Stage 9 of this year’s men’s Giro d’italia was a medium mountains stage, and by the last climb, 8 riders were left at the front of the race. With 2.5km to go until the mountain top finish, Felix Gall attacked out of the group. The race’s hot favourite, Jonas Vingegaard, soon after bridged across to […]
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In leadership and performance, our use of language for what we’re moving towards, and who we’re becoming, is critical. At some point in our developmental journey, we may realise the power and effectiveness of making our language “softer”*. Not out of fear, avoidance, weakness, or because we don’t have the energy or conviction anymore, but
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I was working with a client the other day. Smart, wise, articulate, conversationally skilled, and definitely not looking for options, but they were wanting different outcomes. At some point in the session, I felt it was like we’d come up to a decent sized rock on the low-tide shore, that could have a few interesting
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Subtract. He wrote the word on some masking tape, and stuck it on the bench in front of the chef. “That’s how you do better.” It’s a scene out of the tv show “The Bear” where the central character, Carmy, a tortured top chef, is flashing back to his traumatic experiences working in one of
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A friend and work colleague of mine was recently appointed as senior coach of a local football club for the first time, and asked me to be his assistant. I respect and admire this guy, who’s a lot younger than me, very much, so it was definitely an honour to be asked. Despite my extensive
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This be could be profound, or it could be bleedingly obvious. One person’s treasure is another’s trash. As a practitioner, like you, I take notice how other practitioners do their thing, how they present themselves publicly, what they choose to emphasise and how they message it. One of the things I observe, is what I
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The Request I’d love your help. Can I please get your honest and skilful thoughts? I recently wrote a message to the mother (and sponsor) of one of my clients. Before and after sending it, I re-read it couple of times. It was a situation where I expressed my professional opinion-personal values in a way
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Junior Footy Like me, my 5 years younger brother Mitch, has been coaching all his career. He gives a lot to his community and with two tween-age boys, he’s also co-coaching one of their football teams with another Dad. Didn’t set out to be the one of the coaches, but in the end they had
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Lance Believe it or not, after all the water under the bridge, I still listen to what Lance Armstrong has to say in and around professional cycling. Stay with me 🙂 He has some great insights, which demonstrate other factors he leveraged to win the biggest bike races. I’m not condoning what he did and I
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It was just a couple of days ago. He’d graciously taken the conversational lead, by telling me where he’d been in the last few days of our drawn out SMS correspondence to line up the meeting, he asked me where I lived and mentioned he grew up nearby. We discussed riding bikes and surfing, and
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*This is the 3rd of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 A New Deal I pulled into the beautiful little stop of Anglers Rest with about 200kms ridden under my belt, feeling horrid and ready to pull the
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*This is the 2nd of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 1 and Part 3 The Meeting Sometimes, it’s so simple. I was gone. And over it. At a rest stop, sitting on the grass 200km into a 235km cycling event, I’d had
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