Kyle McDonald
Kyle McDonald is owner/operator of Competitive Will, an athlete, coach and business performance development company. Integrating high performance strategies for success.
http://www.competitivewill.com @CompetitiveWill
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A lot of questions swirl around the concept of culture and developing teams. Culture is a word many organizations and teams from the amateur to the professional levels use or toss out there based on performance. For example a team is on a ten game winning streak and it means...
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We would be naive to think that stress does not exists in most of our daily lives as well as in our athletes’ lives. The naive part of this aspect is that we throw our athletes into highly pressurized situations without the tools to develop their coping and resiliency. We...
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One of the most notorious conversation topics that is brought forward to me in team seminars is the concept of pressure and how we can overcome it? In my mind pressure is a component of perception and how we view certain stimuli in our environment. The way we perceive situations...
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During the month of February I had a great opportunity to sit down with the hockey coaches from Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Wilcox, SK. Among a variety of topics including coach, athlete and organization development in high performance we had an open and candid discussion on creating...
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Changing an environment or culture is no easy task and cannot be viewed in a quick fix scheme. As a leader in the core of the organization you must first drop those or reason with the individuals who are against it, you need a strong supporting cast to induce change....
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Focus, consistency of performance, concentration and overall an ability to succeed is always at the forefront of athlete, team or business development. However is there a way we can truly track these intangible aspects of performing? I'd would like to say we can in allowing the athlete to develop self-awareness...
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Competitive Will has been fortunate to work with some organizations in the last few months on leadership development. Through team building exercises and workshops we have diligently discussed the concept of leadership. Key aspects we have approached include trying to view leadership as a task orientated approach. In the team...
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The age old question, are leaders born or are they made? I’m sure many have opinions but the question of leadership is not as simple as personality traits but rather our typical responses in highly pressurized situations. We usually do not discuss leadership in the realms of golf, as it...
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Development is always a hot topic. How do leaders develop employees? How do coaches develop athletes? How do teachers develop students? Development is always at the forefront of organizations and teams believing that development is the route to success. However, development has many moving parts when identifying the best approach...
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As the hockey school season winds down and training camps begin in approximately a month’s time, most athletes look to build upon their summer skates and create a consistency of performance as they head into the season. Consistency of performance is a hard attribute to attain (hence why I maybe...
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In all of sports and for that matter business we face pressure in our everyday objectives. Meeting a deadline, scoring a goal or a touchdown, or getting to our child’s recital. Pressure is all around us, but is pressure internal or external? Examples of external pressure could include fans, bosses,...
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The end of March of course means that the Masters at Augusta National is just around the corner, it also means that North of the border golf must be one or two months away in Canada!!!!! Needless to say it is a great opportunity to talk about golf as many...