Learning to be great

Chris Shambrook
This fascinating interview with 35 year old former world number three golfer Paul Casey shows the importance of learning, playing to strengths and enjoyment (motivation). It also demonstrates the risk associated with being unconsciously competent in a technical skill when something unexpected happens. The performance ingredients of learning, playing to…
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Team Twitter

Chris Shambrook
Team Twitter is not a team role like team joker, but another way, afforded by technology, for teams based remotely to stay connected, create a feeling of being a team and sharing information. Along with other tools like team blogs, conference calls and Skype these technological ways of communication offer…
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Raising the bar

Chris Shambrook
Mickey Arthur, the Australian Cricket Team Coach has just blogged about recent team discipline issues. It's a very focused post that highlights some of the choices that everybody needs to make and be connected by in order that you don't simply hold a set of hopes and wishes together -…
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Sir Alex on controlling the controllable, learning and trusting

Chris Shambrook
Sir Alex Ferguson, long time highly successful former manager of Manchester United, before a game with Real Madrid who include star man, and former United player, Ronaldo: "My biggest concern is that he turns up. What you do expect when you play against a team with Ronaldo in it, you…
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Staying connected

Chris Shambrook
An article in today's Independent newspaper (p27) describes Yahoo's decision to tell all home workers to return to their HQ by this summer because, according to Yahoo, "to become the absolute best place to work ,communication and collaboration will be important so we need to be working side by side.…
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World Class

Chris Shambrook
Rebecca Adlington retired this week, at the ripe old age of 23. There’s been lots of plaudits written about her – some of which sound rather like obituaries. Having done some work with Rebecca back in October (she helped us deliver a great Masterclass to a bunch of high performing…
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eating for performance

Chris Shambrook
From mad cow to crazy horse, the news about horse meat in food products has hit the headlines and focused many people's minds on what they're eating. Do you focus your mind on what you eat or focus what you eat to improve your mind? Foods affect your concentration, decision…
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Learning + changing + patience

Chris Shambrook
It's three years since Andy Murray was defeated by Roger Federer in the 2010 Australian Open tennis final. Here are some comments from Ivan Lendl at the time on the fact that it took him four grand slam final defeats before he won the 1984 French Open (when he was…
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Using goals

Chris Shambrook
As soon as goals are mentioned, we frequently hear the words 'goal setting' mentioned. Goal setting is fine, but the term can encourage the mindset that once goals are set, then the job is done. Goal setting becomes even more effective when combined with goal reviewing, and so a more…
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Get better train

Chris Shambrook
So, #getbettertrain is going to be our hashtag for the next little while on twitter. It's a simple concept and one that really fits quite nicely with everything we do at K2. Here's some thoughts to help bring #getbettertrain to life a little more and also some ideas about how…
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