Collaborative Learning To Drive High Performance


Angus McCarey is the CEO of Hive Learning – the collaborative learning platform for leaders, teams and organisations. The mobile-first platform helps people all over the world grow their skills together every day, by turning learning into habit. How digital learning can help your teams in pursuit of a Crazy goal One of the things […]
Wouldn’t It Be Amazing If…


Harriet Beveridge is Head of Performance Programmes, key-note speaker and co-author of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Harriet specialises in one-to-one and group executive coaching and is also a stand-up comic. We’re almost at the end of 2017 – take a couple of minutes before you read the rest of this blog to reflect back on […]
What’s In It For You?


Alison Price is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?, performance coach, author and chartered psychologist. Over the years Alison has become fascinated about the question: how can you experience well-being whilst pushing yourself hard to achieve? She has seen first-hand that people struggle to have enough hours in the […]
Building Beliefs – Creating A Tailwind For Extra Speed


Jamie MacPherson is an Associate Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? and has been working in the world of leadership development for fifteen years. Jamie is interested in the relationship between behaviours that we demonstrate and how that affects the perception of leadership with others, ultimately affecting the performance levels that we […]
Achieving Exceptional Performance – Setting a British Record


https://youtu.be/DJ2OUsJSh5s Advice for achieving exceptional performance Breaking a British record is a pretty Crazy goal. Mark Mitchell managed to do just that at the British Indoor Rowing Championships earlier this month where he finished nine seconds ahead of his closest competitor in the 2km Masters 40-49 LWT event. I first met Mark when he took part […]
What won the Gold? – Daily Habits


People often ask Ben what made the difference in his performance and the results that he achieved whilst rowing. For over 7 years he states that it “went really badly” before he and his crew went through a period of change and they achieved their Crazy goal of winning an Olympic gold medal in 2000. […]