Phil Jauncey Performance Psychologist

About

Dr Phil Jauncey is a performance psychologist, whose activities include corporate facilitation, education of staff and managers, personal success mentoring, speaking about parenting, counselling and working as a sports psychologist. As a keynote speaker, Phil has been described as “one of Queensland’s most dynamic presenters…has stimulated sports and professional audiences alike. His contagious passion for life has an overwhelming ability to leave guests wanting more as he tackles the more technical mind sets of self development and gets back to basics.” (Brisbane Breakfast Club).

Phil has a strong academic background and has 4 degrees; B.A., B.D., Masters and Doctorate in Counselling and Educational Psychology. He has lectured at Mt Gravatt CAE (now Griffith University), QUT and the University of Queensland in areas such as educational psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, counselling, marketing and multicultural psychology. He was voted the “Outstanding Lecturer of the Year of 1990″ at QUT. He is a registered psychologist.

In the corporate world, Phil’s expertise in language and social science resulted in his being appointed advertising and promotions manager at Dreamworld in 1988 and then marketing and educational specialist for Mincom from 1988 to 1990. He also developed methods of improving advertising for both television and radio.

In 1991 Phil became an independent consultant, working in the areas of business, sport, education and counselling. He is often called upon as a keynote speaker locally, nationally and internationally. He also conducts in-house workshops for companies in staff evaluation, understanding self, sales, marketing strategy and change management. He has on-going consultancies with companies to develop self-awareness and relationship skills for staff members and enhance problem-solving and people management skills for managers. His workshops are interactive and designed to help clients develop their own skills. A collaborative, interactive management training CD has recently been submitted for an international award.

Corporate clients include PricewaterhouseCoopers, EDi, St George Bank, NAB, Bank of South Australia, Suncorp, KPMG, Vale, Incitec, Henzells Real Estate, Wallace Bishop, Hardy Bros, Austereo, Storm Financial, Education Queensland, Queensland Health, Queensland Treasury and AgForce. Phil is an accredited educator with various government departments.

Phil is currently sports psychologist with the Australian Baseball team, Australian netball and the Queensland Bulls Cricket team.

He is also an on call advisor with the Queensland Academy of Sport and Australian Institute of Sport, and has worked with various international athletes across a variety of sports. He was psychological consultant to the Australian Cricket Team between 1996 and 2007.

He was also an attending sports psychologist at the Barcelona 1992 (Roller Hockey), Sydney 2000 (Baseball, Softball and Beach Volleyball) and Athens 2004 (Baseball, Diving and Coordinating psychologist for the Australian team) Olympic Games. He conducts workshops for junior coaches, parents and umpires, based on the same principles he uses in his corporate work.

Phil has been applying his techniques with tertiary actors in training, a number of whom have since gained success in the Australian and United States television markets. At present, he has an ongoing consultancy with a tertiary institution helping lecturers to enhance their presentation skills in dealing with international corporations.

His educational involvement has continued with talks to teaching staff, parents and students in the areas of learning strategies, effective self-management of themselves and others, successful relationships, handling stress and creating enhanced learning environments.

Phil has written “Understanding Ourselves and Others” (a layman’s guide to self-awareness and improvement) and “Managing Yourself and Others” (techniques for successful management).

Some of Dr Jauncey’s topics

• Understanding Ourselves and Others – helps people understand the differences between themselves and those around them
• Management Education – introduces effective ways of managing staff, ensuring they take responsibility for their role and their actions
• The Power of Positive Doing – gives participants an understanding of the difference between positive thinking and positive doing, and why action is so important
• Changing Behaviour – discusses what real behavioural change requires and whether the focus of that change should be directed at self or others
• Excuses are for Losers – explores why people make excuses and how that impacts on the individuals and those around them
• Goal Setting – helps clients gain focus and direction and ensure they understand the principle of goal setting and goal getting