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Mastering the Mental Challenge

Over the past year, we’ve been supporting our K2 Ambassador, Sophie Radcliffe get ready for some of the inspirational challenges she’s taken on. Her most recent challenge was the Mont-Blanc Vertical KM.

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Road to Rio - we need to qualify

Welcome to our Road to Rio series! You’ll hopefully have seen by now that the Great Britain Women’s Hockey qualified for Rio with a superb series of performances throughout the World Hockey League in Valencia. They won the whole tournament, winning every match they played, and happily booking the team’s place for Rio next year as a result.

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Approach performance like the world’s best

Shift your approach to performance. Stop obsessing just about results and start putting your energy into what you need to do to get the results you want. This tool will […]

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What is Performance?

The word “performance” is used in lots of different ways. People talk company performance, performance of their car or a performance on stage. And they probably all mean different things. […]

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So you think you understand performance?

“If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.” Michelle Obama The former first lady talks about “performance” […]

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What can business learn from Sport?

In the last decade, the world of elite sport has been getting more business-like, but there’s a lot the world of work could still learn from elite sport. The world […]

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The secret to greatness

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Aristotle understood what it takes to be great. Not some quirk of fate (other […]

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Perform like the elite

There are things that the world’s best performers have in common, whatever arena they compete in. We see the same characteristics in anyone who’s really good at what they do & make the most of the talent they’ve got. If you’re curious about the prospect of getting better, you’ll need to know what those qualities are.

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Choose your attitude

If you want to fulfil your talent rather than just know you’ve got it, your mindset and attitude is the single most important thing to be working on. This tool […]

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Choose an Olympic attitude at work

The world’s best performers (in whatever arena) aren’t blessed with exceptional qualities or superhuman powers. What they do have is a mindset and attitude that ensure that they make the […]

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So what really affects your performance?

59% of people at work say they’re burned out, low on energy, emotionally drained and lacking any meaning. No surprise then that their performance is not as good as it […]

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Understanding Performance

Elite athletes spend most of their time training to perform and they’re supported by a team of coaches and performance experts whose job is to help them get even better. […]

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