Raising the bar

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

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

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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More inspiration from elite level athletes…

Rafa Nadal after defeat at Wimbledon yesterday "I played a great fourth set. He came back and played unbelievable in the fifth. The only thing I can do is go back home and rest, and I need and deserve it. I'm very, very disappointed, it's not a tragedy, it's only a tennis…
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Perspective, fun and talent

Here are some interesting pre-Olympic comments from the UK Athletics head coach. Have a read and see what you think and make sure you get all the way to the last paragraph. It highlights some interesting paradoxes in elite level performance. It can help to care passionately about what you…
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Seat racing for The Olympics

Here's the first of a short series of Thought Pieces written in the run up to the London Olympics by one of our coaches who's closely involved. We'd be delighted if any of them prove useful for you in your performance and equally delighted if you feel inclined to forward…
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In a competitive world talent is not enough

Lewis Hamilton has provided us with a beautifully simple example of talent not being enough in a competitive world. In his post Canadian Grand Prix victory he spoke about the difference between last year and this. “I think I’m driving the same,” he said, “but last year, every year, I’m…
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Team dynamics and the beauty of competitive collaboration

Test cricket is a great game. Not everyone would agree, just as not everyone understands the game, but it’s fascinating in the way that it throws up a mixture of individual strengths and team dynamics. For whilst it’s a team game, it clearly depends too on individual performances and perhaps…
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Do you come from a land down under?

If so, we're interested in hearing from you, especially if you're a high performance coaching organisation! Why so we hear you cry? Well, Keith, our CEO is traveling to Melbourne and Sydney in July to work with one of our customers and as part of that trip he'll also be…
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Positive with pressure

Like many others, we love the thoughts, ideas and concepts in Matthew Syed's book Bounce. Here's him today on the BBC website writing about pressure http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17874450 He talks about understanding, managing and controlling pressure. Become expert at managing the demands upon you and your resources to deal with them. Become…
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