From Chaos to Clarity: What 90 Senior Leaders Revealed About the Real Barrier to Strategy Execution
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. In The 8th Habit, Stephen Covey shares research from a Harris Poll of 23,000 employees that: Only 37% of employees had a clear understanding of their organisation’s goals. And only 20% were enthusiastic about them. Only 15% felt enabled to execute […]
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Applies Elite Performance Lessons to Close the Execution Gap in Business
As Featured in Yahoo Finance and Business Insider. Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?® was recently profiled in international business media, highlighting how elite performance principles from Olympic sport are helping leadership teams close the execution gap in business. The feature explores a challenge we see repeatedly in executive teams: strategy is rarely the issue – execution […]
High Performance Leadership Doesn’t Happen by Accident – It Happens by Design
Written by Senior Performance Consultant Natalie Macaluso “Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle In elite sport, athletes don’t “fit in” development when their diary calms down. Training is non-negotiable. It’s the job. Yet when we asked a few hundred senior leaders on our recent webinar how often they purposefully work on their […]
How to Break Down Team Silos and Boost Performance
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock Every leader knows the feeling. You’ve got talented teams, a clear strategy and you might be making progress – yet somehow, progress feels slower than it should. Priorities begin to compete. Departments pull in slightly different directions. Conversations aren’t joining up. Things start to fall through the cracks. […]
Employee Engagement Strategies for 2026 to Motivate and Align Your People
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock In today’s world of relentless change, shifting employee expectations and hybrid ways of working, keeping people truly engaged has never been more challenging. The pace of transformation means priorities evolve quickly, and many leaders are grappling with how to keep their teams connected to purpose when the ground […]
Don’t Leave Culture to Chance: Building High-Performance Organisations in Business
Written by Senior Performance Consultant Portia Light & Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock Culture is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood drivers of business performance. Leaders know it matters, but too often it’s dismissed as intangible or just left to change. Culture can act as the bridge between strategy and execution. It can shape […]
Increase Productivity by Helping Your People Find Their Purpose
Written by Caroline Boyd, Senior Performance Consultant at Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heu-p7ZeJbk Coming back from a summer holiday can be a perfect time for a fresh start, with new energy to refocus and reprioritise. It’s a golden opportunity to pause and ask ourselves whether the people in our teams really understand the […]
How to Build a High-Performing Team (That Actually Delivers Results)
By Chris Lloyd, Director of Consulting & Josh Trebilcock, Head of Marketing When you’re leading a business, pressure is a constant. You’re expected to deliver growth, meet targets, and provide strategic direction – all while aligning an executive, senior leadership or functional team, that for a variety of reasons, might not yet be operating at […]
How Winning Executive Teams Stay Aligned and Focused
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock. We often find that Executive Teams hit a stage in their company growth where “what got you here, won’t get you where you need to go”. A period where they need to try something different. We see this begin to show up in a number of ways – […]