Why Trust Is At The Heart Of Great Teams
Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance, learning environment. Creating a safe environment for learning Ben has often […]
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 […]
Join A Company, Leave A Boss
Tom Barry is Co-Founder of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? and developed the Crazy Goal Workshop process. He facilitates senior board programmes, strategy development and works closely with senior teams to observe performance ‘in the moment’. If you’re a boss that sucks, it’s all over. Or is it? I remember the moment well. […]
Marginal Gains – ‘One Percenters’
I talk a lot about being focused on performance or in other words, continuous improvement, having a performance mindset, marginal gains or ‘one percenters’. For the sake of this blog I’m not going to define and discuss the difference between these phrases, I just want to look at what they mean at a basic level […]
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 […]
Don’t ask ‘What’s Wrong?’ ask ‘What’s Possible?’
Dr. Cath Bishop is a World Champion, Olympic Silver Medallist and former International Diplomat. Cath now works as a leadership speaker, consultant and facilitator for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? drawing on her practical experience from two high pressure careers as an Olympic rower and a senior diplomat specialising in conflict stabilisation. Athletes do […]
Performance Under Pressure Dinners
On February 1st and 2nd Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? were delighted to host Performance Dinners with our friends and partners from a host of different organisations. Joining us were CEO’s, MD’s, HRD’s and more from organisations such as Rolls Royce, Imagination Technologies, HobbyCraft, Laurent Perrier, Tokio Millenium, Jewson and Brunel University to […]
Mastering Significant Change
Top tips for dealing with change head-on I made the rather worrying calculation the other day that I have been working since 1988 – yes, that’s right, 1988! – in the world of leadership development and employee engagement. The fresh-faced Tom Barry that left a management role in the emerging electronics industry went onto two […]
Beliefs: The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round
By Chris Martin, Marketing and Commercial Director of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Ltd As Ben’s video attached to this insight testifies to, strong belief is vital to achieving our goals. Belief drives us forward. Belief helps us overcome the ups and downs of the journey ahead. But what exactly should we believe […]