Simple high performance ingredients

Chris Shambrook
Darts is not everyone's idea of top class athleticism but it combines many elements of a truly demanding competitive sport - consistent technical skill, fine margins of success/failure, mental toughness (and therefore physical strain), tests of confidence and all in a very public arena. This interview of 3.33 mins with Phil…
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Time to prepare and perform

Chris Shambrook
If you want to get better this year some training time will be required, whether that's spent goal setting, practising or performance reviewing. If you want time to start afresh then checkout out our top tips at www.planetK2.com/blog for how to think, prepare and perform at work like an elite…
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Time to start afresh

Chris Shambrook
Now that it's clear that the world hasn't ended, we should all be able to use our near miss inspired reinvigoration for life to build a better version of ourselves going forward. What better way of harnessing the renewed zest for life and being a good person generally than to…
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Funny thing confidence

Chris Shambrook
Funny how you're not allowed to share the fact that you've got loads of confidence when you've got it. Funny how you're frowned upon if you let people know that you've lost confidence or got none of it. Funny all that given how important everyone says confidence is to them…
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Measuring engagement

Chris Shambrook
Here’s a well used tool that claims to effectively measure engagement at work. Trouble is, it seems to be based on a parent-child model of engagement, with the the organisation being the parent and the workers being the ickle children. That's not really engagement  - that's compliance! Remembering back to…
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slow steady progress

Chris Shambrook
Amidst the excitement surrounding the success of GB teams at the Olympics, and particularly the success of the GB Rowing and Cycling teams, it's worth reminding yourself (or learning) that these successes are on the back of many years (decades in fact) of sustained effort and focus on performance improvement…
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Rebecca Adlington – Passionate about the process

Chris Shambrook
We had the pleasure this week of spending the day with Rebecca Adlington delivering a session reflecting on the Olympic Games. With four Olympic medals to her name at only age 23, there’s clearly something she’s doing right. Performance insights came thick and fast through the day, but there was…
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Are you a perfectionist?

Chris Shambrook
Are you a perfectionist? If you think so, then start applying perfectionism in the high performance way. Perfect reviewing is not simply labelling anything less than 100% successful as a failure. Perfect commitment is not needing every fine detail in place before you'll begin a performance, start a project or…
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Looking for advantages

Chris Shambrook
No great surprise to hear that Andy Murray has recently been using a sports psychologist and that, in Andy's enthusiastic tones 'it went well'. There's at least a couple of really simple messages here. Firstly, that if you want to improve, then anything is worth trying when looking for advantages,…
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Performance Intelligence

Chris Shambrook
A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of taking the first group of non-K2 coaches through a workshop programme to get them ready for using Performance Intelligence in their coaching work. We had two great days of sharing coaching experience and bringing to life the unique approach to…
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