Performance insights(43)

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

Loving the pressure

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsPressure

Performance Improvement

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsConfidencePerformanceResilienceThe Basics

Take control of your feedback

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsPerformanceThe Basics

Active recovery

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsEnergy

How to develop endurance

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsEnergyResilience

What colour is your diary?

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 […]

Posted in: Performance insightsMotivationThe Basics

Who's driving your coaching conversations?

Who’s more motivated, the Olympic athlete or the Olympic coach? Neither… The athlete wants to be the best (and therefore most successful) athlete they can be and the coach wants […]

Posted in: Performance insightsCoachingMotivation

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Stop demotivating your people

Motivating people is a waste of time and space. Instead, help everyone remember why they’re doing what they’re doing, why they should be confident and to focus on the things […]

Posted in: Performance insightsMotivation

Goal Reviewing

We’ve been very privileged to work with some really successful teams in sport. We’ve worked with them in the most pressurised of sporting environments at world championships and Olympic Games. […]

Posted in: Performance insightsGoalsPerformanceReviewingTeams

Effective goal setting

We’ve been very privileged to work with some really successful teams in sport. We’ve worked with them in the most pressurised of sporting environments at world championships and Olympic Games. […]

Posted in: Performance insightsGoalsPerformanceTeams

Feedback is a gift

When we ask people in the business world to define performance, we typically get bombarded with the following: KPI’s, goals, results, financials, share value, delivering to target. When we ask […]

Posted in: Performance insightsPerformanceThe Basics

Setting goals to maximise team potential

We’ve been very privileged to work with some really successful teams in sport. We’ve worked with them in the most pressurised of sporting environments at world championships and Olympic Games. […]

Posted in: Performance insightsGoalsTeams