Performance insights(38)
Food for thought to help give your performance a boost based on our experience in the world of sport and business.
The great performers I’ve been lucky enough to support have all got their unique personality characteristics and in-built bias. However, one thing that stands out for all of the great […]
When it’s time to leave a company for a new job, your mind turns to thinking about the references you’re going to need to paint a great picture for a […]
When talking about “Connectedness” and quality of relationships, I often talk about the fact that we’re all the common denominators in our dysfunctional relationships! I also point out we’re the […]
This statement is bandied around very regularly with very little thought and quite frankly, it’s just nonsense in the world of high performance, and even if it is true some […]
It’s clear to us that when the conditions are favourable, people get very used to being able to get away with minimal preparation. Your natural talents, allied with the helpful […]
Olympic athletes have to compete for their place on the team by going through trials. Actually they’re constantly on trial, just about every day. Imagine having the pressure of being […]
As humans, we’ve long been learning from nature. After all, we’re part of it – and in modern times, some of our best inventions have come from learning how things […]
In most organisations ‘feedback’ is something that is done to people and ends up being a concept that brings a certain degree of fear to mind for people when they […]
One thing that we know from working with the highest level athletes is that they value and actively exploit recovery in order to perform better. This contrasts with the views […]
Endurance will give you the capacity to persevere with demanding work for long periods of time. It’ll enable you to make good decisions when you’re physically and mentally tired and […]
Some years ago we were involved in some research and we found a couple of interesting things out about people who were voted as very mentally tough by folks who […]
Elite athletes perform in a challenging arena – one often characterised by intense pressure, tough competition, demanding managers, multiple priorities, and high costs of failure. Performers in business share all […]