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What is the key to improving team performance? How does team performance differ from individual performance? Improving team performance is about shifting the entire curve of performance rates for your whole team. To make a meaningful difference, everyone has to start performing better. Keep reading for strategies for improving team performance.
Is it possible to go from an introvert to an extrovert? How fixed is anyone’s personality or temperament? You can go from being an introvert to an extrovert, but that change wouldn’t be permanent. Realistically, what happens is that some people are good at acting like the other personality type based on the demands of a given situation. Read on to see how to go from introvert to extrovert temporarily.
What is the sunk cost bias or the sunk cost fallacy? How does it affect decision-making? The sunk cost bias or fallacy is a term that describes when someone keeps following through on an endeavor to justify previously invested resources. This tendency, which is related to loss aversion and status quo biases, is often the result of ongoing commitment and zeal towards a project. Keep reading for more about the sunk cost bias.
What does it mean to have compassion for yourself? How does the way you treat and talk to yourself affect your relationships with other people? The idea of having compassion for yourself may seem like a foreign concept to many people. This is especially true for those who were raised in abusive or unloving homes, where expressing care and kindness was uncommon, if not downright strange. Read about the importance of cultivating compassion for yourself and how it affects the way you relate to others.
How important is a mindset for success? How can you increase your chances of achieving success by changing the way you think about your goals? A mindset for success is a set of attitudes, beliefs, and tendencies that you have around effort, achievement, and failure. There are multiple factors at play in achieving success, but the mindset is often overlooked. Read about the importance of mindset for success.
Do you want to develop the manager abilities highlighted by Trillion Dollar Coach? What are some exercises for fostering these skills? The manager abilities focused on in Trillion Dollar Coach all relate to people skills. Exercises and questions can reflect on your current abilities and where you might have room for improvement. Keep reading for exercises to reflect on your manager abilities.
Are you looking to accomplish personal goals? Do you want to know if the 4DX system might work for you outside of a business setting? The 4DX system is perfect for all settings, including work, personal, and family goals. The disciplines will remain the same for the personal 4DX system, but you will just approach them differently. Read on for the 4DX system as applied to personal goals.
What are the four nonviolent communication steps? How can applying these steps help you connect with people on a deeper, more meaningful level? Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a framework for interacting with ourselves and others with compassion and empathy. There are four nonviolent communication steps: observing, identifying feelings, connecting feelings to needs, and making requests. Learn how to apply the four nonviolent communication steps, according to Marshall Rosenberg.
What is emotional responsibility? How can taking responsibility for your feelings help you understand what is driving them? When negative emotions take over, we often place the blame on people or circumstances. But in reality, people or events are never the true cause of our emotions—these are just stimuli. Understanding this is the first to step to assuming emotional responsibility. Read more to learn about emotional responsibility and how it can benefit both yourself and others.
How do you achieve success? More importantly, how do you sustain the success you already have? There is no doubt that rising to success—whatever it means for you—is hard work. Many people fail to sustain their success long-term because it often comes a boost in ego, which can sabotage all the hard work they put into it. We will explore how this happens and how you can resist that fate and sustain success long-term.