Rewire your Mindset for High Performance

Communicating with confidence and credibility reveals a great deal about you, your team and your organization. Preparing to send and receive messages effectively, and in any situation, exploring what to say and - most importantly - how to say it, and with the support of practical tools and techniques, you (and your team) can create and maintain powerful and harmonious relationships. It also helps build confidence, credibility and trust, preventing critical misunderstandings.

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There are many ways to develop and improve your communication skills. Make communication a priority, developing your listening skills, making sure you understand the message, and taking time to respond accordingly - drafting it first in your head what you want to say -  is one effective way to begin with.

In this lesson, we explore ways for you - in real life - to improve your communication skills with the support of positive leadership.

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Positive reinforcement is more than just having a positive attitude, or complimenting a job well done. In this lecture we go over leadership and these principles, and how the effective use of positive reinforcement creates better learning and skill development situations for all involved.

"If you want to train a dog, you have nothing but positive reinforcement at your disposal. It got me thinking, what if coaches could only use positive reinforcement?" Andy Driska, Ph.D. (article at your disposal in the resources below)

How can verbal and nonverbal communication be used effectively?

Being mindful and asking questions is a good way to begin with. In this lesson, we explore tips on how using language (verbal and nonverbal) can enhance your own ability to communicate well and get better results.

Let's dive into some practical exercises!

In order to fix a problem, we must first understand the exact nature of the problem, and providing meaningful feedback is a great way to achieve behavior change and move forward to implement the solution. How are you delivering feedback? How are you receiving feedback?

In this lecture, which contains crucial supportive materials, we explore steps to deliver constructive and impactful feedback, helping your communication, and ultimately yourself, your team, and your organization, all to excel at all times.

Leadership can be defined as the behavioral process of influencing individuals and groups towards setting and achieving goals, and exercising leadership creates a climate, that is called corporate culture in business, and team culture in sports. When we are talking about communication skills, communication styles and leadership, we must be aware that there are many types of it and we must accommodate accordingly. We explore all of these better in this lesson.

"Every employee plays a part in the process of changing organizational culture, but at the end of the day, leaders are the ones who can make or break it; the choices they make cause a ripple effect on employee recruitment, engagement, and performance that powerfully impacts a company's performance." The Role of Leadership in Changing Organizational Culture, cultureiq.com, 09.2020 (article in the resources field for reading support).

Getting better at communication, be more open to change, persist despite challenges and setbacks, and elevate focus and performance trough emotional resources, such as mindfulness practices and emotional freedom technique (E.F.T.) help you to become a more effective leader in today's world.

In fact, an effective leader will display confidence and lead by example, and making the link between mindset and effective leadership is essential here. Now, in this lecture, we explore needed behaviors, skills and mindset for a successful leadership. You can also access the articles below for supportive extra reading.

How to let go of the blockages that stop you from progressing, and being a good leader?

Letting go of stress, anxiety, fear and other low vibrational energies that surround your body, soul and mind is a crucial point when the topic is leadership emotional resources and how to restore balance in your career and life in general.

There are many ways you can let go of unwanted feelings and emotions. In this lecture, we focus on E.F.T. Tapping, and how to use this coaching tool in connection with this course in order to release unwanted memories, feelings and low vibrational energy.

As a tool for the brain (mindset shift/reprograming) E.F.T. (aka mental acupressure, as it works through the pressing of crucial energy points in our physical body, coupled with mind reframing commands) can be used here for self-awareness and mental skills reframing strategies.  E.F.T./Tapping has a robust body of research behind it, and you can use it especially when you need to feel calmer, and elevate your mental focus, as we better explore in this lecture.

Join me now! And be sure to access the bonus resources in this lecture, especially the Tapping Points Chart's below, as they are all supportive tools for your progress.

Address poor performance can be a difficult conversation, but it is needed in order to deal with it in the best possible way.

Usually the lack of accountability is the result of unclear roles and responsibilities, weak communication strategies, mental confusion, and unrealistic goals, which all end up in low performance, and possibly, burn out!

In this lecture we address how to have an action plan (preparedness, focus and accountability) so to avoid burn out and keep achieving your excellence in the short, medium and long runs.

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As we just spoke about on Lecture 14, planning is crucial, and staying on task can be difficult especially when you are surrounded by distractions, or perhaps are extra tired. So, whether you are trying to finish something at work, or competing at a marathon, or in a tennis tournament with high level, mentally strong tennis players, your ability to focus can mean the difference between success and failure.

In this lecture, we work on what - exactly - must be changed to improve your mental focus.

Quick tips: Should you let go of something that does not serve you and your purpose anymore? Should you shift/reframe your mindset? Should you take a break along your busy day, so to continue to pursue your high-performance goals? What kind of practice (support coaching tools) should you insert in your reality?  One thing is for sure: it will take some real engagement on your part, and a few extra dedicated minutes a day for practice. Because, again, just a little bit of practice a day can make a huge difference at the end, and your brain will begin to accept any change after at least a 21-day practice, before is becomes a new habit, in accordance with the latest researches on neuroscience (read support article below).

I am here to support you - so let's get busy!  And be sure to access the bonus resources below as a compliment for your progress here.

Mindfulness Practice - Yes! We are here together on this.

Mindfulness is a hot topic and for a good reason I am dedicating one full lecture for it. Let's work on staying present in the now, not complaining about the past, nor worrying about the future, just being present with the support of this transformational coaching tool, based on the works of Professor and Researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D.

Join me in this lecture for a training session on improvement of your concentration and focus, lowering your stress levels, with a bonus info on research stats and a real practice (Mindfulness Guide) dedicated just for you!

The fact is that confidence is made of our beliefs, that create our attitudes, which in turn impact our behaviors, thereby creating our results or performance. It is all related, and the biggest question now is: Are your beliefs helping or hurting you?

Let's dive into this lesson with a positive attitude towards it all, because you can evolve, change your thought patterns that no longer serve you, let go of unwanted memories, take charge of your mindset with amazing coaching tools, and achieve better results, faster.  After all, as Henry Ford once said: "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right."

Join me now for this lesson, and make sure to access the bonus resources materials as a compliment for your development here.

Developing and improving your self-confidence is possible, although it is important to mention it does not happen overnight. It does require some dedication and repetition, like we have seen in the previous Section. Here, we explore a few ways that you can build and grow your self-confidence.

To name a few ways you can develop and improve your self-confidence, following up on Lecture 17, you can: a) manage your mindset; b) set and plan goals; c) self-appreciation, among others.

Let's work together and develop a plan that adjust to your own reality!

Visualization is the process of creating a mental image or intention of what you really want to feel or happen. Research is finding that both physical and psychological reactions in certain situations can be improved with visualization. Such repeated imagery can build both experience and confidence in an athlete’s or musician's ability to perform certain skills under pressure, for instance, or in a variety of other possible situations such as in business or life in general.

Let's explore in this lesson how visualization can improve your performance, and make use of the quick visualization practice in 4 steps, as a resource for your own improvement, that I share with you in the next Assignment.

Whenever possible, visualization should involve all the 5 senses. In this lesson we explore how and why visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory and emotions/mood should be part of your visualization technique.

At this time, I invite you to set aside 5 minutes after this lecture to work on yourself, again, within the Assignment above (Lecture 19) and evaluate what has been improved in your practice. Remember: it takes a bit a day, and progress will show up. Keep pushing forward!

When developing your visualization plan, it is important you revise and implement it when you are calm, and focusing on positive images, for instance. Having a visualization script, like the Assignments I share in this section, help you be in control of what can be controllable at this time. Another way is to control muscle tension, having a relaxation practice sequence that teaches your body to relax, and take a break, whenever needed.

In this lecture we explore good ways to support your visualization by implementing practice ideas and alternate scripts.

"Each of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit" - Mary Lou Retton, Olympic Gymnastic.

Following up on this quote: Without goals would you (or your team/students/athletes) achieve anything significant? Having an intention is the beginning part of goal setting and achieving pathway.

Now: What is your intention?  What do you look for when you get out of bed?

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Goals create motivation in your reality, but more than that, goals direct attention and action, mobilizes effort and increase persistence, and to achieve high performance goals individuals must have realistic, vivid, living, and time-bound goals.

Let's work towards why you should have goals to help you keep focus of the path to achieving success.

When working with goal setting, and achieving your pathway to success, you should always set short, medium and long-term goals, follow the S.M.A.R.T. Goals checking roadmap, and make sure to celebrate your small achievements along the way.

We have explored in Lesson 22 the importance of having an intention as part of the goal setting and how crucial it is for your success to follow the S.M.A.R.T. Goals principles (and update it with the S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals too).

Let's get into it in more details here!

Following up on the previous Lectures of this Section, and when talking about sports coaching and goals, we must consider the S.M.A.R.T.S. Goals technique check up point.

Let's dive into this final lesson now!