When it's time to leave a company for a new job, your mind turns to thinking about the references you're going to need to paint a great picture for a potential new employer who doesn't know you yet. We've been having some thoughts about this and we'd like to throw…

The title of the post is an excellent example of the stream of nonsense that you get on twitter which you can just imagine being regurgitated in the work place by a leader thinking they're adding value by wisely using this platitude themselves. If glib phrases and truisms were the…

A quote from Mr Mourinho today: "Five years in a managerial career is a long time. Football demands a lot and you learn a lot every day." If you compare the pace of change in football to the pace of change in the business world, it's pretty pedestrian and yet…

With Arsenal qualifying for an incredibly consistent 16th consecutive season of Champions league football next season, here's their manager, now the longest serving in the Premier league, writing in September 2007 about how he thinks and prepares in order to perform: "I am always excited by building a new team…

This week the CIPD reported on a recent health, well-being and productivity study which found that 98% of businesses which actively measure stress felt that it was an issue for their workforce. The CIPD's own research shows that 70% of employees experience workplace stress and that 21% regularly think about…

We're celebrating performance obsession with our latest hashtag - #performancegeek Geekery is all about an unusual devotion to something, so it seems if you're going to be a geek it's a great idea to have that devotion focused on something that's going to be really beneficial. Therefore, we're on a…

If you're interested in motivation and why we do what we do, then Drive, by Dan Pink is a book we'd recommend you read. The CIPD are putting on three, free, two hour Drive workshop on 29th May, details here. Be quick if you're interested!

We love knowing what the readers of our blog think and what they feel about any of the posts we've shared. Therefore, we'd love to start getting more interaction from all of you out there reading our high performance musings. What kind of stuff encourages you to comment on blog…

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…

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…