Adventures
Make Time To Do Your Best Work – By Optimist Performance
In today’s fast-paced business world, where distractions and overwork are constant challenges, one thing is clear: making time to do your best work is not just a luxury — it’s a necessity. Whether you’re a leader, an entrepreneur, or a team member, the ability to...
Why Does Learning Something New Feel So Hard – By Optimist Performance
Why Does Learning Something New Feel So Hard, Frustrating, and Even Painful? At Optimist Performance, we believe that growth comes from pushing past discomfort and embracing challenges. However, learning something new—whether it’s a skill, concept, or mindset—often...
High Performance in People – By Optimist Performance
Why High Performance in People is Key. In today’s fast-paced business world, success goes beyond meeting targets—it's about fostering high performance in people. When individuals and teams consistently perform at their best, they drive innovation, improve results, and...
How to adapt your coaching leadership style with Spotlight profiles – By Optimist Performance
Are you being the best leader you can be? Being a leader is not an easy task, but do it right, and you will make both your team and business thrive. As leaders, we are constantly dealing with people, and since every person in our team is different, it makes sense that...
How to keep pushing through when starting a business – By Optimist Performance
Starting a business is a journey full of excitement and ambition but sometimes, the road to opening day is bumpier than expected. Generally speaking, we need to focus on our well-being since that alone can affect performance. However, this can be hard when there’s one...
How Our Eternal Optimists Transform Lives through Coaching – By Optimist Performance
At Optimist Performance, we're proud of the impact our coaches—whom we fondly call Eternal Optimists—have made in the lives of individuals, teams, and organisations. Through personalised 1-on-1 coaching, they've helped clients navigate challenges, develop intentional...
How can executive coaching help leaders? Talking to Lara Milward – By Optimist Performance
“The ideas that coaching is a spend rather than an investment, or a nice to have, not a need to have, are two of the biggest misconceptions about executive coaching.” - Lara Milward. This month, we talked to Lara Milward, one of our Eternal Optimists, about executive...
Well-Being: The human behind the performance – By Optimist Performance
Did you know that 13.7 million working days are lost each year in the UK because of work-related stress, anxiety, and depression, costing £28.3 billion a year? As leaders, we are not only dealing with numbers or performance, but we are also dealing with the human...
Play to Your Potential – What Does It Mean for Your Business? – By Optimist Performance
Imagine the England Rugby Team stepping onto the pitch, each player ready to give their all. The team’s success doesn't hinge solely on each member performing their specific role, but rather on each player utilising their unique strengths to benefit the whole. Owen...
How can experiential learning enhance your team’s performance? – By Optimist Performance
Are you practising great high-performing team behaviours with your team? Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes. At Optimist, we believe that using experiential learning allows teams to practise high-performing behaviours to enhance the team’s performance. What...
Unlocking Team Potential: Enhance Team Performance with Spotlight Diagnostics – By Optimist Performance
Can we effectively lead our teams without understanding them? One of the hardest aspects of being a leader is that we are dealing with people, and each of them is different and has different needs. So if we want our teams to perform at their best, we first need to...
Ego Check: Navigating Authenticity and Resilience – By Optimist Performance
As we approach the quarter mark of the year, we thought we’d take time for self-reflection. How have you been showing up in your role at work? Welcome to this month's Optimistic Insights, where we'll delve into the intriguing topic of ego in leadership and the journey...