Does your potential feature self-imposed boundaries?
We are performance specialists. It’s on our website, we tell our clients, and we mention it every now and then in development sessions! We help our clients to develop and embed high-performance cultures by:
- Gaining clarity on purpose
- Aligning workforce and company values
- Reframing limiting beliefs
- Generating performance behaviours
- Cultivating engagement and accountability
Our mission is to help create environments where high-performance is the norm and growth is the output. We mine for untapped potential and help develop frameworks to support it.
Last week Sarah, our Operations Director, realised (as is often the case) that work life had transferred into her personal life, finding herself coaching a group of ‘newbie’ runners. Sixteen enthusiastic people arrived for their first session a couple of weeks ago, with the goal of running 5K in 8 weeks’ time. Their goals were similar: to get fit, to meet new people, to be outside more, and their fears were shared: “running is hard” and “I’m not sure I can do this”. Four sessions in and the smiles are genuine, the sense of achievement is palpable, and the camaraderie of ‘being in it together’ is keeping motivation levels high.
While Sarah supported the group’s ability to run, and their skills grew, Sue (a ‘graduate’ of last year’s beginners course) came to talk to the new team: “I turned up in old tennis shoes, having never run a step, and I didn’t think I could run from here to that lamp-post”, Sue said, pointing at the lamp-post 20 metres away. “But I’ve discovered that I can run, and that I enjoy running. I’ve made some fantastic friends, I’ve found paths I didn’t know existed, and I feel better for it”. Sue has outperformed every objective that she thought might be possible – she has found a vast amount of untapped potential – and it was completely unexpected.
It was immediately clear that our group of beginners were buoyed by Sue’s story. “If she can do it, then we can too!” Clearly their ability hadn’t altered in that moment, but their belief in what they could achieve grew beyond any previous boundaries that they had set themselves.
What a fantastic example of how a high-performance culture is turbo-charged when belief and purpose mix with enhanced ability. And the story aptly demonstrates that the performance outputs of a group of beginner runners in the Cotswolds directly mirrors the aspirations of an organisation – remove the self-imposed barriers to optimising potential and watch the goals get smashed!
What support do your team have to reach and outperform perceived potential? How have you fostered an environment where energy and purpose is shared, enabling high-performance to course through the veins of your organisation and deliver growth? For game-changing support and guidance, get in touch today – You’re In Cool Company!
