The athletes we work with often have the benefit of video analysis of their training sessions, taken for them by their coach. Having delivered a training session, the coach and athlete will sit down and analyse the “performance”, sometimes frame by frame to determine how effectivley fundamentals have been delivered and how well goals for [...]
Click on the lovely picture of the fire ants to watch a video of how they have adapted to deal with their home being flooded.
No, this isn’t simply an ant team building challenge in the Amazon!
These ants understand what team primacy is. Forming a raft from just their linked together bodies they float as a colony [...]
We often ask our clients what performance means, before we tell them how we define it. Typically performance gets confused with results and targets and measurement of end points. We often get people to think about performance from the point of view of a performance at the theatre, which people quickly see is a whole [...]
While everyone indulges in the annual madness of new year’s resolutions and seeing who can break them most quickly, why not go down a different path? Rather than trying to think of a grandiose plan for the whole of 2009, why not focus on what your optimum start for 2009 looks like?We’d certainly not discourage [...]
I’ve re-learned something really important this week - that giving and receiving quality performance focused feedback and then taking responsibility for doing something about it is vital for my performance. And to enable that to happen a few things are required: I have to be open to feedback - to want to know anything that [...]
Viktor Frankl (author of the great book, Man’s Search for Meaning) observed that “where there is a why, you can endure almost any how”… deep words… but very true.So, have a look around you. We’re in pretty tough times, and the people who have a “why”, either a personal why, team why or organisational why, [...]
We like copying the great coaches from sport who we’ve worked with and we’ve noticed they talk a lot about the same things, because they’re the fundamentals, until people get it! So, even though we put some stuff up about this last week, it’s still important and it’s probably useful to keep focusing on goals [...]
Under pressure, we know that people’s focus tends to narrow down onto just a few things and very often, this actually means missing out on some really important information that’s in the world around you. We think we’ve noticed quite a lot of attentional narrowing onto those wonderful things called “goals” and it hasn’t all [...]