Kate McKenna5 April 2018LinkedIn What’s your “why”?Have you ever really stopped and thought about why you do what you do? Why you get up and go to work everyday? Why do you do what you do? Why is that important? Why is it important to you? Read full article
Kate McKenna28 March 2018LinkedIn Are you talking yourself out of high performance?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! Read full article
Kate McKenna22 March 2018LinkedIn How my Fitbit helps me track for high performanceI have a Fitbit. It’s one of the original Charge versions and I’ve had it for almost two and a half years now. It’s a part of my person and goes everywhere with me. There are only three things I do without it, and it really bugs me….because I can’t track anything without it on. Read full article
Kate McKenna15 March 2018LinkedIn Sign up for our new one-day workshop: The Science of Sustained High PerformanceAchieve more with less effort? Yes, please! Work, life, and technology are placing more demands on everyone with stress, burnout and serious related diseases on the rise. This is costly to both individuals and businesses. Register for our workshop today! Read full article
Kate McKenna15 March 2018LinkedIn Too busy to fuel your body for sustained high performance?Poor diet could be the exact reason why you’re so unproductive. Throughout October last year, my usual keen sense of focus shifted from my nutrition, and my body made me pay for it significantly. I’m not going to harp on here about weight or body image; that’s a topic for another time. What I want […] Read full article
Kate McKenna8 March 2018LinkedIn Hiring for energy fit – why you should consider itWe’ve spoken in the past about our Heavy, Medium, Light philosophy (H, M, L). If you missed it, a very brief explanation is that you bucket your tasks into the energy spend required to complete them – is it heavy and drains you of energy, or is it light and feels like it gives energy […] Read full article
Kate McKenna1 March 2018LinkedIn The simple solution to increasing your productivityAfter 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. […] Read full article
Vanessa Bennett22 February 2018LinkedIn Why agile offices might not be best for your staff’s mental healthThis is certainly a hot topic over the years and at NEP we often get asked for our opinion on agile offices in terms of productivity. It’s also important to think about how mental health may be impacted. We have many clients working in agile spaces and quite frankly it’s not something that comes naturally […] Read full article
Vanessa Bennett15 February 2018LinkedIn The beginning of the yearJanuary 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 […] Read full article
Vanessa Bennett8 February 2018LinkedIn What drives your decisions? The thrill of success or the fear of failure?I was once asked in an interview: “What drives you more – the thrill of success or the fear of failure”? Since then I have always loved this question and admittedly have used it in a few interviews when I’ve been hiring people, and I’ll often use various versions of this when I coach people. […] Read full article
