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. […]
3 Benefits Of Change


Helena Wilton is a Business Development Manager for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? She is passionate about personal development and sport, working with a breadth of organisations to help them to find solutions to the challenges they face. Life without change Without change over the past 200 years, what would life be like? […]
Leading Change Through Storytelling


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 environment. What’s in a story? The story of Ben’s crew – […]
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 […]
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 […]
Improving Team Performance – The Rugby Approach


New strategies for improving team performance I always find it fascinating to follow the progress of others who have made the transition from sport to business, as Ben Hunt-Davis did. The skills and habits that Ben and the team developed in the run up to the Men’s Rowing 8s final in 2000 became the Will It Make […]