Long Training+Research

Long Training+Research LTR is a human performance firm providing management assessment and management development services.

Dr. Stephen Long is the founder & president of Long Training+Research specializing in human performance, leadership effectiveness, talent optimization, and strategy ex*****on. He has unlocked the potential of exceptional leaders, champion athletes, fighter pilots, military special operations personnel, elite producers, and corporate executives. The author of four books and over a dozen articles, h

e earned his PhD from the University of Kansas where he was honored as the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student while serving as the Director of the KU Peak Performance Clinic. He then served as the Head of Performance Psychology in the Human Performance Lab at the US Air Force Academy. A University of Utah independent study identified Dr. Long as one of North America’s top applied performance psychologists.

12/05/2026

People are expected to always be rational in pursuing their goals. Still, we've learned through Executive Functions that people are rarely rational.

07/05/2026

The problem is consistency — the gap between our intentions and our actions. Research shows strategies only deliver 63% of what they promise, and we don't know if it's due to a faulty strategy or if the fault is within us. *****on

06/05/2026

The most dangerous emotion is fear. It's common to find a person in a state of fear during uncertain and unpredictable times. Fear for one's economic survival and workforce survival is endemic. Fear prevents learning and nuanced understanding, leaving executives and employees in a state of paralysis, unable to execute.

05/05/2026

Decision-making, problem-solving, and executing strategy directly relate to brain functioning. Research shows that human performance skills improve brain functions.

30/04/2026

People who fail to attribute results accurately believe they have little or no control over the outcome. Lack of control generally results in increased frustration, heightened anxiety, lack of focus, and a loss of confidence in one's ability to achieve a goal.

29/04/2026

Both individual and organizational change is dependent upon habit and behavioral change. Human performance empowers people to perceive situations in a way that creates excitement, energy, and positive motivation, creating change.

28/04/2026

Human performance improves as stress increases because we need energy to execute, but performance levels off as pressure continues to mount. This is the optimal level of energy where performance is the highest. Then, as stress continues to increase, performance decreases.

23/04/2026

A properly developed and reinforced belief system helps people consistently achieve their goals.

22/04/2026

Experts assume the best we can do is compromise by recognizing situations where errors occur, followed by trying harder to avoid them, thereby continually draining our energy pools. However, through human performance skills, new habits form, allowing us to trust our talent preserving energy pools for additional complex and profitable problems.

21/04/2026

Confirmation Bias is a formed habit of ignoring or discarding evidence that doesn't fit with one's beliefs while giving greater weight to evidence that does.

16/04/2026

Failure is more likely to occur when we exceed our allocated attention budget. Multi-tasking rarely results in exceptional performance because effortful activities interfere with each other, depleting our budget.

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