Workshops
Short on time, long on impact.
This is truly profound performance psychology, tailored directly to your team's specific needs, delivered in a convenient and time-friendly manner. It makes use of everything I learned in the classroom (I didn't write that thesis for nothing), combined with everything I had to apply to perform at my best in front of tens of thousands of people (just in the arena, not counting who was watching on TV) on any given night.
The workshops are designed to transfer knowledge from my mind to yours, and provide a number of instantly applicable actions to skyrocket your performance where it's needed most.
How It Works
Length
60–90 minutes
Setting
In person or online, whatever suits the room
Build
We can talk about what it is that you need, or you can choose from some of the topics I have previously delivered.
Some of What I've Covered
Resolving Conflict
A non-conventional approach to conflict resolution. This is focused more on understanding why people become confrontational (and what to do about it), rather than providing a generic framework that hardly helps in the real world.
Resetting Under Pressure
A structured sequence that the world's best athletes consistently do to overcome obstacles and adversity to perform at their best. After stepping away from basketball, the first thing I noticed was the absence of this habit in the real world. This workshop is designed to make this a ritual for anyone in attendance, so they can always return to their best under pressure.
What Separates Great Teams from Mediocre Ones
I've been very fortunate to be part of many championship-winning teams. I've also had the misfortune of being a part of some of the lousiest teams going around. Thankfully, I was able to record the specific differences in how these two groups function. This has enormous carry-over to the real world; the differences were hardly in technical skill.
Thriving in the Client's Office
This presentation was made for an advisory firm who had staff members spending long periods in their client's office. They began to notice that these environments were having a major effect on the effectiveness, impact, and morale of the external consultants. This would not only impact their work in the client's office, it had negative effects on their internal advisory work as well. In unison with the firm's MD, we presented a number of strategies to reverse this effect. These strategies are applicable across all advisory industries, with specific sector needs being easily added.
Leadership Principles from Sport's Best
Through playing all over the world, I was able to come into close contact with many great coaches, both inside and outside of basketball. The more that I interacted with them, the more I saw the common threads between them. I was able to spot these threads in a very small percentage of business leaders that I have interacted with. This presentation is designed to increase that percentage.
Organisations I've delivered for
What Matthew brings is genuinely hard to put into words. It's a combination of succeeding at the highest levels, having a deep understanding of human nature and performance, and the ability to convey this knowledge in a way that makes it easy for others to apply. I've been around a lot of people in this space. I haven't come across anyone quite like him.
If your team is ready to raise its floor, let's talk.
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