Question: Who’s more motivated, the Olympic athlete, or the Olympic coach? Answer: Both. The athlete wants to be the best (and therefore most successful) athlete they can be, and the coach wants to be the best (and therefore most successful) coach they can be. So, if you’re a leader, manager…

As you know, we love to ask questions to help people think about maximising their performance, so here's a few more to help check your performance and see what you learn about yourself... 1.How has what you've done today contributed to you improving your performance? 2.What specific feedback about your…

We saw an advert the other day for a Head of Reward and Performance Management and part of the role is to “motivate your team of Reward specialists” which we think is really interesting and sparks a lot of questions for us. We don’t understand why the Reward specialists need…

Well, those of you who know us will be fully aware that we regularly ask people and teams to be very clear about their WHY, from a purpose perspective. Without a why, it's always pretty difficult to get the best possible performance - now performing at the level that comes…

We ask the following questions pretty regularly (we're very predictable really... some may have other words for it). However, we find these high performance questions useful, and they help keep people thinking about fulfilling potential rather than just having it. See which question appeals to you most and then get…

Since Christmas I've now met 5 people who are, metaphorically speaking, shooting themselves in the foot. They're all conscientious, hard working, wanting to do a great job, working towards KPIs and targets etc, etc, and yet choosing to do things that they know are not helping them. Madness? And the thing…

I had two seperate conversations today with two ex-colleagues. Both are now self-employed, one in recruitment and one in financial services, and what struck me as I talked to them both within the space of an hour was what different views they had of the same world. One was bullish…

If you're serious about getting the most out of yourself and the talent around you, then you'll have a read of this and you'll have a think about whether you can benefit from un-managing the talent in your business. We believe that if you truly want to set free the…

Dan Pink recently blogged about there being only two kind of people in the world... thought provoking, simple stuff. So, we thought we'd add a little high performance twist to his idea... There are only two kinds of people in the world: Those that fulfill potential - and those that…