Each month, we deconstruct world-class industry leaders, asking them about their leadership style, the psychological drivers behind their success and how they became who they are today. This platform is for those who want to gain tips and insights from the best of the best and for those who enjoy hearing other success stories.
Sarah McGrath is a Partner and Co-Owner at 360 Search Recruitment Service in Ireland and the UK and a Co-Owner of Vy Nutrition.
Sarah helps ensure senior professionals get access to their employer of choice and obtain their desired objectives while building their careers. She works with some of the most prolific entrepreneurs within Financial Services.
Sarah holds a Degree in Business, a Four-Year Diploma in Nutrition and a Degree in Psychology. She is passionate about organisational psychology and corporate well-being, advising and speaking at many industry associations.
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Each month, we deconstruct world-class industry leaders, asking them about their leadership style, the psychological drivers behind their success and how they became who they are today. This platform is for those who want to gain tips and insights from the best of the best and for those who enjoy hearing other success stories.
Sarah McGrath is a Partner and Co-Owner at 360 Search Recruitment Service in Ireland and the UK and a Co-Owner of Vy Nutrition.
Sarah helps ensure senior professionals get access to their employer of choice and obtain their desired objectives while building their careers. She works with some of the most prolific entrepreneurs within Financial Services.
Sarah holds a Degree in Business, a Four-Year Diploma in Nutrition and a Degree in Psychology. She is passionate about organisational psychology and corporate well-being, advising and speaking at many industry associations.
Performance Psychologist, Behavioural Scientist & Lecturer Dr. Dylan Colbert on "“To improve team performance, you must clearly show what performance looks like.”"
CEO Corner by Sarah McGrath
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1 year ago
Performance Psychologist, Behavioural Scientist & Lecturer Dr. Dylan Colbert on "“To improve team performance, you must clearly show what performance looks like.”"
In this episode, Sarah speaks with Dr Dylan Colbert is an intelligence researcher and performance and behavioural psychologist.
“To improve team performance, you must clearly show what performance looks like.”
An educational interview is not to be missed! We discuss the power of harnessing emotion when in the workplace. Dylan gives his insights on the recipe for success and how to avoid the pitfall of accepting mediocrity within your teams or for yourself.
We unpack the thought that when the “mind retires, the body follows” and how you can spend your whole life leveraging your intelligence even after retirement.
Dylan breaks down the science behind what constitutes an excellent leader and explains why those with charisma have an advantage.
Dylan’s research, which demonstrates that intellectual performance can be improved via intervention, has challenged the century-old notion that intelligence cannot be trained. Given his academic success, Dylan began applying his precise, meticulous, pragmatic approach to peak performance. Dylan's extensive research has allowed him to identify the psychological, emotional, and behavioural skills essential for elite achievement for any performer and activity.
01:07 What interested Dylan in the area of Psychology, personality, high performers, intelligence and how he ended up in the area of performance psychology
04:11 Dylan discusses a recipe to success and what it is. Understating objective and subjective success
06:11 Dylan explains how the different forms of motivation, mindset, action, emotion and their role in success
07:52 How discipline and commitment play a role in achieving success
09:40 Can we apply sports psychology principles to leaders in business – the miss conception of always being motivated
11:12 The ingredients of being great at what you do
12:52 Creating an environment to cater to those with little or much ambition
14:36 Optimise individual efforts for the company target
16:50 The benefit of empowering employees
18:21 Working into your 50s and 60s and how we perform cognitively at this age versus the youth entering into the market
22:28 Staying cognitively active in your later years, understanding brain health
24:15 How are we programmed to make decisions fast decision makers and slower decision makers? How are our decisions framed
30:20 Emotion is a tool. Learn how to harness it. How do we apply emotional regulations strategy during stress
35:33 – Inspiring action in teams, how great leaders inspire action. Understanding charisma.
40:17 – Three fun questions to finish the interview
Dylan's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdylancolbert/
Sarah's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-mcgrath/
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CEO Corner by Sarah McGrath
Each month, we deconstruct world-class industry leaders, asking them about their leadership style, the psychological drivers behind their success and how they became who they are today. This platform is for those who want to gain tips and insights from the best of the best and for those who enjoy hearing other success stories.
Sarah McGrath is a Partner and Co-Owner at 360 Search Recruitment Service in Ireland and the UK and a Co-Owner of Vy Nutrition.
Sarah helps ensure senior professionals get access to their employer of choice and obtain their desired objectives while building their careers. She works with some of the most prolific entrepreneurs within Financial Services.
Sarah holds a Degree in Business, a Four-Year Diploma in Nutrition and a Degree in Psychology. She is passionate about organisational psychology and corporate well-being, advising and speaking at many industry associations.
