Andy Murray, the end of the tax year and Geoff Rawlings Andy Murray is down to 8th in the men’s tennis world rankings, many people are coming to the end of their business financial year and Geoff Rawlings has had a “nightmare” month. What links these three things? (more…)

There's clearly lots to learn from great performers in any field and in this article about the Irish rugby union player Brian O'Driscoll there are lots of observation by his current and former team mates about what makes him so good. (more…)

In case you didn’t know, the winter Paralympic Games starts today in Sochi. The Opening Ceremony tonight marks the start of a 10 day period of competition, and for the athletes competing, a seminal moment in their sporting careers, and their lives. For the 12 strong Paralympics GB team, the…

As we all know, in the world of elite performance results are everything. Performers are highly focused on winning and are usually very, very competitive in trying to achieve their goals. But to be successful they recognise they need to be fantastic at understanding and knowing how to win. While…

We've had the first few online reviews come in for our recently published new book, Perform. Rather than leave them unappreciated by anyone other than us on the Amazon website here we thought we'd share them with you on this blog. If you're interested in buying a paperback, for £10,…

We learn from many sources. And at K2 we love listening to world class performers like Roger Federer, to learn from his mindset, his approach and his tactics. Here he's talking about his upcoming match with Andy Murray at the Australian Open tennis, having just beaten Jo-Wilfried Tsonga the world…

Within www.theperformanceroom.co.uk and within our new book, Perform, there's a wealth of information about how to show that you're serious about building a culture that aspires to high performance. Most of the ideas we have focus on changing the predominant conversations that take place within businesses and changing the way…

Here's a superb description of what it takes to be serious about building a high performance culture... Mimecast are a superb business who have been going the extra mile in finding out how to bring high performance principles into the workplace to achieve business benefit as well as take care…

Here's a nice quote illustrating the importance of connectedness - the motivation that comes from feeling connected with others towards a common purpose, from England cricketer Ian Bell from the BBC Sport website yesterday. It also nicely demonstrates how a team can turn theory into practice for them in their…