Over the years I have had the privilege of working with many high quality and talented individuals and teams, both in business as well as the sporting arena. What is interesting is that for some looking from the outside in, these individuals and teams do not appear to be world beaters – they seem to be relatively normal (what ever normal means!), and yet, over time, these individuals and teams are able to deliver results which are consistently high, and very rarely drop their performance. They are reliable and predictable, in a very empowering way. 

Late last week I was chatting with a colleague and the subject of peak performance versus high performance came up. We wanted to understand what the fundamental differences were and whether, as leadership coaches, our preference would be to work with people to deliver peak performance, or high performance. We concluded that, it actually depends, because peak performance Continue reading →