Links

Attitude and Mindset

*Mindset - I love this example in a blog by Sophie Radcliffe - https://www.challengesophie.com/blog/challenges-2/how-to-run-100km-with-your-mind-race-to-the-stones-ultramarathon

Growth mindset - by Carol Dweck https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-carol-dweck-revisits-the-growth-mindset/2015/09

Luck - The Luck Factor - based on a great book of the same name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZuDu2eAu4

Thinking errors - this is a pretty in depth article but there’s also a link to a ‘facts or opinion’ worksheet (I use my own version) https://positivepsychology.com/cognitive-distortions/

Change

Homer Simpson Stages of Change/Grief/Loss - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYN4CllWuiM

Stages of Change - a model that I’ve used to help people plan for change -  https://change.walkme.com/the-stages-of-change-model/

https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_heffernan_dare_to_disagree

Coaching

Push pull spectrum - the Spectrum of Coaching shown in the article is one I try and be very mindful of as a coach https://www.britishschoolofcoaching.com/mentoring-v-coaching-balance-power/

Development and Learning

Development - Habit 7 from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits https://resources.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people/habit-7-sharpen-the-saw

Development - Growth Mindset - an explainer of Carol Dweck’s Growth and Fixed Mindsets - https://www.strengthscope.com/how-to-develop-a-growth-mindset/

Growing - strengths (comfort), stretch, stress (panic) - a useful explainer of the well known and used principle of comfort zones - https://www.strengthscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Finding-positive-mind-set.pdf

Learning - https://hbr.org/2018/05/learning-is-a-learned-behavior-heres-how-to-get-better-at-it?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=hbr

Action Learning Sets - a nice set of tools to run action learning sets -  https://www.garybuxton.co.uk/als

Goals

*The value of goals - the graphic here is the best example I’ve seen of the impact of using goals - http://www.mrscienceshow.com/2013/01/marathon-finishing-times.html

*Why, How and What - a great example of these goals in practice - https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/cycling/news/17547/9641328/team-sky-82202020-vision8221

Goal setting - www.jamesclear.com/goal-setting

Health and Wellbeing

Eating - Michael Pollen - some wonderfully simple guidance -  https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090323/7-rules-for-eating

Eating - https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/what_is_a_good_portion_size

Eating - despite the link title this is food guidance for everyone  https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/10-ways-to-eat-well-with-diabetes

Energy - a piece about where to focus your attention https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time?

Exercise - https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuki_the_brain_changing_benefits_of_exercise?

Exercise - I’m a big fan of parkrun! - https://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2018/12/10/gp-stories/

Sleep - there are a bunch of things here - https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-topics

*Mental health - I’ve shared this many times. It’s so simple. The equivalent of 5 fruit and veg a day-  https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/five-steps-to-mental-wellbeing/

*Well-being - a fantastic article on well-being to read and re-read and read again sometime - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/sep/04/oliver-burkemans-last-column-the-eight-secrets-to-a-fairly-fulfilled-life

Leadership

There’s a lot in here, whether you are interested in football or not. I was impressed - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/episodes/gareth-southgate

A nice blog from Ben Morton on a common leadership trap - https://www.ben-morton.com/having-all-the-answers/

A blog about which team you are in - https://www.ben-morton.com/tale-two-teams/

*Building a culture of trust - I’ve shared this many times. It explains a construct of trust that I’ve found very helpful to help understand trust, especially when it’s missing - https://devops.com/culture-trust/

https://hbr.org/2021/02/beyond-burned-out?

A 2022 interview/discussion between two leaders in sport https://www.channel4.com/programmes/gareth-southgate-how-to-lead-with-toto-wolff/on-demand/70372-001

Motivation

*Self-determination theory (SDT) - Dan Pink: Drive - an excellent 10 minute video which is a great explainer of SDT with examples - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Self-determination theory - http://selfdeterminationtheory.org

Purpose and meaning - https://www.pwc.com/us/en/purpose-workplace-study.html

Resilience and Stress

*Resilience - I’ve shared this many times and find the 3 lessons really helpful and applicable https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_hone_3_secrets_of_resilient_people?

*Resilience (the Stockdale paradox) - Jim Collins explaining the paradox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgLAuZdutM

Resilience - https://www.apa.org/topics/resilience

*Stress - a well watched TED talk which challenges some common conceptions of stress - https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend?language=en

*Breathing - How to train your monkey mind - I love this for its simplicity and the delivery of the message! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PkrhH-bkpk

Strategy and Tactics

This podcast is excellent on preparation, pressure and planning - philosophy and execution in harmony - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/episodes/sir-chris-hoy

Important v urgent - habit 3 from Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits https://resources.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-people/habit-3-put-first-things-first

A nice blog from Ben Morton on the benefit of stopping to think - https://www.ben-morton.com/the-water-bottle-moment/

Oblique strategies - I came across these a while ago and use them from time to time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

Support

Teams

*Team Goals and Process (Why, How and What) - a great example of these used in practice - https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/cycling/news/17547/9641328/team-sky-82202020-vision8221

Psychological safety - an excellent simple explanation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUo1QwVcCv0

* Things marked with an asterisk ( * ) are links or contain content that I’ve shared many times with people