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…

In most organisations FEEDBACK is something that is done to people and ends up being a concept that brings a certain degree of fear to mind for people when they know they've "got to have a feedback session!" This is a strange phenomenon for us when we know that the…

Ok, so we're pretty focused on the meaning of learning being that "learning is only said to have taken place when you can observe a relatively permanent change in behaviour" - this comes primarily from skill acquisition approaches to learning, but really applies to all of the behaviour change work…

So, Usain Bolt has set up a training centre in Kingston to bring on the next generation of sprinters and it seems there's real method behind this initiative that he'll benefit from too. Mr Bolt knows that by welcoming competition and surrounding himself with talented people who are keen to…

In "Outliers", Malcolm Gladwell discusses "mitigated speech" and demonstrates how lack of clear communication, due to hierarchical structures within airline crews, has led to a number of crashes. We talk a lot with teams about setting themselves up in such a way that they effectively mitigate against mitigated speech being…

Next time you have a meeting, work out the per minute salary of everyone in the room and get a feel for how much every minute is "costing" you... as soon as the meeting starts, begin an imaginary counter that is providing an ongoing feedback of money invested in the…