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 […]
Healthy Business Performance& Resilience
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. Focus on healthy […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
A Quick Tip For A Quick Win
Earlier in the week we were sent an interesting enquiry: “We are trying to improve our transport business at depot level using your principles. Any tips for a quick win or to make improvements short term to demonstrate the changes and then set long term goals?” Watch Tom’s video response here. Many of us have […]