Sublime Federer

Chris Shambrook
Roger Federer is world class at managing his performance diary throughout a year, understanding the mental and physical demands on him, and preparing and performing accordingly. At 30, the oldest ever winner of the end of season masters tournament, arguably playing the best tennis of his life, looking and staying…
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Talent is only a starting point

Chris Shambrook
"Talent is not enough" is one of things we regularly say at K2. What we mean is that your talent will only get you so far, but unless you recognise that talent is only a starting point, and that talent alone will only get you so far, then you will…
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Your performance context

Chris Shambrook
We've been coaching a new client in Tokyo this week, and have been delighted to confirm to ourselves that the high performance principles we seem time and again in different environment, situations and cultures clearly resonate in Japan too. We're always eager to learn from our clients as well and…
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Confidence and Building Momentum

Chris Shambrook
Having watched both of the rugby world cup quarter finals earlier today, between Wales & Ireland and then England & France (my wife's away for the weekend) I was struck by how close all four teams are in terms of personnel, talent, ability, fitness etc and wondered what made the…
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Interview with Bradley Wiggins – Performance

Chris Shambrook
Here's some extracts from a recent interview with Bradley Wiggins. There's some interesting insights into the mindset of a great performer. Have a read. "At this stage I seem to be getting better all the time and I'm not conscious of time running out. I want to keep progressing on…
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Elite Performance in action…

Chris Shambrook
What a stunning performance from Team GB Cycling yesterday at the World Championships in the mens road race. The entire team effort (3 years in the planning) was executed with a superb collective commitment to a plan and some individual brilliance by all of the team members to ensure the…
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Feedback and performance reviews

Chris Shambrook
We know that elite level athletes, unlike their corporate counterparts, often spend more time training than performing as training is central to their performance. Similarly elite athletes can compete on learning through performance reviews (whilst corporate meetings tend to focus on operational issues - sometimes exclusively - rather than improving)…
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Engagement – don’t kid yourself it’s the answer

Chris Shambrook
Well I guess it depends on the question you're asking. And let's make something clear - we know and believe that engagement is a key component for high performance. As well as being a good thing, that's also the problem. It's a component, not the whole thing. Engagement does something…
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Take care of yourself to take care of your performance

Chris Shambrook
As well as working with corporate performers on the mental side of their performance, on their tactics, on how to exploit their technical knowledge, on building their support team and on understanding their environment; we also talk regularly about the physical aspects of performing. Whether you're working 35 hours, 5…
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Team performance – permission to excel?

Chris Shambrook
We often run a very simple exercise with teams that we work with which encourages individuals members to trade strengths with each other and talk about the things that they see each other being great at for the team. The exercise is always well received, with loads of energy and…
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