How to Build Self-confidence

In this video, how to build self-confidence, you will discover six ways to boost, manage and increase your self-confidence. Let’s face it: it’s a question that we all search for answers to at one time or another.

Discover the key components of self-confidence, including understanding the neuroscience behind it. Gain insights into how your brain processes information and learn to reframe negative thoughts and beliefs that hinder your confidence.

We’ll explore how you can harness its power to reshape your mindset and cultivate unshakable self-assurance. Ian Robertson‘s work emphasises the importance of self-compassion, self-acceptance, and resilience.

We’ll explore techniques to help you develop a positive self-image and embrace your unique strengths. Learn how to effectively set goals, overcome setbacks, and maintain motivation to increase self-confidence.

Whether you’re looking to excel in your career, improve your relationships, or simply embrace a more fulfilling life, this video provides the tools you need to build self-confidence that radiates from within.

Don’t let self-doubt hold you back any longer. Embark on this empowering exploration and unlock your true potential with Ian Robertson’s groundbreaking work.

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Posted On August 2, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Confidence, Mindset, Video /  

Reflection: The secret to personal growth

Reflection: the secret to personal growth challenges the fact that too few of us take stock of what we’ve done or explore what happened. So, we get stuck and repeat mistakes. This video provides you with a simple yet powerful model from Terry Borton (1970), enabling you to learn and grow using three powerful questions.

Try it, you’ll be amazed by your results.

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it!
George Santayana

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Posted On July 19, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Productivity, Reflection, Video /  

How to avoid biases in your decision making: A guide for individuals and teams.

Biases can be like Jedi mind tricks; they can work for and against us. These cognitive shortcuts can cause us to make flawed decisions, so how can you make better decisions by minimising bias?

Cognitive biases affect various aspects of our thinking, including perception, memory, attention, and decision-making. Our brains use them to process information quickly, but they can lead to errors and distortions in our understanding of the world.

At Thinking Focus, we believe that metacognition (or, as we prefer to say, thinking about thinking) influences everything we do. We aim to help you understand how you think so you can recognise thought patterns and develop strategies to change or mitigate unhelpful thought patterns. Biases are heuristics (cognitive shortcuts) that our brains create to lighten the cognitive load, enabling us to cope with the demands we face in today’s high-paced, complex world.

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Posted On July 5, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Bias, Decision Making, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Productivity, Video /  

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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Posted On June 21, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Bias, Decision Making, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Video /  

How to Clarify Who Owns What in Your Projects and Goals

Clarify Roles and Responsibilities with the RACI Matrix

It’s high time to Say Goodbye to Confusion: Clarify Roles and Responsibilities with the RACI Matrix.

Your free downloadable RACI Template

This video is your ultimate solution if you’ve ever experienced organizational chaos, overlapping responsibilities, or unclear accountabilities. We dive into the powerful RACI Matrix, a widely used framework designed to bring clarity and structure to any team or project.

Whether you’re a business professional, project manager, or part of a collaborative group, mastering the RACI Matrix will revolutionize how you define, communicate, and execute roles and responsibilities within your organisation.

Join us as we demystify the RACI Matrix key concepts and provide practical tips on implementing it effectively. We’ll guide you through each element of the framework:

  • Responsible
  • Accountable
  • Consulted
  • Informed

You’ll learn how to assign clear ownership, establish decision-making authority, involve stakeholders at the right moments, and keep everyone in the loop without overwhelming them.

Through an interactive example, we’ll illustrate the immense benefits of adopting the RACI Model. Say goodbye to confusion, duplication of efforts, and conflicting expectations. Say hello to streamlined processes, improved teamwork, and enhanced productivity.

Don’t miss out on this transformative opportunity to optimise your team’s efficiency and effectiveness. Clarify roles, empower your team, and boost your organization’s success with the RACI Chart. Watch now and embrace a future of seamless collaboration and clear accountability.

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Posted On June 7, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Bias, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Engagement, Goals, Influence, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Productivity, Stakeholder Management, Video /  

How to make your performance chats easy every time!

Do you know how to make your performance chats easy every time?

All managers love it when they have to give great feedback; that’s easy, providing it’s purposeful that is! However, many managers struggle to hold people accountable during routine feedback or performance meetings. Managers ruminate ahead of giving feedback, catastrophising the team member’s reactions. So they sugarcoat the message, which has no impact and, guess what, leads to no uplift in performance or change in behaviour.

There is a way to make it easier: developing a psychological contract, or as we call it, the expectations chat. This chat aims to establish how the line manager and team members can get the best out of each other, which means giving feedback. So why not agree upfront on how you do that and get the two-way permission agreed upon while there are no issues in the relationship?

In this video, we share a simple four-step process that will make every performance chat easy and straightforward every time.

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Posted On May 10, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Coaching, Engagement, Feedback, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

STOP Trying to Manage Time: Do This Instead

You can’t manage time, so STOP trying to manage time and do this instead…what we mean is start managing yourself against the time and make better choices rather than trying to do everything.

Warren Buffet, among many others, argues that we self-sabotage when we allow ourselves to be consumed by things we care less about – they actually drag us down and distract us from achieving what we really care about.

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Posted On April 26, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Decision Making, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Productivity, Video /  

Why You Need to Involve Others

You Can’t Do it Alone

Do you know why failing to involve others is a huge problem?

Well, as they say, the answer is on the inside; in this video, we share how a major client project suffered a huge delay and was almost catastrophic due to failing to involve others, neither the right people nor at the right time.

We share four essential questions and offer more than 50 reasons for how you could involve stakeholders in your project/goals.

Access your 50+ reasons to involve others here:

Copy of 50+ Reasons to Involve Others (Presentation (16:9)) by Ricky Muddimer

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Posted On April 12, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Bias, Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Engagement, Goals, Influence, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Productivity, Stakeholder Management, Video /  

How to ask yourself better questions to become highly creative!

Creativity starts with knowing how to ask yourself better questions to become highly creative.

Get this right, and you will be unstoppable and be able to solve almost any issue or problem; not just that, you will be able to accomplish so much more and more quickly too!

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Posted On March 29, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Creative Thinking, Decision Making, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Productivity, Video /  

Coaching Tips from a Forbes Coaches Council Coach.

In this video, Ricky Muddimer, a member of the Forbes Coaching Council, shares his coaching tips. Whatever your coaching approach, Executive, Business, or Performance coaching, you will recognise that coaching is one of the most valuable and impactful tools in a line manager’s armoury.

Ricky is an executive coach who spends time helping leaders worldwide get out of their own way. This video explores – ‘What is the art of great coaching?’ Discover his top three tips for all coaches. Have a look-see and find out for yourself.

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Posted On March 15, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Coaching, Feedback, Video /