Helping teams, business leaders and the world’s best athletes perform • Currently @EY_UKI • Previously @UKSportsInst @teamgb @paralympicsgb

Joined June 2011
It’s possible achieving ‘work/life balance’ isn’t realistic. Perhaps seeking a ‘work/life blend’ that works for each of our unique and dynamic needs, preferences and circumstances is a more useful target.
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Three things that influence your ability to solve problems, make good decisions and perform at your best 🧠 Mindset 🎯 Skillset 🔨 Toolset All of these things can be developed Thread below …🧵 (1/4)
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Skillset - based on your knowledge and understanding, the capabilities you bring to be effective in your working world. What are the skills that you need to be effective in your world? How are you developing them? (3/4)
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Toolset - the methods, techniques, approaches, devices and frameworks you use. What tools could be useful to you? How effectively do you deploy them? And in what circumstances? (4/4)
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After a uniquely challenging few years for athletes, coaches and support staff - 65 medals for @TeamGB and 124 medals for @ParalympicsGB has been a remarkable achievement. Some inspiring and powerful moments that reaffirm the positive impact sport can have!
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Trying to catch as much #Nudgestock2021 as possible between meetings and sessions today. Great to see the familiar face of @s_tatam who was recently so generous with his time discussing application of BS in sport
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Yesterday we delivered the first set of webinars on our pilot course @S_CAcademy here are a few key things I took away from the day…
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4. ‘World class’ thinking is far more important than access to ‘world class’ equipment/facilities
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5. It’s really fun to work with a group of people that are curious, open, and prepared to be active participants rather than passive recipients in their own learning and development.
One of my favourite books of the year so far comes from @mrianleslie - so much progress can come from more productive, rather than destructive, disagreements
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“If someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try ... so much of getting good at anything is just pure labor” - effort by @noampomsky ava.substack.com/p/effort?ut…
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One of the best articles I’ve read on independent mindedness and critical thinking - paulgraham.com/think.html
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Brilliant to see coaching explicitly recognised as a competitive advantage
UK Sport and the @eis2win have come together to produce a paper as part of a joint ambition to develop coaching as the UK’s competitive advantage 🇬🇧💪 Read more about the ambition ⤵️

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First two episodes of ⁦@jimmym⁩ ‘s new podcast ⁦@JimmysJobs⁩ have been excellent. Refreshing format and great guests! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Some useful rules of engagement here for when there is disagreement and how we might discuss issues as an MDT
Updated version of the rules of engagement (and please remember that I write these from the perspective of having to say on a regular basis mea culpa)
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“Thinking and Acting Deliberately to Solve Performance Problems” link.medium.com/YditJIG5j9
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