Someone on the radio the other day mentioned this great concept (the Talent Myth... which was touted a few years ago) that actually works in two kinds of negative ways! The speaker made a comment that many people in the banking world are living a talent myth, constantly reinforcing that they have…

If you had world rankings in your world of work or sport... and those world rankings were judged using only psychological qualities, what would the judging panel have on their list of qualities? More importantly, where would you feature on the world rankings? Would you get sufficiently high scores on…

We've got a lot to say about high performance and we love communicating it to people in all sorts of ways... so apologies from us for not behaving like it on this blog recently. Just before we get into writing something thought provoking, have a look at this recent post…

Which of your strengths are you leading with today? How are you going to make sure that strength delivers at the best possible level for you? Will you be reviewing how well you exploited the strength? (or simply taking it for granted that a strength will be good enough?) Can…

"Don't run in the corridor!" - Must have fallen on deaf ears, or no ears when Usain Bolt was at school. By the time the teacher would have got the first syllable of his name out, he would have been well out of ear shot! There's a lot to be…

Typically when we ask people how important confidence is for their job, they report something like a 9/10 or a 10/10. When we ask them therefore how frequently they work on making sure this thing that is so important is fully working for them, they tell us that they don't,…

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Can you suffer from Federer Syndrome? It would be great if you could! Simon Barnes writes in the Times today how Roger Federer won his 15th Grand Slam title through the brilliant tactic of not losing. Federer's drive not to lose was immense; Andy Roddick's desire to win was palpable.…

We often like suggesting to some of our more analytical clients to think about how they would go about delivering a key performance if they could only retain in their memory 3 key bits of information that would be guaranteed to help them in the midst of their performance. This…

When you're world class, you have to do things differently to keep challenging yourself and to ensure that you're still moving on and improving. This example of Andy Murray and Rafa Nadal practising together may seem surprising on first look. However, these guys are world class, incredibly confident in their…