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The Life Styles Inventory™ helps individuals to develop Constructive thinking and behavioural styles that are proven to be related to job performance, quality of interpersonal relationships, and problem-solving effectiveness.
ByKarl Perry October 30, 2019February 1, 2023

Life Styles Inventory™ Research and development by Robert A. Cooke, Ph.D. and J. Clayton Lafferty, Ph.D. The Life Styles Inventory™ (LSI) is an organisational tool that uses both self-assessment and colleague feedback to identify individual thinking and behavioural styles. By providing insights into strengths and areas for development, it empowers people to embark on their own journeys to…

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Leadership | Personal Performance Coaching

Time poor? Try this instead of brainstorming.
ByKarl Perry January 7, 2019June 16, 2019

Are you busy or time poor but need to make a decision? Stuck for a way through a problem? Overwhelmed by the complexity of a situation you need to deal with? You know the value of creating space in your diary to think. You also know that thinking time can be difficult to get. So,…

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Leadership | Personal Performance Coaching

The potential behind our resistance.
ByKarl Perry April 12, 2016August 16, 2020

In an earlier post I discussed Efrat’s cloud, a very simple way to describe why we resist change. Efrat’s cloud explains that in order for us to be happy we need satisfaction and security. Our need for satisfaction creates a pressure on us to want to change while the need for security creates a pressure on…

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High Performance People | Personal Performance Coaching

You don’t have to explore your past to have a breakthrough.
ByKarl Perry February 3, 2016September 29, 2019

Most people understand that our current thinking and behaviour is caused by our experiences in the past. If an experience worked for us, then our brain stores the thinking and behaviour for later use and creates a neural shortcut. If it didn’t work, then the thought is more likely to degrade. There is a little…

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High Performance People | Leadership | Personal Performance Coaching | Rational Thinking

Our brains sometimes work against us.
ByKarl Perry January 13, 2015September 29, 2019

As human beings, we have the capacity for curiosity as well as logic and reason but the way our brains sometimes work against us. Over time, we develop thinking and behaviours that don’t serve us as well as they used to. Sometimes that old thinking and behaviour causes us problems and reduces our ability to…

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High Performance People | Leadership | Personal Performance Coaching

What causes Passive or Aggressive Leadership behaviour?
ByKarl Perry January 15, 2014October 26, 2022

Both passive and aggressive behaviour is defensive. All defensive behaviour originates from within our thinking. At the core of all defensiveness, whether it is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, is a thought, which often has grown into a belief that we must protect our selves from others, go it alone and be self-sufficient. In essence,…

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