so, for April you can only be judged on one thing… your colleagues will shape their view of you based around this one thing… your managers and leaders will identify your value to the business based upon this same one thing… people outside of the business will make their judgements of you on just this [...]
and we mean a coach like the athletes we work with. With such a coach, they would be observing your performances and preparation and giving you feedback both during and after your moments of engagement. They’d be reinforcing good stuff, pointing out things to check, highlighting problems to work on and generally being supportive.So… if [...]
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 [...]
Risks you can afford to take - Risks you can not afford to take - Risks you can afford not to take - Risks you can not afford not to take…
Four different kinds of risks… and do those risks look very different in the current climate? Risks that you could previously afford not to take [...]
We’d like to invite you all to take part in an experiment - and of course let us know any results you might experience.We talk a lot about the importance of feedback and the fact that elite performers crave feedback and seek it out, rather than waiting for it to “happen” to them once or [...]
is a very clever man, on all sorts of levels. Not only has he authored some very good books , he’s also just produced this timely bit of PR, which has got some great stuff in it.Most interestingly, Collins asserts that; “What we’re experiencing now, get used to it! It’s life, and it’s the normal [...]
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? What happens when an immense combination of WILL+SKILL meets and immense combination of SKILL+WILL? You end up with an epic tennis match, again.
The lessons from yesterday’s Australian tennis Open final could go on and on and the incredible displays of mental toughness pay testament to [...]
If the kind of objective feedback that you’re used to has gone awol, it can be pretty difficult to judge yourself in the way that you’re used to. This is a bit like when the sports people we work with have to perform in very different weather conditions - the way they or the equipment [...]
A busy week for us at K2, hence the lack of missives. Back to it though.We were thinking about the fundamental things that underpin performance this week and as any good student will tell you (!), the first thing to do when thinking about something is to look it up in the dictionary and provide [...]
We know from the greatest people we’ve worked with that they’re superb at consistently carrying around with them the ideas that…Their natural talent is not enough for them to excel…They have to constantly keep working on where to focus their desire to improve… andThey have to embrace change and drive change if they’re going to [...]