Dr. TC North

High Performing Teams

Positive Recovery In a High Performance Culture

Positive Recovery In a High Performance Culture

Today’s topic is: Controlling Positive Energy – controlling negative thoughts under pressure. World-class athletes and business leaders often need to deal with a series of highly positive, yet stressful situations. Learning to control negative thoughts when the amount of positive challenge is sustained is critical to be a high performer!

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Nine Unusual Characteristics of a High-Performance Culture

Nine Unusual Characteristics of a High-Performance Culture

High-performing individuals, including world-class athletes and business leaders, are different from average athletes and business leaders. High-performance organizations and workplaces are also different from average businesses. What makes them so dissimilar? Here are nine characteristics of high-performance organizations, teams and cultures, from high-performance psychology.

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Toxic People – A High-Performance Outlier Is Drawn to them

Toxic People – A High-Performance Outlier Is Drawn to them

This is an advanced statistical phenomenon, and it’s important to understand if you want to be a high-performer. It essentially says that if you’re significantly different from the group you’re around, you’ll tend to become more like the group over time. Ever notice that high performers choose to be around other high performers, and emotionally toxic people (toxics) like to be around other toxics? So what do you do if you’re a high-performance thinker, but have to spend time with toxics?

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Dan O’Brien – Indomitable Spirit of an Olympic Gold Medalist

Dan O’Brien – Indomitable Spirit of an Olympic Gold Medalist

This is the indomitable spirit of an athlete who had the honor of being deemed the greatest athlete in the world four times with his Olympic and world championships. It’s also the value of a great coach, because Dan said on many occasions that he was too injured to train, but Mike always found a way for Dan to progress in some area of his training. And, Dan overcame one of the largest and most embarrassing setbacks in the history of sports.

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Performance Consulting – Creating Positive Motivation

Performance Consulting – Creating Positive Motivation

We often wish we could have a more positive influence on others (if you’ve ever coached, managed employees or raised teenagers — or if you’re a kid living with your parents — I’ll bet you get this)! There are ways to say things that will increase their positive impact. Here’s an example of how one amazing comment changed my life.

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