Blog tag: leadership

Learning from the elite sports’ approach to practise This is the second in our Q&A series with performance coach Jon Cooper who shares his perspective on the themes in our book, ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’. As coach to Paralympian Gold medallist Aaron Phipps, Jon knows all about performance and winning at…

When we wrote our latest book ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ we spoke to many inspiring elite sportspeople to gain their insight on what goes into their performance winning strategies. But we didn’t stop there. We also wanted to capture the thoughts of the performance coaches behind elite sports – the people…

Are you working in an organisation with a culture that expects 100% performance? Where delivery is seen as everything – often at the expense of quality, results and employee wellbeing? We think there’s a better way to achieve improved and sustainable performance. To perform better you need to focus on…

Are you a leader who wants a high performing team? Perhaps you’ve started the year wanting to bring some fresh momentum to the way things are done. You know your people work hard, but if you could focus them on the really important objectives, you’d all achieve so much more.…

For your organisation to be successful, your people need to perform at their best. And yet many employees are on a slippery slope to exhaustion, with burnout at record levels. As many of us strive to do our best to deliver, the problems begin when we don’t allow ourselves the…

If you want to run an effective meeting you’ll know how important it is to make productive use of the collective time. It’s a real art form. Meetings have to be beneficial and productive or they become very costly. Meetings can easily get derailed, go off at tangents and have…

When your people are free to lead initiatives and make decisions on their own they are more engaged, more innovative and productive. But here’s the problem. Delivering real empowerment is fraught with challenges. Organisations claim to want to empower their employees but can they really? The utopia of empowerment is…

What’s your perception of failure? The chances are it’s negative and that’s often down to how failure has been positioned from childhood. You either pass an exam, or you fail. Perhaps you were told off for getting things wrong by an impatient teacher. It’s no surprise then that for some,…

It all seemed to go so well – or so you thought. You found the ideal hire for a difficult to fill role. The candidate gave the perfect interview and seemed a good fit. And yet, three months later you are staring at their resignation email. Where did it all…

While advances in technology grab the headlines, our workplaces are still overwhelmingly human. And as leaders, colleagues and co-workers, we all come with that most human of traits – our emotions. Our emotions can inspire, motivate and engage – but they can also have a downside. In organisations and in…