Index

A

• Adversity. See also Recovery from adversity
  • freedom from
  • overcoming
  • signs of
• Aggression
• Anxiety
  • as asset
  • definition of
  • levels of
  • overcoming
  • performance
• Assertive personality
• Assets and liabilities
  • anxiety as
  • assessment of
  • in corporate environment
  • enhancement exercises for
  • overview of
  • recognition of
  • reviews of
  • sharing of
  • technology
• Athletic Success Profile
• Atlanta Braves
• Attitude
  • positive
  • supportive
  • winners’
• Awards

B

• Balance, achievement of
  • enhancement exercises for
  • issues of
  • by leaders
  • loss of
  • manager's understanding of
  • regaining
  • telecommuting and
  • time management plan for
  • urgency of
• Basic skills
• Behaviors. See Habitual behaviors; Perceptual behaviors
• Body language
  • importance of
  • personality projected by
  • reading
• Brady, Tom
• Bryant, Kobe

C

• Cattell. See Personality Factor Questionnaire (PF)
• Cattell, Raymond
• Change
  • to achieve balance
  • in assets/liabilities
  • behavior
  • benefits of
  • commitment to
  • difficulty of
  • disgruntled workers
  • dramatic
  • environmental
  • via mental practice
  • visualization
• Chemistry
  • function of
  • overview of
  • talking about
• Childhood
  • balance in
  • creativity in
  • critical learning period in
• Coaching
  • consummate
  • experience and
  • leadership vs.
• Commonsense pledge
• Communication
  • face-to-face
  • goals
  • with management
  • nonverbal
  • perceptual skills and
  • with team members
• Conservatives
• Controllable factors
• Core personality
• Corporate environment. See also Positive work environment
  • adversary recovery in
  • assets and liabilities in
  • chemistry in
  • culture of
  • enhancement of
  • excitement potential of
  • hours spent in
  • leadership in
  • manipulation of
  • modification of
  • motivation in
  • multitasking in
  • perceptual development in
  • positive, enhancement exercise for
  • psychological noise in
  • stress in
  • structuring of
  • teamwork and
  • technology free
  • tolerance in
• Cox, Bobby
• Creativity
  • in childhood
  • commonsense as
  • success and
• Critical learning period

D

• Dark tunnels
• Discipline threshold
• Downsizing

E

• Educational environments
  • differences in
  • perceptual development in
  • positive, enhancement exercise for
  • structuring of
  • technology's impact on
  • testing emphasis in
  • tolerance in
• Emotional edge
  • daily
  • definition of
  • embracing
  • enhancement exercises for
  • overview of
  • performance and
  • staying on
• Emotional outbursts
• Emotions
  • arousal level
  • neutralizing
  • optimize level of
  • over the edge
  • people affected by
  • regaining control of
  • uncontrolled
• Employees, See Workforce
• Enthusiasm
• Environment. See Corporate environment; Positive work environment
• Errors of omission
• Exercises
  • assets/ liabilities
  • balance achievement
  • commonsense pledge
  • emotional edge
  • expectations
  • goals
  • habitual/perceptual behaviors
  • intrinsic/extrinsic motivators
  • leaders personality traits
  • positive environment creation
  • stress management
  • team knowledge
  • team structures
  • visualization
• Expectations
  • context of
  • differences in
  • economic
  • enhancement exercises for
  • for family
  • formation of
  • for fun
  • personal
  • retirement
  • reviewing
  • setting, example
  • social
• Expediency
• External traits
• Extrinsic motivation

F

• Failure, fear of
• Favre, Brett
• Feelings. See Emotions
• Focus
  • changing
  • recovery and
  • in visualization
• Forthrightness

G

• Goals
  • achieving
  • characteristic
  • communicating
  • emotional edge and
  • employee-buy in
  • enhancement exercises for
  • evaluation of
  • personality and
  • productivity and
  • purpose of
  • revising
  • setting of
  • specific
  • team
• Golf visualizations
• Good performance rewards
• Group dependent personality

H

• Habits
  • awareness of
  • execution of
  • reliance on
  • winning, summary
• Habitual behaviors
  • definition of
  • development of
  • enhancement exercises for
  • overcoming adversity with
  • to perceptual behaviors
  • perceptual development and
• Happy-go-lucky personality
• Helplessness
• Houston Astros
• Humility

I

• Imaginative personality
• Impulsiveness
• Intelligent personality
• Interactions, quality of
• Internalization
• Intrinsic motivation
• Introversion

J

• James, LeBron
• Jordon, Michael

L

• Laughter
• Leaders. See also Management
  • awards for
  • awareness of
  • balance understanding by
  • body language of
  • cultural connection of
  • development of
  • emotional level of
  • environment for
  • evaluation of
  • expectations set by
  • personality traits of
  • responsibilities of
  • stress of
  • team goals and
  • winning and
• Leadership
  • broad experience in
  • characterization of
  • coaching vs.
  • earned
  • importance in teamwork
  • major responsibility of
  • personality and
  • types of
• Let Them Play (Llewellyn)
• Liabilities. See Assets and liabilities
• Lively personality

M

• Major League Scouting Bureau
• Management. See also Leaders
  • bloated
  • challenges of
  • communication with
  • development of
  • inclusion of
  • involvement of
  • promotion to
• Management councils
• Manning, Peyton
• Maravich, Pete
• Meetings
  • one-to-one
  • preparation for
  • support
  • visualizing
• Mental lapses
• Mental practice. See also Visualization
  • benefits of
  • making changes with
  • research on
  • speed of
  • success, prerequisite to
• Mindset
• Minneapolis Metrodome
• Minnesota Twins
• Motivation
  • in corporate environment
  • enhancement exercises for
  • environment for
  • importance of
  • key to
  • mechanics of
  • physiological impact of
  • risk taking and
  • selective attention and
  • types of
• Motivational speakers
• Multitaskers

N

• NASCAR
• Negative reinforcement
• No-nonsense personality
• Nonverbal communication
• Normal daily activation level

O

• Obligation, sense of
• Organizational charts
• Outbursts
• Over the edge
• Overcontrol
• Overmanagement
• Ownership, taking

P

• Parents
  • feedback from
  • influence of
  • involvement of
  • peer groups vs.
  • perceptual
• Peer groups
• Perceptual behaviors
  • adversity recovery and
  • communication and
  • development of
  • enhancement exercises for
  • habitual behaviors from
  • overcoming anxiety with
  • parents use of
  • stress and
  • success and
• Performance
  • as addiction
  • anxiety and
  • bad, overcoming
  • determinate of
  • emotions and
  • enhancement of
  • fear and
  • mental record of
  • personality vs.
  • plateaus
  • recognizing
  • recovery
  • visualization of
• Personality
  • core
  • goals and
  • importance of
  • leadership and
• Personality inventories
• Personality traits
  • aggressive
  • changing
  • deep-seated
  • enhancement exercises for
  • successful
• Physical exercise
• Positive entry behaviors
• Positive reinforcement
• Positive work environment
  • creation of
  • employees’ success and
  • productivity and
• Practical personality
• Practice players
• Productivity
  • balancing
  • cognitive factors in
  • goals and
  • positive work environment and
  • teamwork and
• Progressive relaxation
• Prudent personality
• Psyched up/out
• Psychological competition
• Psychological noise

R

• Recognition
  • assets/liabilities
  • employee contributions
  • good performance program
• Recovery from adversity
  • enhancement exercise for
  • focus and
  • mechanics of
  • overview of
  • positive expectations for
  • seven-step process for
  • speed of
  • Stewart's six steps for
• Reinforcement
• Relationships
  • development of
  • interdependent
  • salvaging
  • stressors in
• Relaxation
  • level of
  • performance and
  • progressive
• Retirement
• Rewards
• Risk taking
• Rule evasion
• Running

S

• Sales traits
• Sedentary infants
• Selective attention
  • for adversity recovery
  • definition of
  • emotions and
  • in meetings
  • motivation in
• Self-conflict threshold
• Self-reliance personality
• Senior citizens
• Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, The (Covey)
• Shepherd Spinal Center
• Shyness
• 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF)
  • components of
  • development of
  • scoring system of
• Smoltz, John
• Sober personality
• Source traits
• Stewart, Tony
• Stress
  • acceptance of
  • appropriate challenging of
  • definition of
  • fun side of
  • health impacts of
  • impact of
  • multitasking and
  • overmanaging and
  • perception of
  • as positive incentive
  • relief from
  • thriving on
• Stress management. See also Relaxation
  • enhancement exercise for
  • laughter for
  • negative
  • positive
• Stressors
  • changing to incentives
  • common
  • listings of
  • physical
• Success
  • creativity and
  • fear of
  • mindset for
  • personality traits for
  • visualization of
• Support meetings
• Surface traits
• Suspiciousness

T

• Teachable moments
• Teams. See also Workforce
  • changes on
  • chemistry of
  • commitment to
  • communicating with
  • contributions, recognition of
  • expectations of
  • formation of
  • goals of
  • good performance by
  • key function of
  • knowledge, enhancement exercise for
  • needs of, understanding
  • sharing among
  • structures, enhancement exercise for
• Teamwork
  • consummate
  • environmental factors
  • idea of
  • importance of
  • leadership importance in
• Technology
  • communication vs.
  • environment without
  • perceptual development and
• Telecommuting
• Thrower, Ben
• Time management
• Timed mental lapse
• Tolerance
• Tough-mindedness
• Training
• Traits. See Personality traits
• Trusting personality

V

• Van der Meer, Dennis
• Videotapes
• Visualization. See also Mental practice
  • for adversity recovery
  • application of
  • critical elements of
  • enhancement exercise for
  • execution of
  • for golfers
  • importance of
  • realistic
  • self-knowledge and
  • speed process in
  • videotaping of

W

• Winners
  • characterization of
  • definition of
  • expectations of
  • mental attitude of
  • never apologize stance
  • popularity of
• Winning. See also Success
  • achieving balance and
  • definition of
  • effects of
  • habits, summary
  • by leaders
  • leaders commitment to
  • survivors and
  • tasks for
  • tolerance and
• Withdrawal
• Workforce. See also Teams
  • cognitive factors in
  • communicating with
  • disgruntled
  • goals and
  • having fun
  • long hours of
  • needs of, understanding
  • normal daily activation level
  • recognition of
  • taking ownership by
  • teamwork and