I am sick. It has nothing to do with my business

“All healing is essentially a release of fear.” A Course In Miracles I am forever working with my clients to connect the physical, the emotional and the mental. The proof is everywhere if we simply open our eyes. How, for example, can we deny that when we work hard for a long period of time […]

Often when we talk about our professional lives we see them as completely separate from our lives happening outside of work. In fact, we are often encouraged to look at it this way. Many employers want us to keep our personal lives to ourselves. Understandable. Why should our business colleagues have to hear about our relationship problems or our […]

It seems like everyone from small businesses to large corporates is feeling like they “should” be offering wellbeing programs to their staff. At NEP we are a little cynical about this. We always ask the question why? Some companies are completely honest and say they want their wellbeing to increase the performance of staff. We […]

How many days have you had where more items seem to go on your to-do list than you actually tick off? Probably quite a few. Recently I was getting ready to leave the country for a month and I certainly felt like I had a few days like this leading up to my trip. But […]

At NEP we always talk about managing energy rather than time to increase your performance. Not only is it important to know how to increase your energy, it’s arguably more important to know how to spend your energy wisely. And one of the best tools available to us to help us to do this is […]

Let’s face it, most of us have been brought up with the mentality that working hard is the best way to improve our productivity. Many of us were taught to work harder to get a better HSC mark, then work harder to get a better graduate position, work harder to get the promotion…..you get the […]

Let’s face it, much tension in the workplace is caused by deadlines and not managing them effectively. Let’s think about what often happens……… Let’s say today is Monday and John is asked to prepare a report and has a deadline of this Friday. Due to other time pressures he might not get around to starting […]

Last week we explore energy credits and how to treat them like nuggets of gold to invest them wisely. This week we are going to look at one of the ways we find many people give away their nuggets of gold unnecessarily………..by being inauthentic. We often see this in the workplace, people try to be […]

So we know that to improve performance it’s important to improve your energy ie higher energy equals higher performance. At Next Evolution Performance we use the term “energy credits”. If everything is completely in balance by your definition of balance then ideally you should have your maximum 100 energy credits on a daily basis. Unfortunately, […]

So many business leaders often say that finding and keep staff are two of their biggest challenges. And no wonder – no one really sets out to hire only average performers. We all want to hire people in that top 10%. One of the easiest ways to increase your chances of hiring only high performers […]