College Football Season is Finally Here. What’s Your Home Field Advantage?

Saturday + Fall = College Football Bring on the tailgating, rivalries and College GameDay. The bands, fight songs, and pre-game rituals. The undergrads and alumni, the old timers and the new generation. It’s football season. Fans can’t wait to cheer on their team at their home stadium. Every big play is magnified by the thunderous applause and support of the ... Read More

What do the double front somersault, Switch 720 and freestyle backflip have in common?

If you’re like me, any of these stunts would earn you a one-way ticket to six months in a full body cast, compliments of “questionable extreme sports decisions”. Instead, you watch in amazement as skilled platform divers, skiers and motocross champs perform incredible athletic feats of balance and precision. As Steven Kotler investigates in his book, “The Rise of the ... Read More

True Wellbeing Requires Attention to Five Key Elements

Is your career on fire? Congratulations, but you’re still only one out of five… What about your social life, physical fitness, financial stability or engagement with your local community? Do people mistake your beach body for Shawn T of Insanity workout fame? Cool… However, do you actually enjoy what you do every day, have solid, meaningful relationships and properly manage ... Read More

Is Your Life a Tinder Fire, a Campfire or a Bonfire?

Is Your Life a Tinder Fire, a Campfire or a Bonfire?
It’s been said that someone who doesn’t read might as well be illiterate—he’s no better off than the man who can’t. In the same way, neglecting your natural talents denies your friends, family, colleagues and, most importantly, yourself, from achieving your full potential. Let’s break this down.

How Much Time Do You Have Left?

Does this infographic startle you? An entire year in traffic? Six years of cooking, cleaning, and chores? And, the real mind-crusher: nine years watching TV, playing video games and surfing the Web. Ouch… Our limited time on earth is certainly filled with many “must do’s” like eating, sleeping, work. In education parlance these are our “core curriculum” courses. Gotta eat, gotta sleep ... Read More

Lionel Messi Exemplifies Strengths-based Teamwork for Argentina

Lionel Messi exemplifies Strengths-based Teamwork for Argentina
Today’s WSJ: Messi “Idle” 90% of the Time. What Gives? You might assume that Argentina’s Lionel Messi, one of the best football scorers in the world, has one of the highest “activity” rates of any player on the field–chasing down every pass and stray ball. However, there is more than meets the eye to Messi’s success. A study by The Journal of ... Read More

3 Damaging Myths of Personal Development and What It Means to You Today

Three Damaging Myths of Personal Development
In his best-selling book “Go Put Your Strengths to Work,” Marcus Buckingham outlines three damaging myths that hamper our growth and ability to achieve excellence. Why are these myths so prevalent? More importantly, how do we confront these myths, embrace the truth and start improving ourselves today?

Do you behave dictatorially or collaboratively? Give advice or enable others to discover? Exert expertise or treat everyone as equals?

While effective coaching from managers increases employee engagement and commitment, coaching others does not always come naturally. Improved collaborative listening skills and balancing advice versus discovering solutions together benefit employee engagement and the overall health of the organization. Wise words from two of the world’s leadership development experts. Finding the Balance Between Coaching and Managing – Jack Zenger, and Joseph ... Read More