Can you really personalise performance in a team setting?

At NEP we pride ourselves on individualising performance. There are no two humans exactly alike. We have so many different factors that make up our perspective it’s a wonder we can even sit in the same room as other people and find common ground, let alone come to unified decisions together.

Thanks to a further understanding of neuroscience, “choose your thoughts” is generally pretty good advice. It works on the basis that our thoughts become wiring in our brains so we want to make sure that our thoughts are aligned with the wiring we want to create.

So many people believe that you can’t really build resilience until you have experienced a major setback. The good news is that isn’t true. No two brains are created the same, which means that some people are naturally going to be more optimistic and resilient than others. And thanks to neuroscience we know that brains are able to be re-wired so that resilience can be built even if it doesn’t come naturally to you.

I recently read a post from a fellow athlete I follow on social media about the hard work and effort he puts into his training and athletic career. He also, quite rightly, pointed out it was all totally his choice – he chooses to give up other things in his life in order to follow […]

I’ll let you in on a secret about other people’s actions…..the majority of the time (and I’m talking 99.9% of the time), other people’s actions and language have absolutely nothing to do with us personally and everything to do with what’s going on inside them right now. Yet, most of the time we take their […]

At NEP we coach some really awesome people – yes best job in the world…. but I digress… and the nature of the beast is that the issue of perfectionism often rears its ugly head. And yes it can be ugly… Let’s think about perfectionism as the need for things to be perfect regardless of […]

I find humans fascinating – which is probably a sure sign that I’m definitely in the right line of work. Yep I love my job and when I wanted to move from financial services into coaching I was very sure that I wanted to focus on high performers.

Recently I sat through a powerful workshop run by my impressive colleague. She took a group of co-workers who didn’t connect regularly on a journey through understanding mindset and using mindset to improve productivity and performance.

It has become a bit of a theme in our culture today to say to friends “you have to say no” and “you can’t do everything”. We seem to know that taking on too much and trying to be everything to everyone is not sustainable.

What a scary word – vulnerable. It is so quickly associated with being exposed, being scared, being weak. It is certainly never a word you hear in a business setting. Yet, being and encouraging vulnerability is crucial to the success of so many aspects of the high performers. Let me explain.