stress and fear. This revolves around avoiding the fight/flight/freeze response, ‘because it’s...
Understanding others through perceptual positions: Perceptual positioning was advocated by John Grindler and Judith DeLozier who developed it as an exercise from work by Gregory Bateson. It is based on the premise that to understand a situation fully you need to take...
What is Emotional intelligence? In 1990 John Mayer and Peter Salovey’s research confirmed that some people are better than others at 1. identifying what people are feeling, 2. solving problems that involve emotional issues and 3. identifying their own feelings. They...
Last week I had a new member join my team at home. Pearl is an assistance dog* for my eldest daughter, and she joins us having had almost two years of training. I’ve never had a dog before, and it’s been very interesting being trained up on how to make...
I meet many leaders and often the coaching focuses on what their priorities should be and what a good leader should do. Here are my top five things to focus on: Have a clear “vision” of where the team wants to be. This has to be able to be described so people can...
