About Stuart

Stuart Tan, MBA, SDCG, BA (Hons), is a Licensed NLP Trainer since 1997, a trained counselor and therapist since 1999, and a leadership, team performance and change management consultant. He certifies NLP Practitioners and Master Practitioners through a competency based approach. He is also an executive coach and life coach. Contact him for information about his corporate seminars, certification workshops and coaching services.
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Stuart has written 135 articles so far, you can find them below.


Productivity: Seeking Your Own Development

It’s been some time since I had the chance to sit down and actively put my thoughts out there since I’d suddenly become swamped with work and studies. There are basically three things I learnt this week I’d like to focus on, and hopefully it will help you on your journey.

Procrastination Sucks.

If we earned a dollar for every minute of procrastination we experienced, we would be multimillionaires. I’m no exception. The issue comes when you’re pressured to get things done in the midst of so many additional things. On one hand, you know for a fact it’s good to do it. On the other hand, you give in to the temptation of lazing around.

Business Success At Your Expense

I’ve read with some amusement a lot of these ads on FB and other places where people tell you to trade or start a business as though that were the only thing that mattered in making a decent living. Mind you, there are a lot of successful people out there who do not have business or do not trade but still make a fantastic living.

What’s Passion Really About?

Some students recently asked me about whether I enjoyed my work.

I love my work!

As I thought about this, I started to wonder what made my work great and satisfying. After all, there are so many people I know who do not enjoy their work at all, or want to leave their jobs because it’s drab work or the culture/boss/colleagues of the organization weren’t as expected.

The world isn’t drab. It’s beautiful in many ways. The world becomes drab when we look through drab psychological lenses. I’m like an optometrist – I open up your psychological (in)sight so that you have the capacity to do more.

Willpower: Can You Manufacture It?

In studying the whole idea of the ability to create action, my previous article alluded to a concept known as personal power. However, just defining personal power as the ability to take action is insufficient. I can take action, but why should I if I know that it will end up in failure? The most common theme in success training is simply that “you can”. It’s great and inspirational, but fairly limiting if you don’t have accompanying skills.

Psychological Efficacy: Life’s Biggest Leverage

In my previous article, I had focused quite heavily on Psychological Capital or PsyCap. Today, I’d like to zoom into one major element of PsyCap known as self-efficacy. This has been highly validated in the research literature so this isn’t going to be an academic discussion. Rather, this is an attempt to put the scienceĀ into practice and leverage the value of the research.

For the longest time, I’d been training people in advancing their self-efficacy and didn’t realize it. But what you don’t know also means you don’t really know what you are doing and how much more you can do.

Psychological Capital: The Missing Ingredient In An Advanced Organization

I’ve been speaking with people who are supposed to be employed and supposed to be satisfied with their lot in life. But they are unhappy. I say “supposed” because when you make a fair and objective comparison, they shouldn’t have any problems and yet they are somehow not satisfied with their work, their environment or company direction. The company gives fantastic perks, the possibility of promotion, challenge and more, so you might be wondering what’s wrong with these people, right?

Coaching For Balancing Life… And Even Personality

It’s amazing how much I can learn from my clients and people I meet with. The strangely familiar struggle with work is an ongoing theme in many of their lives, and the whole idea of ‘work-life balance’ is nothing but a myth. I think I know the reason why. Work-life balance is about our ability to switch from one mode to another. It’s about balancing almost anything. For instance, when I run personality profiles for people, they realize that they really need personal development because their profile report reveals more about where their blind spots are.

Understanding Interpersonal Relations

I was recently in a certification training program because you could say that I have been “itching” to learn new stuff (and I think I learn pretty well). What surprised me is the kind of insight that comes from structure. I have known for a long time that people have needs. To the extent that these needs are met, we can determine “satisfaction”. However, I had not gone a step further as William Schutz did in 1958, where he discovered that needs can be expressed (initiated by self), but can also be a hidden desire (expected of from others).

Personal Development – Japan And Resilience

Most of the time, I don’t really bother with the news, except business news. Occasionally, some interesting articles catch my attention and I read in greater detail. The recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan was something that caught many people’s attention, and of course, I believe warrants a reflection.

What do you think people might do in a situation where multiple bad things happen to them? Unfortunately, when you least expect it, you will have to deal with bad things happening all at the same time. This is as true for nations as it is for companies and individuals.

Don’t Just Be Motivated: Make It A Way Of Life

It seems that few people actually understand the notion of motivation. To most, motivation is a feeling. It’s the rush and the high that gets people excited, and all too often, causes disappointment because it didn’t last. But why have such expectations in the first place? Usually, people think of motivation as a harbinger of disappointment. The typical skeptic that sits in the audience with folded arms waiting to see how long this will last. Sadly, for such people, they will never get to enjoy the benefits of exhilaration of the moment. But that’s not even what this post is about. Motivation is a feeling. But for motivation to influence performance, it needs to be structured in the environment of performance. It is also cognitive (thought based), and requires a set of skills to be able to maintain.

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