This is an old newsletter, but we thought it worth opening up to our blog audience. The film in question being on the tv over the weekend probably prompted remembering this! What do you think?
From 2008…
During the Olympics in Beijing, apart from watching first hand some outstanding teamwork in action at Shunyi Rowing Lake, I [...]
We had the opportunity last year to speak to the Cranfield University Key Account Management Best Practice Club. It was a great day and a great chance to challenge the audience to think a lot about how the world of high performance sport and its approach to coaching could help the world of Key Account [...]
In the Wikipedia entry for Goal Setting (in business) you’ll see the following:
Goals focus attention towards goal-relevant activities and away from goal-irrelevant activities.
Goals serve as an energizer; higher goals induce greater effort while low goals induce lesser effort.
Goals affect persistence; constraints with regard to resources affect work pace.
Goals activate cognitive knowledge and strategies that help employees [...]
Some twitter activity over the past few days from Ruby McGregor-Smith (@rubyms)at Mitie prompted us to look back at a couple of thought pieces from a few years ago. Even though the dates have changed, many of the sentiments still remain true for the here and now in terms of maximising performance and giving us [...]
Take a listen to Michael Johnson on Desert Island Discs recently. In the first two minutes he’s talking about, not what percentage of success is physical or mental, but that you need to be 100% at both. Also about the pursuit of being the best you can be…
Two high performance golden nuggets in two minutes. [...]
Great interview on Test Match Special at the moment with Matt Prior, England cricket team’s wicket keeper, talking about what it’s like to be on tour, revealing some elements of what’s making England a great team at the moment:
having a few rules, “nothing that you wouldn’t want to have anyway”
awareness of how different individuals need [...]
Andy Murray’s epic semi-final today in the Australian open showed once again the fine margins between success and failure at that elite level of competition. With such fine margins it’s virtually impossible to pinpoint the exact difference between the players, whether it was mental, tactical, technical physical or something else (what’s for sure is that [...]
Ever heard “you’re only as good as your last goal/game/result”, as a way to encourage continued effort i.e. if my last result was a win, then if I want to keep up my success/reputation I need to win again, so I need to keep working hard and practicing and doing those things that helped me [...]
K2 have very a proud relationship with the Dame Kelly Holmes Legacy Trust, a charitable body set up to provide life chances to young people who haven’t had the same good fortune or opportunities as so many of us. Dame Kelly Holmes is a double Olympic gold medal winner from the Athens Olympics in 2004, [...]
If you like to know what’s going on in the world of psychology that’s very relevant to the world of work, then you should probably favourite the British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Blog. There’s lots of interesting and relevant information here to stimulate your thinking about your work related mindset.
Staying relevant is always important in [...]