Your career progression is not your manager’s responsibility

At NEP we work with amazing clients. And while many of them are lucky enough to have their company put them forward (and pay for) a coaching program, many of them are investing in the programs themselves. Now we don’t mind what level in their career our clients are.

Now I’ll admit when it comes to household chores I really don’t like them. They are a massive drain of my energy to even think about doing them. Thankfully my wonderful partner is amazing at doing the cooking, but he doesn’t love vacuuming much more than I do.

So this may come as a surprise to anyone who knows me from my adult life, but I was painfully shy all through primary school. I was definitely more confident in high school but I was starting from a really low base.

Part of achieving high performance is making sure you are doing work you really enjoy. So a big part of what we do at Next Evolution Performance is to help people to find a role or career they get excited to get out of bed for.

I ran one of our Science of Sustained High Performance workshops recently, which includes a focus on mindset. I was explaining how a friend of mine always (and I mean ALWAYS) gets a great park at Bondi Beach throughout summer regardless of time of day – this is no mean feat as any Sydneysider knows!

After explaining to a colleague today what it is that we do at Next Evolution Performance, he asked if I’d watched the TV series Billions. I’ve heard of it, but never watched an episode. Neither had he, it turns out, but the purpose of him asking me was what we were both more interested in. […]

January can mark a whole lot of amazing things; new perspectives, a fresh start, a set of new goals and commitments, opportunity, hope, energy. The biggest goals all seem to be possible. You have a whole year ahead of you to make things happen. You are (hopefully) refreshed from a bit of a break. “This […]

Before we work start working with clients we always do our due diligence to make sure we can add significant value to the business or person (and to ensure they are looking to take their high performance to the next level).

It’s no secret that team performance is enhanced when everyone has a great mindset. And while there are many ways to coach your team to a great mindset for performance, it often comes down to one thing…