Legacy – Making a Positive and Lasting Impact
By Mark Tewksbury – GREAT TRAITS One of my highlights of 2016 was being invited to speak at the One Young World conference in Ottawa at the end of September. At the Olympics in Rio a month earlier, I…
Visualization – What You See Is What You Get
By Debbie Muir – Great Traits One of the most impactful skills that comes from the world of sport is visualization. It is common knowledge that high-performance athletes visualize to increase the likelihood of succeeding in competition. In their mind’s…
Expand Your Perspective – Noticing What You Notice
By Mark Tewksbury – GREAT TRAITS – It’s human nature to have selective awareness. Conditioning ourselves to self-filter information, we set ourselves up to only notice certain things. Over time, without even realizing it, we start to go…
The Power of the Question – What’s Your Competitive Edge?
By Debbie Muir – GREAT TRAITS – Are you asking yourself the right questions to ensure that you have a competitive edge in business? We all know how powerful questions are. They help us gather information, problem solve, and make…
Unconscious Bias at the Olympics
By Debbie Muir – Great Traits – Mark and I were recently at a conference and heard an esteemed social psychologist from Harvard, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, speak about unconscious bias. It was a…
The Mind-Body Connection – Don’t let your thinking get in the way of your performance
By Debbie Muir – GREAT TRAITS – Recently, Mark and I were at an event, and at the end, one of the participants pointed to her head and told us her biggest surprise about our presentation to her was “what…