Blog tag: performance

The year-end holidays are almost here. You can feel the excitement rising – but let’s be honest, with deadlines breathing down your neck, your mind feels anything but free. You’re tired, overloaded, maybe even fed up with a few colleagues. Sound familiar? That’s your body and brain telling you, it’s…

Managing your team’s performance, motivation and wellbeing can be challenging when they’re overstretched and you’re trying to balance this with managing relationships with other teams and producing deliverables. While it can be tempting to explain away the situation as “everyone’s busy”, it’s best to be proactive in taking stock and…

If you are a team leader who wants to set performance objectives, how do you define what successful outcomes will look like? Defining performance is not easy – but it’s important to know whether your teams are performing or not. If you look to Google to define what performance is,…

Learning from the elite sports’ approach to performance This is the third and final article 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 has seen success at…

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…

In their latest book, ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ Monkey Puzzle Co-founders Karen Meager and John McLachlan explore how elite sportspeople and their teams manifest sustainable performance – and what leaders and organisations can learn from their strategies. As they discovered, the answer isn’t to work harder or faster. The secret is…

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…