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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Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/ceo-corner-by-sarah-mcgrath/id169900355

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