Leading the field
For company founder Craig Steel, putting his early experiences in sport into a corporate context made sense in a multitude of ways. We all know the old line about sport and politics not mixing is nonsense.
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High performance leadership
Having specialised in performance for over 20 years, I am convinced organisational success is largely a consequence of leadership.
Engineering a step-change in performance - Part 1
The act of ‘stepping-up, while frequently used, is poorly understood, hence the reason so few who strive to experience it, ever manage to actually achieve it.
All Blacks’ form – leveraging capability
Whilst the All Blacks recent form would suggest they have made some decent headway in terms of increasing their psychological capacity to perform i.e. gaining traction in the area of improving mind-sets, the Springboks collapse is rather more surprising.
NZ Rugby – bolstering the economy
The Crusaders 39-24 loss to the Bulls at Orlando Stadium in Soweto last week is a worrying sign for the All Blacks, not because they lost, but because the comments made prior to and after the game provide further evidence that our commanders at the helm...
Commercial coaching
For a number of years now the business world has embraced the analogy of ‘coaching because it assumed the approach taken by sports coaches is likely to be more effective in regards to ‘leveraging capability and ‘developing potential than the traditional...
The future of New Zealand sport
Over the past few weeks many New Zealanders, along with an estimated 3.5 billion people around the world, have been tuning into the wonderful spectacle of the Beijing Olympics.
Insights into commercial performance
During the past two years, we as a proud sporting nation have observed the impact the mind has on our performance, possibly more than during any other period in our illustrious sporting history.