Bite Size: What a Performance Psychologist Got Wrong About His Own Life | Dr Michael Gervais
There is a phrase elite performers use to keep people at a distance without ever saying so directly: don't look at me, look at my performanc...
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The Science of Neurotransmitters: 5 Chemicals Every Leader Must Understand | Dr Tom Buckley
Much of what leaders put down to stress, or to a lapse in discipline, is chemistry at work. Andrew chose five of these moments, drew a real...
Bite Size: Why “My Door’s Always Open” Isn’t Enough | Keegan Hipgrave
Most leaders have said it. My door’s always open. Far fewer realise their team is watching whether they ever walk through a door themselves....
Culture Expert: How Leaders Measure, Own, and Fix the Culture They Inherited | Karl Treacher
If culture’s in HR, it’s in foster care . Karl Treacher has spent 25 years inside boardrooms, including the war room of a big four bank duri...
Bite Size: The Hidden Cost of a High Performing ADHD Brain | Lindy Hadges
Lost jobs. Bankruptcy. Marriages that did not survive. Unmanaged ADHD can leave a trail most of us never see, because the risk-taking that l...
How a CEO Built Leadership Capacity + Created a Ripple Effect in His Entire Team | Byron Cannon
You’re exceptional at your job. That isn’t the problem. The skills, the experience, the judgement, you’ve spent years building those and the...
Bite Size: Stop Promoting Your Best Performer Into Leadership | Lisa Alexander
Ask Lisa Alexander who the best coaches she has known were, and almost none of them were the best players. Alexander spent a decade running...
Bite Size: How To Coach a Client Through the Worst Year of Their Life | Nam Baldwin
Divorce at the start of the year. A great white shark attack, live on television, in the middle of it. The death of his eldest brother at th...
Bite Size: Why Win-At-All-Costs Doesn't Survive Contact With Business | Michael Klim
Olympic gold medallist, Michael Klim , explains why the mentality that won him 17 years of world records nearly destroyed his life after ret...
Bite Size: What Creatine Actually Does to a Desk-Bound Brain | Dr Tom Buckley
Creatine has spent decades filed under gym supplements, something for building muscle and nothing else. Dr Tom Buckley says that filing is o...
Bite Size: The Weeks You're Allowed to Just Survive | Andrew May & Angela Poon
Most productivity systems quietly punish you for a bad week. Andrew May's Better Week framework budgets for them. The target is 25 to 30 gen...
Bite Size: The Skill Sport Teaches That Leaves You Lonely | Stuart Clark & Steve Rixon
Years of touring teach cricketers to be very comfortable in their own company. Coffee when you want it, lunch when you want it, a day built...
Bite Size: How to Step Down Without Screwing It Up | Michael Bungay Stanier
Most people who benefit from the status quo work hard to keep it. Michael Bungay Stanier, Rhodes Scholar and bestselling author of The Coach...
The Science of Mental Fitness: Why Movement is Non-Negotiable | Dr John Ratey
A professor at Harvard and MIT wrecked his knee and stopped running the 7.5 miles he ran every night of his adult life. 5 months later he co...
Bite Size: The Simple Habit That Flattens Your Energy Crashes | Dr Amantha Imber
Most nutrition advice focuses on what you eat. Dr Amantha Imber, an organisational psychologist and author of The Health Habit, became more...
Conflict Expert: What Swallowed Words Costs a High Performing Team | Tim Duggan
You have rehearsed it in the shower. You have written the message and deleted it. And every time the moment arrives, you find a reason it ca...
Bite Size: The Two Steps That Stop a Player Throwing a Punch | Gilbert Enoka
A young player once told Gilbert Enoka that his advice was rubbish. On the field, when a referee makes a call he disagrees with, he wants to...
Performance Nutrition: Lessons From Special Ops + Elite Athletes for Everyday People | Jessica Spendlove
Elite athletes and Special Forces do not eat like you do....and the reason you fade in the afternoon is usually something you did that morni...
Bite Size: You Are Almost Certainly Underestimating Yourself | Craig Harper
There is a gap between what you are capable of and what you are actually doing. Craig Harper has spent 40 years studying it. His view: the g...
Mental Agility: Why it's so Important & How to Train it | Andrew May, Angela Poon, Jacqui Louder
Some people get sharper when the pressure lands. The meeting turns hostile, the plan collapses, the number comes in wrong, and they are stil...