Performance insights(43)

Food for thought to help give your performance a boost based on our experience in the world of sport and business.

Does work really have to be this hard?

The singular obsession with results and organisations being slaves to their scoreboards has resulted in workplace cultures where the zeitgeist is full of perceptions of excessive busyness, pressure and the […]

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The Importance of Prioritising a Daily Rest and Recovery Plan

What’s your attitude towards rest and recovery? Is it a luxury that you have no time for or a necessity that is always the first to be sacrificed during busy […]

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Building your Mental Fitness

Here are two basic but key ways of developing a strong foundation for building your Mental Fitness and underwriting your Mental Health at work.

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The uncomfortable truth about leading performance

If you're a leader, you're a leader of people. If you’re a leader of people, you’re looking to get the best possible performance from them. Therefore, an important element of leadership is to focus the best attention and energy of your people onto doing the things they need to do to get the results you want.

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How do you compare?

I’ve realised I’m really bored with the whole “stop comparing yourself to other people, compare yourself to yourself” plea. It’s doing a huge disservice to people who naturally benefit from […]

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Control the Controllables - Daily Challenge

Now is a really good time to focus on the things you can control and to reduce the amount of time you find yourself thinking and talking about things you’re […]

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High Performance Survival

It’s time to re-define success. For as long as you can all remember, you’ve been showered with all manner of advice about the importance of focusing on success and believing […]

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Choose your response

We’re hearing about lots of new, unplanned for challenges. Here are some tips on how you could respond to some of the current challenges.

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Create readiness to perform when working from home

How can you continue making progress even when you are not able to work in the normal way?  How do you stay productive? How do you stay connected if you […]

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What is physical performance readiness?

Think about what happens at a time when you’re tired and hungry. It’s difficult to concentrate. You’re more likely to be irritable with other people. Interruptions can cause excessive frustration. […]

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What is mental readiness?

Knowing what you need to think and getting good at thinking it – is a pretty simple definition of mental readiness for preparing and performing and depending on who you’re […]

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What is contextual readiness?

Contextual readiness is all about knowing and then managing the performance environment. There are physical influences in the performance environment that determine your current level of contextual readiness. Clearly there […]

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