Why we fall victim to biases

5 sneaky ways they sabotage our success

If you are not good at making choices – how do you overcome your biases and make better decisions? In the video, we explore five biases and how to mitigate their effects on us.

A cognitive bias refers to a systematic pattern of deviation from rationality or objective judgment in human thinking. It is a tendency for the human mind to make errors in processing information, often resulting in subjective judgments and decisions that deviate from logical or evidence-based reasoning.

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Are you giving your team Quality Feedback?

Feedback: Five Top Tips for Purposeful Feedback

Feedback is one of the most critical tools and skills of any manager’s skillset.

In this video, Ricky explores five top tips for managers and leaders and includes a personal example.

  • Do you lay solid foundations for feedback?
  • Is feedback a habit?
  • Is it factual and founded on evidence?
  • Is it purposeful? Can your people do something with your feedback?
  • Are you present when giving feedback or distracted?

What do you think?

How to achieve success in 2025

How to achieve success in 2025 – 5 Top Tips.

In this video, Ricky shares five areas guaranteed to set you up for success. They provide a set of checks and balances that will inform you if you are on course or off course and enable you to course correct as you go.

You can also download our business challenge toolkit, which provides a host of templates, how-to videos, and a proven formula for success.

Download it here: Business Challenge eKit.

Trust: The Secret to High-Performing Teams

In this webinar, Ricky Muddimer and Graham Field discussed how trust is the invisible engine that drives high-performing teams. Without it, communication breaks down, innovation stalls, and performance falters. But with it? Teams collaborate seamlessly, make faster decisions, and achieve extraordinary results.

As a leader, how do you build and sustain trust in your team—especially in today’s fast-paced and often disconnected workplace? Watch ‘Trust: The Secret to High-Performing Teams,’ our final webinar of 2024, and discover why trust is the most critical factor in unlocking your team’s full potential.

This isn’t just another webinar—it’s your opportunity to gain actionable insights to set you and your team up for success.

Low trust doesn’t just create tension—it impacts results. In this highly practical session, we’ll explore:

  • The cost of low trust: How it shows up in miscommunication, disengagement, and slowed progress.
  • The benefits of high trust: Why it accelerates innovation, strengthens collaboration, and boosts team performance.
  • How to build trust: Simple, actionable strategies to foster a culture of trust in your team or organisation.

If you’re ready to tackle the barriers holding your team back and learn proven techniques to unlock their potential, this webinar is for you.

Trust: The Secret to High-Performing Teams

In this webinar, Ricky Muddimer and Graham Field discuss how trust is the invisible engine that drives high-performing teams. Without it, communication breaks down, innovation stalls, and performance falters. But with it? Teams collaborate seamlessly, make faster decisions, and achieve extraordinary results.

As a leader, how do you build and sustain trust in your team—especially in today’s fast-paced and often disconnected workplace? Watch ‘Trust: The Secret to High-Performing Teams,’ our final webinar of 2024, and discover why trust is the most critical factor in unlocking your team’s full potential.

This isn’t just another webinar—it’s your opportunity to gain actionable insights to set you and your team up for success.

Low trust doesn’t just create tension—it impacts results. In this highly practical session, we’ll explore:

  • The cost of low trust: How it shows up in miscommunication, disengagement, and slowed progress.
  • The benefits of high trust: Why it accelerates innovation, strengthens collaboration, and boosts team performance.
  • How to build trust: Simple, actionable strategies to foster a culture of trust in your team or organisation.

If you’re ready to tackle the barriers holding your team back and learn proven techniques to unlock their potential, this webinar is for you.

Check out the Slides

These slides accompany the webinar and include the content on trust.

The Trust Toolkit – Build Individual, Team and Organisational Trust

Here is the Trust Toolkit that accompanies the webinar and provides practical tools to help build individual, team, and organisational trust.

Mindset Shift: The Key to Driving Performance and Empowering Teams

  • Are you or your team stuck in a problem-solving rut?
  • Ready to turn roadblocks into breakthroughs?

Watch our webinar, where we revealed how a simple mindset shift could transform even the toughest challenges into powerful opportunities, as featured on Forbes.com.

In just 45 minutes, you will discover proven techniques for reframing your rumination and self-limiting beliefs, unleashing creativity, and driving your and your team’s results.

This recording is your chance to learn how to think differently and achieve your next big breakthrough!

Checkout the free resources too:

Mindset Toolkit:

https://thinkingfocus.aflip.in/ToolsforMindsetShift

Webinar Slides:

https://thinkingfocus.aflip.in/6fabd1af97.html

Mindset Shift: The Key to Driving Performance and Empowering Teams

This webinar explored how to get unstuck; this toolkit accompanies the webinar and provides a practical three-step process that any individual or team can use to turn unhelpful rumination, or as we call it, problem-focused thinking, into solution-focused thinking. By clearing away the limiting beliefs and assumptions holding you back, you can make giant leaps forward and deliver the success you desire. Look out for a couple of bonus tools, too!

How can I do this all over again?

The coaching question in this podcast might not be as common as others we have covered, but it is one we can personally relate to.

Regardless of your role or expertise, there are times when we give it our all, putting everything we have to get something over the line, then we reset to the start and have to go again. Sales targets reset each year, project manager complete their delivery only to get a new project, software engineers get the release out the door, and then start working on a new feature.

Ricky and Paul explore what it take to have to reset, sometimes overnight, and the find the energy to go again.

How can I be less of a people pleaser?

This episode continues our series of common topics from coaching conversations.  In this episode, Paul and Graham consider the idea of ‘people pleasing’ – being helpful to the point of thier own detriment.  

From understanding the difference between helpfulness and people pleasing, through to how to say no to the boss, Graham and Paul talk about what might be driving some of these behaviours and shat are the simple strategies that you can adopt to ensure you find the balance between helping and supporting the people around you, and ensuring that you protect your own time and wellbeing.

How do I stop feeling so tired?

As we continue our mini-series of common topics from coaching conversations, in this podcast, Ricky and Paul explore why sometimes people feel drained at work, leaving them with an overall feeling of being tired.

Clearly, at times, we can all burn the candle at both ends, but in coaching situations, this is often a sign of something deeper going on.  From doing work that is draining to the unintended consequences of the habits we adopt when our workload goes up, Ricky and Paul explore some potential causes and strategies to help maintain us through these peak times.