Work Mindset – The Bernard Group

AI Perplexity Report – Pioneer of REBT with Children, Adolescents and Applications to School, Work and Life: Michael E Bernard

DOWNLOAD REPORT PDF Direct Collaboration with Albert Ellis Bernard worked at the Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy for a year as a research scientist working directly with Albert Ellis on multiple seminal publications that established REBT as applicable to childhood disorders. Historical Significance When Bernard began his career, REBT’s application to children was experimental […]

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Procrastinate later! How to motivate others

Leadership / Work Mindset

If you are exasperated by people who promise to do things but fail to deliver, here is how to motivate others, so they procrastinate later. Procrastination involves you deciding or knowing that you have to do something and then putting it off even though you can see the disadvantages in the delay. I’ve always been

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Neuroscience and Leadership: Preparing the Brain for High Workplace Performance

Leadership, Neuroleadership, Work Performance / Work Mindset

“As research in neuroscience expands, the linkages with leadership and leadership development are providing fertile grounds for the development of better and better tools and techniques that allow us to increase the managerial and leadership productivity and effectiveness.” – Ringleb & Rock, 2009 Consider the question: What is the main influence of leadership behaviour? While

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What Exactly Is a High Performing Mindset at Work?

Leadership, Work Performance, Workplace Resilience / Work Mindset

“Commitments, powerful attitudes and well-developed behavioural strengths that enable top performers to respond positively and effectively in tough situations as well as to demonstrate ‘high impact’ work performance behaviour and leadership capability.” – Michael Bernard I have conducted an extensive review and analysis of over 30 years of published research that has illuminated the psychological

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The work mindset of high performing leaders

Leadership, Work Performance / Work Mindset

High performing leaders all have one thing in common: a high performance mindset. If you believe that too many of your leaders do not possess a high performance mindset–even though they may possess highly, developed technical skills–then you may well have discovered the ‘real’ cause of your organisation’s leadership talent insufficiency. If you are concerned

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A new approach to coaching – developmental conversations boost work performance

Coaching, Work Performance / Work Mindset

A new approach to coaching high performance mindsets is emerging. It connects the manager-employee conversations with the daily realities of the business. The annual performance review system is no longer effective at facilitating the improvement and growth of employees. According to a large-scale Deloitte survey, traditional performance management reviews are being revised. This is partly

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High performance selling: What makes a sales star

Work Performance / Work Mindset

When it comes to high performance selling, we know that attitude matters. Attitude can either sabotage or enhance productivity when it comes to selling. We all know that the positive beliefs of salespeople impact on sales quite significantly, and that super salespeople have strongly developed positive beliefs. Did you know that sales stars have minimised

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Why self-acceptance is crucial for workplace performance

Self-Acceptance, Work Performance, Workplace Resilience / Work Mindset

Whether your organisation is excelling in workplace performance depends on the positive self-acceptance of your employees. Professor Michael Bernard The latest research reveals the importance of positive self-acceptance in the way people do their job, including how they relate to others, manage stress and their mental health, and how react to performance appraisals. This is

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Workplace resilience and how to stay emotionally sober

Workplace Resilience / Work Mindset

Senior leadership has the challenge of creating workplace resilience to encourage staff to protect themselves against bullying. Professor Michael Bernard While getting rid of bullying behaviour is everyone’s responsibility, senior leaders also need to go through educational programs to fly the flag that says that within each of us resides great power to cope with

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Skill set or Mindset? Investing in Leadership Development

Leadership, Work Performance / Work Mindset

Let me start off by asking those of you responsible for talent management and leadership training what may seem a very simple question. If you had $100 to invest in developing leadership talent, would you spend it on training your leaders and managers in a high performance skill-set or mindset? Which would give the best

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