My dream goal is to build products that touch and better the lives of millions of people. Over the years I have learnt that the best way to achieve this is to help the people and teams I work with achieve things they thought were impossible. The best way I have found so far to do this is to empower people and help them develop self-awareness.

The articles here combine elements of coaching, positive-psychology and philosophy that I have found useful whilst helping me and the teams I work with achieve the impossible.

The basics of coaching

How I Think About Motivation

Using the GROW Model for Coaching Teams and Individuals

What Open-mindedness is and How to Attain it

A Model for Decision Making When You Are Stuck

Goal setting

Goals Setting and OKRs

Outcomes and Processes

Teams

Use Agreement Setting to Maximise Your Team's Potential

How To Build Successful Teams

Peak Experiences

External links

Tools and techniques

Telling Convincing Stories

Stress Management

Stress Management Notes

Self-determination and actualisation

• Self-determination theory: summary includes discussion of the need for personal growth, the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, the holy trinity of competence, relatedness and autonomy.
• The sailboat metaphor for Maslow's ideas of self-actualisation rethinks Maslow's pyramid into a more flexible model.

Motivation

• The differences between extrinsic and intrinsic motivators: extrinsic motivators are things like bonuses, gold stars and so on. Intrinsic is doing things because you enjoy the process of doing the thing.
• Highlighting Relatedness Promotes Prosocial Motives and Behavior: the more related a person feels to others, the more they are likely volunteer their time or money. Writing about feelings of relatedness promotes a feeling of connectedness and sociability.

Empathy

• Empathy increases someone's willingness to help: people who focus on the emotions of a person in distress are more likely to help that person. Suggests that, as a person in distress, sharing negative emotions will lead to people offering help. This in turn highlights the need for trust to exist to enable someone to share their negative emotions or problems.

Kindness

• It pays to be kind. Acts of kindness, helping others whether done with the expectation of reciprocation or not, have been shown via neural imaging and through surveys to prompt rewards in the giver.