On Air Talent by Paul Kaye

Many of us have an inbuilt desire – a burning even – to perform at our very best.  We want to achieve all that can be achieved.  We want to leave our mark.  While our intentions are honourable, our actions don’t always support our desire.   Achieving peak performance takes discipline and commitment and for some of us it is just to easy to give up or worse fail to really start.  

Radio is full of opinions.  Often there is little consensus as to what makes great radio.  For some people this can be frustrating

The label coach is thrown around a lot in business. Managers seem quick to describe themselves as a coach just because they are responsible for overseeing a team

Great talent is the engine that propels our business forward. Talent who can see the opportunities the rest of us are blind to are essential for any company's future growth

Who doesn’t love watching movies! Watching a movie, for me, is pure escapism. I get drawn in by the multi-dimensional characters and quickly lost in the intricacies of the narrative.  I am moved by powerful stories and movies are just that

Mediocre performance is a virus.  Once an individual becomes infected it spreads quickly and with vigor into their psyche.   If an individual becomes infected mediocrity can start to spread to others and before long it’s bringing everyone down, crippling your team’s chances of peak performance

“I don’t have time to teach them, I just need it fixed.”  Those were the words that fell out of a manager’s mouth while we were discussing the performance of an individual on their team

I feel like there is an epidemic plaguing our workforce right now. Employees are eagerly -- often naively -- chasing that next job title too quickly.

The alarm clock annoyingly buzzes. Loudly. Your first instinct is to pull the duvet up over your head. It doesn't help