Having just watched the Canadian Ice Hockey team sneak a win in the over time period in a dramatic match, it got us thinking about what are the lessons for performing at work. The Canadian team seemed to come to life in the over time period (Hockey aficionados will no doubt be able to provide [...]
How easily can you list your strengths?
If you can list them easily, chances are you play to them consistently.
If you haven’t given your strengths any thought, chances are you’ll think about not failing, or not having your weaknesses exposed when the pressure is on.
If you want to find out how good you can be, then [...]
Roger Federer… personifies elite performance… intense, sustained, consistence excellence… 23 straight grand slam semi-finals, which is incredible. If you think that he would have played 5 rounds per tournament to get to the semi’s, with probably an average of about 2 hours per match (give or take), then thats 23 hours of tennis when you’re [...]
Someone on the radio the other day mentioned this great concept (the Talent Myth… which was touted a few years ago) that actually works in two kinds of negative ways! The speaker made a comment that many people in the banking world are living a talent myth, constantly reinforcing that they have special skills that only they [...]
If you had world rankings in your world of work or sport… and those world rankings were judged using only psychological qualities, what would the judging panel have on their list of qualities? More importantly, where would you feature on the world rankings? Would you get sufficiently high scores on the psychological qualities to have [...]
We’ve got a lot to say about high performance and we love communicating it to people in all sorts of ways… so apologies from us for not behaving like it on this blog recently.
Just before we get into writing something thought provoking, have a look at this recent post from Gordon Farquhar on the BBC [...]
Something that we often talk about here, and else where, is the importance of playing to your strengths, rather than worrying about your weaknesses being exposed. David Haye showed the importance of playing to strengths on Saturday night in Nuremberg.
As we’ve said before though, in order to play to your strengths you have to…
know what [...]
Have a look at this article about the new man, Jonny Wilkinson has become. The title of the piece is all important for us, because we know so well the power of paradoxes in high performance psychology.
An individual’s or team’s ability to hold conflicting attitudes or beliefs at the same time often ensures a much [...]
Which of your strengths are you leading with today?
How are you going to make sure that strength delivers at the best possible level for you?
Will you be reviewing how well you exploited the strength? (or simply taking it for granted that a strength will be good enough?)
Can you make sure you’re focused on delivering personal [...]
Thanks to Mike Garth from www.Sun1400.com for this great blog…
Following last Sunday’s F1 Grand Prix in Italy, Jenson Button holds a large 14-point lead in this year’s World Driver’s Championship.
Political meanderings and race-fixing allegations aside, all the performance-related chat in F1 of recent weeks has been about Button, his dwindling lead in the championship (it was as [...]