At the start of the year many of us would have formulated new years’ resolutions – things we want to do better in the coming 12 months. How are they going so far? Often, keeping those resolutions can be a challenge. Why? Because we tend to focus our...
Has anyone been feeling like Andy Dufresne from the Shawshank Redemption recently? Imprisoned, slowly chiselling away, but never losing hope that a better future awaits us. In a conversation with Red, Andy states; “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things,...
Once upon a time, I was part of a team that disliked meetings so much we went to pretty extreme measures to cut them short. At this company, we were spread regionally and only met once every month or two. Those days together contained highly valuable time that could...
Often in our line of work, when we go in to meet with CEOs, managing directors and business owners to help them improve performance, we will ask: ‘What is your pain point at the moment?’ or ‘What is currently holding you back? In many instances,...
One cold June night, as playing coach of a senior football team, I was getting frustrated by the lack of discipline and poor attitude of the team halfway through the training session. I gave them my observation on training and said ‘look, training isn’t...
Using candid case studies from teams who have implemented Ray McLean’s no-nonsense Performance Improvement Program, this book explains how the program can work for all kinds of teams, big or small, sporting or corporate.