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What’s your preferred behavioural style?

In 1948 Walter V Clarke and Associates was formed working in industrial psychology.  This followed an extensive period of research analyzing the results from tests undertaken on over one million American servicemen as they were demobbed.  From his analysis, Clarke showed that people had 5 Vectors of behaviour and all humans displayed either a large

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Positive or Optimistic?

What is the difference and why does it matter? It has only struck me recently as to why it is important to differentiate between these two thought attiudes.  By chance I was listening  to a life coach extolling the virtues of always looking for the good in every situation and why optimism leads to success. 

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What Causes Conflict

The most common cause of interpersonal  conflict that we see as a group of coaches, are behvioural conflicts where over time differences in behaviours start to annoy.  You know what I mean, interuptions when you are concentrating or perhaps your partner not letting you finish a sentence or even sometimes a lack of enthusiasm for

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What does success mean to you

Perhaps success to you means working from a beach like the chap in the photo at the top of the page!  Success to some people is being wealthy whilst to others it’s something like bringing up your children to be kind.  My point is that Success is different for many people and indeed even when

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The work-life balance oversimplification!

I notice that organisations are seemingly paying much more attention to their people’s welfare nowadays and in particular are encouraging us all to get our work-life balance correct.  It’s strange but I have always thought that asking people to balance these two things is like trying to balance on a two-wheel bike for the first

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A Good Nights Sleep

I am not an expert in sleeping disorders and from my experience, there are several reasons that people find difficulty in getting off to sleep or keep waking during the night. Therefore one solution will not solve all these issues, but I have noticed that a common type od sleeplessness occurs when you can’t stop

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Overextending One’s Drivers

Drivers, also known as motivators, are what gets a person out of bed every morning to do the things they do. They are the reason behind the behaviors, the things that essentially make each and every one of us who we are. Sometimes, our most dominant driving forces become overextended and this thing that we normally

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Why do people do the things they do?

It’s a bit of a challenging time at the moment for most people, but I have been struck by peoples differing responses to the same situation.  See if you recognise some peope  or even your own response after you have read this piece.  In fact understanding this might help you to explain your feelings and

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What’s your preferred behavioural style?

In 1948 Walter V Clarke and Associates was formed working in industrial psychology.  This followed an extensive period of research analyzing the results from tests undertaken on over one million American servicemen as they were demobbed.  From his analysis, Clarke showed that people had 5 Vectors of behaviour and all humans displayed either a large

Positive or Optimistic?

What is the difference and why does it matter? It has only struck me recently as to why it is important to differentiate between these two thought attiudes.  By chance I was listening  to a life coach extolling the virtues of always looking for the good in every situation and why optimism leads to success. 

What Causes Conflict

The most common cause of interpersonal  conflict that we see as a group of coaches, are behvioural conflicts where over time differences in behaviours start to annoy.  You know what I mean, interuptions when you are concentrating or perhaps your partner not letting you finish a sentence or even sometimes a lack of enthusiasm for

What does success mean to you

Perhaps success to you means working from a beach like the chap in the photo at the top of the page!  Success to some people is being wealthy whilst to others it’s something like bringing up your children to be kind.  My point is that Success is different for many people and indeed even when