Team Composition is Key!

Team Composition is Key!

Team Composition Matters. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.  Team Composition Matters.  Fred and Ginger.  Mulder and Scully.  Bert and Ernie.  Abbott and Costello.  Michael and Scottie.  Joe to Jerry.  Steve to Jerry. ...
Make Every Team you are on Better

Make Every Team you are on Better

I started Performance Strategies Group, Inc. (PSG) in 1990 with one premise in mind: Teams can improve when communication within the team improves. Teams that work particularly well together get along—they mesh. When teams have a common operating language, they are...
100 of Something!!

100 of Something!!

Friends and Family,One Hundred.  That can be taken in many contexts.  I received a grade of 100 on the math test.  I rode 100 miles on my bike.  I ran 100 miles in one month.  I gave it 100 percent.  No holding back.  They say that 100 represents energy that is...
PSG can help you Build a Strengths Culture

PSG can help you Build a Strengths Culture

Advantage—the meaning of advantage is to have a favorable circumstance or benefit; to gain superiority.  In these challenging times of complex and continual change, how can we differentiate ourselves?  How can we gain an advantage?  Clearly, we will...
Come Home Alive Book released!

Come Home Alive Book released!

I am excited to announce the book that chronicle’s Chris’s first cancer journey is now released and available for purchase. Through it, we want to inspire anyone with a cancer diagnosis and their caregiver to work together and focus their willpower in order to Come Home Alive.

Place Does Not Matter…but Productivity Does!

Place Does Not Matter…but Productivity Does!

Some people have absolutely nailed working away from an office setting.  In fact, they have always worked that way, so what’s the big deal?  But most jobs continue to be reliant on in-person collaboration and the physical workplace.  So how can we...
ALPS…Satisfaction

ALPS…Satisfaction

Satisfaction-A Deep Sense of Being Present We have been traveling up to the pinnacle of experiences over the last few weeks!  The ALPS!               A for Acknowledge               L...
ALPS…Play Improv

ALPS…Play Improv

Agree and Add on “Yes, and…is the guiding principle behind all improv,” says Jennine Profeta, Second City performer and theatre educator.  I’ve always thought of it as agree and add on.  Today it seems that finding fault, correcting others, being obstinate,...
ALPS…Listening

ALPS…Listening

Feel Real The small child glanced over at his mother after the waitress looked him squarely in the eyes and took his food order.  “She thinks I’m real,” were his words to his mother.  When we truly listen to others, they feel real…not irrelevant, but a real...
ALPS…Acknowledge…it’s as easy as that!

ALPS…Acknowledge…it’s as easy as that!

Average is no longer acceptable We must do something extra, with an excellence that deserves attention.  We need to be thinking, “how can I add some chocolate sauce, whipped cream and a cherry on top!”  We do that by adding “presence” while we can’t be present with...