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 […]
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 […]
3 Tips for Getting Motivated – Banish the Post-Holiday Blues
After spending a week or two relaxing on a beach, hiking in Scotland or many long weekends in the garden, you might imagine your team are refueled and eager to get back to performing within their role. In reality, despite our best intentions, this is the time of year to start thinking about motivation and […]
Bouncebackability – Motivate Yourself to Come Back Stronger
By Jenny Bletcher, at Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Ltd Bouncebackabilty With the events of the last few months in mind, in the face of huge uncertainty and unknown setbacks, we will all have the opportunity to motivate ourselves to come back stronger. The question is simply, how? We’ve all experienced setbacks at […]
A Search to Find out why Some Lucky People are so Damn Motivated
To begin with a confession. I am deeply in awe of world class sportsmen, admire begrudgingly FTSE 100 type CEO’s (especially Helena Morrissey) always wondered quite how Mother Theresa did it. The ability to not only be very good at something but to keep on doing it, day after day, week after week, each time at […]
How to Become more Efficient: Focus on What’s Important
https://youtu.be/zEyrk5dGIQk?list=UUwRDeSuuN0vt_BQC42tEgFg How to be more efficient What are you actually trying to achieve? It might sound like an obvious question but it’s one that some of us would struggle to answer when it comes to what we do at work all day. Many of us spend our days firefighting, simply trying to get through as […]